At 2003-04-02 14:40 -0800, you wrote:
COMMENTARY
How the IMF Lost Turkey
By CLAUDIA ROSETT
How did we lose the loyalty of Turkey , and with it that much-wanted
northern front for the war in Iraq?
I would have thought that Turkey is a natural ally of Saddam Hussein, in so
far as it does not
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36429] who lost Turkey?
CLAUDIA ROSETT writes: When Turkey
borrowed its way into financial crisis in 1999 and came to Washington
for help, the first mistake was to start supplying subsidies
immediately. Had the U.S. left Turkey's politicians to sort out their
own
