Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ANKARA1823
2007-07-18 09:42:00
SECRET
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:
TURKEY NOTIFIED OF USAFE MANPOWER REDUCTION PLANS
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S E C R E T ANKARA 001823
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
HQ EUCOM FOR MAJ FEGENBUSH
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/15/2017
TAGS: PREL MARR PARM NATO TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY NOTIFIED OF USAFE MANPOWER REDUCTION PLANS
REF: A. STATE 86447
B. STATE 85662
Classified By: Political-Military Counselor Carl Siebentritt, reasons 1
.4 (b and d)
S E C R E T ANKARA 001823
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
HQ EUCOM FOR MAJ FEGENBUSH
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/15/2017
TAGS: PREL MARR PARM NATO TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY NOTIFIED OF USAFE MANPOWER REDUCTION PLANS
REF: A. STATE 86447
B. STATE 85662
Classified By: Political-Military Counselor Carl Siebentritt, reasons 1
.4 (b and d)
1. (S) We informed MFA Head of Department for the Americas
Oguzhan Ertugrul on July 17 of US Air Force Europe plans to
reduce manpower over three fiscal years across the command
(ref b). We provided specific figures for reductions planned
for Turkey by location, emphasizing that the adjustments are
being driven by an Air Force-directed reorganization
resulting from Quadrennial Defense Review decisions and that
they will be implemented gradually over several years. We
reassured Ertugrul that the changes in force levels do not
have any bilateral policy implications and that they will
affect USAFE personnel in a number of countries besides
Turkey. We advised that the proposed changes will be
declassified in the near future and that our desire was to
inform the GOT beforehand.
2. (S) Ertugrul thanked us and said he would share the
information with the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and Ministry
of Defense. He sought to confirm that the reductions will be
implemented in other countries and asked if, for purposes of
comparison, we could provide MFA with figures for the size of
the personnel changes anticipated for other countries which
host USAFE personnel. We replied that we did not have such
figures available to us, but would seek to provide at least a
general answer.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/
WILSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
HQ EUCOM FOR MAJ FEGENBUSH
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/15/2017
TAGS: PREL MARR PARM NATO TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY NOTIFIED OF USAFE MANPOWER REDUCTION PLANS
REF: A. STATE 86447
B. STATE 85662
Classified By: Political-Military Counselor Carl Siebentritt, reasons 1
.4 (b and d)
1. (S) We informed MFA Head of Department for the Americas
Oguzhan Ertugrul on July 17 of US Air Force Europe plans to
reduce manpower over three fiscal years across the command
(ref b). We provided specific figures for reductions planned
for Turkey by location, emphasizing that the adjustments are
being driven by an Air Force-directed reorganization
resulting from Quadrennial Defense Review decisions and that
they will be implemented gradually over several years. We
reassured Ertugrul that the changes in force levels do not
have any bilateral policy implications and that they will
affect USAFE personnel in a number of countries besides
Turkey. We advised that the proposed changes will be
declassified in the near future and that our desire was to
inform the GOT beforehand.
2. (S) Ertugrul thanked us and said he would share the
information with the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and Ministry
of Defense. He sought to confirm that the reductions will be
implemented in other countries and asked if, for purposes of
comparison, we could provide MFA with figures for the size of
the personnel changes anticipated for other countries which
host USAFE personnel. We replied that we did not have such
figures available to us, but would seek to provide at least a
general answer.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/
WILSON