Turkish General Wants Iraq Deployment

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/223FE44E-5BA5-46D6-A90E-AFAF1BD04958.htm

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A senior Turkish military officer has launched a blistering attack on his country's decision not to send troops into US-occupied Iraq.

Chief of Staff Hilmi Ozkok says that Ankara’s decision not to deploy Turkish soldiers south of the border will leave it without a say in Iraq’s political development.

He also decalred that the reversal of an earlier decision to contribute additional troops to US-led occupation forces was short-sighted.

NATO ally, Turkey officially ended its offer to bolster occupation troop numbers on Friday after opposition from Iraqi officials in the US-backed Governing Council.

Ozkok also has voiced his concerns about what he sees as bias US administrators have shown towards their close allies the Kurds who have run northern Iraq since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

[LittleApple81]

1. They want to take advantage of the situation, don't they? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

2. The good general is worried about the Kurds

and he has forgotten that he is under civilian authority. Tough luck!