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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (161131)2/16/2003 12:22:16 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1573921
 
>Turkey has three problems associated with this war......its people are very opposed to the war; secondly, the threat of war is hurting Turkish businesses along their border with Iraq, aggravating conditions in a country already very poor, and thirdly and most importantly, Turkey is at risk of Iraqi retaliation for their cooperation with the US. Its why we had to buy them.

Actually, I'd say their biggest problem is the fear of a Kurdish uprising... in the case of a war, the Kurds in Turkey would likely join up with the Kurds in Iraq in the hope of forming a Kurdish state... that could be messy.

I don't actually see Iraq attacking Turkey if attacked by the U.S./U.N/whatever... it's debatable whether or not it has the resources to attack even one country, and if it did, both Israel and Kuwait would likely be higher priorities for Saddam.

-Z
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