"No Express Service For Turkey
April 2, 2008: Three months ago Turkey asked the United States for another dozen AH-1W helicopter gunships. The Turks wanted the gunships real fast. Like now. Turkey is heavily involved in a campaign along the Iraqi border, against Kurdish PKK separatists. It has nine AH-1Ws, and they are being worked hard. At first the U.S. indicated that this could be done. But then the U.S. Marine Corps, the major American user of the AH-1W, indicated that it was using its choppers heavily, refurbishing others, and had none to spare."
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