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WORLD
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Turkey’s parliament voted Thursday to allow the United States to
begin renovating military
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANKARA, Turkey —
Turkey’s parliament voted
Thursday to allow U.S. troops to
renovate Turkish bases for use in
a possible war with Iraq, after
Turkey’s premier warned that
his country may have no choice
but to support Washington if
there is a conflict.
Some 3,500 U.S. soldiers are
expected to arrive in Turkey
shortly to begin fixing up bases
that U.S. troops could use to
open a northern front against
Iraq, effectively dividing the
Iraqi army between its northern
border with Turkey and the
Persian Gulf in the south.
U.S. officials have main
tained that a northern front
would lead to a quicker war.
Those officials have relentlessly
pressed Turkish leaders to back
the war plans.
The 308-193 parliamentary
vote in the Turkish capital,
Ankara, came after weeks of
delays by leaders who said that
options for peace should be
exhausted before coming to war.
“Faced with a rising possibil
ity of "a war nearby, we are just
taking measures to protect our
national interests,” Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, the leader of the ruling
Justice and Development Party
said after the vote.
A second vote on whether to
allow U.S. combat troops into
Turkey is expected on Feb. 18,
after a nine-day recess for the
Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. A
senior party official said that he
expected the measure to pass
vote easily.
Prime Minister Abdullah Gul
told party legislators before the
vote that Turkey was trying to
“gain time for peace” by delay
ing the approval of U.S. troops,
NTV television reported.
Turks overwhelmingly
oppose a U.S.-led war against
Iraq and legislators from the
newly elected party fear alien
ating the public by supporting
the United States.
But they also fear that rebuff
ing the United States could be a
disaster for Turkey, which
counts on Washington for politi
cal and economic backing.
Washington was key in helping
Turkey gain international fund
ing to rescue its economy from
its financial crisis in 2001.
In Washington. White House
spokesman Ari Fleischer wel
comed the decision.
“Turkey is a stalwart friend
and a staunch NATO ally.”
Fleischer said. “The Turkish
government is facing up to diffi
cult issues.”
Turkish leaders are also wor
ried that if they do not back
Washington in Iraq, they will
lose any say in the future of the
neighboring country.
Gul said Turkish soldiers
would not fight in an Iraq war,
“Turkey will not enter the war,”
he said.
Gul spoke to Turkish
reporters Wednesday to explain
his government's acceptance of
the base renovations.
“We have to think about our
national interests,” the Hurriyet
newspaper quoted him as say
ing. “Whatever Turkey’s inter
ests require is what we’re going
to do. From today on, 1 think
we’re going to have to act
together with our strategic part
ner, the United States.”
But in a sign of possible
future opposition, Erdogan said
U.S. actions must be approved
by the United Nations. President
Bush has repeatedly said that the
United States will force Iraq to
disarm whether or not the
United Nations backs the action.
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Suicide attempts rise
among terror suspects
By Paisley Dodds
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Suicide attempts among terror
suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are on the rise, the
Pentagon said Thursday. A human rights group has already called
for an investigation.
At least five detainees at the naval base have tried to hang them
selves in the past three weeks, Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr.
Barbara Burfeind said Thursday in Washington.
The most serious attempt was made Jan. 16 by a man in his 20s
who is now in stable but serious condition, Burfeind said.
Authorities have notified his home country, but it is unknown
whether his family has been contacted.
Human rights group Amnesty International urged U.S. author
ities to investigate the suspect suicide attempts to determine
whether the manner in which interrogations are conducted may
have contributed.
“I think when multiple prisoners attempt to take their own
lives, clearly there is an indication of the uncertainty that sur
rounds their incarceration,” said Alistair Hodgett, a spokesman for
the group in Washington.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Thousands mourn
top Belfast terror
chief, seek revenge
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(AP) — With a bagpipe's wail
and revenge in the air, more
than 5,000 Protestant extrem
ists walked Thursday behind the
coffin of a senior Belfast terrorist
gunned down in an internal
feud that threatens to claim
more lives.
An "honor guard" of masked
men in leather jackets fired a
volley of shots over the casket of
John Gregg, 45, a commander
in the outlawed Ulster Defense
Association, the major anti-
Catholic paramilitary group
responsible for hundreds of sec
tarian killings over the past
three decades.
Two truckloads of floral tributes
preceded the hearse carrying
Gregg, a man of unusual brawn
and bigotry who won fame by
shooting an IRA leader in 1984.
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