ABSTRACT
As consistently pro-Western states Turkey and the Hashemite kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan were usually on good terms, with shared interests in regional and international affairs. Indeed, Iraq was the only Arab state to join Turkey in early 1955 to form the pro-Western security alliance known as the 'Baghdad Pact'. At the same time, however, the leading role of the Hashemites in the Arab revolt against the Turks in the First World War remained an occasional irritant in this usually amicable association.
