Do your remember right before the Iraq war started we were beginning to have trouble with turkey over Iraqi oil? We needed them so our troops could enter from the North. They had a huge bargaining chip against us. I remember all the tension between our two countries.
Here are a couple of sites I had bookmarked. The first one, I found by accident when looking for information on the CFR. *spit*
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13136/iraqi_kurdish_question.html
Many links on that page. Pay special attention to an article on the right titled, Turkish-U.S. Tensions ‘Great Underreported Story of Iraq War’.
This article was in 2003. Turkey eyes northern Iraqi oil
This isn't about Turkey pissed off at us for the Armenian Genocide resolution. This is about Turkey wanting the oil fields. Too many FReepers are blinded by the hatred of pelosi(I hate her as much as they but I'm not blind) that they can't see turkeys play for the oil.
"If we do have rights... we have to explain that to the international community and our partners and secure those rights," foreign minister Yasar Yakis said
If they do have rights
they have to explain those rights to the international community and their partners and secure (to make certain) of those rights.
What's wrong with that?