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Turkish Daily News opinion poll on future of northern Iraq
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Turks: Baghdad or Ankara should control
northern Iraq; Provide Comfort should go
On Iraq: Majority
feels Saddam is no .
threat to Turkey
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- A majority of Turks feel it isin
Turkey's security interests that either northern
Iraq should be given back to the control. of
Saddam Hussein's administration in Baghdad
or Ankara should control the region, according
to a public opinion poll conducted by the
Turkish Daily News research department. .
The poll also showed that a majority of
Turks do not want the Provide Comfort force
to remain in the region and feel Saddàm
Hussein is not a threat to Turkey.
The pollwas. conducted by random samplin~
in the city centers of Ankara, Istanbul, .
IZffilr and Antalya and covered 2,004 samples.
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According to the poll 36.03 percent of
those questioned felt if northern Iraq was
given back .to the control of Saddam
Hussein's administration in Baghdad this
would serve Turkey's securityinterests.
Another 34.68 percent feft Turkey should
be given full control of northern Iraq.
Only 9.28 percent said northern Iraqi
Kurdish leaders.should control the area.
But that was lower than the 17.76 which
felt international control was needed in the
region.
The Iraqi territorj that falls to the north of
the 36th parallel was declared a ':safe-haven"
Saddam: Turks do not feel threathened
for Iraqi Kurds by the United Nations
Security Council in 1991 to keep Saddam
Hussein from takirig revenge for an uprising
after his Gulf War defeat.
A task force called "Operation Provide
Comfort" was established in mid-1991 to protect
the enclave against Saddam's forces. The'
force is comprised 'jf 48 U.S., French and
British planes and i, stationed at the lncirlik
air base in southem Turkey. Turkey extends
the mandate of the Provide Comfort force
Question: What should Turkey do in northern Iraq
to maintain its own security?
~>. a: The regi~n should be given
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