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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (13854)3/3/2003 4:42:31 PM
From: Crimson Ghost  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
'Serves rude America right'
By Suna Erdem

NESRIN ALOGLU, a bank clerk, is delighted that
Turkey’s parliament has thrown Washington’s plans
for an attack on Iraq into disarray by blocking the
deployment of US troops. “Serves them right. Now
they can apologise.”

Apologise, she said, for the way in which the United States so
rudely took Turkey for granted and issued threats, insults and
ultimatums when it did not get what it wanted.

In rejecting Washington’s demands, the recession-hit country is
turning its back on US aid worth more than $20 billion (£13
billion).

But Turks still support the parliament’s decision. “At least it’s
cleared Turkey’s name and dispelled the image abroad that
Turkey can be bought,” Zafer Dorttas, a 27-year-old customs
official, said.

Ordinary Turks were incensed by US media references to
haggling in a carpet shop and by what they saw as insulting
American behaviour.

The final straw came when a series of American newspaper
cartoons were broadcast. They depicted Turkey as a
money-grabbing belly dancer, or a prostitute bargaining for the
price of its favours.

“I can’t tell you how awful I felt when I saw the cartoons,”
Ayse Akin, a student, said. “They were so deeply insulting.
America can stick its money and its troops up its backside.”
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