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Associate Professor Çalışkan believes that Obama’s impending visit is aimed at getting Turkey to support the US withdrawal from Iraq.

Pacifists have accused the USA of withdrawing from Iraq not out of respect for human rights but in order to intensify the occupation. They have also protested at the USA’s planned use of Turkey in the withdrawal process.

According to Ali, the whole of Iraqi society, but especially the children, bear psychological scars from witnessing violence and death every day: “Iraq needs psychological help, too.”