Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06ANKARA4326
2006-07-27 10:25:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:
TFLE01: AIRCRAFT NEEDED NOW TO EVACUATE AMCITS TO
VZCZCXYZ0000 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHAK #4326 2081025 ZNR UUUUU ZZH O 271025Z JUL 06 FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7485 INFO RUEHLB/AMEMBASSY BEIRUT IMMEDIATE 0439 RUEHNC/AMEMBASSY NICOSIA IMMEDIATE 6588 RHMFIUU/CDR USTRANSCOM TCJ5 SCOTT AFB IL IMMEDIATE UEKDAI/DIA WASHDC IMMEDIATE SIPDIS RHMFIUU/CDR USTRANSCOM TCJ3 SCOTT AFB IL IMMEDIATE RUEHAK/USDAO ANKARA TU IMMEDIATE RHMFITT/CDR USTRANSCOM SCOTT AFB IL IMMEDIATE RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC IMMEDIATE RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC//USDP:PDUSDP/ISA:EUR/ISA:NESA// IMMEDIATE RHEHAAA/NSC WASHDC IMMEDIATE RUEUITH/ODC ANKARA TU IMMEDIATE RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC//J-3/J-5// IMMEDIATE RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK IMMEDIATE RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE IMMEDIATE RHMFISS/HQ USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL IMMEDIATE RHMFIUU/425ABS IZMIR TU//CC// IMMEDIATE RHMFIUU/39ABG INCIRLIK AB TU IMMEDIATE RUEPGAB/MNF-I C2X BAGHDAD IZ IMMEDIATE
UNCLAS ANKARA 004326
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FROM AMBASSADOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC MOPS ASEC TU LE CY
SUBJECT: TFLE01: AIRCRAFT NEEDED NOW TO EVACUATE AMCITS TO
CONUS
REF: ANKARA 4252
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY
UNCLAS ANKARA 004326
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FROM AMBASSADOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC MOPS ASEC TU LE CY
SUBJECT: TFLE01: AIRCRAFT NEEDED NOW TO EVACUATE AMCITS TO
CONUS
REF: ANKARA 4252
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY
1. (U) This is an urgent action request -- please see para. 4.
2. (SBU) Over 700 of the approximately 1700 American citizens
and their dependents evacuated from Turkey to Lebanon on July
23 remain at Incirlik Air Base. Schedules for commercial
charter flights from Incirlik to CONUS have come and gone,
with flights promised for July 24, 25, 26, and 27 (today),
only four of which have actually materialized.
3. (SBU) Our evacuees are increasingly anxious to get to the
United States. Nerves are frayed, and anger is on the
increase enough to become a public relations concern. Amcits
and their dependents are physically comfortable at Incirlik;
from what we understand, conditions there are better than at
the Nicosia fairgrounds. Their quarters, Incirlik's Patriot
Village, are air-conditioned, the base has set up facilities
to call home and use the Internet, and the evacuees are
getting good food and medical care. But unless we get firm
flights July 27 or 28, we will have problems.
4. (SBU) Action Request: Request the Department redouble its
efforts urgently to provide reliable commercial aircraft
immediately for this evacuation, or consider requesting
milair assets, as were used for Cyprus.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/
WILSON
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FROM AMBASSADOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC MOPS ASEC TU LE CY
SUBJECT: TFLE01: AIRCRAFT NEEDED NOW TO EVACUATE AMCITS TO
CONUS
REF: ANKARA 4252
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY
1. (U) This is an urgent action request -- please see para. 4.
2. (SBU) Over 700 of the approximately 1700 American citizens
and their dependents evacuated from Turkey to Lebanon on July
23 remain at Incirlik Air Base. Schedules for commercial
charter flights from Incirlik to CONUS have come and gone,
with flights promised for July 24, 25, 26, and 27 (today),
only four of which have actually materialized.
3. (SBU) Our evacuees are increasingly anxious to get to the
United States. Nerves are frayed, and anger is on the
increase enough to become a public relations concern. Amcits
and their dependents are physically comfortable at Incirlik;
from what we understand, conditions there are better than at
the Nicosia fairgrounds. Their quarters, Incirlik's Patriot
Village, are air-conditioned, the base has set up facilities
to call home and use the Internet, and the evacuees are
getting good food and medical care. But unless we get firm
flights July 27 or 28, we will have problems.
4. (SBU) Action Request: Request the Department redouble its
efforts urgently to provide reliable commercial aircraft
immediately for this evacuation, or consider requesting
milair assets, as were used for Cyprus.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/
WILSON