Word: turkish
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Then there's the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, which until recently exported up to hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of Iraqi crude, all of it outside the U.N.-sanctions system. Long dependent on Iraqi oil, Jordan illicitly imports some 110,000 bbl. a day, for which it pays a below-market price directly to the Iraqi government. Yet another pipeline runs from northern Iraq to Banias, a Syrian port, with a second outlet in Lebanon. It currently carries some 230,000 bbl. a day, generating annual revenue estimated at more than $1 billion...
...then resold at a higher price. One big moneymaker for the sons involves trucking diesel fuel into Turkey. The trade has fallen off amid recent preparations for war, but at its high point, according to the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based human-rights group, some 45,000 Turkish truckers traveled regularly between the oil fields of northern Iraq and delivery points in eastern Turkey...
...raft of first-term lawmakers broke ranks with their party last weekend to block approval of the deployment of 62,000 U.S. troops to the northern front of a potential war with Iraq. After months of negotiations between the two governments, the vote dealt a serious blow to the Turkish government's efforts to strike a deal with the U.S. "This is a definitive parliamentary decision," Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., Faruk Logoglu, told TIME Saturday. "It's very serious...
Ankara had told U.S. diplomats it thought the votes were in hand. Privately, senior Turkish officials blame Washington for not pushing dissident Iraqis who held a meeting in northern Iraq last week to provide a seat for Iraq's Turkoman minority in a newly established body to coordinate with the U.S. after a war with Iraq. "We had been insisting that the Turkomans be a constitutive part of that," a senior Turkish official said. In the end, though, the newly elected pro-Islamic legislators may have been looking mainly to their home districts. "A lot of these guys are right...
...refusing to allow U.S. troops to use its military bases in a war on Iraq, Turkey turned its back on some pretty sweet inducements. The U.S. had offered Turkey $15 billion in loans and grants, and even promised that U.S. troops would wear Turkish textiles, breaking the Pentagon's long-standing "Buy American" policy. The U.S. still needs nine of 15 votes to pass a new resolution in the U.N. Security Council, and the horse trading in an effort to woo backing continues...