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...nasty rumor was circulating in the lobby held that Turkey was demanding the honoring of a 1920s treaty with Britain, which guaranteed it a share of Iraq's northern oilfields. This elicited a look of plain horror from the Turkish official...
...couple of hours after the round table conclave began, Turkey's foreign minister Abdullah Gul and his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharazi, stepped out into the lobby, and stayed there for quite a while until they were summoned back into the conference hall. Neither, of course, said anything to suggest there was dissension behind the closed doors. But reporters couldn't help but notice that the two ministers cooling their heels in the lobby represented the only non-Arab nations at the meeting...
...response, the message from Turkey's Gul seemed to be, "Get real!" Nothing was said publicly, but Ankara apparently wants Iraq's other neighbors to understand that the world has changed, that the U.S. troops will be in Baghdad for some time to come, and that Washington will not allow the UN or anybody else to have a say in the oil-rich Arab nation's future. In other words, the nervous neighbors might as well learn to live with the new tenant next door. Thus, also, the advice to Damascus to give up its belligerent posture, and recognize that...
...Turkey may not have been solely responsible for the subdued statement on Syria. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the two Arab majors at the meeting, are also said to have advised Damascus to cool...
...Turkey wants to balance its position with the U.S., it wants to play the moderator in the region," said a journalist in the Turkish foreign minister's entourage, suggesting that Ankara is now busy trying to undo the damage caused by its refusal to allow American troops to use its territory for the invasion of Iraq...