"Turkish Troops in Southern Lebanon: Will and Should They Go?
Barin Kayaoglu
Friday , 01 September 2006
The likelihood of having Turkish troops in the expanded UN mission in Southern Lebanon seems precarious. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer’s statement over the weekend that Turkey had no gain in “guarding other nations’ interests” in Southern Lebanon raises fundamental questions on the possibility of sending troops to the war-torn Middle Eastern nation. Regardless of last week’s shuttle diplomacy by Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül and the AKP government’s declaration this afternoon that it intended to seek permission from the Grand National Assembly, the President’s position deserves a careful eye, because his disposition affected the outcome of barring American troops from using Turkey as a staging ground in the offensive against Iraq three years ago.[1]"
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