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| Iraq |
| Turkish News for Monday |
| 2003-03-10 |
| TURKISH MAJOR GETS ANGRY DUE TO U.S. SOLDIERS U.S. soldiers who came to Iskenderun to renovate bases and ports walked around with their weapons and tried to leave the port without permission. Attitudes of soldiers caused tension in the port. A Turkish major who got angry due to attitude of U.S. soldiers, confiscated weapons of soldiers and delivered weapons to officials. Turkish major warned first the U.S. soldiers by saying that ''you cannot walk around this region with your weapons. It is against agreement principles regarding modernization.'' But some U.S. soldiers continued to walk around with their weapons. After that, major warned them for the second time. Meanwhile, a group of U.S. soldiers who wanted to leave the port without permission escalated tension in the port. Later, Turkish major confiscated weapons. I guess that some US troops didn't get the memo that until we get a final agreement on deployment of troops they can only carry weapons where the Turks say they can. They got two warnings before the Turks confiscated their weapons. Somebody is going to have a nasty meeting with his 1st Shirt and Commander to explain where his weapon is. BARZANI BECOMES A FRIEND OF TURKEY Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Massoud Barzani, who said earlier that they would fight against the Turkish soldiers, has become a friend of Turkey suddenly. Armored vehicles and tanks of the Second Army crossed the border and entered the region controlled by Barzani. Barzani ordered his peshmerga fighters to guard the tanks. A few days ago, Kurds had set Turkish flags on fire during anti-Turkey demonstrations. "Death to the Turks! Uh, is that a tank? Long live the Turks!" SECRETS OF MEMORANDUM Main logistic base of the northern front of a possible U.S.led military action against Iraq will be set up in the area among Mardin, Kiziltepe, Nusaybin and Oyali. The United States will be allowed to make any kind of construction in the area with the condition of approval of local residents. These constructions will be limited with hangar, depot and shelter. 600 technical and 200 military personnel of the United States will work in establishment of the base. ERDOGAN: ''ANNAN DECEIVED US'' Justice and Development Party (AK Party) leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan did not keep his promises. ''Annan told us that some changes would be made in the third plan on the issues of map, sovereignty and immigrants. However, none of these changes were included in the third plan. In order to reach a solution in the island, both sides should make concessions. We cannot accept current form the plan,'' he stressed. Humm, Kofi tried to pull a fast one and got caught. This might help Erdogan decide that waiting on the UN before voting on US troops isn't required. US MILITARY BUILDUP IN TURKEY CONTINUES Ahead of a possible war against Iraq, US military buildup in Turkey continued over the weekend. A Belgian-flagged cargo ship unloaded armored military vehicles and other equipment at the southern Turkish port of Iskenderun on Saturday, while previously disembarked US materiel were headed to the southeastern provinces of Batman, Silopi and Mardin as well as to the Incirlik Airbase in Adana, a NATO base mainly used by US forces. In related news, the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was reported to be preparing to file a parliamentary investigation motion concerning the issue following Parliament Spokesman Bulent Arinc’s recent statements that he had doubts that the current US military buildup in Turkey might have breached the clauses of an earlier authorization proposal approved by Parliament that allowed the US to make upgrades to Turkish airbases and ports for a possible stationing of US troops. Watch the hands, not the mouth. ITF ASKS UN SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR URGENT PROTECTION FROM KURDS Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) had sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking for urgent protection from the Kurds in northern Iraq, Turkish news channel NTV said over the weekend. The letter remarked that northern Iraq’s ethnic Turkmen population was under an imminent threat of genocide and ethnic cleansing posed by the Kurdish groups mainly controlled by Jalal Talabani’s Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (IPUK) and Massoud Barzani’s Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (IKDP). Asking Kofi for help, yea that'll work. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 "A Belgian-flagged cargo ship unloaded armored" Isn't Belguim part of the Axis of Weasals. I guess it's buisness before politics. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-03-11 08:53:09 |
| #1 "What I didn't know until now is that it was Barzani all along..." - Don Vito Erdogan |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-03-10 22:37:41 |