Date: Fri, 16 Apr 99 10:14:28 EDT
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: Re: US-information warfare & KLA


Nico writes:
>My danish newspaper reported yesterday why Turkey need this war. Today  
>there are elections in Turkey and the ruleing socialdemocratic party hoped  
>to attain a greater number of votes out of the right-wing spectrum at the  
>ballot boxes. The government hope furthermore a better stand for Turkey as  
>a possible candidate for the EU. Therefore the turk government have said  
>yes as one of the first nations to send ground troops to occupay the Koso-  
>vo, be on Tony Blairs side to hold fast on the military aims of this war  
>and try to argue that Turkey is the traditionel ally of the Kosovo and Al- 
>bania as "old ground of the Osmanian Empire".

The Turkish government is also hoping to take the shine off Islam by 
providing more aid to the refugees than all the other Islamic countries 
combined.  They've been criticizing Saudi Arabia et al. for failing to come 
through.  The biggest fear of the secular Turkish establishment (the army and 
its tame politicos) is the political power of Islam.