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
Leonidas Lent Hamline up the plan of separation. He provided US$25,000 of his own money to launch a school, which became Hamline University. A statue of the bishop, sculpted by Michael Price, Professor of Art, stands on campus. Hamline was the first editor of the long-running 19th century Cincinnati-based periodical, "The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West". A number of his sermons are given in the "Works of L. L. Hamline, D. D.", edited by Rev. F. G. Hibbard, D. D., (two volumes, 1869). Leonidas Lent Hamline Leonidas Lent Hamline (pronounced as if it were "Hamlin") (1797 in Burlington, Connecticut – 1865)