"True love tends to forget?
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
BURAK BEKDIL
The story goes all the way back to the infamous voting session in the Turkish Parliament on March 1, 2003, still possibly the single most important date shaping Turkish-American relations almost two years after.
Only a few days before the vote, Ankara and Washington had signed a memorandum of understanding to the effect that (a) Iraq's provinces and territory shall not belong to any particular ethnic group but to all Iraqi people, (b) all terrorist groups in Iraq, including the PKK, shall be eliminated and (c) Iraq's natural resources shall belong, as a whole, to the Iraqi people and be used for the welfare of all Iraqis. As part of the understanding, Turkish troops would have entered northern Iraq together with the U.S. forces and help the allies restore stability there. "
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