[George W. Bush]

It's not "mountain Turks". It's Ankara's claims to the old Ottoman empire. And those are going up in flames before their eyes.

Ankara has a special interest in any land that was once a part of the Ottoman empire and which has vast oil reserves. And their plans are in ruins.

We and our allies have averted a Turkish conquest of northern Iraq to seize Kirkuk/Mosul. The Turkomen and the Kurds were just a sideshow in all this.

Turkey=bigtime loser in Gulf War 2

[aristotleman]

Riiiiiight.

They're would not ber risking entry to the EU for a chance at a few barrels of oil that America will NOT let them take anyway.

You don't seem to understand Turkish policy, my friend.

Don't be blinded by your own wishes.