Ankara: Turkey has opened its airspace to US warplanes bound for Iraq after 24 hours
of tense gamesmanship during which it sought to win approval for its own military
intervention in Northern Iraq.
"It has been determined that it is in Turkey's interests to open Turkish airspace,"
Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul told reporters on March 21 after a meeting with Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Army Chief Hilmi Ozkok and senior officials on the
Iraq war.
