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Article: Any takers? (Turkish gamble on alliance against Iraq)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 15, 1991
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WITH THE fighting still simmering on perilously close to Turkey's southeastern frontier, Turkish business leaders and politicians remain far from certain about the wisdom of President Turgut Ozal's decision to gamble on the coalition. Since he shut off Iraq's dual oil pipeline over Turkish soil right after Saddam Hussein sent his forces into Kuwait on August 2, Turkey has lost at least six billion dollars in trade; it stands to lose several billion more if the civil strife in Iraq does not end soon. The absence of the tourists who once crowded the palaces, mosques, bazaars, and Roman ruins of a metropolis that has flourished on Byzantine intrigue for more than two ...
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