Hurriyet: "US and Turkey: Strategic partners?"

"We're supposed to be associates with the US, but it seems we are expected to lend a helping hand in difficult times while they will not do the same for us. They claim to share our troubles, but when it comes to taking action, what is said remains words," Erdogan said.

In Turkey, US support for a relatively stable northern Iraq is believed to stoke the fires of Kurdish nationalism and strengthen calls for an independent Kurdistan that would threaten Turkey's south-eastern borders. Hurriyet