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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Gulfnews: Turkey can bridge the US-Iran divide

"Turkey can bridge the US-Iran divide

By Manik Mehta, Special to Gulf News
Published: August 03, 2008, 23:35

Turkey's relations with the US went through a rollercoaster, last October, when the US Congress passed a resolution on Armenia, describing the killings of Armenians during the First World War in the Ottoman empire as 'genocide'. This had angered Istanbul which was already riled by the war in Iraq from where the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) launched attacks on Turkey."

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