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To: zonder who wrote (70655)10/2/2003 12:38:02 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Respond to of 70976
 
Probably power politics. The Turks had no interest in seeing a Kurd state cut from Iraq. They were afraid it would incite their own Kurds and result in the break up of Turkey. And given that Incirlik is in Turkey, they probably could have prohibited its use to support operations in Iraq.