"U.S. Embassy In Ankara: Any Suggestion That Any U.S. Military Activity In Northern Iraq Is Directed Against Turkey Is False
Anadolu Agency: 2/18/2005
ANKARA - The U.S. Embassy in Ankara stated on Thursday that any suggestion that any U.S. military activity in northern Iraq was directed against Turkey, a long-standing ally and NATO partner, was false.
The U.S. Embassy released a statement after a report earlier this week in the British newspaper ''The Guardian'' that was subsequently carried in the Turkish press suggested that ''U.S. forces were fortifying positions in northern Iraq in anticipation of ethnic conflict or a possible Turkish intervention.'' "
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