The Hood Incident Analysis

Since July 4, 2003 a deep-rooted antipathy towards US has been held by Turks. On that day Turkish Headquarters in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Northern Iraq was exposed to attack by US forces. As a result of it, 11 member of Turkish Armed Forces were forcibly put sacks on their heads and taken out handcuffed. They were retained for 60 hours interrogation and then released. This incident was recorded as The Hood Event in the history. The Hood Event caused the biggest crisis in the partnership history of Turkey and US over the last half-century. While the incident was critically reflected in Turkey, it did not become comparatively well-known in US. For this reason, there are less American sources than Turkish ones dedicated to The Hood Event. …show more content…
US soldiers pointed guns at Turkey forces and simultaneously the major of Turkey Special Forces in Iraq was speaking with his commander over the phone in order to request a command to clash with US soldiers. However, the commander insistently commanded the major not to resist (commander got this order from Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces H. Ozkok) and let US soldiers search the building ("The flash Information about The Hood Event", 2014, para.3). After receiving the order, all of the Turkish forces put their guns down and American forces entered the army base and condemned to search. From that point on, the Turkish Special Forces were prevented from communicating with their superiors. Commander of US soldiers asked the major to leave the headquarters and say the place of C-4 plastic explosives. When the major of Turkish Special Forces refused to leave the army base, US soldiers were commanded to arrest Turkish forces; consequently, 11 members ( one major, two lieutenants, eight sergeants) of Turkish Special Forces were forcibly put hoods on their heads and taken out handcuffed. After being taken out of Turkish Special Forces, US soldiers condemned to examine very harshly the headquarters even Turkish flag in the office of Turkish Special Forces unit commander was pulled down by tearing. "American soldiers seized 15 kg of explosives, …show more content…
"During his period, a new page opened in Turkish-American relations, from strategic partnership to model partnership" (Dagci, 2012, p. 8). The model partnership can be portrayed as a genuine and heightened collaboration in the middle of USA and Turkey to build another local request in the nations and areas around Turkey so that Turkey and USA have a dynamic participation for the determination of the emergency and clashes related with Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, ''Obama’ first transoceanic visit was to Turkey on April 6-7, 2009, which shows the importance attributed to the relations''(Dagci, 2012, p. 7). This visit was exceptionally constitutive in wording of picking up a new dimension in the relations between Turkish-American. The purpose of Obama in this visit was to re-create the harmed relations and common confidence lost amid Bush period. Even though any conspicuous reasons was not indicated related to The Hood Event, It seriously harmed US-Turkey relations. In spite of paying a lot of efforts in order to repair the harmed relation, they could not carry out to set the relations as prior. Whatever the actual reason was, The Hood Event was against the dignity of Turkish people and, it launched hatred towards US in Turkey. Likewise, the incident remained as an affront in the minds of Turkish