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To: Mao II who wrote (2521)3/24/2003 4:54:36 PM
From: Just_Observing  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21614
 
Belgium FM: No EU for Turkey if troops enter Iraq

By Reuters




BRUSSELS - Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said on Sunday it would be "unthinkable" to allow Turkey to join the European Union if Ankara defied U.S. and NATO leaders and sent its forces into northern Iraq.

Turkey's government on Saturday denied media reports that it had sent more than 1,500 troops into the Kurdish-controlled area. NATO has accepted the assurances.

Ankara is concerned that Iraqi Kurds might use the U.S.-led war against Iraq as an opportunity to establish a separate Kurdish state, and fear such a state would reignite the armed Kurdish separatism in southeastern Turkey that cost 30,000 lives in the 1980's and 1990s


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