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Originally posted by Wutang:
I'm not even sure how much trade is going on right now between Iraq and Turkey but I don't think it's very much. So a war in Iraq isn't going to damage their economy any further that it is already.
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The 30 billion dollars isn't just for compensating the trades going on between Iraq and Turkey... Participating in any of this could worsen Turkey's general trading position in the Middle-East, like happened before after the Gulf War; they actually *did* lose tens of billions of dollars after that particular war. Please realize we shouldn't take the Turkey-Iraq relations exclusively into consideration, there's much more to that sum of money than just that.
As for the rest, the matter with the Kurds is also still an issue of importance, like JR and Ar-Cunin already adressed... Turkey is afraid that a war against Iraq will only incite the now more-or-less-"dormant" (or at least not as active as always) Kurds to start new actions in order to create a state of their own.