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No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

Well, I'm sure there are people of Turkish origin wouldn't want to do that, but external forces would try to influence the situation in Turkey.

Well, we wouldn't even think of a military action because that would have extremely adverse results for Turkey. After all, we are on the borders.

And even very recently, when Taliban was in office, we took the humanitarian task of building hospital, for instance, schools and other arrangements.