Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ANKARA573
2008-03-27 15:14:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:  

TURKEY SAYS IT IS IMPLEMENTING THE DUAL USE ITEM

Tags:  KNNP PARM NSG IR MNUC TU 
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ZNY CCCCC ZZH
O 271514Z MAR 08
FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5703
INFO RUCNIRA/IRAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO PRIORITY 6342
RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA PRIORITY 0179
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 2917
C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 000573 

SIPDIS

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ISN/RA FOR RICHARD NEPHEW

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/27/2018
TAGS: KNNP PARM NSG IR MNUC TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY SAYS IT IS IMPLEMENTING THE DUAL USE ITEM
PROVISION OF UNSCR 1803

REF: STATE 29464

Classified By: Political-Military Counselor Carl Siebentritt for reason
s 1.4 (b,d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 000573

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

ISN/RA FOR RICHARD NEPHEW

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/27/2018
TAGS: KNNP PARM NSG IR MNUC TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY SAYS IT IS IMPLEMENTING THE DUAL USE ITEM
PROVISION OF UNSCR 1803

REF: STATE 29464

Classified By: Political-Military Counselor Carl Siebentritt for reason
s 1.4 (b,d).


1. (C) MFA Arms Control Department Head Elif Ulgen expressed
appreciation for reftel non-paper and stressed Turkey's
commitment to implementing the dual use item prohibitions of
UNSCR 1803, during a March 27 meeting. Ulgen shared that
Turkish Customs officials had prevented the shipment of dual
use CNC machine tools bound for Iran as recently as the week
of March 17. (Note: Ulgen stated they were 3-axis, not
5-axis, CNC machine tools. End note). She added that all
relevant agencies, including the Turkish Atomic Energy
Authority (TAEK),which licenses dual use items, are on board
with UNSCR 1803 restrictions and that NSG dual use items are
already listed as such in Turkish export licensing
regulations.


2. (C) Ulgen added that she had participated in an export
control outreach conference in Istanbul on March 26, where an
interagency group briefed a large number of Turkish
exporters, including some suspected in the past of seeking to
circumvent export controls, on export controls and licensing
requirements. She said that UNSCR 1803 restrictions were
included in this event.


3. (C) Comment: Ulgen and her boss, Arms Control and
Disarmament Deputy Director Ahmet Muhtar Gun, have assured us
that Turkey periodically interdicts shipments of proscribed
items to its neighbors based on its own sources of
information. Turkish officials are reluctant to provide us
details of these actions, however, to avoid jeopardizing
"neighborly relations" with Iran and Syria. We continue to
encourage them to tell us, on a confidential basis, their
counter-proliferation success stories.

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WILSON