[PEN-L:32762] Re: Turkey's conditions and more

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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.

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>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.

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>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