[Mortimer Snavely]

"Won't Turkey benefit immensely from cooperating with USA?"

That all depends on what Bush and his people want to do in Iraq after Hussein is given the heave-ho. Unless a solid governing apparatus replaces the old regime, there will be nothing but serious grief for the entire region, rather like pouring gasoline on a fire.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Previous Turkish cooperation with the US against Iraq caused extreme financial distress. The day after the invasion of Kuwait, before anyone else said or did anything about Hussein, Turkey closed the border with Iraq and lost a main trading partner. Turkey took a couple of financial body blows at the time, and she hasn't really caught her breath back yet.