One Turkish procurement official said the accident took place March 19.

一位土耳其采购官员说，事故发生在3月19日。

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To make matters worse, when America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, at last let it be known that his government now wanted nothing more than overflight rights, to which the Turkish parliament agreed on March 20th, the government denied the Americans use of Turkish airspace, saying it wanted them to agree to the deployment of thousands of Turkish troops in northern Iraq.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's promises were always too hard to keep

But on March 1st the Turkish parliament refused, by three votes, to approve the troop deployment.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's promises were always too hard to keep

First came the Turkish parliament's refusal in March 2003 to let American troops cross its soil to invade Iraq.

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