"At the time of the Gulf War, a senior advisor to the Turkish Prime
Minister said to John Shattuck, assistant Sec. of State for human rights,
'If you want to stop human rights abuses do two things- stop IMF credits and
cut off aid from the Pentagon.But don't sell the weapons and give aid and
then complain about the Kurdish issue. Don't tell us about human rights
while you are selling these weapons." " Footnote 12, pg. 15, cited from John
Tirman, "The Human Cost of the Arms Trade, " Free Press, 1997.
Michael Pugliese
