Turkey's 180

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Another component might be that the Turks are nervous about siding too much with the USA all at once - since France and Germany are EUers who are bitching about the scenario down in Iraq, Turkey might have attempted to refrain from joining the "yaay yaay USA" side until they got some proper under-the-table stuff from the US. Turkey's got one hell of a human rights record (anyone heard of the Assyrians? No? That's because they don't exist anymore) and the EUs using that as a blocker for their EU entry (hilarious considering that Germany's a member) but I think a lot of that has to do with good ol' fashioned Xenophobia on the part of Euros - they're afraid to let the "darkies" in.