Michael:
Almost $300,000 per soldier.
In 1953, when the US Secretary of State Dalles claimed that
Turkey supplied the cheapest soldiers to NATO, for 23 cents each,
Nazim wrote a poem entitled:
A soldier for 23 cents
It starts like this:
Mister Dalles,
It is not appropriate to hide it from
Below is a summary translation of an article that appeared in the
Turkish daily Hurriyet yesterday. The original article also
mentions the ongoing bargaining on the compansation of the
economic losses Turkey will suffer from the Iraq war without
giving any details.
WAR PROTOCOL
So what was Turkey's price? Debt forgiveness? Or just another IMF program?
Doug
So what was Turkey's price? Debt forgiveness?
Or just another IMF program?
Doug
Who knows? But I don't think the reason behind this is money.
They are doing it out of fear.
Sabri
So what was Turkey's price? Debt forgiveness?
Or just another IMF program?
Doug
Hey!
Just read it in an article by Korkut Boratav, a member of the
Independent Social Scientists- Economists group Ahmet Tonak
mentioned a while ago. That is, he is one of us.
Quoting from the corporate media,
Almost $300,000 per soldier.
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:47:12PM -0800, Sabri Oncu wrote:
$14,000,000,000 in return for the passage of 50,000 US troops
from Turkey.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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