TURKEY AND GREECE AGREE TO CANCEL FALL MILITARY

C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 006391 SIPDIS STATE FOR EUR/SE, EUR/RPM, PM E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/10/2013 TAGS: PREL CY GR TU MARR SUBJECT: TURKEY AND GREECE AGREE TO CANCEL FALL MILITARY EXERCISES ON CYPRUS REF: A) ANKARA 6139 AND PREVIOUS B) ATHENS 3544 (U) Classified by DCM Robert Deutsch. Reasons: 1.5 (B and D). (C) DG for Bilateral Political Affairs Apakan told DCM October 9 that FM Gul and Greek FM Papandreou had agreed to cancel the respective Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot military exercises that were scheduled to take place on Cyprus later in the fall. Apakan said the agreement came during a meeting on the margins of a Mediterranean Forum meeting in Antalya earlier that day (October 9). EDELMAN