"Cook: Border Crisis between Turkey, Iraq Worsens U.S.-Turkey Ties
Interviewee:
Stephen A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow
Interviewer:
Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
July 16, 2007
Stephen CookA week away from crucial parliamentary elections in Turkey, relations between the United States and Turkey have been severely strained over Turkey’s concerns over the PKK separatist group given safe haven in the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq. CFR Fellow Stephen A. Cook says a recent major poll shows that “in Turkey, a NATO country firmly allied with the United States over the last fifty years, only 9 percent of Turks have a favorable view of the United States.” "
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