CIA chief meets Turkish PM on Syrian crisis

CIA chief David Petraeus met Turkey\'s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for closed-door talks focusing on the crisis across the border in Syria, the private NTV television reported. Petraeus, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, also discussed the latest developments in neighbouring Iran and efforts to counter Kurdish rebels attacking Turkey from safe havens in northern Iraq, said NTV. Erdogan has been fiercely critical of the Syrian regime\'s year-long crackdown on the opposition and has called on President Bashar al-Assad to quit. The talks were not part of Erdogan\'s official itinerary. The premier\'s office and the US embassy in Ankara declined to comment on the report.