Murtha: Turkey is best ally of US for 28 years

About meeting, Gonul stated that Murtha was in Ankara to take up support of Turkey for a possible peacekeeping forces to be formed in Iraq.

Gonul stressed that the most important reason for Murtha’s visit was to discuss Turkish-US relations and Iraq was also on the agenda of the meetings.

He added that Murtha went on this trip to learn what was going on in Iraq and visited Turkey to visit friends.

Gonul pointed out that Murtha told him that Turkey was the best ally of Turkey for 28 years in any fields.