Nuclearpak your facts are mistaken. Turkey then and now has US Air Bases on Turkish soil, while US Navy/fleet ships "port" frequently in Turkish seaports.
True, the two side vice plan of ground forces going into Iraq from both the Turkish and Kuwait sides was messed up by the newly infected with radical religious folks Parliament.
Now Turkey wants to join the European Union and has moderated for that primary reason, for now!
While Turkey has been a NATO treaty ally for years, and before that was a CENTO Treaty Ally, the shift into "religious" politics in formerly all secular Turkey has it today looked at by all other NATO allies with concern, using the example you gave of not allowing the pincer movement from both Turkey and Kuwait. Man of us think that the Iraq War would have been over much sooner; that fleeing Iraqi military into Syria (with WMD on wheels crude labs and some initial nuclear material) would have been pinned in and captured. Etc.