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...India, Pakistan and Turkey may have previously cited absence of a UN mandate as a reason to keep their troops at home, but their calculations were primarily domestic. Such sweeteners as this week's $8 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Treasury to Turkey may help persuade Ankara to send some 10,000 troops - to the alarm of the Kurdish parties on the Iraqi Governing Council - and South Korea may be persuadable to add to its current deployment of 700 non-combatant troops, if the price is right. Prospects of getting significant forces from Pakistan and India appear more...
Rebels Retract TURKEY The Kurdish rebel group PKK called off a four-year cease-fire, accusing the government of failing to reciprocate. The move threatened to upset talks between Ankara and Pentagon officials on the possible deployment of Turkish troops to Iraq. Washington has not yet fulfilled its promise to eject the estimated 5,000 PKK militants believed to be based in northern Iraq...
Lightly tanned and galvanized by his daily workout, Cem Uzan, 42, is relaxing in a trim blue business suit at his swanky party headquarters in downtown Ankara. Behind him is a wall-length map of Turkey, lit up with red flags of towns and villages he has visited in his first year as a barnstorming politician. He is in an expansive mood. "I believe in certain values in life," he says. "I want to set an example of public service." Politics, in fact, is a welcome pursuit for Uzan, who is leader of the Youth Party. But he is also...
...Already strained relations with the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse when American soldiers in Iraq arrested 11 Turkish troops stationed in the northern Iraqi town of Suleimaniyah, and accused them of plotting to murder a local Kurdish official. Though the soldiers were released after two days, Ankara angrily denounced the arrests. Chief of Staff General Hilmi Ozkok declared the arrests "the biggest crisis of confidence between Turkish and American armed forces to date." The Istanbul stock market and the lire slid over fears that the Pentagon was punishing Ankara for failing to back its war on Iraq...
...secure the opening of the heavily fortified "green line" that has split the island since 1974 - the most significant breakthrough in Cyprus in years. The April decision came with the backing of the government and Turkey, but Serdar was its architect - persuading his father and the Turkish government in Ankara. "We wanted to show that we mean business, that we are in search of a solution," he says, sitting beneath a portrait of his beaming father in his office a stone's throw from the green line. "And that despite what certain Greek Cypriot leaders say, we are not living...