Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ANKARA1927
2007-07-27 12:54:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:
TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGEES NOT WELCOME
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SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/SE AND PRM/A
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/27/2017
TAGS: PREF PHUM PREL TU IZ
SUBJECT: TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGEES NOT WELCOME
Classified By: DCM Nancy McEldowney for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 001927
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/SE AND PRM/A
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/27/2017
TAGS: PREF PHUM PREL TU IZ
SUBJECT: TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGEES NOT WELCOME
Classified By: DCM Nancy McEldowney for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) We have been contacted informally by MNF-I
representatives with a request to press the Government of
Turkey to accept MEK (Mujahideen-e-Khalq) Iranians currently
located in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. UNHCR officials have also
told us that their representatives in Jordan have received
similar queries from U.S. military officials.
2. (C) In our on-going dialogue with GOT officials on refugee
issues, it has been made repeatedly clear that Turkey does
not wish to accept large scale refugee influxes of any
nationality, and most categorically will not accept
individuals or groups of the MEK variety.
3. (C) We are NOW working intensively with the GOT to
expedite the transfer of Iraqi refugees already cleared by
DHS for travel to the United States. Processing these
already cleared individuals as well as the other Iraqi
refugees currently in Turkey is our top priority. We should
not undermine this effort by introducing the MEK issue, which
will inevitably engender a negative GOT response.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/
WILSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EUR/SE AND PRM/A
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/27/2017
TAGS: PREF PHUM PREL TU IZ
SUBJECT: TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGEES NOT WELCOME
Classified By: DCM Nancy McEldowney for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (C) We have been contacted informally by MNF-I
representatives with a request to press the Government of
Turkey to accept MEK (Mujahideen-e-Khalq) Iranians currently
located in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. UNHCR officials have also
told us that their representatives in Jordan have received
similar queries from U.S. military officials.
2. (C) In our on-going dialogue with GOT officials on refugee
issues, it has been made repeatedly clear that Turkey does
not wish to accept large scale refugee influxes of any
nationality, and most categorically will not accept
individuals or groups of the MEK variety.
3. (C) We are NOW working intensively with the GOT to
expedite the transfer of Iraqi refugees already cleared by
DHS for travel to the United States. Processing these
already cleared individuals as well as the other Iraqi
refugees currently in Turkey is our top priority. We should
not undermine this effort by introducing the MEK issue, which
will inevitably engender a negative GOT response.
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/
WILSON