Turkey’s human rights commission opposes Iraq war

The declaration also coincides with a visit by U.S. Treasury Undersecretary John Taylor and State Department Undersecretary Marc Grossman, due in Ankara later on Thursday for talks with Turkish officials on Friday.
The Turkish media has speculated Washington is preparing an aid package of $5 billion in exchange for the use of bases and permission to use Turkish airspace and land borders.
Turkey says it has lost more than $30 billion in trade revenues with Iraq since the United Nations imposed an embargo in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War.
Turkey fears strife across the border will undermine its tentative economic recovery after a punishing recession last year as well as foment tension among its restive Kurdish minority, found largely in a region bordering Iraq.
"Turkey’s concerns with this war should be about the innocent children and women, who have been deprived of basic food and medicine for years under a so-called embargo and who could suffer worse conditions or lose their lives, not with the financial damage it will suffer," the declaration said.