MARDIN, Turkey, (Reuters):
TURKS HURLED stones at a convoy of trucks carrying US military equipment yesterday, in the second such attack on the US military in two days, the Anatolian news agency said.
The vast majority of Turks oppose the US-led war in Iraq and parliament earlier this month refused permission for Washington to use Turkish territory to launch its attack.
Witnesses saw around 40 trucks leave an industrial site rented by US forces near the south-eastern town of Mardin on Sunday, heading away from the Iraqi border toward ports and air bases on the Mediterranean coast.
Anatolian said the convoy had been pelted with stones as it passed through the outskirts of the city of Sanliurfa.
Villagers bombarded US soldiers with eggs and stones near the same city on Saturday when they arrived to recover pieces of a Tomahawk cruise missile, fired from a US warship in the Mediterranean at Iraq, which came down in the area on Friday.
US forces are entering northern Iraq by air instead of by land via Turkey.
