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Five years ago, a Cuban airforce defector in a MIG-29 fighter aircraft -- flying undetected until outside Key West, Florida -- confirmed that he had trained to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power facility in South Florida.
Erdogan echoed that sentiment, saying the attack aimed to disturb Turkey's "peace and prosperity" and demonstrated a need for international cooperation against terrorism.
He was arrested in Turkey in connection with the Benghazi attack.
The attack drew condemnation from Turkey, the U.S., Britain and other nations and officials from both Turkey and the U.S. pledged to work together to fight terrorism.
We have, unfortunately, lost three citizens today as a result of the blast in Ankara, but in the later hours there was another attack in Siirt, in a city in the eastern part of Turkey, where four young girls were killed as a result of an attack in a car, and these were civilian citizens.
The government expressed regret at the incident - the first attack on US interests in Turkey since the war on Iraq, which many Turks opposed.
After more than a month of arguments, all of NATO's members except France have now agreed to start preparing the defence of Turkey against any possible Iraqi counter-attack.
Turkey wants more from its American friends, including Cobra attack helicopters and armed Reaper drones.
Kurdish rebels have claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a natural gas pipeline in eastern Turkey.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the attack "in the strongest terms" and said Turkey and the U.S. will get the U.K.'s full support as they seek to hold those responsible to account.
The apparent mistake came as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan appeared on national television to tell his countrymen that Turkey had granted the United States permission to use Turkish airspace to attack Iraq.
No, explained the sages of the left, it was because Turkey had refused to let American troops use Turkish soil from which to attack Iraq.
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Turkey blamed the deaths on the PKK, while the PKK said they were defending themselves against an attack by the Turkish army.
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