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Although it has long provided the base for Anglo-American missions policing the northern "no-fly" zone over Iraq, the Turkish government has little enthusiasm for a new confrontation - and the recent election victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party has raised concerns in Washington that Turkey may not offer strong support for a U.S. war effort. President Bush will try to change that when he meets the Turkish leader at the White House Tuesday. Erdogan's party has been portrayed as a moderate Islamist group - a characterization the party firmly rejects - and that together with traditional...
...interview with TIME's Tony Karon, Erdogan's foreign policy adviser Egemen Bagis says that Turkey will abide by any UN resolution on Iraq. And that Ankara's own priority is winning continued U.S. backing for Turkey's efforts to join the European Union...
...TIME: When Chairman Erdogan meets with President Bush, the U.S. will presumably be asking Turkey to allow greater deployments of U.S. personnel on Turkish soil in the event of war with Iraq. What is the outlook of the Justice and Development Party on the question of Iraq...
...live with weapons of mass destruction in our backyard, either. We are hoping that Saddam will comply with UN resolutions, and that any weapons of mass destruction will be eliminated. If Iraq does, indeed, have weapons of mass destruction, then their greatest threat would be to the people of Turkey. So, the Justice and Development Party would like to see the results and reports of the UN weapons inspectors. And these have to be discussed at the United Nations. As a member of UN, Turkey will be obligated to comply with any UN decision...
...even as arms inspectors cruise pretty much where they want inside Iraq, the U.S. military is setting itself up all around the perimeter. Diplomats went to Turkey to negotiate for basing rights and got a half-yes. Chief of the U.S. Central Command, General Tommy Franks, flew to his forward command center in Qatar to play war games that could turn into combat overnight. An armada of a dozen ships steamed off to possible war stations, and Pentagon planners prepared to call up a first batch of reserves. One way or another, the U.S. insists, Saddam is going...