[a_Turk]

>> what Turkey did at the start of the war

This pendulum has been swinging all along through the threatening Johnson letters in the sixties, the US embargo in the 70s, the US support for the PKK under cover of "free speach" in the nineties, etc..

We all have long memories and adjust our steps as time goes on.

Watch for honorable yet bold and shrewd moves down the road would be my guess. We all have short hairs somewhere, and the means to grab and twist. Yet it would be desirable that the pendulum stop swinging soon. An adoption of respect and honorable character may just do it.

[Cicero]

The Turks behaved very badly in the runup to the Iraqi war. I suspect they were egged on by Chirac, maybe with promises of northern oil or admission to the EU.

As you say, maybe the US has at times behaved badly in the past.

Let's hope we can now start working together and do what needs to be done. We do have one important common interest with the generals: to control Islamic extremism. At this time that is probably a bigger problem than the Kurdish/Turkish feud, for both parties.

[WaterDragon]

An adoption of respect and honorable character may just do it.

I hope to see that from Turkey in the present circumstances.