U.S. doesn't want to see violence return to Turkey: U.S. Ambassador

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The United States does not want to see a return to violence in Turkey, Washington?s envoy to Ankara has said, urging both the government and the Kurdish movement to remain committed to the peace process.  

?The last thing that citizens of Turkey need, the last thing anyone in the region needs, is the resumption of conflict inside Turkey and another conflict in this region. We already have too many conflicts, too much violence in this region. For that reason, among many others, we continue to strongly support the process of discussing a peaceful outcome and ongoing discussions about what that requires,? John Bass said at a meeting with the Diplomacy Correspondents? Association on May 4. 

The U.S. does not ?want to see a return to violence,? the envoy said, underlying the importance ?for the parties to remain committed to the process.?

Turkey, US set to sign agreement on foreign fighters

Elaborating on an upcoming agreement between Turkey and the U.S. to be signed on the issue of foreign fighters transiting Turkey en route to Syria, the ambassador indicated a mechanism on the sharing of information among coalition members about potential fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

?We are working now with the government of Turkey on specific details on how we can better share information about people we know to be extremists, people we suspect of being extremists who bear a degree of additional attention and scrutiny from governments because of the nature of some of their activities in the past. Given how quickly information [moves] ? but also how people are able to move in the modern era ? it?s important for governments to be able to respond to those movements quickly,? said the ambassador.

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