March 5, 2008 | By John D. McKinnon
WASHINGTON -- The perception that the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded is changing some public views of the war, potentially blunting Democrats' political edge on the issue.
ANKARA - Wednesday, February 9, 2005
'My advice to all Iraqi political leaders is this: Such rhetoric would lead them nowhere. What they should do is turn their faces towards Baghdad,' says Gül
March 12, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The Sunday Times July 16, 2006 
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | By Ellen Knickmeyer | Washington Post Foreign Service
Did Incursion Just Happen to Coincide With Easing of Ban on Head Scarves?
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 27 -- Turkey's military offensive in northern Iraq has clear objectives: attack Kurdish separatist guerrillas in their mountain bases, destroy their camps and weapons caches, and show them they can be pursued anywhere, anytime.
Friday, March 7, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand
Some things are changing in Turkey. I am sure it has come to your attention, too. We're witnessing some unusual developments.
June 8, 2007
Absolutely the last thing Iraq needs right now is to have thousands of Turkish troops pour across the border into the country’s one relatively peaceful region - the Kurdish-administered northeast. Turkey’s government needs to know that it will reap nothing but disaster if that happens.
BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) - 21h28 - ArabLeague chief Amr Mussa made two landmark visits in Iraq Saturday toraise support for a proposed national reconciliation conference, whilethe toll of US deaths grew to nearly 2,000.
