From their point of view, you can understand why they want ALOT OF MONEY and a gaurantee that we'd help them with refugees exc... We can send part of the blame for this to France, Germany and Belgium. Remember when they said they wouldn't give Turkey protection under NATO? It shocked alot of people and that had to make them(Turkey) skittish.
Now they go against us at the last minute? Why? I think I smell a 'RAT . Just a thought but: Picture that Turkey is seeing all these protests on TV and in their own country , (not to mention the Dan Rather interview with Saddam, where Dan treats him like he's a Nobel Prize winner). Then, say the government officials in Turkey get a call from some one, (or several people), from that other political party in the U.S.A ( whose best interest IS NOT SERVED by our having success in Iraq) and they tell them how they, the demac'RATS, don't want war, that our counrty is divided and in turmoil about it ,and that our ecconomy is in bad shape exc.., and that Turkey might lose out on any benefits because of this instability, and well; since they were already insecure because of the shocking NATO decision to not protect them, it kinda makes sense they'd back out.
If you add to this mix that the phone calls might have come from people very high up on the political ladder,(say an ex president or two maybe) they would really have a reason to not trust us. My imagination might be running away with me here, but considering all the things that we know went on in the previous administration, and all that was rumored to have gone on, it doesn't seem so far fetched. (Let's not forget that unauthorized visit to North Korea made by that representative of New Mexico (and former member of the previous administration) right about the time they started threatening us about their nuclear weapons and that OTHER party has used this in arguments against going to Iraq ever since then). But, maybe I read too many political intrigue novels. Then again maybe I just REALLY don't like demacrats, hence my tag line.