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February 6, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://nytimes.com/2003/02/05/international/middleeast/05cnd-turkey.html

Turkey to Back U.S. War Plans

(New York Times)- Turkey's prime minister said Wednesday that his government would ask parliament later this month to allow American troops to use the country in event of a war with Iraq, marking the first time the government has publicly declared its intentions to back American war plans. The prime minister, Abdullah Gul, told a gathering of Turkish reporters that his government had all but given up on diplomatic efforts to disarm Iraq and had decided to join the U.S. in its plans to confront Iraq by military means.

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