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Article: Trouble with Turkey; Sometimes a strategic ally.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2003
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Byline: Helle Dale, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"We have a saying," so a Turkish businessman told me recently. "A Turk's only friend is a Turk." Unfortunately, this self-fulfilling prophecy appears to be in the process of being, well, fulfilled.
The Turkish parliament did itself no end of political harm when it voted against allowing U.S. troops to be stationed there for a "northern front" against Iraq. This sent relations with the United States Turkey's most important international and powerful ally into a tailspin. And, because of Turkey's military ambitions in northern Iraq's Kurdish areas, these two long-standing NATO allies may in the near future be ...