ABSTRACT
Turkey's insistence on a civilian contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF ) mission in Afghanistan has at times frustrated NATO allies, who have viewed this Turkish persistence with suspicion. The Turkish Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Wardak has been a departure from the pre-eminently military approach within ISAF in Afghanistan. Turkish aversion to using military means in the rebuilding of Afghanistan is based on two motives: a perceived lack of alliance reciprocity toward Turkey, as the country is already fighting a war on terror within its borders against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK); and that Turkish soldiers cannot fire on fellow Muslims.
