SUPPLEMENT TO ANKARA 2003 END USE MONITORING REPORT

UNCLAS ANKARA 003756 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SNAR TU SUBJECT: SUPPLEMENT TO ANKARA 2003 END USE MONITORING REPORT REF: A. STATE 96490 ¶B. ANKARA 7769 ¶C. MAY 28 2004 EMAIL FROM TIMOTHY BARRY TO HAROLD BONACQUIST ¶1. With respect to the additional information requested in Ref A, Post advises as follows: ¶2. All of the 45 vehicles provided to the TMO between 1989-93 remain operational. They are used for poppy planting control throughout Turkey. ¶3. Regarding the request for information concerning "communications equipment/radios in use by the projects," Post is advised by its local partners as follows: -- TMO reports no communications equipment provided by U.S. -- Customs reports 5 Motorola radio-sets and chargers, provided in 1999. The radios are currently being used in the training of narcotics sniffer-dogs and train-the-trainer programs being held in Golbasi National Dog Training Center of TNP. -- AMATEM reports a DX-2B telephone switchboard and related technical equipment together with 50 phone machines, provided in 2003. The system is in operation and is used for the communication of the staff and patients within AMATEM section of Bakirkoy Hospital. -- Jandarma report 2 transmitter cigarette packets, 2 transmitter calendar books, one hidden transmitter, 10 Yaesu hand-radios, 2 AID-Unitel-3000 voice and image transmitter systems, one Panasonic digital closed circuit camera, all of which are currently active. The Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Department of Jandarma uses these in intelligence works and operations on narcotic issues. A voice transmitter via GSM is malfunctioning. -- TNP had provided Post with a 39 page inventory of all equipment provided under the INL equipment, including but not limited to communications equipment, showing the location of each individual item of equipment. TNP reports that 2-3% of communications equipment is repaired annually and that all remains operational. Note that, for 2004, Post will audit communications equipment in accordance with procedures described in Ref C. ¶4. The direct narcotics interdiction impact of the INL-funded resources is difficult to calculate. However, in 2003, Turkish law enforcement agencies seized 4,705 kilos of heroin, 1,009 kilos of morphine base, 7,812 kilos of hashish, 10,129 kilos of acetic anhydrite, 2.8 kilograms of cocaine and 5,867,510 pills; destroyed 7 illicit labs; and made 10,223 drug-related arrests. (Note: These figures update through year-end the figures provided in Ref B.) Turkish law enforcement agencies and DEA officials indicate that INL-funded resources materially aided these Turkish narcotics interdiction efforts. DEUTSCH