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U.S. Asks Turkey to Send Troops to Iraq
By DEXTER FILKINS
STANBUL, July 20 ・The Bush administration has asked Turkey's leaders to send troops to Iraq to help stabilize the country, the Turkish prime minister said today.
Such a request, if confirmed, would come during a period of exceptional tension between the two longtime allies. Earlier this month, American soldiers detained 11 Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq on the suspicion that they were trying to kill an American-backed Iraqi official.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today in a speech that the United States had asked the Turks to send soldiers into Iraq as part of a proposed multinational force to help the Americans maintain order there.
Mr. Erdogan offered few details of the request, or whether his government would be inclined to grant it. Hurriyet, a leading daily newspaper here, said today that the Americans had asked the Turks to send a force of 10,000 to Iraq. The report cited unidentified sources.
An American official in Ankara, the capital, would not confirm Mr. Erdogan's assertion but said officials from the two countries had discussed the issue in a visit by senior American military officers here last Friday.
With more than 140,000 American troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has been searching for allies to pick up some of the burden there. Last week, the government of India said it would not sent peacekeeping troops to Iraq unless they operated under the auspices of the United Nations. The French government rejected a similar request.
Relations between the United States and Turkey, NATO allies since the 1940's, have been through their roughest spell in years. In March, the Turkish parliament rejected an American request to allow thousands of troops to use the country as a base from which to launch a northern front against the government of Saddam Hussein.
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