Turkey may claim historical stake in Iraqi oil fields.
“Turkey’s claims to Iraqi oil date back to the early 1920s when the Ottoman Empire was being carved up following its defeat by the Allies in the First World War. Under a treaty signed between the new Turkish Republic and Britain, Turkey was to receive 10 per cent of all Iraqi oil revenues for a 25-year period in exchange for renouncing its territorial claims over Mosul and Kirkuk.
That treaty was suspended in 1958 under the government of the late Turkish premier, Adnan Menderes as a gesture of goodwill towards Iraq. But subsequent governments sought to revive the treaty, to no avail.”
Can’t they even wait until the corpses hit the ground? Perhaps, since the inspections aren’t going well, Bush and his cabinet will begin to sell shares in the Iraq aftermath. That way, perhaps the next country won’t have to exhume ancient stone tablets to prove their oil rights in Iraq and we won’t have to foot the taxpayer burden for their fetish for war.