Boston Globe Online US halts pursuit of Turkish bases, warns on incursion NKARA, Turkey - The Bush administration told Turkish leaders yesterday that it had given up lobbying to use their country as a base to assault Iraq, ending months of intense effort to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers to a northern front against President Saddam Hussein.
At the same time, the administration warned Turkey not to go ahead with plans to send its own army into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, saying that such an incursion could lead to ''a war within a war'' and further damage Turkey's relations with its strongest ally.
At the same time, the administration warned Turkey not to go ahead with plans to send its own army into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, saying that such an incursion could lead to ''a war within a war'' and further damage Turkey's relations with its strongest ally.
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