“We Will Greet Turkish Soldiers As We Did American Ones”

The representatives of the “Mission of Scholars” (Ulema) set up on February 14 as the competent authority for Iraqi Sunnites, said in a press conference in Istanbul on Sunday that, Turkish troops would be treated similar to American soldiers, if they were sent to Iraq.Prof. Muhammed Al-Ubed, the head of the mission, said; The aim of the Americans is to push the Turkish soldiers in front of the Iraqis. Turkish soldiers will be shields for the American soldiers. We do not want this to happen. If the Turkish troops are sent to Iraq, without the conditions are met, they will be the targets for the resistance. In a statement they issued in Felluce, sect leaders in Iraq announced that the Iraqi people were against Turkish troops to be sent to the region. In their statement, the leaders in Felluce, which is the center of the heaviest fights with U.S. troops, said that “We call on the Iraqi people to say No to Turkish troops!”�