----- Original Message ----- From: "Sabri Oncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PEN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ALIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: [PEN-L:32761] Turkey's conditions and more
Turkey's Conditions BYEGM: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 If an operation from the north is carried out, what are Ankara's conditions for the US requests to be met? They are as follows: 1. Turkey's losses from a war coming from the north would amount to approximately $20-25 billion. Ankara wants the US to compensate for these losses. In addition, Ankara thinks that this should be done not through "indirect aid" dependent on US congressional legislation, but rather from the US Defense Department. Ankara told the US as much. ========================= >From today's LA Times: "The Turks want basically two things: no independent state for the Iraqi Kurds in the north, and they want a ton of dough," a senior Western diplomat said. "Billions and billions of dollars, and I think we're going to pay it." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-turkey4dec04004441,0,1 6187.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld 2. The US should not allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq. If a federation is established in Iraq, the Turkmens there should have the same status as the Kurds. ============================= >From today's Federal Register: State Department NOTICES Foreign terrorists and terrorist organizations; designation: Kurdistan Workers' Party [ The entry for this document, published at 67 FR 72017 in the of December 3, 2002, was inadvertently omitted from that issue's table of contents.] Ian
