Based at Rodi, the first actions of this Group were not successful, and two aircraft landed in Turkey being lost (their crews later returned to Rodi).

The 16,500 soldiers of the division were originally supposed to land in Turkey with their tanks and armored vehicles and then drive south into Iraq.

Tuade Bolukbasi, 35, landed in Turkey after a harrowing monthlong journey from Kosovo.

It has been more than a month since the division was to have landed in Turkey itself, to meet its equipment, road-march across the country and begin an invasion of Iraq from the north.

A wounded Soviet defector landed in Turkey over the weekend, and his MIG-29 fighter was flown back to the Soviet Union today, Turkish officials said.

The Soviet hijackers have landed in Sweden, China, Turkey and Finland.

Initially, Pentagon planners anticipated that some flights would land in Turkey, which would have cut hundreds of miles off of each trip.

American officials said today that they can conduct a successful attack to oust Mr. Hussein without access to land bases in Turkey.

Mr President, it appears to me that the Commission's Agenda 2000 document, which has been received so favourably here this morning, has landed as a kind of bombshell in Turkey.

On 19 February Russia agreed not to occupy Gallipoli and Britain agreed not to land any soldiers in Turkey.