TERRORIST FINANCE- TURKEY: MFA WELCOMES KADEK'S

C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 008959 SIPDIS EB/ESC/ESP (GLASS),S/CT (FOX),IO/PHO (PEREZ),EUR, TREASURY GENERAL COUNSEL (DAVID AUFHAUSER),THE TREASURY TASK FORCE ON TERRORIST FINANCING, AND TREASURY/OFAC (NEWCOMB) E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/11/2012 TAGS: ETTC EFIN PTER PREL KSEP CVIS KVPR TU EUN SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE- TURKEY: MFA WELCOMES KADEK'S INCLUSION ON USG LIST OF FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS REF: SECSTATE 246714 Classified by Charge Robert S. Deutsch; reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). ¶1. (C) On December 11, A/POL and poloff delivered reftel talking points to Kemal Asya, MFA Deputy Director General for Intelligence and Research. Asya thanked USG for including KADEK as an alias to PKK and for asking the EU to do the same. He cautioned however, that he was not optimistic about either the European Union's inclusion of KADEK or some of its members' ability to freeze the assets of the members of terrorist organization. ¶2. (U) The GOT MFA released a statement December 10 on the inclusion KADEK on USG list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. A translation follows. Begin text: The U.S. government announced that terrorist organization PKK's newly adopted name KADEK is also included on the terrorist organizations list. The above mentioned decision of the U.S. government was welcomed and there is no doubt that from the aspect of determined struggle in the international platform against terrorism, this decision is an important development and will cast an example ("will cast an example" may also be translated as "will be exemplary"). It is expected/awaited that the U.S. decision concerning the name change by the terrorist organization PKK done solely with the purpose of getting away from the responsibility of the actions and eliminating its terrorist identity, will be assessed by other countries with the same sensitivity and that they would consider including the organization on the EU terrorist organizations list with its new name KADEK. End text. DEUTSCH