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Why should the Turks want me dead?
Hurriyet ^
| 7/9/2003
| Faruk Zabci
Posted on 07/09/2003 5:45:41 AM PDT by a_Turk
After the Turkish special forces team based in Suleymaniye had been detained and subsequently released under suspicion of plotting to assassinate him, the Kurdish governor of Kirkuk, Abdurrahman Mustafa, brke his silence for the first time for the Turkish daily Hurriyet. He expressed his disbelief with the words: "Why should Turkey want me dead?"
In response to Hurriyet's question "Do you have a statement regarding the detention of the Turkish special forces" the governor replied: "I haven't got a clue what's going on! I haven't been given any information." Yet it seemed impossible that a governor who was contantly with US officers, and who had just finished a meeting with one as this journalist entered the room, was uninformed.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: irak; kurds; northernfront; turkey; usa
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posted on
07/09/2003 5:45:41 AM PDT
by
a_Turk
To: Shermy; aristotleman; prairiebreeze; Dog Gone; alethia; AM2000; ARCADIA; ...
ping
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posted on
07/09/2003 5:46:07 AM PDT
by
a_Turk
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posted on
07/09/2003 5:49:05 AM PDT
by
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To: Gabrielle Reilly
read later.
To: a_Turk
I still think the most likely scenario is that we intercepted communications leading us to believe that that's what Turks were up to and therefore why we seized them.
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posted on
07/09/2003 6:03:29 AM PDT
by
DB
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To: DB
Those tin foil hats and decoder rings do come in handy sometimes..
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posted on
07/09/2003 6:14:53 AM PDT
by
a_Turk
(Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
To: a_Turk
Then what do you think happened then?
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posted on
07/09/2003 6:34:52 AM PDT
by
DB
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To: DB
Then what do you think happened then? Good morning to another member of the Directorate of Redundancy Department! :)
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posted on
07/09/2003 6:58:31 AM PDT
by
Restorer
(Never let schooling interfere with your education.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: DB
Folks not in favor of our alliance put a bug in your ear..
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:04:27 AM PDT
by
a_Turk
(Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
To: TurkishOpinion
Turks slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians and 500,000 Pontian Greeks. So keep your "mythological" bull to yourself Turk.
Funny how you blame the Greeks and Armenians for your political/military blunders. I assure you though, since March of this year, looking at your spats with the U.S and the EU flat out rejecting you (again), we cannot help but laugh at you.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:31:41 PM PDT
by
Phatheon
To: Phatheon
>> we cannot help but laugh at you.
Anything to make our fellow human happy, Pathe(tic)on..
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:52:40 PM PDT
by
a_Turk
(Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
To: Restorer
One "then" too many eh?
That was 6:34 AM...
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posted on
07/09/2003 4:22:26 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: DB
No problemo. Happens to me all the time, except I tend to skip a word even more often. Brain working faster than fingers. :)
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posted on
07/09/2003 5:19:55 PM PDT
by
Restorer
(Never let schooling interfere with your education.)
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