
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 23, 1991                   TAG: 9102230128
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

TURKEY SUGGESTS WATER PACTS TO ASSURE PEACE

Offering his country's ample water resources as bait, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemocin said Friday that Middle Eastern countries could ensure lasting peace after the war by creating giant, regionwide water projects to give all nations a shared asset that would be too valuable to risk.

"We should try to find huge projects that would interconnect the countries of the region," Alptemocin said. "This would eliminate the military option, because they would have mutual benefits to protect together."

Turkey is the only country in the Middle East with water surpluses. - Los Angeles Times

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