Turkish Relations with U.S. hit lowest point yet

Writing in the daily Radikal, columnist and retired diplomat Gunduz Aktan, asked: "Have Americans forgotten how they felt when they saw their diplomats, eyes bandaged, dragged out of (the U.S. embassy in) Tehran during Khomeini's revolution?

"Turks today feel the same thing about U.S. treatment of their soldiers. Like Americans, they too will not forget."

A statement released by a joint Turkish-American fact-finding team expressed regret that the "unfortunate" incident occurred, which was far from the U.S. apology many Turks were expecting.