Tiffany Oglesby.  For the students to get a historical understanding of the country Turkey.

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Tiffany Oglesby

 For the students to get a historical understanding of the country Turkey

 Turkey is geographical located in Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia.  Considered a secular parliamentary republic government.  Islamic religion  Turkish Language

 Fought as allies to the US during WWII and beginning of the Cold War.  In 1947 the US designated Turkey, under the provision of the Truman Doctrine, which allocated economic and military support against threats from the Soviet Union.  Contributed personnel to the United Nation forces in the Korean war ( ).  Join NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in  Establish the Incirlik Air Base

 Constructed in 1951  Located bout 7.5 miles east of Adana  serves as a regional storage center for war reserve materials — supplies and equipment used in combat operations  Host 90 B61 nuclear Bombs.  Played a critical role during the Cold war, Gulf war and Iraq war

 War on terror- Supported the war on terror post 9/11. Didn’t supported the War on Iraq. Turkish Parliament didn’t reach a majority vote to allow the US to attach from turkey. The “Hood Event”.  Supports turkey bid to join the European Union  In 2008, Both cooperated on peaceful use of nuclear energy. Doing so established a agreement *  Obama visited on 4/6/10 urging turkey to come to term with its past and resolve its Armenian issues.

 Ottoman Empire  Armenian Genocide  Kurdistan Genocide  Gaza Flotilla

 defined: as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group:  (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

 What do you think about turkey having Nuk weapons?  Would it make them more vulnerable if they withdrawal them?  Is it in the US interest to have a air base in Turkey?  How do having support in Turkey help the war in Iraq?