Egemen Bağış, foreign policy advisor to the prime minister, responded to public criticism on Sunday over the U.S. failure to fight the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, CNN Türk reported yesterday.

He said the United States was one of the countries that blacklisted the PKK but admitted that some U.S. commanders had come under the influence of Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani after the Turkish Parliament rejected a U.S. troop deployment motion prior to the 2003 Iraq war.

Turkish Daily News