CONTENTS Preface vii Chapter 1 Turkey-United States Defense Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges 1 Jim Zanotti Chapter 2 Turkey-Kurdish Regional Government Relations after the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq: Putting the Kurds on the Map? 47 Bill Park Chapter 3 Turkey‘s New Regional Security Role: Implications for the United States 83 Richard Weitz Chapter 4 Turkey: Background and U.S. Relations 167 Jim Zanotti Chapter 5 Turkey 2012 Human Rights Report 227 U.S. Department of State; Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Chapter 6 Turkey 2012 International Religious Freedom Report 263 U.S. Department of State; Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Chapter 7 2013 Investment Climate Statement: Turkey 275 Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Index 29