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Article: U.S. AND TURKEY SHOULD HEED KURDS' HISTORY AND PROGRESS.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 5, 2003
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Byline: JASON GOODWIN Historian
DORSET, England -- As the United States tries yet again to entice Turkey into a prenuptial agreement on invading Iraq, it faces the traditional money concern - is it enough? - and the fact that public sentiment is against the match. This has thrown prospects for a second, northern front in the upcoming invasion into doubt.
Should America's overtures succeed, however, a long-term problem for Washington might turn out to be lurking in the small print: the part about allowing Turkish troops to follow the American incursion in order to create a buffer zone inside Iraq.
Participants at last weekend's conference of ...