"Washington Report, November 2004, page 58, 60
Talking Turkey
Ankara Warns U.S. to Observe "Red Line" Around Northern Iraq's Turkmens
By Jon Gorvett
Iraqis from Tal Afar wait at the entrance of their battered northern town Sept. 15 to be allowed to retun home. More than 56 people were said to have been killed and 152 wounded in five days of heavy fighting between U.S. forces and resistance fighters (AFP photo/Mujahed Mohammed).
WITH BOMBS falling on the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar in mid-September, Turkey�s political, military and civil organizations seemed for once united in their reaction. As the largely Turkmen inhabitants of the besieged town appealed to their ethnic Turkish brethren for support, Ankara issued its strongest warning yet to Washington, and thereby highlighted a growing anxiety here over the future of northern Iraq. "
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