‘NATO credibility at risk’ over call to defend Turkey

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Series Details 10.2.03, p6
Publication Date 10/02/2003
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France must decide on 10 February 2003 whether to back a US request to protect Turkey, a key NATO ally and the only one bordering Iraq. If the French Government refuse, NATO will immediately hold an emergency session in which Turkey will officially ask for military assistance. France would then come under immense pressure to grant it.

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