What the story doesn't mention is that the public opinion in Turkey against sending troops was coming from the women of Turkey.

A lot of people question the idea of situating the anti-war movement as a woman's movement or a mother's movement. Yet, when the chips are down, isn't it the mothers, sisters, aunts, girlfriends of the world who speak up? It might be due to our 'natural' instincts, but it might also be because we're the only ones left. In the 1980s in South America a lot of men were disappearing and the only ones left were the women.

Say what you will for or against a feminine anti-war movement, but you gotta hand it to the women of Turkey, they got the job done.