RE: Turkey: 12,000 more troops in Northern Iraq

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Radikal is one of the several Turkish dailies that belongs to
Dogan Holding owned by the media mongul Aydin Dogan. He is very
well connected with the "commanding heights" in Turkey, if he is
one of those at that "heights". Ismet Berkan is not only the head
columnist of Radikal but also the  general manager of the
newspaper. I take Ismet very seriously. His "predictions" usually
turn out to be too precise to be educated guesses. I suspect that
Ismet is very well connected with the "commanding heights" as
well but, of course, this just a guess as I am not that well
connected with anywhere. His Radikal column from yesterday
precisely "predicted" once again that the Turkish military would
"justly" increase its presence in Northern Iraq, according to
him, to counter a potential "immigration wave" when the US attack
on Iraq starts and warned the mentally unstable 77 years old
Prime Minister Ecevit, who said "Many of our youths will die", to
keep his mouth shut.

Sabri



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