Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skills as negotiator and tactician proved essential in putting together the anti- Saddam alliance. But when Kuwait was liberated, the Administration's feeble political planning for the war's aftermath was laid bare. Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether it's Iraq, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, they instinctively...
Forced to the rescue, a coalition of more than 20,000 allied troops carved out a security zone for the Kurds near the Turkish border. They also ordered Saddam to stop flying his planes in airspace north of the 36th parallel. The refugees came down from the mountains and tried to put their lives back together. But after most of the allied security forces left last summer, the Iraqis rushed into action to subdue the Kurds and their armed guerrilla units, the peshmerga...
...program worked: by early this year, the incidence of new AIDS cases had dropped from 50% to 5%. (Overall, 20% of Zurich's addicts have tested HIV positive.) Trouble was, the Platzspitz also became a magnet for professional dealers, especially Lebanese, Yugoslav and Turkish gangs that overran small dealers in a violent price...
...have made it a matter of national policy to recognize the Kurds as a separate ethnic group, and we have a national consensus on this matter. The mistreatment of those people by the Turkish security forces is not the policy of our administration. But from time to time, due to lack of training, you may have such incidents. I think it is now minimized, and we shall continue to be very careful to see that it doesn't happen...
...have to be realistic. We are willing to have a political solution, because that will ease Turkey's financial burden in maintaining troops in northern Cyprus ((where the Turkish Cypriot community is located; Greek Cypriots live in the south)). The basis for any solution should be United Nations Resolution 649 ((which calls for establishment of an independent, bicommunal federal republic on the island of Cyprus)). You can't force the two communities to live together as if you were making a man and woman marry against their will. We are pushing the leaders of northern Cyprus to be reasonable. Some...