Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ANKARA780
2008-04-25 13:30:00
SECRET
Embassy Ankara
Cable title:
TURKEY CONDITIONS CLEARANCE FOR SUSPECT NORTH
how-toVZCZCXYZ0008 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHAK #0780 1161330 ZNY SSSSS ZZH O 251330Z APR 08 FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6069
S E C R E T ANKARA 000780
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR ISN/CPI MATT ZARTMAN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/25/2018
TAGS: PREL PARM KNNP NK SY TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY CONDITIONS CLEARANCE FOR SUSPECT NORTH
KOREAN FLIGHT
REF: STATE 43800 AND PREVIOUS
Classified By: Pol-Mil Counselor Carl Siebentritt for reasons 1.4 (b) a
nd (d)
(S) We presented reftel points on April 25 to MFA Aviation
Department Head Hamit Olcay and thanked Olcay for MFA's
alerting us to its receipt of overflight clearance request
for the suspect Air Koryo flight scheduled for April 28.
Olcay confirmed that the flight details we provided matched
those of the overflight clearance request his department had
received. He told us that MFA had granted overflight
clearance to this Il-62 flight from Pyongyang, but on the
condition that the aircraft land in Diyarbakir, Turkey, for a
full inspection. As of April 25, there had been no reply
from Koryo Air.
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WILSON