So our so-called allies didn’t screw us royally in 2003?
And Israel blew our boat out of the water back in the 60s. Today Turkey has good trade relations with Israel and allows something like 70% of our Iraqi supplies to enter through their nation.
Has our Congress passed a resolution condemning what the left forced in South East Asia in the 70s?
Three million people died. By most accounts, that’s three times the deaths we’re supposed to be condemning Turkey for.
The Turks had asked to cross into Iraq on the border to take care of the problem that is still with us today, the PKK / KADEK Marxist workers party. Washington refused them.
Also, newspapers at the time reported that France told Turkey that if Turkey helped the U.S. they would never, never get into the EU.
The PKK had by that time killed an estimated 22,000 Turkish citizens civilian and military.
Yes, we were "screwed by the Turks;" but if our border with Mexicorruption ever gets to were drug-smuggling violence has killed off 22,000 Americans I think then we will understand how important it is to the Turks.
All Washington had to do in 2003 was to say, yes -- and guarantee Turkoman citizens protection in Kirkuk.
I would have to revisit the newspaper reports of that time period to refresh my memory. There were several other problems that Washington ignored Turkey's protests.