"Cook: Turkish-U.S. Tensions ‘Great Underreported Story of Iraq War’
Interviewee:
Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow
Interviewer:
Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
March 29, 2007
Steven A. Cook Steven A. Cook, a CFR expert on Turkey, says “the great underreported story” of the Iraq war is the serious deterioration in U.S.-Turkish relations. The relations have “already blown up,” says Cook. He says the problem is Turkey’s fear of a resurgent PKK terrorist group in neighboring north Iraq, and the failure of either the United States or the Kurdish autonomous government to do anything to thwart it."
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