Turkey backs U.S. military deployment

Saturday, January 4, 2003

ANKARA, Turkey -- President Bush is right to send ground forces to the Persian Gulf to pressure Iraq into disarming, but Turkey is wary about hosting a large number of U.S. troops, the foreign minister said Friday.

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