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Despite 30 billion dollars in inducements, the Turkish parliament voted down a measure that would have granted U.S. forces the use of bases bordering Iraq, significantly complicating the Pentagon’s war plans. Turkey’s rebuff is a significant problem for American military strategists. But, the future disposition of a democratic Iraqi regime may turn out to be even more problematic...
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...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...