2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq day of the operation, Turkish President Abdullah Gül made a telephone call to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, to brief him on the details of the incursion. He also invited Talabani to come to Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the night the ground operation began, and later U.S. President George W. Bush. The United States was guarded in its response to the incursion, requesting that Turkey take care to only target the PKK, to "limit the scope and duration of their operations," and to work with Iraqi
Şerif Turgut a friend of Spanish war correspondent Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, with whom she went to Srebrenica right after the 1995 massacre there. Miguel Gil Moreno was later shot to death in the Sierra Leone Civil War. During her service in the Second Liberian Civil War, she became a friend of the war correspondents Tim Hetherington from England and Chris Hondros from the U.S., who were killed in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Şerif Turgut Şerif Turgut is a Turkish journalist and the first woman war correspondent of Turkey, best known for her coverage during the Bosnian War. Şerif Turgut