The media has announced that USA requires soldiers from Turkey to the war in Afghanistan.
We are against the war.
We oppose to send the citizens of this country to a war of which dirtiness is already obvious.
In contradiction with the law of war, civilians are continously being shut and children are being killed with shrapnel balls.
Every war is a swamp. The Afghanistan war though is completely a swamp. Turkey should not take part in the war.
The leaders of Turkey should not leave the children without fathers. This war has no relation to the defence of our country.
The people of Turkey have no obligations to comply with in this war.
Turkey should require the elimination of the operations in Afghanistan instead of taking part in the war. Turkey should strife for this.
Turkey should make contributions to the peace process, not to the war.
Hüsnü Öndül
President