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Washington did not want the Peshmerga to become too aggressive for fear of provoking the Turks, who were determined to prevent the Kurds from declaring an independent state, a move Ankara feared would inspire the Kurds in Turkey to secede.

With his options diminishing before his eyes, Meredith let out a pained hiss of breath as the Ankara accelerated past six gees.

NATO member and the Turks had been helpful on Afghanistan: Ankara approved within an hour the American request to fly over Turkish territory and had agreed to lead the small peacekeeping contingent in Kabul.

In the end Cheney got the meeting, which was held at the Ankara airport.

Moreover, Germany had given the Turkish military Patriot antimissile interceptors, a move intended to protect the Turks against an Iraqi missile attack, but which the Bush administration hoped would make Ankara more receptive to the idea of opening a northern front.

Mediterranean for weeks, while the Bush administration sought to persuade Ankara to open a northern front.

The White House had also kept Khalilzad in Ankara with instructions to use his skills to persuade the Turks not to send troops into northern Iraq in an attempt to preempt any Kurdish move to declare independence.

The CENTCOM commander was vocal in his criticism of Ankara and believed the Turks were doing everything they could to be uncooperative.

He went to Ankara several times to salvage something from the strained relationship, setting up a small liaison headquarters in Ankara under Lieutenant General Colby Broadwater, who served as his conduit to the Turkish General Staff.

Turkey later offered peacekeeping troops, but the Iraqis saw their offer as an attempt by Ankara to meddle in Iraqi affairs and would not accept them.

Turkish wall ceramics, and the man he had to see is down from Ankara just for today.

The summiteers outside Ankara, eye-to-eye with the extinction of humanity, found their attention wholly focused.

During these years Gombos paid a visit to Ankara and Warsaw with the aim to create with the help of Turkey and Poland a line of defense against the imperialistic threatening from the West and from the East.

These twains led through Lisbon, Madrid, and Ankara, and, of course, were densely enveloped in the veils of strict secrecy.

Dissenting diplomats from abroad sent messages which expressed the Allied Powers opinion that it was necessary that the Hungarian Government follow the example of the Rumanian King Michael, and the Hungarian Ambassador at Ankara Voernle received similar advice from the English Ambassador in the same town.