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Many Turks were uneasy about their nation's involvement in the 1991 Gulf War, and some even advocated neutrality. But there were also those who were not in the least averse to participating in the war, most notably the late President Turgut Ozal. In fact, Ozal was positively gung-ho at the prospect of opening a second front against Saddam in northern Iraq, with Turkish tanks rolling into Baghdad to meet US forces coming up from the south. In the end, he was unable to realize his audacious plans, mostly because of opposition from the ever-cautious Turkish military, but his support (both moral and practical) for the United States never faltered. And throughout the Gulf War, ...