A Tale of Two Evidences: Why does America want evidence from Turkey?
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NOTE: the following text is the translation of my comment titled as “İki kanıtın hikâyesi: Amerika Türkiye’den neden ‘kanıt’ ister?”
In October 2001, the United States called on the Taliban administration in Afghanistan to hand over al-Qaeda leader Usame bin Laden, whom he held responsible for the September 11 attacks. To show the seriousness of this call, the US began bombing Afghanistan. On the eighth day of the bombing, Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Hadji Abdulkadir announced that bin Laden would be sent to a third country if the United States would stop the bombings and pass on evidence that bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11th. The statements of US President George Bush on this proposal were as follows: “there’s no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he’s guilty. Turn him over. If they want us to stop our military operations, they’ve just got to meet my conditions. Now, when I said no negotiation, I meant no negotiation… There’s no negotiation— they must have not heard—there’s no negotiation. This is nonnegotiable… There’s nothing to negotiate about.”
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