TURKEY WILL NOT OBJECT TO U.S. UAV/CRUISE MISSILE

C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 000534 SIPDIS SIPDIS FOR ISN/MTR KENNEDY WILSON E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/07/2017 TAGS: MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA MNUC TSPA SUBJECT: TURKEY WILL NOT OBJECT TO U.S. UAV/CRUISE MISSILE PROPOSAL REF: STATE 23826 Classified By: Pol-Mil Counselor Carl Siebenritt for reasons 1.4 (b/d) ¶1. (C) We delivered reftel points to Bora Kerimoglu, Chief of Section, MFA Department of Arms Control and Disarmament, and urged GOT support for the U.S. proposal on Modifications to UAV/Cruise Missile Criteria at the Oslo MTCR Technical Experts Meeting. Kerimoglu told us on March 8 that Ministry of Defense experts were still studying the proposal, but that Turkey would not object to it in Oslo. Turkey will be represented at the Oslo TEM by Tugrul Tinaztepe, a Ministry of Defense engineer assigned to Roketsan, Turkey's national missile research and production company. Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/ WILSON