• wikileaks ico  Home
  • privacy policy Privacy

Search   through 251'286 wikileaks cables

browse by topics
| advanced search
Select office:
Select classification:
Tags: ALL or ANY
B   R   O   W   S   E
By embassy:
Abidjan Abu Dhabi Abuja Accra Adana Addis Ababa Alexandria Algiers American Institute Taiwan, Taipei Amman Amsterdam Ankara Antananarivo Apia Ashgabat Asmara Astana Asuncion Athens Auckland Baghdad Baku Bamako Bandar Seri Begawan Bangkok Bangui Banjul Barcelona Beijing Beirut Belfast Belgrade Belmopan Berlin Bern Bishkek Bogota Brasilia Bratislava Brazzaville Bridgetown Brussels Bucharest Budapest Buenos Aires Bujumbura Cairo Calgary Canberra Cape Town Caracas Casablanca Chengdu Chennai Chiang Mai Chisinau Ciudad Juarez Colombo Conakry Copenhagen Cotonou Curacao Dakar Damascus Dar Es Salaam Department of State Dhahran Dhaka Dili DIR FSINFATC Djibouti Doha Dubai Dublin Durban Dushanbe Dusseldorf Embasy Bonn Florence Frankfurt Freetown Fukuoka Gaborone Georgetown Grenada Guadalajara Guangzhou Guatemala Guayaquil Halifax Hamburg Hamilton Hanoi Harare Helsinki Hermosillo Ho Chi Minh City Hong Kong Hyderabad Iran RPO Dubai Islamabad Istanbul Izmir Jakarta Jeddah Jerusalem Johannesburg Kabul Kaduna Kampala Karachi Kathmandu Khartoum Kigali Kingston Kinshasa Kolkata Kolonia Koror Krakow Kuala Lumpur Kuwait Kyiv La Paz Lagos Lahore Leipzig Libreville Lilongwe Lima Lisbon Ljubljana Lome London Luanda Lusaka Luxembourg Madrid Majuro Malabo Managua Manama Manila Maputo Marseille Maseru Matamoros Mbabane Melbourne Merida Mexico Milan Minsk Mission Geneva Mission UNESCO Mission USNATO Mission USOSCE Mogadishu Monrovia Monterrey Montevideo Montreal Moscow Mumbai Munich Muscat Nagoya Naha Nairobi Naples Nassau Ndjamena New Delhi Niamey Nicosia Nogales Nouakchott Nuevo Laredo Osaka Kobe Oslo Ottawa Ouagadougou Panama Paramaribo Paris Perth Peshawar Phnom Penh Podgorica Ponta Delgada Port Au Prince Port Louis Port Moresby Port Of Spain Prague Praia Pretoria Pristina Quebec Quito Rabat Rangoon Recife REO Basrah REO Hillah REO Kirkuk REO Mosul Reykjavik Riga Rio De Janeiro Riyadh Rome San Jose San Salvador Sanaa Santiago Santo Domingo Sao Paulo Sapporo Sarajevo Secretary of State Seoul Shanghai Shenyang Singapore Skopje Sofia St Petersburg Stockholm Strasbourg Surabaya Suva Sydney Tallinn Tashkent Tbilisi Tegucigalpa Tehran Tel Aviv The Hague Thessaloniki Tijuana Tirana Tokyo Toronto Tripoli Tunis Ulaanbaatar UN Rome UNVIE US Delegation FEST TWO US Delegation, Secretary US Interests Section Havana US Mission CD Geneva US Mission Geneva US Office Almaty US OFFICE FSC CHARLESTON USEU Brussels USMISSION USTR GENEVA USUN New York Valletta Vancouver Vatican Vienna Vientiane Vilnius Vladivostok Warsaw Wellington Windhoek Yaounde Yekaterinburg Yerevan Zagreb
By classification:
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY


By year:
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1979 1978 1975 1973 1972 1966

More on tag:
ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
[close]

More on tag:
AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
[close]

More on tag:
AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
[close]

More on tag:
AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
[close]

More on tag:
AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
[close]

Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
[close]

More on tag:
APER PERSONNEL
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
[close]

More on tag:
ASEC SECURITY
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
[close]

More on tag:
BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
[close]

More on tag:
BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
[close]

OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
[close]

More on tag:
CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
[close]

Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
[close]

More on tag:
CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
[close]

Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
[close]

More on tag:
CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
[close]

Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
[close]

More on tag:
CVIS VISAS
[close]

Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
[close]

More on tag:
EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
[close]

More on tag:
EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
[close]

More on tag:
EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
[close]

More on tag:
ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
[close]

More on tag:
ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
[close]

Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
[close]

More on tag:
EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
[close]

More on tag:
EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
[close]

More on tag:
EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
[close]

More on tag:
EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
[close]

Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
[close]

More on tag:
EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
[close]

More on tag:
ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
[close]

More on tag:
ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
[close]

More on tag:
EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

[close]

More on tag:
ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
[close]

More on tag:
EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
[close]

Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
[close]

More on tag:
ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
[close]

More on tag:
ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
[close]

Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
[close]

More on tag:
EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
[close]

More on tag:
KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
[close]

Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
[close]

More on tag:
KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
[close]

Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
[close]

More on tag:
KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
[close]

Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
[close]

More on tag:
KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
[close]

Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

[close]

More on tag:
KCOM: Chief of Mission
[close]

Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
[close]

Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

[close]

More on tag:
KCRM: Criminal Activity
[close]

Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
[close]

More on tag:
KDEM: Democratization
[close]

Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
[close]

Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
[close]

More on tag:
KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
[close]

Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
[close]

More on tag:
KGHG: Global Climate Change
[close]

Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
[close]

More on tag:
KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
[close]

Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
[close]

More on tag:
KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
[close]

Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
[close]

More on tag:
KHLS: Homeland Security
[close]

Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

[close]

More on tag:
KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
[close]

Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
[close]

More on tag:
KIRF: International Religious Freedom
[close]

Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
[close]

More on tag:
KISL: Islamic Issues
[close]

Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
[close]

More on tag:
KJUS: Administration of Justice
[close]

Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
[close]

More on tag:
KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
[close]

Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
[close]

More on tag:
KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
[close]

Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
[close]

More on tag:
KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
[close]

Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
[close]

Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
[close]

Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
[close]

More on tag:
KPAO: Public Affairs Office
[close]

Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
[close]

More on tag:
KPIN: Political Internationals
[close]

Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
[close]

More on tag:
KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
[close]

Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
[close]

More on tag:
KPWR: Power Support Program
[close]

Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
[close]

More on tag:
KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
[close]

Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

[close]

More on tag:
KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
[close]

Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
[close]

More on tag:
KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
[close]

Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
[close]

More on tag:
KSUM: Summit Meetings
[close]

Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
[close]

More on tag:
KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
[close]

Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
[close]

More on tag:
KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
[close]

Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
[close]

More on tag:
KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
[close]

Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
[close]

More on tag:
KUNR: UN Reform
[close]

Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
[close]

More on tag:
KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
[close]

Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
[close]

More on tag:
KWMN: Women Issues
[close]

Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
[close]

More on tag:
MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
[close]

More on tag:
MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
[close]

More on tag:
MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
[close]

More on tag:
MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
[close]

More on tag:
MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
[close]

More on tag:
ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
[close]

More on tag:
OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
[close]

EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
[close]

More on tag:
OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
[close]

More on tag:
OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
[close]

Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
[close]

More on tag:
OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
[close]

More on tag:
OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
[close]

More on tag:
OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
[close]

More on tag:
OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
[close]

More on tag:
OTRA TRAVEL
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
[close]

More on tag:
OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
[close]

More on tag:
PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
[close]

More on tag:
PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
[close]

Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
[close]

More on tag:
PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
[close]

More on tag:
PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
[close]

More on tag:
PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
[close]

Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
[close]

More on tag:
PINR INTELLIGENCE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
[close]

More on tag:
PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
[close]

More on tag:
PREF REFUGEES
[close]

Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
[close]

More on tag:
PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
[close]

Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
[close]

More on tag:
PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
[close]

Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
[close]

More on tag:
PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
[close]

Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
[close]

More on tag:
SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
[close]

More on tag:
SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
[close]

More on tag:
SMIG MIGRATION
[close]

Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
[close]

More on tag:
SNAR NARCOTICS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
[close]

More on tag:
SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
[close]

More on tag:
TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
[close]

More on tag:
TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
[close]

More on tag:
TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
[close]

Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
[close]

More on tag:
TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
[close]

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
[close]
By tags:
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA


Get the how-to to understand how to read a cable


Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1'000 rows / 7'402 results
IdentifierSubjectDateOfficeClassificationTags
04ANKARA4428ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-06 14:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA4440TUAF QUESTIONNAIRE ON SPACE COOPERATION
[...] (U) This cable contains sensitive business information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 3. (SBU) On July 27, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) conveyed to DAO Ankara a questionnaire from Turkish Air Force (TUAF) Command regarding space cooperatio [...]
2004-08-06 16:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PINR TSPA FR IS KS TU UK
04ANKARA4448TIP IN TURKEY: POLICE GUIDEBOOK ON TIP
[...] (U) In an August 5 meeting at the Turkish Security Directorate, Foreigners Department Assistant Director Murat Oz provided para 2 text of the Turkish Security Directorate's anti-TIP guidebook. Oz told Emboff that the guidebook was published by the Security Directorate and dis [...]
2004-08-09 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA4454CONDEMNING TERRORISM IN IRAQ: FURTHER TURKISH
[...] (SBU) PolMilOff followed up on ref a demarche Aug. 6 with MFA Iraq Department Chief Mehmet Kemal Bozay, who called our attention to the OIC Secretary General's Aug. 2 statement condemning the recent church bombings in Iraq (ref c). Bozay had made it clear in our initial discussion on this issu [...]
2004-08-09 16:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PHUM TU IZ
04ANKARA4455GOT PREPARING THREE-YEAR ECONOMIC PROGRAM
[...] (Sbu) Summary: Earlier this summer, the Turkish Government began work on a 3-year economic program. An outgrowth of previous and existing policy planning vehicles, the 3-year program is a GOT economic policy program being developed with input from--but independently of --the IMF. According t [...]
2004-08-09 16:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECIN TU
04ANKARA4485TURKEY WILL NOT SEND PRT TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Following up on mid-July reports that the GOT was reconsidering its decision not to send a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) to Afghanistan (reftel),PolMilCouns and PolMilOff consulted both MFA and TGS sources, who denied that Turkey was reconsidering its June decision not to send a PR [...]
2004-08-10 15:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS TU AF
04ANKARA4489ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-10 15:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA4490US TREASURY OFFICIAL'S VISIT: LOCAL ECONOMISTS
[...] (Sbu) Summary: In a round of meetings with visiting US Treasury official Marshall Mills at the end of July, GOT economic officials, IFI representatives, and private sector analysts painted a picture of Turkey being at an important juncture in defining its policy direction over the next 1-3 [...]
2004-08-10 17:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV TU
04ANKARA45 MFA's Accepts Almost All of EPC Action Items
[...] (SBU) Econoff discussed reftel's updated version of the Economic Partnership Commission's (EPC's) Agreed Action Items with Mehmet Gucuk, MFA's Deputy Director General for Bilateral Economic Affairs, on December 30. Gucuk, who said he was transmitting the Ministry's official views on this after [...]
2004-01-06 13:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL EINV TU
04ANKARA4503TIP IN TURKEY: AUSTRALIAN INVESTIGATION REPORT I
[...] (C) The following confidential investigation report compiled by Australian Federal Police agent Shawn Selles includes names and contact information for suspected human smugglers described in reftel. TURKISH-BASED PEOPLE SMUGGLING NETWORK OPERATING TO AUSTRALIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES Backgrou [...]
2004-08-11 08:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKCRM KVPR PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU AU PINR TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA4528IMF OFFICIAL ON GOT'S DECISION TO SEEK A NEW
[...] (C) Summary: Following IMF Mission Chief Moghadam,s surprise visit to Ankara last week, and public statements by PM Erdogan and Economy Minister Babacan that the GOT had decided to seek a follow-on disbursing Standby Arrangement(SBA),Econoffs met with IMF Deputy Resident Representative Chri [...]
2004-08-11 16:46:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV ECIN TU
04ANKARA4529TURKS SEEK URGENT COOPERATION ON SECURITY MEASURES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. four. 2. (C) MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs Baki Ilkin called in DCM Aug. 11 to discuss the security situation for Turkish truckers in Iraq. The GOT has been dealing with the murder and kidnapping of a number of T [...]
2004-08-11 16:46:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS TU IZ
04ANKARA4574 GOT Objects to Inclusion in Port Security
[...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 8. 2. (U) Prior to receiving ref C email putting ref A demarche on hold, Econoff delivered demarche to MFA and the Turkish Maritime Administration advising that countries, including Turkey, which have reported less than full compliance w [...]
2004-08-13 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT PTER ETRD PREL TU
04ANKARA4580TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, AUGUST 1-
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published August 15, 2004 by the Internat [...]
2004-08-16 08:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA4600FOLLOW-UP MEETING WITH TURKISH MFA ON TRUCKER
[...] (C) Following MFA Deputy U/S Ilkin calling in the DCM (ref a),MFA Deputy Director General Sakir Fakili held a preliminary follow-up meeting with emboffs Aug. 13. Fakili stressed the importance of secure transfer and offload facilities, enhanced convoy security, and insurance assistance. He [...]
2004-08-16 16:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS TU IZ
04ANKARA4601TURKISH ENERGY OFFICIALS ON LIBERALIZATION, IRAN,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's BOTAS (Petroleum Pipeline Corporation) Director Mehmet Bilgic expressed confidence in Turkey and BOTAS' growing role as an energy transit country for oil and gas, citing that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyan oil pipeline and Shah Deniz gas pipeline (tendering process) were on sc [...]
2004-08-16 16:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ETRD IR TU
04ANKARA4623BOSPHORUS BYPASS AND THRACE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Recognizing growing oil tanker congestion in the Bosphorus and associated environmental and safety risks, the Government of Turkey (GOT) has expressed support for construction of a bypass pipeline to avoid the Turkish straits, aiming to transport oil overland from the Black Sea [...]
2004-08-18 11:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ETRD TU
04ANKARA4630ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-18 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA464IMF RESREP: TURKEY IS OFF TRACK
[...] (C) Summary: Despite diplomatic public statements, the first stage of the IMF's Seventh Review Mission found Turkey to be seriously off-track, according to IMF Resrep Odd Per Brekk. The backsliding is notable with regard to two "pillars" of the program--fiscal discipline and banking sector re [...]
2004-01-23 15:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV PREL TU
04ANKARA465TGS INFORMATION ON TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN IRAQ
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (S) TGS has informed ODC-Turkey of its understanding that the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PCDK),which they claim is an extension of the PKK/KADEK/KHK, is recruting Arabs around Mosul, training them in terrorist tactics, and conducting surv [...]
2004-01-23 16:30:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER MARR PREL TU IZ
04ANKARA4651TURKISH READOUT ON IIG PRESIDENT AL-YAWAR VISIT:
[...] (C) The GOT is pleased with the Aug. 16-17 visit of IIG President al-Yawar and the IIG ministers for foreign affairs, water resources, and trade. Al-Yawar told the Turks that he and the IIG intentionally chose Turkey for his first major trip abroad, and that they saw Turkey as Iraq's most imp [...]
2004-08-18 16:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ENRG ECON TU IZ
04ANKARA4700ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-19 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA4713EMPLOYER OF TURKISH HOSTAGE IN IRAQ SAYS IT WILL
[...] (C) Ali Kantur, CEO of Turkey's TEPE group--a significant KBR subcontractor in Iraq--and Deputy General Manager Suleyman Son, met with Ambassador and Emboffs August 19 to discuss TEPE's security problems in Iraq. Kantur and Son passed on that the Turkish TV station NTV reported at noon today [...]
2004-08-19 16:32:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER IZ TU
04ANKARA4764ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-23 14:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA48ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-07 05:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA482PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF'S TURKEY VISIT CEMENTS TIES, SKIPS KEY ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistani President Musharraf's January 19-22 visit to Turkey was heavy on ceremony and warm rhetoric, but apparently skipped over key issues of cross-border terrorism and non-proliferation. The visit appeared designed to cement ties, which had become testy in 2002, and to avoid contro [...]
2004-01-26 10:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALIN PARM PK PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA4860ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-26 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA487ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-26 13:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA4878ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-27 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA4886TURKISH MFA CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR DIRECT U.S. -
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request in para 6. 2. (SBU) Emboffs met with MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Vakur Gokdenizler on August 26 to share current USG thinking on establishing air services between North Cyprus and the United States (ref A). We prov [...]
2004-08-27 15:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEAIR PREL CY TU
04ANKARA4887PUTIN VISIT TO TURKEY SEPTEMBER 2-3
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: The highest-level Russian visitor to Turkey since Podgorny in 1972, Putin will arrive amid steadily increasing bilateral economic ties -- particularly in Russian energy sales and interest in energy-sector investments and ar [...]
2004-08-27 16:34:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL ENRG TU RS
04ANKARA4893TURKISH BUSINESSMEN DESCRIBE THREAT TO WORK IN
[...] (Sbu) Summary: In recent days the head of the Turkish Chamber of Commerce, as well as executives of two leading Turkish USG contractors in Iraq (Tepe and Yuksel) have all met with the Ambassador to press for US consideration of additional security measures to enhance security for Turkish truc [...]
2004-08-28 06:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ETRD ECON IZ TU
04ANKARA4926DEMARCHE ON OSCE CONFERENCE ON RACISM, XENOPHOBIA
[...] (U) Embassy Ankara delivered on August 24 reftel's requested demarche on the September 13-14 OSCE Conference on Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination to MFA Human Rights Department Head Ali Savut. 2. (U) Savut responded that while the GOT concurs the topics planned for the OSCE Brussels S [...]
2004-09-01 05:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA5TURKISH LNO AT CENTCOM: GOT WANTS USG TO NEGOTIATE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 4 and 5. 2. (C) On December 24, MFA Deputy DirGen for the Americas Suna Ilicak raised with polmilcouns Turkey's need for a SOFA with Qatar to place a liaison officer (LNO) at the CENTCOM forward headquarters there. (Note: Turkey is withdrawing i [...]
2004-01-02 11:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL TU
04ANKARA5005TUAF RESPONSE TO USG POINTS ON SATELLITE REMOTE
[...] (SBU) On September 1, Deputy PolMilCouns delivered Ref. A talking points to the MFA's Americas Desk and the Turkish Air Force (TUAF) Aerospace Division. The MFA's Americas Desk Deputy Director professed to be unaware of the TUAF questionnaire and accepted the points without comment. While pr [...]
2004-09-07 07:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PINR TSPA ETTC PARM IS KS FR TU UK
04ANKARA5013ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-07 15:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5014IAEA/IRAN - TURKEY TO SPEAK OUT AT UNGA, BUT FEARS
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Gul is expected to voice Turkey's concerns about Iran's nuclear program at the UNGA, but MFA worries that referring Iran's case to the Security Council before the outcome there is assured might actually accelerate Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. End summary. [...]
2004-09-07 15:31:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR TU
04ANKARA5015MFA REACTS BADLY TO EXCLUSION FROM PSI CORE GROUP
[...] (C) Summary: MFA DDG for Disarmament and Arms Control reacted angrily to ref a points, threatening at one point to do all he could to scale back Turkish participation in PSI. We talked him out of withdrawing Turkey from the Spanish exercise in early 2005 for now, although whether Turkey will [...]
2004-09-07 15:32:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM PREL ETTC TU
04ANKARA5029AMBASSADOR'S SEPT. 1 MEETING WITH FONMIN GUL
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador reiterated U.S. support for Turkey's EU candidacy; pressed for Turkish agreement with Greece/Cyprus to forego annual exercises in Aegean and Cyprus; urged Turkey to use its weight in OIC to persuade Sudan to abide by UNSC resolutions on Darfur; asked for a rapid decisio [...]
2004-09-08 06:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN MARR TU
04ANKARA507 New Import Surveillance Measures
[...] (U) On December 31, 2003, the GOT published a series of import surveillance and protection measures in the State Gazette. The measures set import reference prices for consumer goods ranging from kitchenware to toothbrushes (see para 3 for summary). The Foreign Trade Undersecretariat is now [...]
2004-01-27 07:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD TU
04ANKARA509TURKISH REFUGEES IN IRAQ: BROAD CONSENSUS ON
[...] (SBU) After three days of intense, hard-fought negotiations in Ankara January 20-22 between Turkish, Iraqi/CPA, US and UNHCR reps on a draft agreement for the repatriation of Turkish refugees from Iraq, the parties reached broad consensus on the content of an agreement. A text reflecting that [...]
2004-01-27 08:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM PTER TU IZ
04ANKARA5100MFA PROTESTS TURKMEN CASUALTIES IN TAL AFAR
[...] (C) Summary: The Director General for Middle East Affairs summoned A/DCM to the MFA the evening of September 9 to express strong concern about Turkmen civilian casualties being incurred during current operations against insurgents in Tal Afar. The protest was motivated by anticipated politic [...]
2004-09-10 14:10:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL TU IZ
04ANKARA5114RULING AK PARTY'S HYPOCRITIC OATH: THE ATTEMPT TO
[...] (C) Summary: An attempt by ruling AK Party (AKP) to re-criminalize adultery and fornication raises serious questions about AKP's commitment to EU values and the party leadership's ability to move away from its Islamist roots. End summary. 2. (U) In the run-up to the EU's October progress re [...]
2004-09-10 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREL TU
04ANKARA5115AMBASSADOR AND DCHOD BASBUG DISCUSS CYPRUS, EU
[...] (S) TGS Deputy Chief GEN Basbug told the Ambassador September 8 that developments regarding Cyprus were "worrisome," pointing at the European Court of Human Rights consideration of Loizidou clone cases and the lack of EU action on ending the isolation of northern Cypriots. He hinted that Anka [...]
2004-09-10 15:47:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR PGOV PARM IZ CY IR TU
04ANKARA512ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-27 13:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA514TERRORIST FINANCING: TURKISH MFA ON EU EXTENDING
[...] (C) Summary: In two meetings with Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Research and Intelligence Kemal Asya, Econoffs delivered ref B talking points, emphasizing the need for Turkey to work closely with those EU countries that favor designation of Kadek and Kongra Gel, and to provide maximum [...]
2004-01-27 13:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN TU IZ
04ANKARA5140TURKS SEEK AVENUE TO GET HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey urgently seeks first-hand access to Talafar to evaluate the situation there to provide humanitarian assistance to this predominantly Turkmen Iraqi city, MFA Undersecretary-designate Tuygan told the Ambassador on Sept. 13. GOT continues to be concerned about getting accurat [...]
2004-09-13 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS TU IZ
04ANKARA5141GOT'S NON-MUSLIM PROPERTY REFORMS FALL SHORT
[...] (C) Summary: EU observers and representatives of Turkey's non-Muslim communities criticize as inadequate GOT reforms designed to allow non-Muslim foundations to acquire property. While the GOT has approved more than 700 applications to acquire legal ownership of properties already under the d [...]
2004-09-13 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA5143ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-13 15:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5187CENTRAL BANK RATE CUT REINFORCES MARKET'S
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-14 15:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL ECON TU
04ANKARA5190FOREIGN MINISTER WALKS BACK HIS THREAT TO CUT
[...] (C) Summary: FonMin Gul told the press Sept. 13 that if civilian casualties continue to mount in the Talafar operation, Turkey would end its cooperation with the U.S. on Iraq. Ambassador spoke with MFA Undersecretary-designate Tuygan and A/DCM with MFA's spokesman Sept. 14 to register our dis [...]
2004-09-14 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS TU IZ
04ANKARA5191TURKISH GENERAL STAFF J3 CHIEF DELIVERS TOUGH
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In his Sept. 8 introductory call by incoming ODC Turkey Chief Maj. Gen. Pete Sutton, TGS J3 LTG Metin Yavuz Yalcin accused the U.S. of meeting with PKK operatives, failing to capture PKK leader Osman Ocalan, and standing by while Kurds sought to alter Kirkuk's population. He ad [...]
2004-09-14 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PTER PINR MOPS TU IZ
04ANKARA5196GOT REQUESTS ADDITIONAL CHANGE TO DRAFT CFE HOST
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (SBU) On Sept. 13, MFA Deputy Director General for Disarmament and Arms Control Haluk Ilicak sent PolMilCouns a proposed change to the draft CFE Host Country Agreement text. The GOT seeks to add a new Article V at the end of the agreem [...]
2004-09-14 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KCFE TU
04ANKARA5205TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, SEPTEMBER 1-15,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published September 10, 2004 by Turkish l [...]
2004-09-15 09:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA5221ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-15 13:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5234TURKISH MFA NOT BUDGING ON STROVILIA, ASTROMERITIS
[...] (C) Pursuant to refs a and b, we met with Turkish MFA Cyprus Department Head Bilman September 13 and urged the GOT to resolve outstanding UNFICYP and other UN-related issues prior to finalization of the SYG report on the UNFICYP mandate. In particular, we suggested: lifting restrictions on [...]
2004-09-16 10:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL CY TU
04ANKARA5262NEW TURKISH DEFENSE INDUSTRY POLICY BEGINS TO TAKE
[...] (C) Summary: During a Sept 15 tour d'horizon with the Ambassador, Undersecretary for Defense Industry Bayar had a better informed and more balanced view of the state of Turkish defense industry and a clearer vision of where he wants to take it than during their first meeting last May. On procu [...]
2004-09-16 14:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL MARR TU
04ANKARA5266SCENESETTER FOR DASD BRZEZINSKI'S SEPTEMBER 21
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit comes at a challenging time in our bilateral relations. Our painstaking efforts to rebuild relations over the last year, capped by a successful Istanbul NATO Summit in June, have resulted in the restoration of productive relations at the top military and civilian levels [...]
2004-09-16 15:32:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR PGOV PARM PTER OVIP MOPS MASS CY IR
04ANKARA5278ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-17 12:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5301 CIVAIR OFFICIALS ON SAFETY, SECURITY ISSUES
[...] (U) This cable contains action requests in paras 12 and 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: Turkish Civil Aviation officials told us that stringent security measures required by DHS/TSA continue to impose a burden on passengers and security staff. Screening with explosive trace detection (ETD) equipme [...]
2004-09-17 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PTER TU CY
04ANKARA5306SECRETARY ABRAHAM'S SEPTEMBER 21 VISIT TO ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Turkey comes a few months after the President,s June visit to Ankara and Istanbul for bilateral meetings and the NATO Summit, at a time when bilateral and political relations are generally on track. Your meeting with Energy Minister Hilmi Guler will provide an excellent op [...]
2004-09-17 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EWWT EMIN ETRD EINV OVIP TU
04ANKARA5310RULING AK PARTY COMPLICATES ITS ITS POLITICAL
[...] (U) Summary: AK Party (AKP) government's reversal of course by a renewed insistence on criminalizing adultery and subsequent suspension of passage of the new criminal code until after the Oct. 6 release of the EU's progress report on Turkey's candidacy; EU's insistence that Turkey pass its new [...]
2004-09-17 17:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINS TU
04ANKARA5318 TURKISH NOMINEES FOR THE OXFORD TRACKER
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-20 07:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM TU
04ANKARA5373ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-21 13:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5375 DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
[...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT INTENDED FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: ON SEPTEMBER 9 AND 10, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EUROPE ERIC STEWART TRAVELED TO ANKARA TO MEET WITH GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY OFFICIALS ON KEY BILATERAL ISSUES. [...]
2004-09-21 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD TU
04ANKARA5379GROWING TURKISH ANXIETY ABOUT SECURITY FOR WORKERS
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials were grateful for the explanation in ref a on convoy security, but their concern about the domestic impact of the mounting toll of Turkish drivers dying in Iraq continues to rise. We are concerned that Turkish companies and drivers will begin pulling out of Ir [...]
2004-09-21 14:49:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD IZ PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA5385 AMBASSADOR PRESSES TRADE MINISTER ON IPR
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See para 9. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) In a September 17 meeting with State Minister Kursad Tuzmen, the Ambassador raised intellectual property rights, barriers to importing distilled spirits and rice (septel),scheduling a Trade and Investmen [...]
2004-09-22 07:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR KIPR PREL TU
04ANKARA5395ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-22 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5453ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-23 12:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5482ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-24 14:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5497U.S. - Turkey Workshop Focuses Judges and
[...] Summary: The September 9 and 10 "Workshop on Effective Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the U.S. and Turkey" exposed Turkish judges and prosecutors to the U.S. IPR enforcement system, highlighted the concerns of U.S. and Turkish rightholders, and raised public awareness by gene [...]
2004-09-24 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR TU
04ANKARA5535ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-27 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5550AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW TLFC COMMANDER
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador encouraged General Buyukanit to discuss ways to improve our Army-to-Army relationship when the latter sees USAREUR CG General Bell in October. Buyukanit suggested that both sides made mistakes in the attack helicopter tender and expected the next time the GOT would [...]
2004-09-28 10:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR MOPS PINR IZ CY AF TU
04ANKARA5556ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-28 14:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5587DASD BRZEZINSKI'S SEPTEMBER 22 MEETING WITH
[...] (S) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion on the U.S.-Turkish security cooperation relationship during their September 22 meeting, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Ian Brzezinski and Deputy Chief of Turkish General Staff (DCHOD) Ilken Basbug agreed on the need to elevate the level [...]
2004-09-29 14:38:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MASS OVIP PGOV MOPS TU
04ANKARA5596ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-29 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5661 TURKISH TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION AND
[...] (U) Ref A requested data on Turkish textile and apparel employment and production data for country beneficiaries of U.S. trade preference programs. The GOT and Turkey's leading business association in these sectors provided conflicting statistics, in part due to the large share of the inform [...]
2004-10-01 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KTEX TU
04ANKARA5672DASD BRZEZINSKI'S MEETING WITH TURKISH DEPUTY
[...] (S) Summary: DASD Ian Brzezinski held a candid exchange with Turkish MFA Deputy Under-Secretary Baki Ilkin during a September 22 meeting to discuss ways to elevate the level of our bilateral dialogue. Ilkin confirmed Turkey's interest in developing the relationship and understood recent U.S. [...]
2004-10-02 05:56:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MASS MARR OVIP PTER MOPS PARM TU
04ANKARA5673EXBS; TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE-
[...] Summary: September proved to be a very productive month for the Non-proliferation programs in Turkey. The EXBS Advisor was able to make significant advances in the EXBS Agreement, Second Line of Defense (SLD) prioritization, Internal Control Program (ICP) coordination and establishment of ba [...]
2004-10-02 05:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL
04ANKARA5698SECRETARY ABRAHAM,S SEPTEMBER 21 BILATERAL MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and Turkey Energy Minister Hilmi Guler covered a range of energy issues in a meeting in Istanbul on September 21. Areas identified for continued and deepened cooperation were Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline completion in mid 2005; promotion [...]
2004-10-04 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EWWT EMIN ETRD EINV OVIP TU
04ANKARA5708TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, SEPTEMBER 15-30,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published September 27, 200 [...]
2004-10-05 12:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA5713TURKEY PLANS TO ATTEND PARIS PACT CONSULTATIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOT plans to send an Ambassador-level, interagency delegation to the Paris Pact consultative meeting in Vienna, however, the GOT is not receptive to the idea of being the focus of or hosting one of the upcoming expert-level meetings. End Summary. 2. (U) Econoff delivere [...]
2004-10-05 12:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PREL SNAR TU
04ANKARA5721DASD BRZEZINSKI DISCUSSES REGIONAL SECURITY WITH
[...] (S) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Ian Brzezinski requested MFA Deputy Under-Secretary Sensoy's assistance to elevate the level of U.S.-Turkey strategic dialogue. He praised Turkey's agreement to command ISAF VII. On Missile Defense, he emphasized the importance of our [...]
2004-10-06 04:36:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR OVIP PGOV PREL TU
04ANKARA573ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-29 12:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5730NINETEENTH SESSION OF U.S.-TURKEY SECURITY
[...] DSCA Director for Europe, Russia, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa Jeanne Farmer led a U.S. delegation to Ankara Sept. 24 for the nineteenth session of the U.S.-Turkey Security Cooperation Working Group (SCWG). Ms. Farmer and her Turkish counterpart, Brigadier General Ali Akdogan, discuss [...]
2004-10-06 07:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS TU
04ANKARA5742MFA TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT INCREASED PKK ACTIVITY MEANS IRAQ AND COALITION MUST ACT
[...] (S) Summary: PKK/Kongra Gel's increased terrorist activity in Turkey will stir up public opinion and prompt more Turks to ask why the United States has not taken firmer action against the organization, MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Multilateral Political Affairs Nabi Sensoy told the Ambassador Oct [...]
2004-10-06 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMOPS PREL PTER IZ TU
04ANKARA5758SPECIAL TURKISH MEDIA REACTION: EU COMMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-07 12:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5771 INFORMATION ON TURKISH FOUNDRY PRODUCTS
[...] Reftel requested information on the Turkish foundry industry, specifically metal castings gray iron, ductile iron, all other iron, steel, aluminum and copper. Unfortunately, neither the GOT nor the relevant industry association could provide this information. An iron and steel sector expert [...]
2004-10-08 12:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD TU
04ANKARA5781GOT: EU REPORT PAVES WAY FOR TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: GOT and EU contacts say they believe the October 6 EU Progress Report on Turkey paves the way for the opening of accession talks in 2005. At the same time, GOT officials maintain that elements of the report, including a statement that the outcome of the talks cannot be guaranteed, [...]
2004-10-08 17:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA5784FM GUL AND STRAW MEET IN ANKARA OCTOBER 7
[...] (C) Summary: UK FM Straw met with Turkish FM Gul the morning after the EC issued its Turkey report. Gul said Turkey is pleased overall with the report but cited some complaints, including on economic issues. Gul wants PM Erdogan to write to the EU about them. Gul urged direct flights to n [...]
2004-10-12 04:49:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETCY IR IZ PREL TU UK AM GG
04ANKARA5827TURKEY EXTENDS CUSTOMS UNION TO CYPRUS
[...] (U) On October 2, several days before issuance of the European Commission's report on Turkish progress toward accession, the Turkish MFA announced that all new EU members, including the Republic of Cyprus, would be included within the scope of the Turkey-EU Customs Union. The announcement fo [...]
2004-10-14 09:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD TU CY EUN
04ANKARA5830ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-14 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5835TURKEY/IMF: PROGRESS ON BUDGET, OTHER ISSUES REMAIN
[...] (Sbu) Summary: In an important sign of progress in discussions of a new Standby program, the GOT has publicly agreed to a 6.5% primary surplus target for 2005. Local IMF staff privately confirm that the GOT's primary surplus target accords with the IMF definition and that the GOT can now move [...]
2004-10-14 14:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV TU
04ANKARA5845IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN IRAQ: TURKS SAY IRAQI
[...] (S) DCM called on MFA Director General for Middle East Tahsin Burcuoglu Oct. 13 to deliver reftel demarche. DCM emphasized that Turkey--as a neighbor to both countries and as Chairman-in-Office of the OIC--was in a key position to deliver a meaningful message to Iran on its interference in Ir [...]
2004-10-15 08:30:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL IZ IR TU
04ANKARA5860TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, OCTOBER 7-14, 2004
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published October 14, 2004 by the Anatoli [...]
2004-10-15 12:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA5882ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-15 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5934ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-19 13:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5952MASOUD BARZANI IN ANKARA: NOT IN A MOOD TO
[...] (C) Summary: KDP leader Masoud Barzani paid his first visit to Ankara in two years Oct. 11-12, during which he met with PM Erdogan and FonMin Gul. According to the Turkish MFA, Barzani was unexpectedly assertive, especially on Kirkuk, which he stated was a Kurdish city, period. Barzani chara [...]
2004-10-20 09:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINR TU IZ
04ANKARA5968TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO MOLDOVA
[...] SUMMARY. Turkish Ambassador to Moldova Fatma Topcuoglu delivered the following speech at a 2-day conference on human trafficking in Chisinau, Moldova. END SUMMARY. 2. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT OF PREPARED REMARKS: SPEECH DELIVERED BY H.E. FATMA FIRAT TOPCUOGLU AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKE [...]
2004-10-20 15:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA5979CAPITAL MARKETS BOARD CHAIRMAN'S AMBITIOUS AGENDA
[...] (Sbu) Summary. Turkey's securities markets regulator has an ambitious agenda for 2005-6: opening a futures and options exchange in Izmir, EU harmonization of capital market regulations, founding a NASDAQ-like stock exchange for SME's, and launching a secondary mortgage market. The coming cha [...]
2004-10-21 10:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV TU
04ANKARA5980 Turkey's New Bio-safety Law
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. AFTER YEARS OF DELAYS, TURKEY IS POISED TO PASS A FAR-REACHING BIO-SAFETY LAW, WHICH COULD RESTRICT ALL IMPORTS AND PRODUCTION OF BIO- ENGINEERED PRODUCTS, INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL AND POSSIBLY PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS. THE FRAMEWORK LAW IS QUITE GENERAL AND, GIVEN PAST EXPERIE [...]
2004-10-21 11:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR KPAO TU
04ANKARA5997SECURITY MEASURES FOR TRUCKERS IN NORTHERN IRAQ
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 9. 2. (C) Summary. Turkey's MFA says truck traffic with Iraq is at relatively normal levels and that the GOT is taking pragmatic, incremental steps to improve security for Turkish truckers, understanding that there will not be total securit [...]
2004-10-21 14:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS ECON PREL PTER IZ TU
04ANKARA6000TURKEY'S FIRST CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (S) Summary: In an October 15 introductory call by the Ambassador, Yigit Alpogan, the first civilian Secretary-General in the seventy year history of the Turkish SIPDIS National Security Council (NSC),outlined plans to downsize and further "civilianize" the NSC staff. Alpogan provided li [...]
2004-10-22 10:53:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR PGOV PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA6003CYPRUS/MALTA PROBLEM: THE VIEW FROM ANKARA
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey will base its decision on how to break the impasse over Cyprus and Malta's participation in NATO-EU security cooperation on several factors: EU action to reach out to the Turkish Cypriots, EU leaders' Dec. 17 decision on beginning accession talks with Turkey, and Turkey's e [...]
2004-10-22 14:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GR TU CY MT
04ANKARA6009 Turkey FDI: Investment Climate Efforts Stall
[...] (SBU) Summary. Government and private sector sources agree there was little significant improvement in Turkey's investment climate in 2004. Foreigners' real estate purchases amounted for a large portion of an increase in FDI recorded in Central Bank figures. Creation of a semi- government [...]
2004-10-22 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV TU
04ANKARA6026 Problems with Banking Law Negotiations
[...] (Sbu) Summary: Despite months of extensive consultation with bankers, and an explicit-but now postponed-IMF deadline, a new banking law drafted by Turkish regulators is considered far too restrictive by both bankers and the IMF. Bank regulators and the GOT are working to revise the text, but t [...]
2004-10-22 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU
04ANKARA6030CODEL HASTINGS MEETS IN TURKEY IN FIRST OFFICIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-25 09:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL OREP PHUM PINR PINS PROP PTER AMGT TU IZ
04ANKARA6043TURKISH OIL COMPANY WANTS TO DO BUSINESS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to its CEO, the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has developed a "strategic plan" for reengaging in oil and gas development in Northern Iraq that it will present in Baghdad, Washington, and London. Understanding that Iraq's oil and gas resources are con [...]
2004-10-25 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEPET EWWT TU IZ
04ANKARA6069ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-26 13:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6072TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: MFA REPORTS ONGOING EFFORTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to G/TIP inquires about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides the following October 2004 TIP Country Report produced by the Turkish MFA's National Task Force on Human Trafficking. The Report will be published on-line at the MFA website at http://www.mf [...]
2004-10-26 14:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA6075TWO VIEWS ON STATE BANKS
[...] (Sbu) Summary: In separate meetings, a World Bank expert and a state-owned bank executive provided contrasting views on state bank privatization issues. The World Bank expert is taking a fresh, somewhat skeptical look at the Bank's privatization strategy, and seemed to share some of the USG c [...]
2004-10-26 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU
04ANKARA611TURKEY 2003 END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] Since 1986, the International Narcotics Crime and Control (INCC) program has provided approximately 5,500 units of equipment and training, valued at over USD 5.7 million, to five Turkish agencies with responsibility for Turkey,s anti-narcotics programs: The Turkish Grain Board (TMO),Jandarma [...]
2004-01-30 12:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN SNAR TU
04ANKARA6116HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CALLING FOR NEW CONCEPT OF
[...] (C) Summary: A GOT human rights board's report recommending Turkey update its concept of "minority" to make it consistent with Western European practices has stirred sharp controversy. Report notes Turkey continues to apply a narrow, discriminatory definition of "minority" based on Turkish St [...]
2004-10-28 10:20:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA6134AEGEAN ISSUE: TURKS DENY A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey has not significantly increased flights in the Aegean and is not seeking confrontation with Greece, MFA and TGS officials told the embassy. The Turks provided data which (if accurate) indicate that they have not in fact significantly increased flights, but merely resumed n [...]
2004-10-28 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV TU GR
04ANKARA6135IMF BOARD VOTE UNLIKELY BEFORE EU DECISION
[...] (C) Summary. Contrary to its expectations of concluding a letter of intent by October 26, the IMF team negotiating a new Stand-by program left Turkey having made little progress on key program components. These include: specific tax measures for 2005 (with the GOT keen on a Fund-opposed VAT r [...]
2004-10-28 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV TU
04ANKARA615ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-30 14:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6170TURKEY/IRAQ JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE TO MEET
[...] Summary: (SBU) The first post-war meeting of the Turkey-Iraq Joint Economic Committee will take place November 4 in Ankara, co-chaired by Turkish Trade Minister Kursad Tuzmen and Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadban. Turkey has a long list of objectives, including security for Turkish truckers [...]
2004-11-02 05:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD IZ PREL SY TU
04ANKARA6204IRAQ/TURKEY: NEW TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON THE WAY TO
[...] (C) We appreciate Baghdad's reporting on FonMin Zibari's desire for stronger ties with Turkey (ref a). The Iraqi ambassador to Ankara has emphasized to us Turkey's importance to Iraq and its generally constructive role (as opposed to Iran and Syria) in working for unified, prosperous, secure [...]
2004-11-02 15:09:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER TU IZ
04ANKARA6205TUAF WELCOMES USG ANSWERS TO SATELLITE
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-02 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA ETTC PARM PREL MARR MASS TU
04ANKARA6209AEGEAN: TURKEY MIFFED WITH GREEKS BUT WILL SHOW
[...] (C) Ambassador discussed the possible increase in Greek-Turkish tensions over Aegean freedom of navigation issues Oct. 29 with TGS DCHOD General Ilker Basbug. Basbug stated that the claim of Aegean tension was "completely contrived by the Greeks." He said that the Greeks knew that Turkey had [...]
2004-11-02 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS GR TU CY
04ANKARA6229AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HALKI WITH EDUCATION MINISTER
[...] (U) Summary: During an October 26 meeting, the Ambassador recommended that Education Minister Celik engage in a dialogue with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the re-opening of the Halki Seminary. The Ambassador told Celik that progress on Halki would bolster Turkey's image in the run-up t [...]
2004-11-03 13:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA6234 Implementation of Mandatory Importers
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOT plans to create mandatory membership organizations for importers have not been implemented, apparently due to widespread business opposition. The GOT is considering an alternate kind of organization, a joint (mandatory membership) foreign trade association including both i [...]
2004-11-03 14:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD TU
04ANKARA6239RESTRUCTURING TURKEY'S DEFENSE INDUSTRY--A
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industries (Savunma Sanayi Mustesarligi - SSM) Murad Bayar outlined restructuring plans for the Turkish defense industry during a September 28 Turkish-American Defense Symposium hosted by SSM and the American- Turkish Council (ATC). In the fi [...]
2004-11-04 07:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL TU
04ANKARA6254ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-04 14:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6256IS TURKEY CONSIDERING MILITARY INTERVENTION IN
[...] (C) Summary: According to Turkish press reports, the Turkish military is drawing up plans to intervene in northern Iraq should the situation in Kirkuk spiral out of control. These same reports claim that the USG has given the green light for such an intervention. TGS leadership has publicly d [...]
2004-11-04 14:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ
04ANKARA6262 KURDISH BASED PARTY'S REFOUNDATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Various Pro- Kurdish Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) contacts signaled strongly to PO in late October regional visits that many DEHAP political leaders over the next three to six weeks will declare their support for the new Democratic Society (Demokratik Toplum Hareketi) poli [...]
2004-11-05 05:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PREF TU
04ANKARA6279Update and Next Steps on Pharmaceuticals Issues
[...] (SBU) The research-based pharmaceuticals industry continues to grapple with a difficult set of challenges in the areas of intellectual property protection (lack of data exclusivity and potential patent infringement) and reimbursement reform (including non-transparent development of restrictive [...]
2004-11-05 11:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
04ANKARA6292EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE-
[...] Summary: This month the EXBS advisor conducted program consultations in Washington DC with many agencies, including meetings with many of the NP program implementers at the Departments of State, Energy and Homeland Defense, providing insight into the decision processes of the GOT and the dec [...]
2004-11-05 15:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL
04ANKARA63ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-07 13:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6309TIP IN TURKEY: ISTANBUL SHELTER REPORTS SUCCESS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Anti-TIP NGOs International Office for Migration (IOM) and Human Resources Development Foundation (HRDF) reported the first successful repatriation this week of 3 Ukrainian trafficking victims through the Istanbul Human Trafficking Shelter. The event simultaneously highlighted m [...]
2004-11-08 15:09:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA6311UK DIPLOMATS MEET IN ANKARA TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY
[...] (C) Summary: The UK Ambassadors to Greece and Turkey, Cyprus High Commissioner Parker, and FCO EU and Mediterranean Director Chilcott met in Ankara November 1 to discuss, inter alia, the way forward on Cyprus. They assess that Papadopolous' demands are not yet getting any support within the [...]
2004-11-08 16:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL CY TU
04ANKARA6318HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION DEMARCHES
[...] (U) On November 8 we presented reftel A and B demarches to individual MFA departments for each country mentioned: A. We presented Belarus points to Deputy Director General for Eastern Europe Solendil, who confirmed the Turkish UN delegation had already been instructed to vote positively wi [...]
2004-11-09 10:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL TU
04ANKARA6329ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-09 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6369GOT REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO JANUARY ELECTIONS IN
[...] (C) MFA Middle East Deputy Director General Safak Gokturk told PolMilCouns that Iraq's State Minister for Provincial Affairs Wael Abdul Latif and Deputy Foreign Minister Bayati delivered an oral message on operations in Fallujah to Prime Minister Erdogan at 2:00 pm Nov. 10. Speaking shortly af [...]
2004-11-10 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS IZ TU
04ANKARA6371 Health Ministry Views on Data Exclusivity;
[...] (SBU) Health Ministry officials hinted that they could support immediate implementation of data exclusivity protection for confidential pharmaceutical test data if research-based industry were to make concessions in other areas. They said they had established a good dialog with industry on he [...]
2004-11-10 16:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
04ANKARA6393TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, NOVEMBER 1-10, 2004
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published November 10, 2004 by the Jerusalem [...]
2004-11-10 16:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA6407ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-12 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6426GOT TECHNOCRATS ON IMF NEGOTIATIONS: SLOW BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish economic technocrats describe slow but steady progress on the many issues outstanding when the IMF mission left Ankara late last month, including social security reform, VAT tax rates, and a new banking law. Difficult political decisions remain to be made -- particular [...]
2004-11-17 16:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU
04ANKARA6479TURKEY: EURASIA SENIOR ADVISOR MANN MEETINGS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In November 8 meetings with Turkish officials on energy issues, Eurasia Senior Advisor Steven Mann stressed the importance of a level playing field for American companies in Turkey's energy sector and unflagging USG support for a Bosphorus bypass and expansion of natural gas trad [...]
2004-11-19 14:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV BEXP TU
04ANKARA6480TURKEY TELECOM SECTOR: LIBERALIZATION IS HARD TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A combination of poor service and high costs for telecom and information technology users impedes foreign investment and hampers Turkey's global competitiveness. While many Turkish officials express commitment and optimism, telecom sector liberalization is proceeding slowly, [...]
2004-11-19 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN EINV TU
04ANKARA6482TURKISH-NORTH KOREAN ECONOMIC AGREEMENT SIGNED
[...] (SBU) Turkey's Foreign Trade (FTU) Undersecretary and the North Korean Ambassador to Bulgaria and Turkey signed a trade and economic cooperation agreement in Ankara on November 12. Two-way trade, valued at less than USD 5 million, is minuscule. Osman Bekaroglu, FT's Deputy Director General for [...]
2004-11-19 14:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KN KS TU
04ANKARA6484TURKISH STRAITS VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES - NEWEST
[...] On November 8, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Energy, Hakki Akil passed to Ambassador Steven Mann the newest version of the Turkish MFA's proposed "Voluntary Principles on the Passage of Oil Tankers through the Turkish Straits" (see Ref A). (This version is da [...]
2004-11-19 15:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET ETRD EWWT TU
04ANKARA6486U.S./TURKEY/IRAQ TRILATERAL PROCESSES: WHO WILL
[...] (U) This is an action request--please see paras. five and six. 2. (C) We appreciate Embassy Baghdad's clarification (ref a) regarding the IIG's plans for separate trilateral (U.S./IIG/GOT) talks on trucker/contractor security and on border security/PKK issues. The Turks also believe these [...]
2004-11-19 15:32:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETRD TU IZ
04ANKARA6489EUR DAS LAURA KENNEDY MEETS TURKISH OFFICIALS TO
[...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Laura Kennedy visited Ankara November 11-12 to discuss with Turkish officials the December 17 European Council decision on starting accession negotiations with Turkey. Kennedy met with Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mehmet Dulger, MFA Deputy U/S for EU A [...]
2004-11-19 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECIN EU PGOV PREL TU
04ANKARA6490LABOR UNION OPPOSITION TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT PLANS
[...] (C) Summary: International financial institutions recommend the transfer of Ministry of Labor and Social Security hospitals to the Ministry of Health. With public sector health care costs rising faster than inflation, the idea is to assure more efficient and cost-effective delivery of healt [...]
2004-11-19 15:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ELAB SOCI TU
04ANKARA6540TURKISH PARTICIPANTS FOR EURASIAN CONFERENCE ON
[...] The following individuals will attend the Eurasian Conference on Counterterrorism (REFTEL) on behalf of the Republic of Turkey: 1) Mr. A. Hakan Okcal, Head of Delegation, Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Director General for Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2) Mr. Cengiz O [...]
2004-11-23 15:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL TU PTER
04ANKARA6541ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-24 05:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6593TURKEY REQUESTS US SUPPORT IN SUBMITTING ITS
[...] (U) On November 10, 2004, we received a letter from the Turkish MFA General Director for Multilateral Affairs Duray Polat to Ambassador Edelman requesting U.S. support for Turkey's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2009-2010 term, the elections [...]
2004-11-26 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TU
04ANKARA6599ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-26 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA660ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-05 13:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6615DISTORTED TURKISH REACTION TO FALLUJAH OPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Over the past two weeks, Turkish media portrayal of the al-Fajr operation in Fallujah has been unabashedly biased, vehemently anti-U.S. and often flat-out wrong. The MFA did not react to the most outrageous misstatements until November 26; the military has been publicly silent. [...]
2004-11-29 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALIZ KPAO MOPS PREL TU
04ANKARA6620ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-29 16:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6621SCENESETTER: U.S. VISIT OF TURKISH DEPUTY PRIME
[...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin is leading a six-person Turkish delegation to visit the U.S. December 1-3 at the invitation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). We understand he will also meet U/S Grossman at State and USAID Admi [...]
2004-11-29 16:47:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEAID OVIP PGOV PREL TU
04ANKARA6627DCM URGES CONTINUED EU PROGRESS
[...] (C) Summary: The DCM November 26 urged MFA officials to look for ways to bolster Turkey's EU candidacy in the run-up to the December Summit. With opposition to Turkish membership building in Europe, the GOT should strengthen its position by pursuing reforms. Signing a protocol extending its [...]
2004-11-30 09:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EU TU
04ANKARA663SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY, 2003-4
[...] (U) In response to reftel, the following is Mission's contribution to the 2003-4 edition of "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: the U.S. Record." 2. (U) Turkey is a constitutional republic with a multiparty parliamentary system and a president with limited powers elected by the single [...]
2004-02-05 13:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP TU
04ANKARA6644TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING - TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Military spending in Turkey is under civilian control though the military has a significant voice in budgetary decisions. The spending is transparent, though line commanders have some authority to reallocate between uses. Military spending is subject to internal and externa [...]
2004-11-30 15:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN MASS TU
04ANKARA6649 GOT Concerns on Some Aspects of CSI
[...] (SBU) At briefings on the Container Security Initiative by visiting Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Attache, Turkish officials reaffirmed their interest in the program, but expressed sensitivities about stationing U.S. personnel in Turkish customs areas and said a bilateral agreement woul [...]
2004-12-01 07:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT PTER ETRD PREL ETTC KTIA TU
04ANKARA6661DSCA DIRECTOR LTG KOHLER'S DISCUSSIONS ON TURKISH
[...] (C) Summary: DCHOD Basbug told visiting DSCA Director LTG Jeffrey Kohler on November 18 that the attack helicopter program was one of TGS' most important priorities. SSM Undersecretary Bayar underscored Turkish interest in US participation in the attack tender, which should be issued by year' [...]
2004-12-01 13:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR OVIP TU
04ANKARA6672ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-01 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6673TURK TELECOM FINALLY TO BE PRIVATIZED?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The long-awaited opening of the tender process for the privatization of Turkey's fixed line telecom monopoly, Turk Telecom (TT),was announced on November 25, with the Privatization Administration (PA) seeking bids through the end of next May for a 55 percent block sale to a "s [...]
2004-12-01 15:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECPS PGOV TU
04ANKARA6675ANKARA TRILATERAL MEETING TO IMPROVE SECURITY FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Responding to a U.S. proposal (reftel) for Joint Iraq, Turkey, U.S. talks on trucker security, the Turkish government organized the first meeting in Ankara November 30. All three delegations agreed that the half-day meeting was successful in clarifying ongoing MNF-I security pr [...]
2004-12-02 05:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEAID ETRD IZ PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA6676COUNTER TERRORISM FINANCE WORKING GROUP (CTFWG):
[...] (SBU) On November 22, DCM and Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO),Robert S. Deutsch, chaired the meeting of the Counter Terrorism Finance Working Group (CTFWG). Other participants included representatives from ECON, RSO, RAO, DEA, FBI, CONS, and OSI. 2. (SBU) ECON gave an update [...]
2004-12-02 08:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER ETTC TU KTFN
04ANKARA6678TURKEY STEAM ENERGY CONFERENCE IN ISTANBUL -
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A well-attended energy conference in Turkey provided expressions of commitment on the part of the government to move forward on energy liberalization, but failure to articulate next policy, legislative, and regulatory steps. The private sector is eager to move ahead and take a [...]
2004-12-02 09:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EINV EWWT TU
04ANKARA6686TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, NOVEMBER 10-30, 2004
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published November 30, 2004 by the Interna [...]
2004-12-02 13:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA6687TIP IN TURKEY: MFA REPORTS INTERIM PROGRESS
[...] The National Task Force on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, established in October 2002, held its 7th meeting on November 3, 2004, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Mr. Murat Ersavci, the D.G. of Consular and Social Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The representatives participa [...]
2004-12-02 13:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU
04ANKARA6700 Turkish Markets Uneasy Over EU News Flow
[...] (SBU) Summary: As analysts had long expected, the approach of the December 17 EU decision is generating increased volatility in Turkish financial markets. A market-worrying flow of news on the EU front was the leading factor in a sell-off during the last few days in November. Though markets [...]
2004-12-03 09:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU
04ANKARA6742ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-03 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA676NORTHERN IRAQ: CALLING IN TURKS' PROMISE TO END PMF
[...] (S/NF) As Ref A and the January 27 Turkish press and official reactions to Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) "PM" Nechirvan Barzani's reported statement demonstrate, the Turkish-led Peace Monitoring Force (PMF) in northern Iraq continues to be an irritant that has outlived its usefulness. Ira [...]
2004-02-06 10:36:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL MOPS MARR PINR TU IZ
04ANKARA6765IRAQ'S NEIGHBORING INTERIOR MINISTERS ISSUE JOINT
[...] (C) On Dec. 3, PolMilOff called on MFA Head of Iraq Desk Avni Botsali to get a readout on the meeting of Interior Ministers of Iraq's neighbors that took place in Tehran Nov. 30-Dec. 1. Botsali, who accompanied Interior Minister Aksu to Tehran, said that the Ministers agreed to identify natio [...]
2004-12-03 16:04:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL IZ TU
04ANKARA6767TALKING POINTS FOR PUTIN'S VISIT TO TURKEY
[...] (C) Econoff delivered ref A points to GOT MFA Deputy Director General for Energy Hakki Akil on December 3, noting that similar points had been delivered at multiple levels over recent months. Ambassador Edelman delivered the full set of ref A points to Deputy U/S Apakan on December 2. 2. [...]
2004-12-03 16:08:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG EPET TU
04ANKARA6768ARCHONS MEET WITH FM GUL
[...] (U) Summary: Representatives of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a U.S.-based group of Greek Orthodox laymen, met with FM Gul December 2 during a religious pilgrimage to Turkey. The Archons urged Gul to take action to reverse the process of State expropriation of Greek Orthodox pro [...]
2004-12-03 16:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA6803EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] Summary: EXBS advisor spent this month primarily focused on ensuring previously introduced initiatives remained on track and continued to develop. The advisor participated in meetings concerning the NP Agreement, development of the Commodity Identification Training (CIT) plan and Turkish Cu [...]
2004-12-07 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL
04ANKARA6805ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-07 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6809TURKEY CONCERNED THAT PKK FRONT PARTIES ARE
[...] (C) During their Dec. 7 courtesy call, incoming MFA Director General for the Middle East Oguz Celikkol told the DCM that Turkey is concerned that two PKK/Kongra-Gel front parties have apparently registered for the Iraqi elections. According to the Turkish non-paper, the two parties are the Kur [...]
2004-12-07 16:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
04ANKARA6816 Scenesetter for Codel Hastert
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes at a bumpy period in the bilateral relationship, in large measure connected with developments in Iraq. This message provides a brief overview of the state of bilateral relations, cooperation in Iraq, Turkey's EU accession prospects and the state of t [...]
2004-12-08 11:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL MARR PGOV ECON IZ TU
04ANKARA6820BOY'S KILLING IN KIZILTEPE ATTRACTS NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an incident that local security officials initially described as a clash between police and terrorists, and under circumstances still being investigated, Turkish security officials shot to death 12-year-old Ugur Kaymaz and his father, Ahmet,were killed by gunfire on Novembe [...]
2004-12-08 13:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU
04ANKARA6829ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-08 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6835 Scenesetter for Treasury DAS Loevinger
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes at a bumpy period in the bilateral relationship, in large measure connected with developments in Iraq. It is also a delicate moment in relations with both the IMF and EU. This message provides a brief overview of the state of bilateral relations, coo [...]
2004-12-09 13:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU
04ANKARA6837EGITIM-SEN EDUCATION UNION FACES CLOSURE DUE TO
[...] (U) Summary: Turkish Education and Science Workers Union Egitim-Sen faces opposition from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Turkish General Staff and the Ankara governor's officer over its refusal to delete a clause in the union's bylaws supporting mother tongue education. While [...]
2004-12-09 13:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM PGOV TU
04ANKARA6839CHP LEADERSHIP WAITING FOR FAILURE
[...] (C) Summary. Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) does not have a constructive political or electoral strategy for confronting the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). CHP leadership is content to maintain its grip over the party, maintain the party's (eroding) representa [...]
2004-12-09 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
04ANKARA6843TIP IN TURKEY: VICTIMS' STORIES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: International Organization on Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission Marielle Lindstrom provided para 4 report on a Russian citizen victim admitted to the Istanbul TIP shelter November 13. The victim's story largely repeats other accounts we have heard about typical trafficking schemes [...]
2004-12-09 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA6844MFA OFFICIAL: TURKEY MAY/MAY RE-THINK A PRT IN 2005
[...] (C) On Dec. 9, PolMilCouns and PolMilOff discussed ISAF Stage Two expansion and the apparent shortfall in Stage Two PRTs with Aydin Evirgen, MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia. Evirgen, who was deeply involved in our last effort to get a PRT from Turkey, said he had serious doubts abo [...]
2004-12-10 05:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF TU
04ANKARA6848 TURKISH BOYCOTTS OF U.S. GOODS
[...] (U) A barrage of media disinformation about Falluja and U.S. actions in general in Iraq has added to negative public opinion in Turkey, and has led to calls for boycott of American products in recent weeks. The following is a summary of these boycott calls based on press sources. -- Bulent [...]
2004-12-10 08:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL BEXP IZ TU
04ANKARA6877IRAN: MFA OFFICIAL ON NUKES AND INTEREFERENCE IN
[...] (C) PolMilCouns discussed Iran's nuclear program Dec. 9 with MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia Aydin Evirgen. Evirgen said that Turkey is continuing to warn Iran that it must comply with the IAEA and cease any further development of nuclear weapons capability. In the context of the [...]
2004-12-10 14:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC IR TU IZ
04ANKARA6882ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-10 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6887PUTIN VISITS TURKEY: RUSSIA BIDS TO TURN TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary: Putin's visit demonstrated both Russia's assessment that Turkey is in play and the Turks' habit for mixing wishful thinking, barbarian handling, and a desire for (lucrative) attention. As of now, the visit appears not to have been the total breakthrough the Russians and some Turks [...]
2004-12-10 19:52:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PINS EPET ETRD TU
04ANKARA6938TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, DECEMBER 1-14, 2004
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published December 12, 2004 by [...]
2004-12-14 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
04ANKARA6941LIFE IN TURKEY'S MOST SOUTHEASTERN PROVINCE
[...] (C) Summary: An early November visit to Hakkari province yielded a mixed picture of Turkey,s heavily-Kurdish, most Southeastern province, wedged between Iran and Iraq. The once-oppressive security environment has been replaced by streets full of pedestrians, a hotel full of Istanbul visito [...]
2004-12-14 15:02:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TU
04ANKARA6946TURKEY CONCERNED ABOUT KIRKUK ELECTION DELAY AND
[...] (C) MFA Director General for the Middle East called in DCM Dec. 14 to express concern about three issues: the KDP flag flying over the Iraqi customs building at the Turkey/Iraq border, a possible delay in Governorate elections in Kirkuk, and reports that the KRG may hold a referendum on Kurdish [...]
2004-12-14 15:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ
04ANKARA6948TURKEY NUCLEAR ENERGY - ANNOUNCE IT AND THEY WILL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey is pursuing the ambitious goal of adding nuclear energy to its power mix over the next decade, and is seeking U.S. or French know-how as its technology of choice. Raised earlier this year when PM Erdogan visited France, nuclear energy cooperation was also hastily added to [...]
2004-12-15 05:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV TRGY TU
04ANKARA6964ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-15 14:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6967RUSSIAN DEFMIN IVANOV'S EXTRA DAY IN ANKARA: BLACK
[...] (C) Summary: Russian Defense Minister Ivanov, accompanied by Russian Navy Chief ADM Kuroyedov, had wide-ranging discussions with Turkish DefMin Gonul December 7, the day after President Putin departed. According to an MND official, Ivanov (unlike Putin--ref a) professed no problem with Turkey [...]
2004-12-15 15:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR PINR RS TU IZ
04ANKARA6982 FAA PRESSES GOT ON AIR SAFETY OVERSIGHT
[...] (SBU) In December 7 meetings with Transport and Communications Ministry officials, John Barbagallo, FAA Technical Branch Manager, and Kurt Edwards, Senior Representative, urged the Turks to take steps to cut turnover of air safety inspectors, a key U.S. concern with respect to Turkish civil av [...]
2004-12-16 08:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR TU
04ANKARA6994DEHAP PREPARING NEW KURDISH PARTY
[...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples' Party (DEHAP) are forming a new party they claim will be more broadly based and less focused on the Kurdish issue. DEHAP officials hope the new party, unlike DEHAP, will be able to draw enough support to enter Parliament. They claim [...]
2004-12-16 14:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA7ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-01-02 13:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA7002 GOT PESSIMISTIC ABOUT POST-2005 TEXTILE AND
[...] (SBU) A Turkish Foreign Trade official expressed considerable pessimism about the likely losses of Turkey's textile industry post-2005, and urged the USG to impose safeguards on Chinese apparel imports. Turkey will retain some competitive advantages, especially proximity and short delivery tim [...]
2004-12-17 07:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KTEX EFIN TU
04ANKARA7003 DRAFT NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-17 08:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EFIN ECON KIPR TU
04ANKARA7016 Ambassador Discusses IPR Protection with
[...] (SBU) Summary: In his meeting with the Health Minister, the Ambassador raised the USG's concerns regarding lack of data protection and patent linkage in Turkey, and urged the GOT to take immediate action to resolve these problems. The Ambassador pointed out the specific problem Eli Lilly was [...]
2004-12-17 12:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
04ANKARA7038DEFENSE AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The annual Defense and Economic Cooperation Agreement (DECA) inspections occurred on November 24 in Ankara and the week of December 6-10 in Izmir and at Incirlik Air Base outside of Adana. Due in part to new leadership and attitude on the Turkish side and a new US strategy, and i [...]
2004-12-17 15:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECON ECPS ELAB MARR TU
04ANKARA7040DEBT REDUCTION FOR IRAQ - FOLLOW UP WITH TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Treasury DAS Loevinger pressed both the Turkish Treasury Undersecretary and the Central Bank Governor on the Iraq debt issue. The Governor resisted and the Undersecretary asked for more information. Separately, the DCM delivered ref A talking points to Foreign Ministr [...]
2004-12-17 15:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU IZ
04ANKARA7042TURKS REACH OUT TO IRAQI SUNNIS, URGE THEM TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 10. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey is reaching out to Iraqi Sunni groups and urging their participation in January elections and in forming a democratic Iraq. The GOT hosted a delegation from the Islamic Council of Sunni Foundations Dec. 15-16, and h [...]
2004-12-17 16:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU IZ
04ANKARA7044DEC. 12 CAUCASUS WORKING GROUP MEETING IN ANKARA
[...] (C) In policy discussions with the Turkish General Staff during the Dec. 12 meeting of the Caucasus Working Group, DASD James MacDougall urged Turkey to consider how we might change our approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict. The TGS representatives believed the Minsk Group had failed [...]
2004-12-20 08:04:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS TU AJ AM GG KZ RS
04ANKARA7050UN PLENARY HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS ON IRAN AND
[...] (U) December 17 we presented reftel A demarche to Turkish MFA departments for Turkmenistan and Iran. 2. (U) We reviewed Iran's poor human rights record with South Asia Political Officer Didem Yilbas, who said that she did not think Turkey would change its previous position, but promised to [...]
2004-12-20 11:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL TU
04ANKARA7059TURKEY: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
[...] (U) Combating terrorism has long been a priority for the Government of Turkey (GOT). In 2004, Turkey continued its strong support of the coalition in the global war against terror in Afghanistan by agreeing to assume command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for [...]
2004-12-20 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETASEC PGOV PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA7066ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-20 16:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA7067SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE'S
[...] (C) You arrive at a time when Turkey, having secured a 2005 start date for EU accession negotiations, will have begun to wake up warily to the enormous challenges entailed by harmonization. You arrive as well in a Turkey where much of the public, fed massive, continuing disinformation by an a [...]
2004-12-20 16:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM IZ ECON TU
04ANKARA7075ACTION REQUEST: AIRLIFT FOR SECURITY ATTACHE TO
[...] (U) This is an action request for State, DoD, CENTCOM, Embassy Baghdad, and MNF-I. Please see para. three. 2. (U) On Dec. 17, AIF in Mosul attacked a convoy of four vehicles carrying Turkish police officers assigned TDY to provide security at the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad. Five Turkish o [...]
2004-12-21 13:08:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PREL TU IZ
04ANKARA7099DCHOD BASBUG APPRECIATES US HELP IN MOSUL BUT
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Responding to reports of the December 17 attack on a Turkish police convoy in Mosul, Turkish First Army Commander Tolon told journalists on December 19 that this attack, occurring in a place "that is under the control of a count [...]
2004-12-21 14:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS TU IZ
04ANKARA7100ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-21 15:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA7111ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-22 13:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA7118THANKS TO OUR MILITARY
[...] I want to express my sincere thanks to you and the men and women of your commands for your daily heroism and dedication, but most specifically for your assistance to Turkey following the Dec. 17 insurgent attack against a convoy of Turkish officials in Mosul. Task Force Olympia's soldiers risk [...]
2004-12-23 11:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MOPS PREL TU IZ
04ANKARA7120SEMI-ANNUAL REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-23 11:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL
04ANKARA7141DEMARCHE TO TURKEY ON FUEL SUPPLIES TO IRAQ
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post passed on ref a message to foreign ministry officials on December 24. Turkish MFA says it is seized with the issue and is doing what it can to encourage transporters, fuel contractors and truckers to resolve the strike. MFA officials believe the single biggest problem is [...]
2004-12-24 10:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET MOPS PREL IZ TU
04ANKARA7154 Turkey FDI: GOT Expectations Tied to EU Accession
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-27 13:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV TU
04ANKARA7190ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-29 05:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA7210TURKEY CONSIDERING STEPPING (BACK) UP ITS PSI
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey is preparing to step its participation up in the Proliferation Security Initiative -- participating in events in 2005 in Portugal and Spain, sending experts from Ankara to operational expert meetings even outside of Turkey' [...]
2004-12-29 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL TU
04ANKARA7211ERDOGAN AND AK PARTY AFTER TWO YEARS IN POWER:
[...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan and his ruling AK Party seem to have a firm grip on power -- if for no other reasons that there is currently no viable alternative and inertia weighs heavily in politics. Nevertheless, Erdogan and his party face enormous challenges if they are successfully to embrace c [...]
2004-12-30 05:19:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PINS ECON TU
04ANKARA7223ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-30 13:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA731ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-06 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA749AK GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPT TO BROADEN ACCESS TO KORAN
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT in December withdrew new regulations that would have made it easier to open Koran courses after opponents called them a threat to the "secular" State. An official from the Religious Affairs Directorate acknowledged political mistakes in the handling of the regulation, but [...]
2004-02-08 08:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA763ROCKY TRANSITION AT BANK REGULATORY AGENCIES AS
[...] (C) Summary: Following the resignation of former BRSA/SDIF Chairman Akcakoca and the passage of legislation separating the two bank regulatory institutions, these agencies are in transition to new management and a new structure. By all accounts, it is shaping up as a difficult transition, with [...]
2004-02-09 10:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV TU
04ANKARA790ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-10 12:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA796MEETINGS WITH BUDGET AND TAX OFFICIALS
[...] (Sbu) Summary: Deputy General Manager for Budget Ahmet Kesik described to econoffs the state of play on the 2004 budget, saying there is a TL 7 Quadrillion gap, of which TL 3.7 Quad stems from recent populist measures and 3.3 Quad from lower-than-expected revenues in 2003. Kesik echoed senior [...]
2004-02-10 15:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV TU
04ANKARA801 Biotechnology Outreach in Turkey
[...] SUMMARY. TURKEY IS CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING REGULATIONS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY THAT COULD HAVE WIDE REPERCUSSIONS ON U.S. TRADE. MOREOVER, AS A FUTURE CANDIDATE FOR EU MEMBERSHIP, TURKEY'S ACCEPTANCE OF A LIBERAL POLICY ON THE USE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY MIGHT ALSO INFLUENCE EU POLICIES. [...]
2004-02-11 09:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR KPAO TU
04ANKARA808MEETING WITH BANK REGULATORY BOARD CHAIRMAN
[...] (Sbu) Summary. In his first meeting with Econcouns, Bank Regulatory Board Chairman Tevfik Bilgin claimed he was fully independent and laid out his vision of a strong bank regulator, working closely with the newly-separate deposit guarantee agency. Bilgin commented on lessons learned from the [...]
2004-02-11 11:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV TU
04ANKARA814ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-11 15:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA849ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-12 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA851GLIMMERS OF TURKISH RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORLD
[...] (Sbu) Summary: Country Director Andrew Vorkink painted a mixed picture on Turkish re-engagement with the World Bank. In two sectors, energy and banking, the GOT has shifted to meaningful engagement in recent weeks, in both cases working with the Bank to develop a new interagency-coordinated st [...]
2004-02-12 15:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ENRG EINV PGOV TU
04ANKARA854IRAQI DEBT TO TURKEY
[...] (Sbu) Summary: In meetings with Central Bank and MFA officials, econoffs gathered preliminary information on Iraqi debt to Turkey. These officials put the debt at USD 1.3 billion, almost entirely owed by the Central Bank of Iraq to its Turkish counterpart. Based on these meetings, Turkey doe [...]
2004-02-13 06:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU IZ
04ANKARA865 Tracker Demonstration for GOT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 11, a US team presented a demonstration of the Tracker system to about fifteen Turkish export control officials. The officials expressed interest in evaluating Tracker for possible use, but said they would need to discuss the matter internally before replying forma [...]
2004-02-13 10:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PARM TU
04ANKARA879TURKISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PLEASED WITH BAGHDAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish Union of Chambers (TOBB) advisor Guven Sak told us February 13 that TOBB was very pleased with its February 9 visit to Baghdad, and was considering possible follow-up visits to Kirkuk and perhaps other cities. Sak expressed appreciation for CPA's and CJTF-7's efforts t [...]
2004-02-13 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV PREL TU IZ
04ANKARA880ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-13 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA90FEAR OF REJECTION KEEPS ANKARA FROM ASKING IGC FOR
[...] (C) DCM briefed MFA Director General for Middle East Burcuoglu on US strategy for Iraq on January 2, drawing from ref a and recent policy statements. He noted that CPA would appreciate a readout by the planned GOT fact-finding mission to Iraq (ref b) towards the end of its time there. (Burcuo [...]
2004-01-08 10:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PTER IZ TU
04ANKARA920AFGHANISTAN: TURKS NEARING DECISION ON PRTS;
[...] (C) MFA and TGS agree in principle that Turkey should lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan. They intend to finalize their discussions by February 18 and seek the Prime Minister's backing (both political and financial) for Turkey to lead a PRT. If the PM concurs, the GOT [...]
2004-02-18 06:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS TU AF
04ANKARA943TURKS CAUTIOUS ABOUT PAPANDREOU'S PROPOSAL FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In response to Greek PASOK candidate Papandreou's proposal that both Greece and Turkey cut their defense budgets to allow for more spending on education and other social programs (reftel),Turkish officials at MFA and TGS voiced skeptical openness to the idea. While they acknowle [...]
2004-02-18 14:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL GR TU
04ANKARA944DEMARCHE RELATED TO FINGERSCANNING MEMBERS OF
[...] On January 29, 2004, at the request of Haluk Aca, Head of the Visa Department at the MFA, Chief of Section reviewed US fingerscanning requirements at the time of visa application and upon entry into the United States. 2. Mr. Aca explained that the MFA had received complaints [...]
2004-02-18 16:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS CMGT
04ANKARA958ALTINBAS TORTURE CASE PLAGUED BY DELAYS
[...] (C) Summary: The 13-year-old trial of 10 police officers charged with torturing and killing university student Birtan Altinbas continues to be plagued by delays, as the defense tries to postpone a verdict until the statute of limitations expires. The defendants have consistently failed to appe [...]
2004-02-19 10:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA959PRESSING TURKISH MFA ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) Jan. 27 Polcouns and Poloff paid introductory call Haldun Otman, newly-appointed MFA Deputy Director General of Consular Affairs, to press the GOT to follow through on recent efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Polcouns noted that the USG last year upgraded Turkey from Tier III [...]
2004-02-19 10:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM PREL KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
04ANKARA971ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-19 15:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA975GERMAN OPPOSITION LEADER PROPOSES EU-TURKEY
[...] (U) Summary: German opposition CDU-CSU leaders told PM Erdogan and other GOT officials during a visit to Turkey that they favor a "privileged partnership" between the EU and Turkey over full Turkish membership. Erdogan rejected the idea, but maintained a positive tone during discussions. A G [...]
2004-02-19 17:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
04ANKARA992ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-20 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA994TURKEY: OPPOSITION LEFT-OF-CENTER CHP LIMPING
[...] (C) Summary: Main opposition CHP's chances in March 28 local elections are dim, according to our own extensive contacts with party M.P.s and recent polling data. A few CHP M.P.s are growing more critical of party leadership but have not shown the courage of their convictions by speaking out p [...]
2004-02-20 14:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU
04BRATISLAVA896SLOVAKIA STILL UNDECIDED ON TURKISH EU MEMBERSHIP,
[...] (C) DCM raised reftel message on Turkey's EU accession with MFA State Secretary Ivan Korcok, MFA Acting General Director for European Affairs Frantisek Ruzicka, and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister Milan Jezovica on September 28 and 29. Ruzicka said Slovakia was supportive in prin [...]
2004-09-29 14:34:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALECIN PREL EU TU LO
04BRUSSELS1074SOLANA ON BOSNIA: PARTNERSHIP REQUIRES TRUST, TOO
[...] (C) This is a joint USEU/USNATO message. Policy recommendation in para 12. 2. (C) Summary: In an animated discussion with Ambassadors Schnabel and Burns March 9 on planning for a post-SFOR EU mission in Bosnia, EU HiRep Javier Solana said, "If you want the EU to be your partner in Europe, [...]
2004-03-12 15:07:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALBK MARR PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1094 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN: WHAT TO EXPECT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-15 13:36:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1496EUR/PDAS RIES DISCUSSIONS WITH EU ON TURKEY'S
[...] (C) Summary: EUR/PDAS Charlie Ries visited Brussels on March 30 to review EU Commission concerns on specific Copenhagen Criteria issues, with the aim of working with the EU and Turkey to achieve a positive decision on a Turkish date for accession negotiations in December. Matthias Reute, DG [...]
2004-04-06 16:10:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM TU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1497EU COMMISSION OUTLINES KEY COPENHAGEN CRITERIA
[...] (C) Prior to EUR/PDAS Charlie Ries' visit to Brussels on March 30 covering the same issues at a higher level (septel),working level EU officials on March 29 met with us to detail EU Commission concerns on specific Copenhagen Criteria issues. The Commission laid out five specific areas where [...]
2004-04-06 16:23:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1787EU HAND-WRINGING ON CYPRUS REFERENDUM: NO CARROTS, FLIMSY STICKS
[...] (C) One day away from a Cyprus Referendum, EU officials are wringing their hands in Brussels about the likely fate of the Annan Plan -- and the likely accession of a divided Cyprus into the EU on May 1. The Head of the Commission's Cyprus unit told us April 23 that he is anticipating numerous [...]
2004-04-23 14:31:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL CY TU EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1870EU/CYPRUS: DEVELOPING THE EU'S POST-REFERENDA
[...] (C) April 28 COREPER discussion on defining the Green Line for the European Union focused on the extent to which the Green Line is a barrier and to what extent it will be a border. Roughly speaking, our contacts report that the Greek Cypriots would like a barrier without the political charac [...]
2004-04-28 14:37:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID CY TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2107EUROPEAN ELECTIONS AND U.S.-EU RELATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Although most voters in the June 10-13 European elections will focus mainly on bread-and-butter themes such as employment, health care and the like, transatlantic issues will also attract attention. Brussels observers expect Iraq to feature more prominently in EU member states w [...]
2004-05-14 16:09:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2196EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: KEY RETURNING MEPS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the campaign now in full swing, almost all of the party lists for the June 10-13 European elections have been released in the 25 EU member states. This message describes some of the influential members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who, based on their party-list rankin [...]
2004-05-24 13:32:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2593MANY EU SUMMIT FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
[...] (C) During the EU Summit June 17-18 in Brussels, EU sources tell us EU leaders will approve a range of pre-cooked decisions on a broad range of foreign policy topics so that they can focus on Constitutional Treaty negotiations and top-level appointments (septel). EU leaders are expected to en [...]
2004-06-17 15:52:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID XA XF TU HR RO BG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2938NEW COMMISSION PROPOSALS FOR NORTHERN CYPRUS
[...] (SBU) On July 7, EU Enlargement Commissioner Gunter Verheugen presented the Commission's plan fulfill the EU's pledge to end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community following their support for the Annan Plan. The two main proposals are: 1) a new "preferential trade regime" allowing dir [...]
2004-07-09 14:40:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD PGOV CY GR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3225EU EFFORTS ON AID AND TRADE FOR NORTHERN CYPRUS
[...] (C) During meetings with Dutch Presidency, Commission and Council officials on July 26-27, EUR DAS Laura Kennedy was told the prospects for positive developments on Cyprus looked difficult. The Commission's proposed aid and trade measures to "end the isolation" of the north of the island (ref [...]
2004-07-30 07:44:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID ETRD ZS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3226ENCOURAGING SIGNALS FROM COMMISSION AND DUTCH
[...] (C) In meetings on July 26-27 in Brussels with Dutch Presidency, Commission and Council officials, EUR DAS Laura Kennedy heard guardedly optimistic assessments from all that the EU, at its summit this December, would reach a positive decision on opening EU accession negotiations with Turkey ne [...]
2004-07-30 07:47:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3821EU AID/TRADE FOR NORTH CYPRUS STALLS
[...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Kennedy's Brussels consultations coincided with an important September 2 COREPER meeting in which EU member states were unable to find a way to move the Commission's proposed trade preferences for Northern Cyprus ahead -- leaving the EC's trade/aid package effectively fro [...]
2004-09-09 15:13:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ETRD ZS TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4009EU/TURKEY: ACCESSION TALKS NOT A DONE DEAL
[...] (C) Summary: The current conventional wisdom in Brussels is that Turkey will get "yes-but" recommendations to start accession talks with the EU from the European Commission on October 6 and the European Council on December 17. We expect the debate in both bodies to be contentious. It would o [...]
2004-09-21 09:42:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4960MALTA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR PLAN TO RESOLVE NATO/EU
[...] (C) Summary. Malta's Ambassador to the EU was disappointed by the perceived lack of U.S. support for his proposal to resolve the issue of Malta's participation in NATO-EU strategic discussions. Turkish representatives to the EU have expressed a desire to see a resolution to the issue. End [...]
2004-11-22 10:42:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MT TU CY EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS5221ENGAGING THE EU ON DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The 25 EU member states have a GDP roughly equal to the United States, but spend twice as much on development assistance. One fifth of EU assistance is funneled through the European Commission (EC),making the Commission the third largest single donor in the world and an import [...]
2004-12-10 09:58:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREF PREL EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS5366EUROBAROMETER: PERCEPTIONS OF U.S. WORSENING
[...] SUMMARY: The latest Eurobarometer poll will gladden hearts in Brussels: a growing majority in Europe has a positive attitude about the EU and its institutions. Still, weak support in the UK especially will give Eurocrats pause as Europe enters a year of referenda on the new Constitution. T [...]
2004-12-21 11:56:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XE USEU BRUSSELS
04DUBLIN1697IRISH RESPONSE TO TURKEY AND PRE-GAERC DEMARCHES
[...] (U) On November 17, Post delivered reftels' talking points to Gerald Keown, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent. ------ Turkey ------ 2. (C) In a November 12 conversation with the Ambassador, Michael Collins, senior advisor to Prime Minister Ahern, said that Ireland [...]
2004-11-18 15:41:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN
04DUBLIN1841THE AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 22 DISCUSSION WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a free-flowing December 22 meeting, the Ambassador and Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern agreed that President Bush's planned February visit to Europe presented an opportunity to reenergize trans-Atlantic ties. Ahern noted a "huge willingness" among his counterparts within t [...]
2004-12-23 10:55:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL EAIR CPAS CVIS MASS PINR PINS EAID PGOV
04HELSINKI1472ASSISTANT SECRETARY BETH JONES' MEETING WITH
[...] (C) During her November 8 meeting in Helsinki with Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Assistant Secretary Jones said that the Administration was already talking about reinvigorating the transatlantic relationship, and said that one of the purposes of her trip was to ask Finland's views a [...]
2004-11-17 14:57:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALCASC EU PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG TU FI
04ISTANBUL1019A/S JONES MEETING WITH IRAQI FM ZIBARI AND IRAQI
[...] (C) Summary. During the run-up to the Istanbul Summit June 27, A/S Jones and CPA Foreign Policy Director Ronald Neumann discussed Iraq's security challenges and a new NATO-Iraq relationship with Iraqi FM Zibari and Iraqi MoD Sha'alan. Jones and Zibari agreed that their informal meeting with [...]
2004-06-30 08:34:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ TU NATO
04ISTANBUL1074ARMENIAN "GENOCIDE" AND THE OTTOMAN ARCHIVES
[...] (sbu) Summary: The lack of agreement and dialogue on the so-called Armenian "genocide" question remains a major obstacle to Turkish-Armenian rapprochement. A long-term resolution of this problematic issue can only be built on an open dialogue and healthy academic debate. Free and complete ac [...]
2004-07-12 09:01:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM TU
04ISTANBUL1090NEW OIC SECRETARY GENERAL ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE,
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Elected on June 16 as the next Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC) Secretary General (reftel),Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu met with poloff on July 12 to discuss his recent election, plans for the organization, and views on a range of topics. Well-known to the Consul [...]
2004-07-13 11:28:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1249TURKISH TRUCKING ASSOCIATION URGES HALT TO WORK
[...] (sbu) Immediately following the August 2 murder of Murat Yuce, a former Turkish trucker who had been held hostage in Iraq, Turkey's largest transporters' association released a statement calling on its members to halt work on all U.S. military contracts in Iraq. The non-binding statement may [...]
2004-08-09 07:27:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PTER PREL IZ TU
04ISTANBUL1279GREEK, ARMENIAN PROPERTY WOES PROMPT COMPARISON
[...] (sbu) Summary: Turkey's Istanbul-based minority religious communities report that while recent legislation has enabled them to "legalize" ownership of numerous properties already under their control, the new law is inadequate in that it does not permit the community foundations (mostly Greek O [...]
2004-08-16 09:22:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1346ISTANBUL'S JULY VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES MEETING:
[...] (SBU) Summary: Industry participants in the July 23 Istanbul voluntary principles meeting tell us that while they are "interested in and supportive in principle" of the initiative, it is unworkable unless Russian oil companies also participate. They also stressed that while consideration of [...]
2004-08-27 03:13:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EWWT PREL EINV SENV TU
04ISTANBUL1371ISTANBUL ANALYSTS ON CURRENT ACCOUNT RISKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite positive international and domestic developments, including the Turkish government's recognition of the need for a new stand-by agreement for the 2005-2007 period, Turkish markets have remained range-bound in recent weeks. Many analysts attribute the markets' failure t [...]
2004-09-01 11:35:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN TU
04ISTANBUL1459THE FUTURE OF ORTHODOXY
[...] (sbu) Summary: In addition to the struggle to maintain Istanbul as a viable seat for the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Bartholomew faces a rising challenge for moral and ecclesiastical authority within the Orthodox world from Moscow-based Russian Patriarch Alexy II. End Summary. 2. (sbu) Ecumen [...]
2004-09-22 11:20:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1484A MARINER'S VIEW OF THE TURKISH STRAITS
[...] (U) In meetings with Consulate and Embassy officers last week, British Petroleum maritime consultant Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Morgan provided a mariner's view of the issues the Turkish straits pose for transiting oil tankers. Morgan, who accompanied a BP Suezmax tanker through the straits [...]
2004-09-29 10:43:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ENRG ECON SENV TU
04ISTANBUL1558CUKUROVA FAILS TO COME THROUGH AGAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's stock market was shaken Tuesday as it absorbed news that the Cukurova Group had again missed the deadline for completion of the first payment under its early payment plan with the Turkish Savings Deposit Fund (SDIF). The ISE-100 dropped 2.15 percent Tuesday as a resul [...]
2004-10-15 06:17:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN TU
04ISTANBUL1575ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE FOCUSES ON SECURITY ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following the October 7 hand grenade attack on the compound of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Fener, Consulate security personnel have worked closely with officials there to provide security advice. The Patriarchate's chief administrative officer, Chancellor Theoliptos, express [...]
2004-10-19 07:33:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
04ISTANBUL1714THE PLIGHT OF TURKS IN WESTERN THRACE: RED HERRING
[...] (sbu) Summary: There is a solid strain of Turkish opinion promoting the idea of "reciprocity" re dealing with the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Increasingly, opinion makers and the GOT attempt to justify the current situation by citing the "mistreatment" of Turks living in Greece. The Association [...]
2004-11-17 11:11:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GR TU
04ISTANBUL1716SECURITY AND PAYMENT HEAD LIST OF TURKISH BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A range of Turkish companies active in Iraq outlined their main concerns in a November 5 meeting with Turkey Caucus co-chair Representative Ed Whitfield. Security and payment issues headed the list, with companies reporting not just serious problems in ensuring the safe delivery [...]
2004-11-18 08:54:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ENRG MOPS PREL PTER TU
04ISTANBUL1728ISTANBUL BUSINESS LEADERS FOCUS ON EU
[...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings the week of November 8, Istanbul business leaders told visiting State Department Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Rockwell Schnabel that they are optimistic both about Turkey's [...]
2004-11-19 07:56:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON TU
04ISTANBUL1729REPUBLICAN PEOPLES' PARTY: IS THE YELLOW ROSE
[...] (sbu) Summary: Open warfare between main opposition CHP leader Deniz Baykal and Mustafa Sarigul ("Yellow Rose" in Turkish),the popular CHP mayor of Istanbul's Sisli district, will probably lead to Sarigul's eviction from the party. Few observers doubt that the corruption allegations against [...]
2004-11-19 08:43:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1751VIEWS FROM IZMIR ON IRAQ, EU MEMBERSHIP, HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Izmir business and religious leaders, NGOs and a journalist shared their views on human rights, Iraq, Turkey's EU membership and religious issues November 12 with Izmir liaison officer. The Izmir branches of the Human Rights Foundation and the Bar Association, both involved with [...]
2004-11-24 03:37:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ PHUM PREL TU
04ISTANBUL1753GREEK BUYUKADA ORPHANAGE SEIZED; BALIKLI HOSPITAL
[...] (c) Summary: Against the expectations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Turkish Supreme Court on October 10 upheld a lower court decision revoking the Patriarch's deed of ownership for the long-vacated Greek Orthodox orphanage at Prinkipos (Buyukada) and awarded ownership to an already-confi [...]
2004-11-24 10:51:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1804CRITICISM OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ PERVADES BMNEAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Linkage of the BMENAI with U.S. policy in Iraq was a common theme of speakers at a Cultural Initiative Symposium on the Greater Middle East and North Africa Project (BMENAI) in Istanbul in November. A wide range of Turkish academics, former GOT officials, and European diplomats [...]
2004-12-06 08:52:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTU IZ PREL KPAO KMPI
04ISTANBUL1807TURKISH TEXTILE FIRMS SEE A GRIM FUTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Leading Turkish textile exporters tell us they are deeply pessimistic about prospects for the sector, warning that the end of the global quota system next month will lead to mass layoffs in Turkey unless "an exit" is found. In a recent meeting organized by the Istanbul Textile [...]
2004-12-06 11:31:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON TU
04ISTANBUL1819ISTANBUL PROTESTANTS CONTINUE TO FACE CHALLENGES
[...] (SBU) Summary: While acknowledging that the environment for religious minorities in Turkey has significantly improved over the past several years, leaders of several Istanbul Protestant churches claim that they continue to face legal hurdles and cultural prejudice in their activities. Because [...]
2004-12-08 02:31:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1821MEETING WITH KAPTANOGLU SHIPPING COMPANY
[...] (SBU) P/E Chief and Consular Section Chief met on December 7 with H. Ismail Kaptanoglu Ship Management and Trading Company Managing Director Sadan Kaptanoglu and other company executives to review Coast Guard security concerns and possible action against the company. While reiterating that th [...]
2004-12-08 04:26:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT CVIS ETRD PREL KFRD TU
04ISTANBUL1925ISTANBUL ANALYSTS ON MARKET DEVELOPMENTS,
[...] (u) Summary: Istanbul market analysts were not surprised at the relatively moderate size of the post-EU decision rally, because they believe that much of the good news had already been priced into the markets during the last few months. They expect, however, that interest in Turkish financial [...]
2004-12-27 05:44:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN TU
04ISTANBUL1944RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE OR WINDOW DRESSING
[...] (sbu) Summary: In trying to burnish ruling AKP's religious tolerance credentials, Prime Minister Erdogan attended the December 5 opening of a museum at an Armenian Hospital in Istanbul and four days later presided over the opening ceremony for a new mosque-church-synagogue complex near Antaly [...]
2004-12-28 11:25:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL1953ISTANBUL ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESS STREET CHILDREN AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pickpocketing incidents, particularly those involving cellular telephones, have risen sharply throughout Turkey in 2004, with the highest jump in Istanbul. National attention following an incident leading to the death of a student in Istanbul in November prompted the formation [...]
2004-12-30 06:05:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC CASC TU
04ISTANBUL262BOSPHORUS DELAYS EASE BUT ISSUES REMAIN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Shipping delays on the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits have eased in recent days but the war of words surrounding the issue continues. Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft strongly criticized Turkish [...]
2004-02-20 11:26:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ECON PREL SENV EWWT TU
04ISTANBUL266CHALDEANS LEAVING IRAQ THROUGH ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A significant number of Chaldean-Iraqis have left Iraq, and are currently taking refuge in Istanbul. Estimates vary on the size of the group, with Turkey's de facto Chaldean leader estimating 4,600, while Catholic relief Charity Caritas thinks around 1,500 refugees may currently [...]
2004-02-20 12:58:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL TU
04ISTANBUL295TURKISH FIRST ARMY COMMANDER ON US/TURKEY
[...] (u) Summary: During the course of a February 26 courtesy call by the Ambassador, First Army Commander General Buyukanit offered his views on U.S.-Turkish military-to-military relations, the ongoing Cyprus negotiations, and the Greater Middle East. End Summary. Mil-Mil Relations --------- [...]
2004-02-26 12:18:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CY TU
04ISTANBUL298ISTANBUL COURT HANDS DOWN INDICTMENTS IN BOMBING
[...] (U) Summary: Prosecutors at Istanbul's State Security Court on February 25 formally indicted 69 alleged conspirators in November's 4 terrorist attacks. Approximately 50 of the accused are now in custody. However, a number of key figures, including the alleged leader of the Turkish al-Qaida c [...]
2004-02-26 13:39:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC TU
04ISTANBUL356EXECUTIVES HIGHLIGHT BUOYANT STOCK MARKET BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Ambassador Edelman on February 26, executives at the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and Foreign Investors' Association (YASED) focused on two extremes of Turkey's current economic performance: the buoyant stock market, which has risen 80 percent over the last ye [...]
2004-03-08 11:49:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN TU
04ISTANBUL365ISTANBUL KURDS FOCUS ON IRAQI "KURDISTAN"
[...] (C) Summary: Previously polarized and defined by their degree of support and sympathy for the PKK (later KADEK, now KONGRA-GEL) and imprisoned former PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, Istanbul Kurds tells us they have increasingly adopted Iraqi Kurds and their experiment with autonomy as their new ca [...]
2004-03-09 12:55:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER IZ TU
04ISTANBUL374FUROR OVER ATATURK'S DAUGHTER'S ARMENIAN ANCESTRY
[...] (sbu) Summary: Recent claims reported in two Turkish newspapers that the late Sabiha Gokcen -- Ataturk's adopted daughter and Turkey's first female pilot -- was Armenian have exposed an ugly streak of racism in Turkish society. The reports led a number of prominent figures to make racist rema [...]
2004-03-10 12:55:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL TU
04ISTANBUL376ISTANBUL KURDS FOCUS ON IRAQI "KURDISTAN"
[...] (C) Summary: Previously polarized and defined by their degree of support and sympathy for the PKK (later KADEK, now KONGRA-GEL) and imprisoned former PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, Istanbul Kurds tells us they have increasingly adopted Iraqi Kurds and their experiment with autonomy as their new ca [...]
2004-03-10 13:13:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER IZ TU
04ISTANBUL401ARMENIAN PATRIARCH DISCUSSES ONGOING CONCERNS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II believes the run-up to a decision for Turkey on EU accession in December provides the best opportunity in years to get movement from the GoT on a variety of problems faced by minority communities, including church administration and property issues, cl [...]
2004-03-17 10:51:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
04ISTANBUL432TERROR STRIKES ISTANBUL MASONIC LODGE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 9, a botched suicide attack against an Istanbul Masonic lodge left 2 dead and 7 wounded (reftel). Investigations continue, but police statements and assorted press reports suggest that there may have been a network of planners and accomplices, as well as connections to [...]
2004-03-22 07:29:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM PREL TU
04ISTANBUL474TURKEY'S JEWISH COMMUNITY: FRIGHT BUT NOT FLIGHT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two synagogue bombings and a recent attack on a Masonic lodge (which attackers reportedly believed was filled with Jews) have thoroughly unnerved Turkey's Jewish community. Synagogue services are now more centralized and sparsely attended, and youth and cultural groups have suspe [...]
2004-03-26 07:50:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PTER TU
04ISTANBUL530GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE: YOUNG
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH A GROUP OF ISTANBUL ACADEMICS PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO GAUGE REACTIONS OF INFORMED INTERLOCUTORS TO THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE. SEVERAL WARNED OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, AND OTHERS WONDERED IF THE PROPOSED COMMITMENT COULD BE SUSTAI [...]
2004-04-06 11:27:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO KDEM KMPI XF TU
04ISTANBUL610TURKISH POLICE SEIZE 4.4 TONS OF MORPHINE BASE
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish National Police (TNP) seized 4.4 tons of morphine base, with an estimated value in Turkey of USD 15.5 million, in a raid on an Istanbul warehouse on March 29. The group targeted in the recent raid has connections to other narcotics trafficking groups in Turkey and elsewher [...]
2004-04-20 07:25:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
04ISTANBUL71PATRIARCH AGREES TO HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSION ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I plans to travel to Cuba to accept title to a rebuilt Greek Orthodox Church in Havana. He has undertaken to raise human rights concerns both publicly and privately while in Cuba, and has agreed to a reception hosted by U.S., Greek, and Turkish d [...]
2004-01-12 11:23:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL CU PHUM TU
04ISTANBUL789TRUCKING INTO THE EU...VIA CYPRUS?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hundreds of Turkish truckers were stopped for days at several EU border crossings on May 1 when European customs officials insisted that they present insurance cards valid in Cyprus. Although the crisis was resolved by issuing replacement insurance cards, Turkish truckers and [...]
2004-05-17 04:18:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN ETRD GR PREL TU
04ISTANBUL797THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH STRIKES BACK
[...] (sbu) Summary: Following a decision by Archbishop Christodoulos of Greece to appoint three new bishops without his approval, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and an enlarged Holy Synod formally broke communion with Christodoulos on April 30 and called on the newly-appointed bishops not to assu [...]
2004-05-20 08:06:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL GR TU
04ISTANBUL798TURKISH-ARMENIAN RAPPROCHEMENT: NO LIGHT AT THE
[...] (c) Summary: Until now Istanbul-based initiatives have had an important role to play in track-two moves to improve Turco-Armenian relations. However, the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC),much-derided by the Armenian diaspora and largely ignored by Turks, has discontinued its [...]
2004-05-20 08:06:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM TU
04ISTANBUL843"WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU": NEW COMMISSION DISPLAYS
[...] (c) Summary: A delegation of the new inter-ministerial commission charged with resolving outstanding minority issues visited Istanbul in January to meet with the leaders of the religious communities and to follow up on complaints that the religious leaders had passed to Prime Minister Erdogan l [...]
2004-05-28 10:01:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV TU
04ISTANBUL868RELIGIOUS MINORITIES STILL FACE DIFFICULTIES IN
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Ministry human rights Director Vahit Bicak offered an upbeat assessment of Turkey's progress in addressing religious minority foundations' legal issues at a May 15 NGO-organized symposium. Nonetheless, religious minority foundations stressed that they still face serious [...]
2004-06-03 08:59:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TU PHUM
04ISTANBUL891TURKEY RAISES NORTHERN CYPRUS AVIATION LINKS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta and his visiting delegation reviewed the bilateral transportation relationship with Turkish Minister of Transportation Binali Yildirim in a full day of meetings in Istanbul on Monday, May 24. Yildirim took the opportunity to press for t [...]
2004-06-08 09:53:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT EAIR ELTN ECON PREL TU CY
04ISTANBUL975HALKI: REAL PROGRESS AT LAST?
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Ecumenical Patriarchate, having learned through a variety of sources that the government is reportedly working to reopen the Halki Seminary, is optimistic this could happen in September. According to the Patriarchate, the proposal purportedly under development b [...]
2004-06-21 08:32:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV TU
04KUWAIT180NEA A/S BURNS'S MEETING WITH FM, JANUARY 14
[...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA Assistant Secretary Burns met with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on the evening of 14 January 2003. In a wide-ranging discussion, the Minister expressed great satisfaction about developments in Iraq but insisted that any final decisions must wa [...]
2004-01-18 11:05:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ETRD ECON KU IZ FR SY YM
04KUWAIT2496IRAQ TRAVEL BAN: US MILITARY PRESSES INDIA AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Embassy hosted an August 5 meeting between representatives of the Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) and representatives from the Indian and Phillipines Embassies concerning the travel ban that both India and the Philippines have imposed, prohibiting their natio [...]
2004-08-07 13:10:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALELAB MOPS PREL PHUM ETRD EAID KU IZ IN RP
04KUWAIT2542IRAQ TRAVEL BAN: IMPACT ON US MILITARY CONTRACTORS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Econoff spoke on August 10 with the two major US military contractors transporting supplies for US operations in Iraq, to see how the travel ban preventing Indian and Filipino workers from entering Iraq is affecting their operations. Altanmia, which holds the Defense Energy Sup [...]
2004-08-10 12:22:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALELAB MOPS PREL PHUM ETRD EAID KU IZ IN RP
04KUWAIT3374TURKS CONCERNED ABOUT NATIONALS WORKING FOR US
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 21 meeting with DCM and a September 25 follow-up with US military officials, Turkish diplomats raised concerns about the treatment of Turkish drivers working for US military contractors and sub-contractors in Kuwait and Iraq. They said that the Turkish Embassy i [...]
2004-09-27 09:16:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALELAB MOPS PREL PHUM ETRD EAID KU IZ TU
04KUWAIT3547PAKISTAN BAN ON DRIVERS TO IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-13 14:46:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALIZ KU MOPS PGOV PK PREL
04KUWAIT495(C) KUWAIT FINANCE HOUSE OPENS UP TO OFAC
[...] (C) Summary: On January 19 OFAC Director Richard Newcomb met with Kuwait Finance House (KFH) General Manager Jassar Al-Jassar and officials from the KFH Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance Unit (AML). KFH officials described in detail to OFAC representatives their efforts to combat te [...]
2004-02-15 12:59:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETTC PTER PREL KU
04LILONGWE785ISLAM IN MALAWI: A POST-MALAWI FIVE PERSPECTIVE
[...] (S) The June 2003 expulsion of five non-Malawian Muslims suspected of ties to Al-Qaida (AKA the "Malawi Five"),which the press characterized as and most Malawians believe to have been a USG-initiative, came at time when the Muslim-Christian divide was being exploited by politicians in the run- [...]
2004-08-12 13:25:00Embassy LilongweSECRETKISL PINR KPAO PTER ASEC PREL KIRF OIIP MI
04MADRID1620SPAIN BIOS ON NEW FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
[...] (U) Summary: This is the second of a three part series on new top-level officials in the Spanish government. Biographical information on officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Defense is provided. See septels for bios on the Office of the President, and Minis [...]
2004-05-07 11:19:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID1763SPANISH RESPONSE TO MAY 17-18 EU FMS MEETING
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on May 14 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. Mora said that the new Spanish government would maintain Spain's previous policies on the issues being discussed at the next EU General Affairs and External Relat [...]
2004-05-14 16:19:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP EUN
04MADRID2180EU EXPANSION AMBASSADOR: PRO-TURKEY, DOUBTFUL ON
[...] (C) We met with Ambassador Jorge Fuentes, MFA Ambassador on Special Mission for EU Enlargement, on May 28 to discuss Spanish foreign policy inside the EU and the GOS's view on further enlargement. Fuentes agreed with our assessment that with the EU Parliamentary elections coming so soon after [...]
2004-06-09 15:50:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU SP EUN
04MADRID3864MADRID ENVIRONMENT TIDBITS
[...] Madrid's ESTH Officer periodically groups together and reports ESTH developments that might otherwise "fall below the reporting bar." Key issues will continue to be reported via "stand alone" cables. ESTH Officer Ken Forder welcomes feedback at forderk@state.gov. 2. INDEX: A. Prest [...]
2004-10-05 11:17:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SP
04MADRID4445SPAIN'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NOV 22 GAERC: MEPP,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed the Middle East Peace Process, China, Kosovo, Belarus, Cyprus, ESDP issues, Iran, and Ukraine with MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Luis Canovas del Castillo on November 18. Poloff also discussed Spain's views on Turkey with Juan Aristegui, MFA Subdirector General o [...]
2004-11-22 07:59:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP EUN
04PARIS8983FRANCE: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
[...] (U) Post encloses the 2004 annual terrorism report for France. Per reftel, Word versions will be e-mailed to John Kincannon and Kiersten McCutchan at S/CT. Post POC is Political Officer Peter Kujawinski, x.2575. France ) 2004 OVERVIEW In 2004, France made progress in a number of areas [...]
2004-12-16 08:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC FR
04ROME3381ITALIAN VIEWS ON GYMNICH ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. Charge, accompanied by PolOff, met with MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs Giampiero Massolo and NATO Office Director Giovanni Brauzzi on September 1 to convey points from Ref A demarche. Italy shares US views on most of the issues that EU Foreign Ministers w [...]
2004-09-03 04:35:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IR IT EUN
04ROME3917ITALY AGREES ON NEED FOR IMMEDIATE AID FOR CYPRUS,
[...] (C) MFA Turkey/Cyprus Office Director Renato Ricci told Poloff on October 4 that Italy concurs with the US view (REFTEL) that increased economic development in North Cyprus will aid reunification. To that end, Italy supprts rapid disbursal of the Commission's propoed Euro 259 million aid pack [...]
2004-10-08 08:43:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECIN TU CY IT EUN
04ROME4276ITALIAN PRT/FSB BACK IN PLAY
[...] (C) Summary. In a November 4 discussion with PolMil Officers, MFA NATO Office Director said that Italy is going forward with plans to contribute to a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and/or Forward Support Base (FSB) in Afghanistan. He stressed, however, that Italy cannot go it alone and [...]
2004-11-08 10:11:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME4375ITALY'S SUPPORT FOR TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION REMAINS
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-16 14:33:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL TU IT EUN
04ROME4444ITALIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 22 GAERC
[...] (C) EU CFSP Director Luigi Mattiolo said that ministers would have an extended discussion of Middle East issues over lunch on November 22, including a wide-ranging exchange of views on how the EU should enhance its role in the Quartet post-Arafat. Italy's views on the content of the Council s [...]
2004-11-19 17:03:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT EUN
04TELAVIV6209GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: EXAMINING PROGRESS AT KARNI
[...] (C) Summary: In their discussions of Israel's disengagement plan, the World Bank continues to highlight the Gaza Strip's border crossings as key to Gaza's economic success. The international donor community has approached the Israelis about humanitarian and economic problems that arise from [...]
2004-12-08 13:16:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
04THEHAGUE2277SUMMARY OF NATIONAL RAPPORTEUR'S THIRD TIP REPORT
[...] Summary/Comment: On June 20, Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons (NRM) Dien Korvinus presented the third TIP report to Justice Minister Donner. The 302-page report mainly covers the year 2002 and contains information about laws and regulations, victims, assistance, administrat [...]
2004-09-08 15:55:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG NL
04THEHAGUE2415TURKEY'S EU CANDIDACY AND DUTCH POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: The recent defection of one member of parliament from the Liberal (VVD) party over the issue of Turkish accession to the EU is forcing the Dutch government to consider potential domestic repercussions of the Turkish EU debate. So far, PM Balkenende has set the tone of the discussion by [...]
2004-09-22 15:47:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL TU NL
04THEHAGUE259DUTCH DISCUSS TRANSATLANTIC GOALS WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary. MFA SecGen Frank Majoor and Pol Director Hugo Siblesz invited Ambassador, DCM, and other embassy officials to lunch January 23 to discuss the upcoming Dutch EU presidency. The Dutch hope to work with the U.S. to elaborate cooperation in the area of peace and security, particular [...]
2004-02-02 11:27:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL EU TU NL MEPP
04THEHAGUE2691NETHERLANDS/EU PRESIDENCY: THE HALF-WAY POINT
[...] (C) Summary. With three months down and three to go, the Dutch no doubt view the first half of their presidency as a qualified success. They have made measurable progress on most of their priorities and effectively navigated two unexpected developments (the crisis in Darfur and PM Balkenend [...]
2004-10-18 14:33:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2735CAUTIOUS DUTCH REACTION TO EC REPORT ON TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Dutch government has officially characterized the October 6 European Commission report on Turkey, including its recommendation that a date be set for accession negotiations, as "a good basis for decision making by the European Council in December." Parliament also receive [...]
2004-10-22 15:09:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TU NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2778NETHERLANDS/EU/KOSOVO/UKRAINE/CYPRUS: ADDITIONAL
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered ref a points on Kosovo, Ukraine, and Northern Cyprus to MFA Deputy Director Joep Wijnands (Political Affairs, European Correspondent) October 28 (ref B covered the remaining GAERC points). On October 29, Poloff repeated points on Northern Cyprus to Hannie Pollman-Zaal [...]
2004-10-29 12:24:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL CY TU NL EUN
04THEHAGUE3140EU/TURKEY: DUTCH COMMENT ON DECISION DRAFT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 29 the Dutch circulated draft conclusions on Turkey to EU partners (subsequently leaked to the press) in advance of the December 17 Council meeting that includes strong, but predictable, language on accession (e-mailed to EUR/ERA and USEU). Turkish officials in The [...]
2004-12-01 15:41:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL TU HR RO CY BU EUN
04THEHAGUE3178EU/TURKEY: DUTCH ISSUE REV 2 DRAFT TEXT
[...] (C) Rob Swartbol (PM Balkenende's diplomatic advisor) (STRICTLY PROTECT) told Ambassador Sobel late December 6 he was alarmed about efforts by France, Austria and Denmark to promote a third way/privileged partnership alternative for Turkey. He said that the Dutch were working to get Germany an [...]
2004-12-06 19:11:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL TU CY EUN
04THEHAGUE521ANNUAL REPORT ON ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - THE NETHERLANDS
[...] Part one summarizes progress achieved during the year (Reftel B) and Part two is the fourth annual report on anti- trafficking in persons (TIP) for the Netherlands. The report follows the format outlined in reftel. Preparation time is about 200 hours (FSN - 110; FS-02 - 80; FS-02 - 10 hours) [...]
2004-03-02 06:20:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF NL
04USUNNEWYORK257059TH UNGA: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE
[...] Summary. On November 11, the United Nations General Assembly marked the passing of Yasser Arafat. Secretary-General (SYG) Kofi Annan and GA President Jean Ping both made statements of condolences as did the leaders of the various regional groups. Gambia, on behalf of the African States; In [...]
2004-11-12 21:55:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA
04YEREVAN1439 YEREVAN REACTION TO KOCHARIAN'S JUNE 24 COUNCIL OF
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Local media reaction was mostly positive in Yerevan following President Robert Kocharian's June 24 address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The address, which was c [...]
2004-06-25 12:59:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID AM
04YEREVAN1678PARTY PRIMER: TOP ARMENIAN POLITICAL PARTIES
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With 64 registered political parties (as of July 30, 2004) voters in Armenia suffer no lack of choice. The following parties are represented within the National Assembly (NA): the Republican [...]
2004-07-30 08:32:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV AM
04YEREVAN587KURDISH ACTIVITIES IN ARMENIA
[...] (S) There is an Armenian-Kurdish friendship society in downtown Yerevan with a sign posted on the door identifying it as such. The "Friendship Society's" main goals in Armenia appear to be to promote Kurdish culture, organize holidays, demonstrations, and campaigns for better treatment of and/ [...]
2004-03-11 03:27:00Embassy YerevanSECRETPTER PREL PGOV PINR AM TU
04YEREVAN830REAFFIRMING TIES WITH ARMENIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's visit to Armenia galvanized U.S.-Armenia relations as he met with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and President Kocharian in back-to-back meetings March 26. The meeting with Oskanian clearly set the agenda for the subsequent discussion with [...]
2004-04-07 09:36:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PARM TU AJ AM OVIP RICHARD ARMITAGE
05ADANA102SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 10, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-12 05:42:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA103SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 11, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-12 06:54:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA106SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 16, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-17 05:09:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA121SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 06, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-10 05:50:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA13SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 12, 2005
[...] MILLI GAZETE / EKSPRES / BOLGE / TURKIYE: Adana is going to establish its infrastructure for the inaugration of natural gas use within the city. The EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority) announced yesterday that Adana is included in the list of cities that will benefit from the n [...]
2005-01-14 06:16:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA145SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 20, 2005
[...] SABAH (GUNEY)/ BOLGE: Turk Telekom (The newly privatized Turkish Communication Company) workers in Adana refused to attend work for half a day to stage a protest against the company's privatization. The workers are protesting the transfer of some Telekom services to a subcontractor comp [...]
2005-07-22 09:21:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA146SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 22, 2005
[...] SABAH (GUNEY): Turk Telekom (Turkish Communication Company) workers in Antakya did not attend work for an (unspecified) length of time to stage a protest against the company's privatization. 2. SABAH (GUNEY): Valeh Haciyev, a deputy minister from Azerbaijan currently visiting th [...]
2005-07-25 07:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA149SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 04. 2005
[...] BOLGE: BAK (Global Peace and Justice Commisssion) invited a group of Iraqi doctors to Turkey. The doctors will attend the August 27 regional meeting of BAK in Adana and tell about the massacres carried out in their country. The doctors will be attending anti-war activities of BAK on Sep [...]
2005-08-08 09:39:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA150SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 15, 2005
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 15, 2005. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS Â [...]
2005-08-16 13:33:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA154SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 22, 2005
[...] BOLGE: The daily reports that the purpose of U.S. Embassy Charge d'Affaires Nancy McEldowney's visit last week to Turkey's Agricultural Ministry was to pressure Turkey on its recent decision to restrict rice imports from the U.S. in order to prevent material injury to Turkish rice produce [...]
2005-08-23 10:46:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA155SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 23, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-24 12:30:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA16SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 14, 2005
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 14, 2005. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. CUMHURIYET / [...]
2005-01-25 06:17:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA164SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
[...] BOLGE: Farmers in Adana's Ceyhan district will hold a big demonstration tomorrow to protest the agricultural policies of the GoT (see press summary 09/14). 2. BOLGE: Export volumes to Iraq over the last eight months have reportedly pleased Southeastern exporters. REID [...]
2005-09-19 05:37:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA166SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 20, 2005
[...] ZAMAN: Saban Bas, Chairperson of Adana Chamber of Commerce, said that foreign companies would take part for the first time in the third of the annual Cukurova Industry and Commerce Fair that will be held in September 26 in Adana. Bas said that 11 companies from Nahcevan (part of Azerbaij [...]
2005-09-22 09:16:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA169ANXIOUS SOUTHEAST TURKEY PONDERS EU INTEGRATION IN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-03 14:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV TU ADANA
05ADANA192SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 20, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-21 05:42:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA205HABUR GATE CLOGGED BY CONSTRUCTION IN NEAR-TERM
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-17 13:55:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELTN MOPS MARR IZ SY TU ADANA
05ADANA208DIYARBAKIR BAR PRESS RELEASE ON SEMDINLI BOMBING INCIDENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Diyarbakir Bar Association is one of the few credible NGO's in southeastern Turkey and its voice represents the segment of Kurdish civil society in the region which is less influenced by the PKK. Its press report, translated below, is a call to action for the GoT and an e [...]
2005-11-18 10:58:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM ADANA
05ADANA214SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 21, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-22 14:41:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA217SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 22, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-23 07:56:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA220OIL EXPLORATION, IRAQI BORDER TRADE CAUGHT IN TURKISH
[...] (SBU) Summary: AMCON Adana conoff's met with Chevron and Iraqi border province regional business officials on 11/9, taking the temperature on regional attitudes about cross-border trade and energy exploration potential. Conoff's encountered frustration from multiple contacts, but a desire t [...]
2005-11-28 10:26:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ETRD ELTN ECON TU ADANA
05ADANA227SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 05, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-06 14:14:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA230SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 09, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-12 12:20:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA232SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 12, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-13 07:37:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA234SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 13, 2005
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for December 13, 2005. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. HURRIYET: [...]
2005-12-14 09:52:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA235VIOLENCE IN SOUTHEAST CONTINUES, WHILE SEMDINLI SETTLES INTO
[...] (SBU) Summary: As PKK-related violence continues on a broad scale throughout Turkey's southeast region, developments in the Semdinli case have settled into relatively peaceful investigative and judicial activities (see reftels). Over the past ten days, there have been investigative visits by [...]
2005-12-14 12:54:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM TU ADANA PKK
05ADANA239SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 15, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-16 07:14:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA24SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 31, 2005
[...] YENI SAFAK: Cantemur Aslan, General Manager of SEKA (Turkish State Pulp and Paper Plant) and Atilla Osmancelebioglu, Governor of Mersin, delivered the good news that SEKA's port in the Tasucu district of Silifke in Mersin will be reopened. It had been idle for ten years. (Note: The S [...]
2005-02-04 07:30:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA241SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 16, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-20 12:06:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA242SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 19, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-20 15:20:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA243SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 20, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-21 10:00:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA3SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 28, 2004
[...] BOLGE / TURKIYE / EKSPRES / VAKIT / MILLI GAZETE: As compared to the figures of the previous year, the exports from Turkey to the Middle East countries are breaking the records and the volume of exports has increased by 40.9 percent. Mehmet Hadra, President of the Turkish-Arab Businessmen [...]
2005-01-03 09:57:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA34SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 18, 2005
[...] HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / EKSPRES / BOLGE / SABAH (GUNEY): The First International Economic Cooperation Forum is to be held in Adana today. PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and representatives from 400 domestic and international companies are expected to attend the two-day Forum hosted by the Adana Cha [...]
2005-02-23 07:58:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA37TURKEY'S 2004 TRADE WITH IRAQ SURPASSES 2003 LEVELS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-24 12:59:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PREL ENRG IZ TU ADANA
05ADANA39SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 24, 2005
[...] HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Ali Ihsan Mutlu, Director of the Gaziantep's Authority for Developing and Supporting SMEs, announced that the Authority granted 1 million new Turkish lira ($770,000) to SMEs in 2004 to facilitate their harmonization with EU regulations through increasing productivit [...]
2005-02-25 09:03:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA41TURKISH CONGLOMERATE AND TRADE GROUPS WEIGHING SYRIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary and guidance request: AMCON Adana in the last three weeks has engaged with a large Turkish conglomerate and a regional trade group whose members are considering investment in Syria, primarily Aleppo, to familiarize the parties with the U.S. sanctions against Syria. So far no la [...]
2005-02-25 15:24:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON ETTC ELAB SY TU ADANA
05ADANA42SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 25, 2005
[...] SABAH (GUNEY): Chambers of Commerce, Chambers of Industry and Commodity Exchanges will hold Assembly elections around Turkey between March 1 and 3. Locally, the Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Industry election will be March 3, and the Gaziantep Commodity Exchange election Ma [...]
2005-03-01 07:29:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA47SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 8, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-09 06:27:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA51COMMERCIAL LOGISTICS SUPPORT TO U.S. MILITARY IN IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-17 08:34:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD MARR MOPS IZ JO TU ADANA
05ADANA66SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 29,2005
[...] SABAH (GUNEY) / EKSPRES / BOLGE / HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Suleyman Onatca, Chairperson of the Adana Industrialists and Businessmen Association, announced that his visits with Syrian and Jordanian authorities last week were very fruitful in terms of economic relations. Onatca said that his vi [...]
2005-04-01 06:53:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA67SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 31, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-01 14:30:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA76SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 7, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-08 13:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA86SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 21, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-26 07:35:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA9SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 5, 2005
[...] ZAMAN / CUMHURIYET / SABAH (GUNEY): PM Erdogan was not able to resist the demands of MPs on the Incentive Law. Erdogan announced that the scope of the Incentive Law will be expanded and thirteen more cities will be included in the new system. PM Erdogan further added that MPs s [...]
2005-01-07 12:11:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ADANA97SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 05, 2005
[...] EVRENSEL: A Gaziantep University study revealed that Gaziantep province's unemployment figures were higher than the nationwide average. The study says Gaziantep has a 20.3 percent unemployment rate whereas the nationwide unemployment figure is reported to be as 13.8. REID [...]
2005-05-06 05:37:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ALMATY3172 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- Changes in the Cabinet -- WTO Protocol with Turkey Signed -- [...]
2005-09-01 09:06:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ ECONOMIC
05ALMATY3476 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- WTO Protocol with China Signed -- E-Government Contract with Al [...]
2005-10-05 04:46:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ ECONOMIC
05ALMATY3902KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON
[...] (U) Summary/Background. Ambassador Ordway called on Kazakhstani Minister of Transport and Communications Askar Mamin on October 21 in Astana. The Ambassador and the Minister discussed the GOK's attempts to attract international air traffic to Astana, development of rail and road infrastructu [...]
2005-10-28 07:04:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KZ ECONOMIC POLITICAL
05AMMAN6529Jordanian Businesswomen Tackle Gender Barriers
[...] SUMMARY: Over the past decade, women's ability to succeed in Jordan's private sector has improved. Although financial and social barriers are still present, the establishment of business and gender-focused organizations combined with a general optimism suggest that many Jordanian businesswo [...]
2005-08-16 10:12:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI KWMN ECON EFIN JO
05AMMAN9963IRAQ: AMMAN COALITION TALKS AMONG SUNNIS AND
[...] (C) Senior Iraqi Sunni and secular politicians including Iyad Allawi and Adnan Dulaime met in Amman on December 25 and 26, and agreed to form an &Iraqi National Alliance8 coalition to compete with the Shi,ite Islamist "555" coalition in forming a new government. The immediate goal of the new [...]
2005-12-29 16:38:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ JO
05ANKARA1IRANIAN FONMIN KHARRAZI'S VISIT TO TURKEY: IRAQI
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA interlocutors tell us PM Erdogan strongly underscored Turkish concerns about Iran's nuclear program to visiting Iranian FonMin Kharrazi. End summary. 2. (C) In separate, coordinated Dec. 29 calls on MFA, Polcounselor met DDG for South Asia (including Iran) Evirgen [...]
2005-01-01 05:01:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV MNUC PARM ENRG TU IR IZ
05ANKARA1003KARADENIZ OPTIMISTIC FOR INCREASED EXPORT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Currently exporting close to 200 MW of electricity from its Silopi, Turkey plant to northern Iraq, Karadeniz told us they have reached agreement with GOT to expand capacity to 1000 MW, potentially providing electricity all the way to Mosul. It is unclear whether or when Karade [...]
2005-02-24 12:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG IZ TU
05ANKARA1010ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-24 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1039TURKEY-U.S. ENERGY DIALOGUE POTENTIAL NEXT STEP
[...] SUMMARY: Turkey Energy Deputy Under Secretary Selahattin Cimen looks to DOE for an invitation and potential dates to send a Turkish team of officials and experts to the U.S. He said Turkey was interested in joining the Hydrogen partnership (IPHE). End Summary. Proposal to Send a Turkish T [...]
2005-02-25 15:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET TU
05ANKARA104CODEL KYL SCENESETTER FOR TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes at a bumpy period in the bilateral relationship, in large measure connected with developments in Iraq. This message provides a brief overview of the state of bilateral relations, cooperation in Iraq, Turkey's EU accession process and the state of the [...]
2005-01-07 09:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL MARR PGOV ECON TU IZ
05ANKARA1040TURKEY: ENERGY CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION GOOD AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Reminiscent of the 2001 "White Energy Probe", Turkey has launched a new energy corruption investigation, casting its net first to 11 senior energy officals and business-people in the electricity and natural gas sectors, the investigation -- announced by Energy Minister Guler -- h [...]
2005-02-26 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PGOV TU
05ANKARA1048TURKISH MFA CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR DIRECT U.S. -
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request in para 6. 2. (C) Meeting with Econ Counselor and Econoff on February 15 on a range of aviation and maritime subjects (septel),MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Vakur Gokdenizler raised the continuing GOT interest in est [...]
2005-02-28 08:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEAIR PREL CY TU
05ANKARA106ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-07 13:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1072ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-28 15:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1074TURKEY'S EU CANDIDACY ADRIFT
[...] (C) Summary: Ankara-based European diplomats confirm our assessment that Turkey's EU candidacy remains adrift more than two months after the EU decided at the December Summit to set a date for accession negotiations. PM Erdogan has yet to name a lead EU negotiator, and since the Summit has tr [...]
2005-02-28 16:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA1076USG SHIP VISIT TO CYPRUS: WEIGHING THE COST
[...] (C) Summary: A USN ship visit to the Republic of Cyprus (ROC) at this time (ref A) would have a negative impact in Turkey. The Turks, including the military, will interpret a visit now (post-April 24 referendum) as support for Papadopoulos and a slap at the Turkish Cypriots. End Summary. [...]
2005-03-01 08:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALCY TU PREL MOPS MARR
05ANKARA1085Special 301: Comment on IACC Submission
[...] Based on input from the automotive industry, the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition's (IACC) Special 301 Recommendation on Turkey alleges that the Turkish Customs Undersecretariat requires industry to pay USD 20,000 to provide anti-counterfeit training. Moreover, the IACC requests that [...]
2005-03-01 09:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA1096TGS J-5 STRATEGY CHIEF ACCEPTS APRIL JOINT STAFF
[...] Turkish General Staff J-5 Strategy and Force Planning Department Chief MG Cengiz Arslan submitted to post on Feb. 29 official responses to the Oct. 2004 letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Brzezinski inviting the general to visit Washington and to bring officers in his dep [...]
2005-03-02 05:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS OVIP TU
05ANKARA1097TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT UPDATE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A, supplementing responses submitted previously in Reftels B, C, D, and E. Embassy point of contact is Maria Lane. Lane (rank: FS-05) spent approximately 20 hours in prepara [...]
2005-03-02 07:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA110Turkey: New Bond Issue Signals Increasing
[...] (SBU) Summary: Amid signs of increased foreign investor interest in Turkish lira assets, especially longer maturities, the World Bank has issued a 5-year Turkish Lira bond. Turkish financial officials are not concerned the new instrument would compete with Government paper. The World Bank i [...]
2005-01-07 16:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU
05ANKARA1103TURKS AND GREEKS AGREE TO MILITARY CBMS
[...] (C) Summary: During the week of February 14, a Turkish General Staff (TGS) delegation visited Athens and reached agreement with the Hellenic General Staff on a series of exchanges to occur over the next year. The Turks also proposed a list of 20 measures for Greece to consider the two doing [...]
2005-03-02 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR TU GR
05ANKARA1104SCENESETTER FOR 3-4 MARCH VISIT OF US ARMY EUROPE
[...] (S) Summary: While your visit comes on the heels of a series US visits since the first of the year (Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander SIPDIS General Jones, Commander US Central Command General Abizaid, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith and Secretary [...]
2005-02-23 17:26:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR
05ANKARA1109 UPDATE ON TURKISH LIMITS ON CHINESE TEXTILE
[...] (SBU) Shortly after imposing surveillance and protective measures against 42 categories of Chinese textile and apparel imports in connection with section 242 of the Working Party report, GOT and Chinese officials held consultations in Ankara in late January. Both the Chinese Ambassador to Turk [...]
2005-03-03 10:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KTEX TU CH
05ANKARA1128ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-03 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1168ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-04 15:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1171LABOR-RELATED CHALLENGES AND INITIATIVES FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-04 16:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI TU
05ANKARA1174OFFICIAL RECEPTION IN SE TURKEY: WARM AND
[...] (C) Summary: While traveling through the region February 22-25, poloff was greeted warmly by government officials who all brought up, in one way or another, the recent media scrutiny of the bilateral relationship. Underlining that allies with fifty years of partnership under their collective [...]
2005-03-07 08:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA1205EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] Summary: EXBS advisor's primary focus this month was on the two Department of Commerce (DOC) sponsored projects, Internal Control Program (ICP) and Product Identification Tool (PIT) along with coordinating the participation of Turkish delegations in PSI events. EXBS Advisor was able to u [...]
2005-03-07 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA1209 TURKEY: LOW INTERNET PENETRATION DUE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Internet penetration in Turkey remains low, due mainly to high cost of hardware and relatively high subscription fees. Although the state telecom firm, Turk Telekom (TT),has launched higher- speed and more affordable broad-band internet service, Internet Service Providers (ISP [...]
2005-03-07 15:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINT ECPS TU
05ANKARA1230SHARING TIGRIS-EUPHRATES WATER DATA
[...] (C) Post understands from Embassy Baghdad's February 14-20 Essential Services Report that Iraqi Water Minister Rashid may be about to or have already sent a letter to the Turkish government requesting technical data on Tigris and Euphrates water supplies. 2. (C) In a March 2 meeting on [...]
2005-03-08 15:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALSENV EAID PREL IZ SY TU
05ANKARA1231TURKISH MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OFFICIAL SAYS MOST
[...] (C) Summary: A close Embassy contact in the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) retired early in frustration after being unable to overcome resistance within the ministry to EU reform; she returned at the insistence of the Justice Minister. The official, an expert on EU law, told us the MOJ Undersecreta [...]
2005-03-08 17:10:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA124EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] Summary: EXBS advisor focused on updating the status of previously introduced initiatives with new GOT MFA points of contact. The advisor also began the planning with MFA and Customs officials on courses of action for the upcoming year, to focus on the most practical and best use of pote [...]
2005-01-10 11:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA1259TURKISH UNDERSECRETARIAT FOR DEFENSE INDUSTRIES
[...] Deputy PolMilCouns followed up with Turkish Air Force (TUAF) Space Branch Satellite Systems Design Officer Captain Kocabicak regarding TUAF evaluation of the international responses to the Remote Sensing Satellite Questionnaire it had submitted to six countries in August 2004. Per Captain Koc [...]
2005-03-09 14:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA ETTC PARM PREL MARR MASS TU
05ANKARA1260ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-09 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1275MEIN KAMPF - WHAT TODAY'S YOUNG TURKS ARE READING
[...] (C) Summary: Mein Kampf has climbed to the top 10 on Turkish bestseller lists, with sales jumping dramatically in the last couple of months. A spokesman for the Jewish community said he has warned publishers that the book could provoke anti-Semitism, and questioned why it is selling at a disc [...]
2005-03-10 10:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA129 GOT TO LIMIT CHINESE TEXTILE AND APPAREL
[...] (U) Summary: On December 23, the Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) published a communique in the State Gazette announcing surveillance and protective measures against 42 categories of Chinese textile and apparel imports. An FTU official told us that he expects the GOT will impose limits i [...]
2005-01-10 13:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND KTEX TU
05ANKARA131TURKEY'S BTC PIPELINE AIMING AT FIRST OIL AT
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to the BTC Consortium's Turkey office, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline is 95 percent complete in Turkey. After testing and line fill, the first tanker will be loaded at Ceyhan port by September 2005. Given construction delays and problems with the subcon [...]
2005-01-10 13:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET TU
05ANKARA1315ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-10 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA132ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-10 14:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1332ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-11 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1339EU TROIKA VISIT HIGHLIGHTS DEFICIENCIES IN
[...] (C) Summary: In a visit overshadowed by media images of police beating demonstrators in Istanbul (septel),the EU Troika visited Ankara March 6-7 to discuss the upcoming accession talks with Turkey. PM Erdogan and FM Gul insisted the GOT remains focused on EU-related reform. However, EU cont [...]
2005-03-11 17:06:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA1340EU FURIOUS OVER GOT HANDLING OF POLICE VIOLENCE
[...] (C) Summary: Ankara-based EU diplomats say EU leaders are furious over the GOT's continued poor handling of the violent March 6 police crackdown on International Women's Day demonstrators in Istanbul. FM Gul promised an investigation; however PM Erdogan, Justice Minister Cicek, and other GOT [...]
2005-03-11 17:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA14TURKISH FIRST ARMY COMMANDER APOLOGIZES PRIVATELY
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish First Army Commander GEN Tolon was apologetic about his Dec. 19 statement implying the US was complicit with the attack on Turkish police in Mosul when ODC Chief Maj Gen Sutton discussed it with him during a Dec. 29 courtesy call. Tolon said he had assumed that the moveme [...]
2005-01-03 12:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINR IZ TU
05ANKARA1447ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-15 07:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA147POST-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON LICENSES 73-101830
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-11 07:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC TU
05ANKARA1482 SUSTAINING TURKISH COOPERATION IN MARITIME
[...] (U) Reftel requested Embassy input on building international support for an improved global maritime security framework, an objective of the December 2004 Presidential Directive on Maritime Security Policy. The Embassy and USG agencies work closely with the GOT on maritime security programs, i [...]
2005-03-15 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ECON ETRD PREL PTER PARM TU
05ANKARA1483ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-15 15:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1551Special 301: Customs' Response to IACC
[...] Econoff met with Cahit Gokcelik, Deputy Director General, Customs General Directorate, and Hulya Erbay, Customs Expert, on March 15 to discuss the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition's (IACC) Special 301 Recommendation on Turkey. (The Recommendation alleged that the Turkish Customs Und [...]
2005-03-17 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA1552CARLIN TALKS TIP TACTICS WITH JUDICIAL OFFICIALS;
[...] (U) IIP Speaker Barbara Carlin, Resident Legal Attache in Skopje, Macedonia, brought her expertise on prosecution of human trafficking cases to Turkey to support a Ministry of Justice conference for 50 judges and prosecutors on February 9. The conference, organized by the International Orga [...]
2005-03-17 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG TU OIIP TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA1557ONEROUS TERMS OF TURKEY'S REISSUED ATTACK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Eight years after Turkey issued its original attack helicopter tender and one year after it canceled that tender, the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (Savunma Sanayi Mustesarligi or SSM) issued a new tender for up to 91 attack helicopters. Three US companies -- Boe [...]
2005-03-17 15:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP TU
05ANKARA1558Mersin's Transit Trade for U.S. Poultry to Iraq
[...] (U) OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, TURKEY, AND IN PARTICULAR THE PORT OF MERSIN, HAS BECOME A MAJOR TRANSIT POINT FOR COMMERCIAL SALES OF U.S. POULTRY MEAT TO IRAQ AND COUNTRIES IN THE REGION. TURKEY CREATED A FREE-TRADE ZONE IN MERSIN IN 1987, WHICH HAS EXCELLENT PORT FACILITIES AND AMPLE COLD ST [...]
2005-03-17 15:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR PGOV TU
05ANKARA1565TURKISH/AMERICAN DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The first Turkish/American Defense Industrial Cooperation (DIC) conference to be held since 1998 provided an opportunity for both governments to outline national defense procurement priorities and discuss ways to improve the bilateral defense cooperation relationship. MND Deputy [...]
2005-03-18 09:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PREL TU
05ANKARA1571TURKEY UPDATE FOR THE VISIT OF COMNAVEUR ADM MIKE
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a series of US visits since the first of the year (Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones, Commander US Central Command General Abizaid, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith, Secretary of State [...]
2005-03-18 12:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP MARR PREL TU
05ANKARA1632ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-21 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1664GOT TAKES STEPS TO BOLSTER ITS COUNTER-TERROR
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey's current counter-terror finance regime lacks the legal authority to carry out effective action against financiers of terror and it is weak on enforcement and interagency coordination. For example, terrorism finance is not clearly criminalized in Turkish law and Turkey do [...]
2005-03-22 15:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER TU
05ANKARA1667TERRORISM DISCUSSION WITH MFA
[...] 4(B) AND (D). Â [...]
2005-03-22 15:54:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN PREL TU
05ANKARA1702ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-23 15:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1726ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-24 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1727MOVEMENT ON IMF CONDITIONS HELPED BY MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOT has re-energized its efforts to complete the prior actions needed to finalize its IMF new program. Following a recent sell-off in Turkish markets, the GOT seems to be moving on the three prior actions: Tax Administration Reform Law, Banking Law and Social Security Refor [...]
2005-03-24 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN TU
05ANKARA1728 High Corporate Interest in Investor Advisory
[...] (U) Foreign multinationals are showing considerable interest in Turkey's Investor Advisory Council, which will meet for the second time in April. Although Turkey has taken a number of concrete steps to improve the investment climate, and has enjoyed an increasingly positive macroeconomic situ [...]
2005-03-24 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV BEXP EMIN CASC TU
05ANKARA1730TURKEY ADRIFT
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey is stuck in a domestic and foreign policy drift stemming from leadership and structural problems in ruling AKP. A long-overdue healthy debate over Turkey's identity and AKP, including its handling of relations with the U.S., has started. But AKP's policy muddle is leaving a vacu [...]
2005-03-25 09:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS MARR TU
05ANKARA1773ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-28 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1776TIP in Turkey: Developments in regional law
[...] (U) Summary: Turkey's Mobile Training Team is training law enforcement authorities in the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia on measures to counter human smuggling and trafficking in persons. The foreign ministers of Turkey and Georgia recently signed a protocol on cooperation in anti- traff [...]
2005-03-28 16:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA1802ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-29 14:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1832ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-30 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1841THE TURKS AND HISTORY: THRASHING ABOUT ON THE
[...] (C) Summary: Although the Turkish public debate on the fate of the Armenians in Anatolia is slowly opening up, a defensive Turkish nationalist policy of denial remains the position of choice for both the Kemalist and more Islamist/neo-Ottoman-oriented sides of the establishment. Launching an [...]
2005-03-30 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU AM
05ANKARA1878TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, Feb 16-28,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published Sunday, February 27 by Cumhuriyet [...]
2005-04-01 12:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA1880MERSIN FLAG INCIDENT OVERSHADOWS GENERALLY
[...] (C) Summary: Nevruz celebrations in southeastern Turkey on March 20 and 21 were significantly larger than in previous years and, with some minor exceptions, peaceful. While local authorities in some cases objected to the use of the Kurdish spelling &Newruz,8 officials approved most petitions [...]
2005-04-01 13:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA1882CHOD OZKOK'S SELF-IMAGE
[...] (C) A flag officer in the Turkish General Staff (TGS) recently passed to us a Turkish translation of an article on TGS Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok that ran in an Egyptian publication during Ozkok's late February visit to Cairo. Our contact reported that Ozkok thought this article portrayed him much [...]
2005-04-01 13:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPINR TU
05ANKARA1888ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] The delay will give the Government time to consider changes in the face of domestic and international criticism from press and human rights groups. Revisions to the penal code demanded by the European Union aim to bring Turkey's criminal justice system into line with recent political reforms [...]
2005-04-01 14:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1900TURKISH AEGEAN ACTIVITY RETURNING TO 2003 LEVELS
[...] (C) Summary: 2004 had specific events (Cyprus negotiations, Olympics, EU Summit) which prompted Ankara to hold down its flight activity in the Aegean down, but it is now apparently ramping its activity back up to 2003 levels. While the Turks see this as returning to normal, the military is i [...]
2005-04-01 14:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR TU GR
05ANKARA1906TURKEY PREPARING TO BREAK SILENCE ON THE US CARGO
[...] (S) Following nine months of silence since the US formally asked Turkey to allow the US to establish a cargo hub at Incirlik Air Base for the transit of cargo in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF),recent public comments by Turkish officials may sugge [...]
2005-04-03 14:06:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMOPS MARR PREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA1908TURKEY: THRIVING ECONOMY IN INDUSTRIAL TOWN
[...] (U) Summary. A visit to a thriving industrial town near Ankara showed the spreading positive impact of Turkey's economic recovery on ordinary citizens. It also showed what seemed to be a newfound commitment on the part of elected politicians and businessmen to practicing entrepreneurship and [...]
2005-04-03 14:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV SOCI TU
05ANKARA1935MINISTER DECLARES MISSIONARIES "SEPARATIST AND DESTRUCTIVE"
[...] (C) Summary: State Minister Aydin, who oversees the GOT's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet),released a statement labeling missionary activities in Turkey "separatist and destructive" and implying that missionaries are part of an organized effort by foreign governments to create divis [...]
2005-04-04 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA1952SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GENERAL JOHN HANDY,
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a series of US visits since the first of the year (Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones, Commander US Central Command General Abizaid, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith, Secretary of State Rice, [...]
2005-04-05 11:19:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP MARR PREL TU
05ANKARA1953USNAVEUR ADM MULLEN DISCUSSES IRAQ, BLACK SEA AND BILATERAL RELATIONS IN ANKARA
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-05 11:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALBU GG IZ MARR MASS PREL RO RS TU UP
05ANKARA1958ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-05 14:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA196ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-11 15:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA198MAIN OPPOSITION CHP LEADERSHIP STRUGGLE -- IS CHP
[...] (C) Summary. Istanbul Sisli Mayor Mustafa Sarigul's challenge to Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal is the most serious challenge to Baykal's leadership in recent years. Yet Sarigul's bid is more than just the struggle between two men for the control of the second largest po [...]
2005-01-12 08:09:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA1981SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR RICHARD JONES' VISIT TO
[...] (C) Turkey's leadership is trying to take a more positive attitude toward both the United States and Iraq. This has resulted both from policymakers' understanding that they need to stand up more for the relationship and from the realization that Turkey has more to gain by supporting Iraq's de [...]
2005-04-06 12:27:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV MASS ELTN ETRD TU IZ
05ANKARA2024BOEING PLAYING OUT ITS FINAL ACT IN TURKEY'S
[...] (C) Summary: Despite having raised with Post multiple concerns about the Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) in the attack helicopter tender issued by Turkey's Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) on February 10 (ref a),Boeing remains engaged in a dialogue with SSM over modifications that migh [...]
2005-04-07 12:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR MCAP TU
05ANKARA2028ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-07 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2030NEITHER "MODERATE" NOR EXTREMIST: TURKISH ISLAM IN
[...] (C) Summary. Many in the West seek to promote Turkey as a "model" of "moderate Islam." The reality is very different. Islam in Turkey is stale and ingrown, straightjacketed by state control on the one hand and by narrow-minded lodge and brotherhood interpretations on the other. Although the [...]
2005-04-07 14:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA2039PSI: TURKEY'S FEEDBACK ON RECENT OPERATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials at both TGS and MFA have given us positive reviews of the recent PSI Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting in Omaha. Turkey plans to host an air/ground/sea exercise in May 2006. TGS claims it now has the lead on PSI, but we have not heard this elsewhere. The [...]
2005-04-08 08:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL TU
05ANKARA2060TURKISH MFA OFFICIAL: "NATO INVOLVEMENT IN THE
[...] (C) Turkey shares with us the goal of eventual NATO involvement in the Black Sea, an MFA official told us April 7. At BLACKSEAFOR's March 31 senior officials meeting, the members agreed on a common threat assessment and agreed that it would be beneficial to build some ties with outside states [...]
2005-04-08 15:06:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMOPS MARR PREL PARM TU RS GG UP RO BU NATO
05ANKARA2061RELIGIOUS FREEDOM - A WEAK LINK IN TURKISH REFORM
[...] (C) Summary: Turks cite history to argue that Turkey is a model of religious tolerance. They assert that the existence of diverse religious communities in the Ottoman Empire and the acceptance of the Jews who migrated to Istanbul after expulsion from Spain in 1492 proves Turkey is free of rel [...]
2005-04-08 15:46:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2070TURKEY:WHAT IF INVESTORS HEAD FOR THE DOOR?
[...] (SBU) Summary: The acceleration of--and Turkey's dependence on--short-term portfolio investment flows has revived fears of what could happen if these investors head for the exits. If an exogenous shock is big enough, this "hot money" will indeed flee. Structural changes since 2001, however, [...]
2005-04-11 11:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU
05ANKARA2072TURKEY'S TELECOM BOARD CHALLENGES - INTEREST IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Turkish Telecom Regulatory Authority is planning a visit to the FCC as part of its efforts to increase capacity and expertise. While the state company Turk Telekom's privatization and the sector's liberalization slowly proceed, the Telecom Regulatory Authority struggles to [...]
2005-04-11 11:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV ECON TU
05ANKARA2076SCENESETTER FOR TURKISH MFA U/S TUYGAN'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Tuygan comes to Washington with the GOT continuing to talk about a strategic partnership but with bilateral relations troubled by an absence of clarity on Turkish direction and intent. Ruling AKP officials publicly deny any bilateral problems or blame them on U. [...]
2005-04-11 13:33:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PINS ECON MARR PHUM TU
05ANKARA2078PETKIM: PA GOES ON THE ROAD TO PROMOTE TURKEY'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. PETKIM (Petrokimya Holding A.S.),Turkey's state petrochemical company, is preparing for an IPO of 30 percent of its shares in late April. Turkey,s privatization officials, together with privatization consulting companies, left for the U.S. last week to attend an investor,s c [...]
2005-04-11 13:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PGOV TU
05ANKARA2096ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-12 14:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2099TURKISH DCHOD TELLS USTRANSCOM ANSWER ON CARGO HUB
[...] (S) Summary: DCHOD Gen Basbug told USTRANSCOM Commander Gen Handy that he saw no insurmountable problems in the US-Turkey military-to-military relationship. To repair other parts of the relationship, Basbug thought the US should take action against the PKK/Kongra Gel in northern Iraq (somethin [...]
2005-04-12 14:52:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS PREL TU IZ
05ANKARA2100TURKISH MFA DEFENDS GOT APPROACH TO SYRIA,
[...] (C) DCM discussed Turkey's Syria policy April 12 with MFA Director General for the Middle East Oguz Celikkol. Celikkol defended President Sezer's April 13-14 visit to Damascus, and asserted that Sezer will deliver the same message to the Syrians that the international community has agreed upon [...]
2005-04-12 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SY LE TU
05ANKARA2127BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON
[...] On April 13, per reftel request, Deputy PolMilCouns met with representatives of Incekara Holding and Yazici Company LTD at the Incekara address listed in reftel in order to establish the bona fides of Incekara and its role in license application 05-959223 for one WJ-9012A VXI Chassis. Ozgur I [...]
2005-04-14 08:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC TU
05ANKARA2131BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON
[...] On April 7, 2005, Embassy Blue Lantern Officer met with officials from Aselsan Corporation responsible for reftel procurement to Turkey (License Appl. 05-950176). Present were Program Manager Fikri Atmaca, Technical Director for the Electronics Hardware Department Serhat Salih Erzin and Purch [...]
2005-04-14 10:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC TU
05ANKARA2137ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-14 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2140 CIVAIR: NEW TRANSIT PASSENGER
[...] (U) On March 27, Turkish authorities eliminated a gap in the border control system by requiring passport and customs controls to be performed at the initial airport of entry, rather than at the final destination. The change, which also affects transit passengers leaving Turkey, has led to pas [...]
2005-04-15 07:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ASEC TU
05ANKARA2161Turkish Parliament Moves on IMF Prior Action
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the April 14 passage of a new Tax Administration Reform law, Turkey has satisfied the remaining "prior action" for finalizing a Letter of Intent (LOI) for a new three-year IMF stand-by program. However, differences with the IMF over controversial amendments to the region [...]
2005-04-15 15:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU
05ANKARA2170 TRADE OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON PHARMACEUTICALS,
[...] (SBU) Econoff met with Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) Deputy Director General for Agreements Osman Bekaroglu to deliver reftel demarche on anti-schizophrenia drug Zyprexa. Bekaroglu said that the Health Ministry was well aware of the sensitivities involved in the Zyprexa issue. With r [...]
2005-04-18 08:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA2189TURKISH PARLIAMENT PRESSES ANTI-ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
[...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Parliament is pressing its campaign to tell the international community that there was no Armenian genocide. PM Erdogan has sent a letter to Armenian President Kocharian asking that Armenian scholars participate in a joint Turkish/Armenian historical research projec [...]
2005-04-18 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALTU AM PERL
05ANKARA2206MFA BLOCKING PURCHASE OF ABANDONED CHURCH
[...] (U) Summary: An American pastor and his wife operate a Protestant "cultural center" in the Mediterranean tourist city of Antalya. Although their work is primarily religious, they hold work permits as owners of the company that runs the center, which includes a cafe and a room where community [...]
2005-04-19 08:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2230ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-19 14:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA224ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-12 15:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2250ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-20 12:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2258GOT SUMMARILY DEPORTS SYRIAN KURD
[...] (U) Summary: The GOT in March summarily deported a Syrian army deserter without allowing the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to review his asylum petition. The Syrian, who was acquitted in a Turkish court on terrorism charges, claimed that because he is a Kurd and a de [...]
2005-04-21 08:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2260TURKISH VIEWS ON OECD ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey has not yet determined its position on the U.S. task force proposal or on the Differentiated Engagement Strategy (DES) at the OECD. The MFA Department Head responsible for OECD issues, however, outlined Turkey's general approach to these issues in a way that suggests sig [...]
2005-04-21 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD PREL TU RS OECD
05ANKARA2273ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-22 05:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2277SPECIAL 301: Update on Copyright/Trademark
[...] (SBU) The GOT reports a sharp rise in seizure of pirated materials in 2004, along with other measures supporting copyright protection. Our principal film industry anti-piracy contact seems relatively upbeat about IP protection, but trademark owners, publishers and the software representative [...]
2005-04-22 07:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU USTR
05ANKARA2294 APPAREL EXECUTIVES ON CHINESE EXPORTS, TIFA,
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Amconsul Istanbul. 2. (SBU) Summary: In an April 8 lunch, textile and apparel industry representatives praised U.S. movement toward limits on Chinese textile imports and expressed the hope the European Commission would follow suit. They also supported [...]
2005-04-22 10:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KTEX EFIN TU CH EUN
05ANKARA2302CHOD OZKOK'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN
[...] (C) Summary: The current public investigations of corruption within the Turkish military are unprecedented and apparently the responsibility of one man -- TGS Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok. Whether his motivation is to retain (or regain) public support for the military, show up an AKP government tha [...]
2005-04-22 11:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR MOPS PINR TU
05ANKARA2313AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES GOT ANTI-MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN WITH A FILIBUSTERING MINISTER AYDIN
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador has emphasized to State Minister Aydin serious U.S. concerns about the GOT's anti-Christian missionary campaign, including a written statement by Aydin defining missionaries as a threat to the State and maligning Christianity. The U.S. has long urged the EU to supp [...]
2005-04-22 13:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2314TURKS PREPARING FOR PKK SPRING OFFENSIVE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 17. Summary ------- 2. (S) The GOT appears to be convinced that the PKK is going to carry out its first "spring offensive" in southeast Turkey since 1999. Press and intel reporting indicate the Turks have moved two commando brigades towar [...]
2005-04-22 13:29:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL MOPS PREF TU IZ IR SY
05ANKARA2317ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-23 13:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2322ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-25 12:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2324"OUR VIEWS ARE THE SAME AS YOURS," TURKISH IRAQ
[...] (C) Turkey almost entirely shares our views on Iraq, GOT Special Envoy Koruturk told Senior Adviser and Coordinator for Iraq Policy Amb. Richard Jones on April 19. Amb. Jones outlined for the Turks our approach over the coming year, including providing support for the Iraqi Security Forces (I [...]
2005-04-25 12:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ETRD TU IZ NATO
05ANKARA2331ASSAILANTS FIREBOMB PROTESTANT CHURCH, CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE
[...] (U) Summary: Unknown actors firebombed a Protestant church in Ankara in the early-morning hours April 21, causing minor damage. The attack followed an email threat to the church from a violent organization responsible for the attempted murder of a human rights activist in 1998. The organizati [...]
2005-04-25 14:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2342ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-26 14:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2380BTC pipeline in Turkey still aiming for late
[...] (SBU) Summary: While working to deliver the Baku- Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey has pushed Turkey's state pipeline company BOTAS to operate much closer to international standards, it has encountered great difficulty managing the variety of sub-contracts on the job. BOTAS has had to seque [...]
2005-04-27 12:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG PHUM TU BTC
05ANKARA240ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-13 15:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2408TURNAROUND AT PRIVATIZED STEEL COMPANY
[...] (U) Summary. Karabuk Iron and Steel Works (Kardemir) was rescued from closure in 1995 through the cooperative effort of labor, business, townspeople, the Chamber of Commerce and then-Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and, today, can be considered a successful privatization story. It is not, howev [...]
2005-04-28 10:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEIND ELAB EMIN PGOV SOCI TU
05ANKARA242TRILATERAL TALKS ON PKK/KONGRA-GEL
[...] (C) U.S., Turkish, and IIG officials met Jan. 11 in Ankara for trilateral talks on PKK/Kongra-Gel. All sides agreed to our common resolve to defeat this organization, but the insurgency and Iraq's delicate transition all but rule out direct military action in the near term. At U.S. suggestion [...]
2005-01-13 16:09:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL PREF MOPS TU IZ
05ANKARA2431ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-28 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2439IRAQ: TURKS REPORT MUSLIM ULEMA COUNCIL "BITTER"
[...] (C) On April 27, MFA Head of Department for Iraq Avni Botsali provided PolMilOff with a brief readout of the visit to Ankara by a delegation of the Iraqi Muslim Ulema Council. The delegation, led by MUC Secretary General Dr. Harith al-Dhari, met with FonMin Gul in Ankara on April 27; they then [...]
2005-04-29 08:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KDEM IZ TU
05ANKARA2474ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-29 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2490JOINT STATEMENT FROM ISTANBUL IRAQ NEIGHBORS
[...] On May, 2, the Turkish MFA passed us a copy of the text of the joint statement from the April 29-30 Iraq neighbors' meeting (full text in para. 2). We will provide MFA's readout of the meeting septel. 2. Joint statement follows (original was in English): BEGIN TEXT (note internal paragra [...]
2005-05-02 14:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER AORC TU IZ IR EG JO SY KU BA SA
05ANKARA2491TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, April 15-
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published on Wednesday, April 20 in [...]
2005-05-02 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA2522Special 301: MFA Disappointed With PWL
[...] (U) Per ref A, Econoff alerted MFA, the Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU),the Turkish Patent Institute (TPE) and other agencies on April 29 that Turkey would remain on the Priority Watch List due to concerns about data exclusivity, patent linkage and copyright/trademark enforcement. FTU a [...]
2005-05-03 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU USTR
05ANKARA2524ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-03 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2529TURKEY APPROVES BILLION DOLLAR F-16 UPGRADE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkey's signature of a one billion dollar Foreign Military Sale (FMS) F-16 aircraft upgrade package with Lockheed Martin Aero as the prime USG contractor provided the pretext for Minister of National Defense Vecdi Gonul to publicly reinforce the importance of the US/TU bilateral [...]
2005-05-04 09:37:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV MASS TU
05ANKARA253TURKEY INCREASES AID FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF
[...] Summary: The Turkish government announced that it will increase its tsunami assistance from $1.25 million to $5 million, bringing total donations public and private to about $9 million. One government official estimated that total donations would reach $30 million by the end of January. Pr [...]
2005-01-18 07:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL TU
05ANKARA254 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TURKEY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-18 07:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KTDB EFIN TU
05ANKARA2548IRAQ: TURKISH READOUT ON ISTANBUL NEIGHBORS MEETING
[...] (C) Iraq and its neighbors--and numerous guests--held a "friendly and interactive" foreign ministers' meeting in Istanbul April 29-30, according to Turkish MFA officials. Our interlocutors reported relatively little squabbling over the communique text, though they apparently had to beat back a [...]
2005-05-04 12:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER AORC TU IZ IR EG JO SY KU BA SA
05ANKARA2552BANK COMPLIANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a round of meetings with Turkish bankers, Econoff obtained their perspective on Turkey's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regime. Currently, Turkish banks are following a less vigilant framework of policies and procedures than those of their foreign bank counter [...]
2005-05-04 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER TU
05ANKARA2553ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-04 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2555TURKEY APPROVES USE OF INCIRLIK AIR BASE AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten months after the US requested to establish a multi-directional cargo hub at Incirlik Air Base to support Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF),the Government of Turkey (GOT) has agreed to the establishment of a cargo hub on terms slightly more re [...]
2005-05-04 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS TU
05ANKARA2556TGS REQUESTS UPDATED EADSIM SOFTWARE
[...] Deputy PolMilCouns on May 3 received an original letter from Colonel Ziyaeddin Ipekkan, Deputy Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Scientific Division for forwarding to the US Missile Defense Agency Modeling and Simulation Program Director. The letter requests US provision to TGS of EADSI [...]
2005-05-04 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR TU
05ANKARA2564CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): HOST COUNTRY
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4 and 5. 2. (C) PolMilCouns raised the CWC host country agreement (HCA) with MFA Deputy Director General for Disarmament and Arms Control Bulent Meric and provided the revised text of the agreement on April 22, as instructed ref a. Meric said that t [...]
2005-05-05 08:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KTIA TU CWC
05ANKARA2579EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] Summary: Last month, EXBS Advisor primarily focused on the status and direction of the Commodity Identification Training (CIT),which was scheduled to take place in April, but was eventually postponed to a later date. EXBS Advisor worked closely with MFA, Customs and Turkish Atomic Ener [...]
2005-05-05 11:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA2588ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-05 13:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2606BTC PIPELINE IN TURKEY STILL AIMING FOR LATE 2005
[...] (SBU) Summary: While working to deliver the Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey has pushed Turkey's state pipeline company BOTAS to operate much closer to international standards, it has encountered great difficulty managing the variety of sub-contracts on the job. BOTAS has had to seque [...]
2005-05-06 08:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG PHUM TU BTC
05ANKARA2607TURKEY REQUESTS REVIEW OF US THIRD COUNTRY
[...] This is an Action Request. Post has received a Diplomatic Note that responds to Action Item No. 4 from the Sept. 24, 2004 Security Cooperation Working Group (SCWG) meeting held in Ankara, and to the 30 June 2004 Embassy Dip Note outlining specific questions Turkey must answer for every Third [...]
2005-05-06 08:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PREL TU
05ANKARA2645ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-06 14:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2663DAS KENNEDY URGES TURKEY TO SEIZE OPPORTUNITY FOR
[...] (C) Summary: During her May 2-3 visit to Turkey, DAS Kennedy urged Turkish MFA officials, National Security Council Secretary General Alpogan, and parliamentarians to seize the opportunity for dialogue presented by the exchange of letters between PM Erdogan and President Kocharian. MFA Cauc [...]
2005-05-09 10:54:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL AM TU
05ANKARA2671ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-09 14:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2672TURKEY MAY AGREE TO INFORMAL NATO-EU MINISTERIAL
[...] (C/NF) Summary: At NATO SYG de Hoop Scheffer's reported request, Turkey may soon agree to biannual NATO-EU informal meetings in order to move forward on NATO-EU cooperation. MFA officials told us May 6 that FonMin Gul has agreed in principle to this idea, but has not formally signed off as yet [...]
2005-05-09 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR MOPS TU CY MT NATO EUN
05ANKARA2674PSI: TURKEY FORMS INTERMINISTERIAL COORDINATION
[...] (SBU) Osman Yavuzalp, Head of Department MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, on May 6 informed EXBS Advisor that the previous day the GOT held their first Interministerial Coordination Meeting to discuss Turkish participation in PSI and what steps Turkey will take in promoting PSI. The [...]
2005-05-10 07:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL TU
05ANKARA2684TURKEY: VIEWS ON UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM
[...] Summary. Econoffs met with UNICEF representatives from both the National Committee and Country Offices to evaluate Turkey UNICEF,s program content and effectiveness per request in reftel. UNICEF,s activities in Turkey focus on maternal and child health; early childhood development and child- [...]
2005-05-10 12:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL TU
05ANKARA2689COE EXPERT: TURKISH PRISONS RUN WITH "LOCK DOWN"
[...] (C) Summary: A Council of Europe (COE) prison expert says the design of Turkey's high-security F-type prisons meets European standards, but some practices are draconian. Inmates are allowed very little time outside their cells. There is no evidence of systematic torture, but prison officials p [...]
2005-05-10 14:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2690ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-10 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2696TURKEY'S PENSION REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Turkish government has submitted to Parliament a major reform of Turkey's social security institutions. The reform--a requirement of IFI programs--will consolidate three separate social security agencies into one, aligning the three systems' parameters on a less costly glid [...]
2005-05-10 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV TU
05ANKARA2697NATO-EU: FONMIN GUL AGREES TO BIANNUAL INFORMAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-10 14:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS TU CY MT NATO EUN
05ANKARA270ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-18 07:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2719ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-11 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2721EUR DAS KENNEDY DISCUSSES CYPRUS IN ANKARA, MAY 3
[...] (C) Summary: In May 3 meetings with Turkish MFA and NSC officials, Turkish parliamentarians, and press, DAS Kennedy emphasized that the Greek Cypriots need to lay out their objections to the Annan Plan with clarity and finality. At the same time, Turkey must search for ways to promote overal [...]
2005-05-11 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALCY PREL TU
05ANKARA2726TURKEY ON EDGE OVER EXPECTED EUROPEAN COURT OF
[...] (C) Summary: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is expected to announce May 12 that Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) did not receive a fair trial in 1999 and is entitled to a retrial. Nationalism is always volatile in Turkey, and an Ocalan retrial c [...]
2005-05-11 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE PKK
05ANKARA2730TURKEY MOVES FORWARD (AGAIN) ON AEGEAN CBMS
[...] (C) Summary: The CBMs announced during Greek FM Molyviatis' visit to Turkey are on track after a temporary freeze while TGS waited to see Athens' response to a mid-April incident when a desecrated Turkish flag was placed in the room of a Turkish cadet on an official exchange to the Greek mil [...]
2005-05-12 08:31:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR TU GR
05ANKARA2733NEW IPR CERTIFICATION REGULATION TO HELP COMBAT
[...] (SBU) The GOT issued a new certification regulation last month, requiring all businesses involved in the recording, sale, reproduction and distribution of copyright materials to be certified from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MOCT). The regulation also imposes a Source Identification ( [...]
2005-05-12 11:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU USTR
05ANKARA2737 New Data Continue Pattern of Stubbornly-High
[...] Summary: The National Statistics Office (SIS) announced that the unemployment rate was 11.5 percent in January, higher than the year-end 2004 rate of 10.3 percent. Seasonal factors and the use of a new methodology, however, mean that it is not clear the higher rate reflects a worsening unemplo [...]
2005-05-12 14:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON ELAB SOCI TU
05ANKARA2738ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-12 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2750RELIGIOUS MINORITIES SAY GOT BILL FAILS TO SOLVE
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT is reviewing a draft bill designed to address the issue of properties seized by the Turkish State from religious minority communities. Representatives of the Christian and Jewish communities say the bill would have only minimal favorable impact, primarily because it would [...]
2005-05-13 08:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2761ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-13 13:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2782TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, May 1-15,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published in Hurriyet on Tuesday, Ma [...]
2005-05-16 14:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA2784LABOR MINISTRY ON UNEMPLOYMENT IN TURKEY
[...] (U) Summary. The Labor Ministry's ISKUR, the Turkish Employment Organization, an agency charged with developing and enacting employment policies, is trying to match jobs with workers at the micro level to alleviate Turkey's official 11.5 percent unemployment rate, which may understate the se [...]
2005-05-16 14:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON ELAB SOCI TU
05ANKARA2810ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-17 13:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2814OUTREACH FOLLOWING NEWSWEEK'S RETRACTION OF ITS
[...] The Turkish media has been uncharacteristically restrained in its coverage of the alleged desecration incident at Guantanamo. News coverage since the claim was first published in Newsweek has generally been factual and balanced. Most papers reported on the demonstrations and violence in Afgh [...]
2005-05-17 14:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KISL PREL
05ANKARA2832SCENESETTER FOR WASHINGTON VISIT OF TURKISH
[...] (C) Summary: Courteous but highly protocol-conscious and volatile Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Bulent Arinc looks forward to a highly ceremonial May 24-26 visit to Washington at the invitation of Speaker of the House Hastert. What matters above all to Arinc, who sees his visit [...]
2005-05-18 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA2837ABSENT GOT LEADERSHIP, TURKISH MILITARY LAUNCHES
[...] (C) Summary: Contacts report heavy Turkish military presence in southeastern Turkey. Adana PO reports that, while rural flows of recruits to the PKK may be occurring, contacts are not seeing a similar phenomenon from urban areas. Absent any Erdogan government strategy for dealing with the [...]
2005-05-19 14:54:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS MOPS PHUM TU
05ANKARA2839SE TURKEY: DSM EXPERIMENT DRAGS ON
[...] (C) Summary: DEHAP leaders have yet to realize their hopes of creating a new, national-level, moderate political party from the Democratic Society Movement (DSM) announced last fall. One observer attributes the delay to both the PKK,s popularity and pro-Kurdish politicians, need to recalcula [...]
2005-05-20 07:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2840AKP GOVERNMENT WEAKENS PENAL-CODE REFORM BILLS
[...] (C) Summary: Attorney contacts say a set of last-minute amendments being reviewed by Parliament would weaken penal-code related reform legislation that lawmakers originally approved in late 2004 to bolster Turkey's EU candidacy. The amendments curtail some of the rights of suspects and detain [...]
2005-05-20 07:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA2889USG PROPOSED UN COPUOS STSC SPACE DEBRIS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-20 15:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA AORC TU
05ANKARA2890SIKORSKY SEAHAWK SALE TO TURKEY CONTINGENT ON EXIM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sikorsky Aircraft Corps, after three years of negotiation, may be closing in on an agreement with Turkey for the sale of Seahawk helicopters to the Turkish Navy. According to the local Sikorsky rep, the Turkish Naval Forces Commander wants an agreement finalized before the Prime M [...]
2005-05-20 15:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL EFIN BEXP TU EXIM
05ANKARA2891AEGEAN: TURKEY MULLS NO LONGER FILING FLIGHT
[...] (C/NF) Turkey is considering ceasing filing flight information with NATO for military flights over the Aegean, an MFA official told us May 20. TGS contacts confirm this. Mounting Turkish frustration with Greece's public relations and diplomatic efforts to paint the Turks as aggressors--along [...]
2005-05-20 15:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR PREL TU GR NATO
05ANKARA2898 ANKARA - AMBASSADORS'FUND FOR REFUGEES PROPOSAL
[...] Embassy Ankara requests 27,148 New Turkish Lira (approximately $19,962) from the Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees to furnish, secure and adapt an existing building to provide a woman's women's shelter for refugee and asylum- seeker women in Van, Turkey. The Women's Counseling Center (WCC) and U [...]
2005-05-23 10:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREF OTRA TU
05ANKARA2900DEMARCHE TO GOT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS
[...] (U) The Ambassador delivered reftel A points May 18 to MFA U/S Tuygan, reiterating points raised by EUR DAS Kennedy during her May 3 visit to Ankara. He emphasized that PM Erdogan and FM Gul should be prepared to discuss human rights issues during their upcoming visit to Washington. 2. (C) [...]
2005-05-23 12:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM US EU TU
05ANKARA2901 GOT PREPARING REVISED WTO SERVICES OFFER
[...] (SBU) On May 11, Econoff delivered reftel demarche urging the GOT to submit a revised WTO services offer by the May deadline to Sevgi Boz, Deputy Director General at the Turkish Treasury Undersecretariat. Boz responded that Treasury was coordinating an interagency review with the aim of submi [...]
2005-05-23 12:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON TU WTO
05ANKARA2909RESPONSE TO TURKEY ON UAE REQUEST FOR TURKISH
[...] (C) This is an action request. Ambassador has received inquiries from Defense Minister Gonul, MFA UnderSecretary Tuygan and MFA Deputy Director General for Americas Affairs Ilicak in recent weeks regarding the status of the UAE request for Turkish pilots to train UAE pilots on the F-16 Block [...]
2005-05-23 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL TU
05ANKARA2910TURKEY SCENESETTER FOR MAY-JUNE CODELS
[...] Summary: The Erdogan government's drift on relations with the U.S., with the EU, and on reform is of concern, as are trends inimical to religious freedom. U.S. Turkish relations remain solid in specific areas and we look for new opportunities to expand cooperation, but our relations are not [...]
2005-05-23 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OREP PINS ECON MARR TU
05ANKARA2911CHIEF OF THE TURKISH GENERAL STAFF MOVES CENTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unprecedented public address at the Istanbul War College on the occasion of his annual evaluation of the Turkish military, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) Ozkok broke his almost two year silence on Turkish foreign policy to lay out his views, in the name of the Tur [...]
2005-05-23 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA2912TURKS REPORT SUCCESSFUL JA'AFARI VISIT
[...] (C) ITG PM Ja'afari made a successful May 19-21 visit to Turkey, according to a senior MFA official. Turkey offered to double its electricity exports to Iraq right away, and to increase these exports seven-fold in the next half a year. The Iraqi Finance Minister proposed an unorthodox procedur [...]
2005-05-23 17:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EAID ENRG PTER IZ TU
05ANKARA295TURKISH FM GUL'S VISIT TO ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish and Israeli contacts in Ankara portray FM Gul's January 3-5 visit to Israel and Palestine as giving mixed results: signaling the end of 2004's Turkish-Israeli public tensions (both Turkish and Israeli interlocutors affirm that deeper, long-standing security and intel coo [...]
2005-01-18 08:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU IS
05ANKARA2969ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-25 14:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2970 RESUMPTION OF ONUR AIR FLIGHTS
[...] (U) Sources at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Dutch Embassy in Ankara confirmed press reports that an agreement had been reached to permit Onur Air to resume flights to the Netherlands and other European countries, and that the airline actually resumed flights on May [...]
2005-05-25 14:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR TU
05ANKARA3014ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-26 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3018TURKISH PM ERDOGAN AND FONMIN GUL'S JUNE VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: The Erdogan government's serious drift on EU-related reform; failure to take the lead on religious tolerance and indeed encouragement of intolerance; flawed handling of relations with still powerful Turkish State institutions; and unwillingness to invest in a robust bilateral rela [...]
2005-05-27 04:23:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PINS ECON MARR TU
05ANKARA3035AMERICAN-TURKISH COUNCIL BRINGS DEFENSE/SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: MOD Gonul, DCHOD Basbug and NSC SecGen Alpogan will all be in Washington June 5-7 for the American Turkish Council's annual conference. (It is possible that Alpogan may postpone his visit due to the heavy traffic of Turkish visitors that week.) While we understand many official [...]
2005-05-27 15:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PINR TU
05ANKARA304 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TURKEY
[...] OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT The Government of Turkey (GOT) views foreign direct investment as vital to the country's economic development and prosperity. Accordingly, Turkey has one of the most liberal legal regimes for FDI in the OECD. With the exception of some sectors (see below),a [...]
2005-01-18 09:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KTDB EFIN TU
05ANKARA3047 TRADE OFFICIAL ON SPECIAL 301, ZYPREXA, RICE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Foreign Trade Undersecretariat's (FTU) Director General for Agreements maintained that the GOT would not take any action on applications to market copies of Zyprexa while the issue is still in the courts; promised that State Minister Tuzmen would soon reply to the joint USD [...]
2005-05-31 13:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EAGR TU
05ANKARA3055TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, May 15-31,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published in Radikal on Monday, May [...]
2005-06-01 07:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA3058DREAMS OF DISNEYLAND ON TURKEY'S MEDITERRANEAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Turkey,s tourism numbers continue to sky-rocket, with the first quarter forecast showing that 2005 will more than likely be a record-breaking year for the Turkish tourism industry. So far this year, 3.8 million tourists have visited Turkey*a 27 percent increase from the same p [...]
2005-06-01 10:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN TU
05ANKARA3084ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-01 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3086AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FONMIN GUL, MAY 26
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-01 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA3088PSI: MISSILE-RELATED TRANSFER TO IRAN VIA TURKEY
[...] (S) Summary: Turkish authorities do not believe "catch all" export controls (suggested ref B) can be used unless the shipper of the missile-related equipment destined for Iran is formally imported into Turkey first. MFA continues to put its hope on the Chinese taking the shipment back, but ar [...]
2005-06-01 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA IR TU MTCRE
05ANKARA3093TESTY TURKISH-IRAQI WATER TALKS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish officials agreed with Iraqi Water Minister Rashid to continue technical water discussions in July, but the Turks have yet to be convinced about Iraq's request for additional water from the Euphrates. In a testy meeting, the two sides disagreed on basic issue of whethe [...]
2005-06-02 08:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECIN IZ TU
05ANKARA31New Currency Rings in the New Year; 2004
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey rang in the New Year by successfully putting into circulation the New Turkish Lira, which eliminated six zeros from the old lira. Despite fears of operational problems associated with the introduction, the Turkish Central Bank said today that commercial banks, inter-ban [...]
2005-01-04 05:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU
05ANKARA310REFORM DELAYS PUSH BACK TIMING OF IMF LETTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the completion of the required "prior actions" likely to take several more weeks, the IMF board vote on Turkey's new Stand-by Program is unlikely to take place before March. The delays seem to stem more from the complexity of the reforms, or internal Turkish issues than fr [...]
2005-01-18 13:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU
05ANKARA3104ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-02 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3112HIGH COURT RULES FOR CLOSURE OF TEACHERS' UNION
[...] (U) Summary: A Turkish appeals court ruled May 25 for the closure of Egitim Sen, the country's largest teachers' union, on the grounds that the union's bylaw violates the Constitution by advocating education in "mother tongues," which would include Kurdish. The union will appeal the ruling to [...]
2005-06-03 09:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA3127THIRD COUNTRY TRANSFER: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
[...] This is an action request. See Paragraph 5. 2. The Embassy received on May 27 a diplomatic note responding to a USG request for detailed syllabus information on Turkey's proposed Italian F-16 pilot training program for consideration in evaluating Turkey's corresponding Third Country Transf [...]
2005-06-03 11:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR IT TU
05ANKARA3138PSI: MISSILE-RELATED TRANSFER TO IRAN VIA TURKEY
[...] (S) MFA Deputy Director General for Disarmament and Arms Control Bulent Meric contacted PolMilCouns on June 3 regarding the shipment of Chinese-origin missile-related equipment to Iran (reftels). Meric said that the UK Ambassador had explained to MFA Deputy U/S Sensoy on June 1 that HMG was d [...]
2005-06-03 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA IR TU MTCRE
05ANKARA3144IRAQI TURKMEN GROUPS SQUARE OFF IN TURKEY
[...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 15. Summary ------- 2. (C) There are a number of Iraqi Turkmen groups in Ankara. Three that we have met recently appear to be united only in their anger at what they believe is CF support for Kurdish domination of northern Iraq, especially [...]
2005-06-06 10:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON IZ TU
05ANKARA3156TURKEY INVITES US MILITARY PARTICIPATION IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Defense Attache Office (DAO) on May 31 received from the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief of Operations Lieutenant General Metin Yavuz Yalcin a letter of invitation for one US Flag Officer and one additional US officer to attend the Distinguished Visito [...]
2005-06-06 13:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL TU
05ANKARA3163ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-06 14:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3165CONGRESSIONAL TURKEY STUDY GROUP/CODEL WEXLER
[...] (C) Summary: The Congressional Turkey Study Group visited Turkey May 31 - June 2, meeting with PM Erdogan, FM Gul, CHOD Ozkok, Economy Minster and chief EU negotiator Babacan, DefMin Gonul, Parliament Speaker Arinc. Media coverage was positive, even from normally anti-U.S. outlets. All expr [...]
2005-06-06 15:06:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON SY CY IZ PHUM
05ANKARA3166FOLLOW-UP TO ILO DEMARCHES
[...] Further to ref A and C demarches, Turkish MFA Head of Multilateral Economic Affairs Department Arar wrote the following in an email to Poloff: "We know the reasons behind the US position on the regular budget of the ILO. However it is difficult to support you on on this subject either, as the [...]
2005-06-06 16:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ELAB BB PHUM PREL ILO
05ANKARA3171TURKEY CONTINUES TO PURSUE BTC SECURITY WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite the recent "First Oil" celebration in Baku, BTC intergovernmental security coordination arrangements are still not complete. Georgia remains the biggest area of concern. Turkey has expressed willingness to facilitate training assistance, but says it has not received a [...]
2005-06-07 10:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET MARR MASS TU GG AZ
05ANKARA3185EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT (MAY 2005)
[...] Summary: EXBS Advisor work this month focused mainly on moving the Government of Turkey forward in the Internal Control Program (ICP),Product Identification Tool (PIT) and Commodity Identification Training (CIT). EXBS Advisor was effective in getting the GOT to approve visits by delega [...]
2005-06-07 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA3191TURKEY'S SYRIACS SKEPTICAL ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-08 10:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE
05ANKARA3192TURKISH MFA ON BRUSSELS CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Gul will head Turkey's delegation to the Brussels conference. The GOT does not yet have a position on bilateral debt, but is resisting outright forgiveness. MFA officials say progress on assistance continues to be on hold until security improves. End Summary. [...]
2005-06-08 12:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID TU IZ
05ANKARA3195SENATOR HAGEL REINFORCES IMPORTANCE OF BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his May 30-31 visit to Ankara, Senator Chuck Hagel met with Prime Minister Erdogan, Energy Minister Guler, Agriculture Minister Guclu and MFA Deputy Under Secretary Sensoy and exchanged views on the state of the SIPDIS bilateral relationship, Cyprus, Armenia, the PKK terr [...]
2005-06-08 13:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV PREL OVIP TU
05ANKARA320 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TURKEY
[...] OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT The Government of Turkey (GOT) views foreign direct investment as vital to the country's economic development and prosperity. Accordingly, Turkey has one of the most liberal legal regimes for FDI in the OECD. With the exception of some sectors (see below),a [...]
2005-01-18 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KTDB EFIN TU
05ANKARA323TURKEY: BOSPHORUS BYPASS VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish government still seeks to pursue its proposed "Voluntary Principles on the Turkish Straits" as a way to engage all stakeholders in seeking a solution to the risks of growing tanker congestion. The GOT is interested in U.S. comments and support for this proposal, as [...]
2005-01-18 14:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG TU
05ANKARA3260PSI: TURKISH RESPONSE ON SHARING MISSILE-RELATED
[...] (S) Per ref a request, Post coordinated with the UK mission in Ankara to deliver a joint demarche to MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Nabi Sensoy on June 9 to request that Turkey share with China copies of both the legitimate and the false invoice related to the a [...]
2005-06-09 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA TU MTCRE
05ANKARA3262OPEN SKIES QUOTA SHARING - TURKEY LIKELY TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In discussions with the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and MFA on the Open Skies Shared Quota, Acting PolMilCouns and Acting DATT discovered a large gap between the US and Turkish interpretation of the original agreement for a shared June flight which may have led to the recent impas [...]
2005-06-09 14:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL TU OSCE
05ANKARA330TURKISH PARTICIPATION AT THE SAUDI
[...] (C) This is an action request, see paragraph 3. 2. (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to first secretary in the Directorate General for Security Affairs at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Togan Oral on 18 January. The Turkish delegation to the Saudi counterterrorism conferen [...]
2005-01-19 08:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA3301COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) Action request--see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey fully supports U.S. efforts to conclude CCIT convention at the 60th UNGA, acknowledges resistance exists among some OIC member states on points which are red lines for both the U.S. and Turkey, and asks for clarification of the U.S. sta [...]
2005-06-10 11:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER TU UNGA
05ANKARA3328ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-10 13:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3347 RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE GSP WAIVERS COUPLED
[...] (U) Embassy understands that Washington agencies are considering a waiver of competitive needs limits for travertine, as well as de minimus waivers and a redesignation for other Turkish products, under our Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program. The Pharmaceuticals Research and Manuf [...]
2005-06-13 13:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA3354POSSIBLE DELAYS IN IMF REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-14 04:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU IMF
05ANKARA3380ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-14 12:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3385ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-14 14:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3387UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO VISITS TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's June 6-8 visit to Turkey, his first since becoming President, focused mainly on commercial issues. The two sides signed six agreements, including on energy, transport, and combating crime. Although Turkey claims to support Ukraine's EU and NATO aspiration [...]
2005-06-14 14:46:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET ENRG ECON TU UP
05ANKARA33962005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES/EXPROPRIATION
[...] Claimant data: Claimants A are U.S. citizens Victor and Kristy Bedoian. They filed a Privacy Act Waiver in 2001 allowing information to be shared with family, friends, members of Congress, the press, the general public and the following individuals: Sally or Pat Killoran, William Wolfe, Mic [...]
2005-06-15 12:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KIDE TU
05ANKARA3410ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-15 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3413TURKEY SEEKS TO CONTRIBUTE ROBUSTLY TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) PolMilCouns and PolMilOff met with MFA officials June 14 and 15 to follow up on PM Erdogan's comments in the U.S. the week of June 5 that Turkey wants to do more to ensure the stability of Afghanistan after it relinquishes command of ISAF VII in August. Both MFA Deputy Director General for [...]
2005-06-15 15:49:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF TU NATO
05ANKARA3456NON-KINETIC ACTION AGAINST THE PKK
[...] (S/NF) As I prepare to depart Ankara, I am leaving behind one serious piece of unfinished business: the PKK's continued and apparently unmolested and unchallenged presence in northern Iraq. This problem is especially irksome because in recent months the PKK has resumed its active terror campai [...]
2005-06-17 10:08:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL MOPS PREF TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA3473ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-17 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3490TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, June 1-15,
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by The Messenger, Georgia's Englis [...]
2005-06-20 06:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA3495ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-20 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3499READOUT OF TURKISH MFA U/S TUYGAN'S MEETING IN
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Iran Department Head Ulku (who did not go on the trip) asserts U/S Tuygan delivered a "crystal clear" message on Iran's nuclear program and the need to cooperate with the EU-3 and IAEA to DFM Aminzadeh June 11 but admitted Tuygan cloaked his message in diplomatic niceties. Wi [...]
2005-06-20 15:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER EPET ECON TU IR
05ANKARA356AFGHANISTAN: TURKEY MODIFIES ITS PRT STANCE
[...] (C) Late January 19, MFA South Asia DDG Aydin Evirgen told PolMilCouns that, after further consideration "at high levels," Turkey was modifying its position on participating in PRTs in Afghanistan from that which he conveyed to us on January 18 (reftel). He said the Turkish General Staff (TGS) [...]
2005-01-20 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV TU AF UK
05ANKARA357CENTCOM CDR AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS IRAQ,
[...] (C) Summary: GEN Abizaid and Foreign Minister Gul agreed on the goal of a stable, democratic and unified Iraq during their January 11 meeting in Ankara. Gul reiterated Turkey's support of elections in Iraq occurring on time with the fullest possible participation. Turkey is reaching out to [...]
2005-01-22 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR TU IZ
05ANKARA358CENTCOM COMMANDER DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST AND
[...] (S) SUMMARY. General Abizaid held a wide-ranging discussion with Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan on areas of mutual concern in SIPDIS the Middle East and Central Asia as well as Turkey's challenges in Cyprus. Both shared the view that, despite perio [...]
2005-01-22 14:39:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP PTER TU
05ANKARA361CENTCOM COMMANDER'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY OF THE
[...] (S) SUMMARY. GEN Abizaid met with Turkey's DCHOD GEN Ilker Basbug on January 12. Both presented assessments of Iraq, Afghanistan, and U.S.-TU relations. Basbug reiterated the objectives of Turkish policies on Iraq-united, peaceful, democratic, and whole. Both sides agreed the upcoming elect [...]
2005-01-24 10:40:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP PTER TU
05ANKARA3637TURKEY'S EU EFFORT PLAGUED BY LOW MORALE,
[...] (C) Summary: Top GOT leaders insist publicly that the rejection of the EU Constitution in France and the Netherlands will not affect Turkey's EU candidacy, though our MFA contacts concede that recent events in Europe have sapped morale. The GOT's recently-appointed lead EU negotiator must org [...]
2005-06-27 15:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EFIN TU EU
05ANKARA3669GOT PAPER OUTLINES CONCERNS ON EU "FRAMEWORK"
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT has distributed to EU-member-state governments a paper outlining its concerns about the EU's upcoming Framework for Negotiations with Turkey. In the paper, the GOT urges the EU to adopt the Framework before the October 3 start date of Turkey's EU talks, and to avoid addin [...]
2005-06-28 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU BRUSSELS USEU
05ANKARA371ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-24 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA373TURKS MULLING NATO/EU PROBLEM BUT NOT YET READY
[...] (C) Summary: Our recent conversations with MFA and TGS officials reveal that some thought is being given to how to resolve the impasse created by Turkey's strict interpretation of NAC decisions that excludes from Berlin Plus-related discussions those EU members who are not parties to a NATO s [...]
2005-01-24 17:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL CY TU MARR
05ANKARA3824GOT STRUGGLING TO PUSH THROUGH IMF-REQUIRED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament, which normally goes on summer recess July 1, is working long hours to complete its work on two legal reforms needed for a successful IMF review in July, and is being held over at least through July 3, and perhaps longer, to pass these laws. The problem seems to be p [...]
2005-07-01 12:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV TU IMF
05ANKARA3833TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, June 16-30,
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Saturday, June 18: [...]
2005-07-01 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA3839ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-01 14:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3842SOMO DRAWS DOWN ARREARS TO TURKISH COMPANIES,
[...] (C) Summary. Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization, SOMO, has made progress in drawing down arrears to Turkish oil products suppliers and has signed new contracts for 4.9 million tons of oil products to be delivered during the second half of this year. The Turks and Iraqis are also activ [...]
2005-07-01 15:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALELTN ETRD IZ PREL TU
05ANKARA3843APPROACHING TURKEY ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF F-16
[...] (C) Charge raised the issue of Turkey transferring F-16 aircraft to Pakistan (reftel) with Minister of Defense Vecdi Gonul during their initial meeting on June 30. Gonul thought the prospect was a good opportunity, noting the need to be supportive of Pakistan in general. 2. (C) PolMilCouns [...]
2005-07-01 15:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS TU PK
05ANKARA3844TURKEY CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON IRAQ, CONTINUES
[...] (C) Turkey is "cautiously optimistic" on the future of Iraq, according to Osman Koruturk, the GOT's Special Envoy for Iraq. Turkey is continuing its outreach to political parties, and is facilitating a conference on the constitution at a Turkish mountain resort July 12-13. Koruturk claimed T [...]
2005-07-01 15:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ
05ANKARA3857ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-05 13:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3863TREASURY UNDERSECRETARY LEVEY PRESSES GOT ON WEAK
[...] Put in place as quickly as possible legal provisions that criminalize the financing of terrorism and allow "safe harbor" for bank filers of suspicious transaction reports. We note that these provisions have been included in legislation recently submitted to parliament. If this legislation [...]
2005-07-05 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER TU
05ANKARA3870TURKISH REPLY TO OPIC LETTER ON IZMIR RING
[...] (U) On July 5, Embassy received the following response to our June 3 diplomatic note that transmitted OPIC Acting CEO Connelly's letter to Deputy Prime Minister Sener. Begin Text. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the honour to inform that the letter from Ross J. Connelly, Acting Presi [...]
2005-07-06 08:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EINV TU OPIC
05ANKARA388ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-25 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3887REHN WARNS FM GUL THAT FOUNDATIONS LAW "FALLS
[...] (C) Summary: EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn sent a letter to FM Gul warning that the GOT's draft Law on Foundations "falls short of European standards" despite some positive elements. Rehn states that the draft in its current form would lead to numerous cases against Turkey in the European [...]
2005-07-06 15:49:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE EU
05ANKARA3892CHARGE D'AFFAIRES UNDERSCORES USG PRIORITIES WITH
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In her introductory call on Turkey's NSC Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) SIPDIS urged Turkey to get in lockstep with the US on Syria and Iran, noted continuing USG efforts to recognize northern Cyprus' April 2004 vote in support of the Annan Plan and [...]
2005-07-07 05:01:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPGOV PREL IZ SY IR TU
05ANKARA3907FAILURE TO PASS SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM JEOPARDIZES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Partly as a result of parliamentary obstructionism from the opposition CHP, the GOT failed over the weekend to pass social security legislation that was a condition for a favorable first review of its new IMF stand-by program and release of an $800 million credit. The GOT is [...]
2005-07-07 09:02:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PGOV TU
05ANKARA3953USNAVEUR ADM ULRICH DISCUSSES BLACK SEA, IRAQ AND
[...] (C) Summary: During introductory calls as USNAVEUR and Joint Forces Command Naples commander, ADM Ulrich won Turkish Navy's agreement to hold consultations on information sharing between the Turks' Black Sea Harmony (BSH) operation and Allied Maritime Component Command Naples sometime before [...]
2005-07-07 12:58:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR MASS TU RO BU GG UP RS IZ
05ANKARA3954GEN BASBUG AND CHARGE DISCUSS IRAQ, PKK, BILATERAL
[...] (S) Summary: Deputy TGS Chief GEN Ilker Basbug believes that MNF-I has a new order to "track and capture" PKK personnel in Iraq. (We are checking.) He thought this was a positive indication of US intentions towards the terrorist group. The Charge told Basbug she would have an answer soon t [...]
2005-07-07 13:08:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MOPS TU IZ IR SY PKK
05ANKARA3962ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-07 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3965TURKEY REQUESTS COUNTER-IED TRAINING AND
[...] (C) Summary: Since the June 6-8 visit of the Deputy Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS DCHOD) General Ilker Basbug to Washington, TGS has raised on three separate occasions a request for USG information-sharing and technology support to counter the increasing number of Improvised Explosive [...]
2005-07-08 04:54:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA4032SOUTHEAST TURKEY UPDATE: ANTI-PKK OPERATIONS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-11 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER TU PKK
05ANKARA4035ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-11 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4042TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey's three main left-of-center parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The left-of-center parties share similar ideologies and compete for the same minor segment of the Turkish electorate but are unable to cooperate and are plagued by poli [...]
2005-07-12 08:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA4059TURKS PROPOSE AUG. 2 FOR TRILATERAL PKK TALKS,
[...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. five. 2. (C) MFA Director General for Security Affairs Hayati Guven convoked PolMilCouns and PolMilOff July 12 to discuss PKK trilateral talks. Guven proposed Aug. 2 as a target date for the talks, and explained that given the Turkish summer [...]
2005-07-12 15:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA4071TURKEY ISSUES RFI ON RECONNAISSANCE AND
[...] Turkey's Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (Savunma Sanayi Mustesarligi - SSM) issued on July 7 a Request for Information (RFI) about Reconnaissance and Surveillance Satellite Systems. According to the SSM website, the project will include development of an Electro-Optical (EO) reconnai [...]
2005-07-14 05:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR TU
05ANKARA4094ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-14 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4099COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Polmilcouns raised the CCIT with MFA DG for International Security Affairs Hayati Guven on July 14 as instructed ref a. Guven responded that his office was in the process of "concluding informal consultations" within the GOT on our original demarche (ref c) and subsequent clarification th [...]
2005-07-15 08:05:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER TU UNGA
05ANKARA411TURKEY: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY,
[...] In response to reftel, the following is Mission's contribution to the 2004-5 edition of "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: the U.S. Record." 2. Turkey is a constitutional republic with a multiparty parliamentary system and a president with limited powers elected by the single-chamber p [...]
2005-01-26 12:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA4117TIP IN TURKEY: REACTIONS TO NEW YORK TIMES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Craig Smith's June 27 New York Times article on Slavic women working in Turkey's growing sex trade has received mixed reaction in Turkey. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On June 28 Hurriyet columnist, Kanal D News Director and news magazine host Fatih Altayli wrote that he had reported [...]
2005-07-15 13:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA412NATO CENTER OF EXCELLENCE-DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM
[...] Summary: In an effort to gain alliance contribution for its new Center of Excellence - Defense Against Terrorism (CoE-DAT),the Turkish General Staff (TGS) on January 10 briefed NATO embassies in Ankara on the center and sent letters from MOD Gonul and CHOD GEN Ozkok to their counterparts. [...]
2005-01-26 12:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPTER MARR PREL TU
05ANKARA4126TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, JUNE 2005
[...] A new National Security Policy document outlining the government's priorities with regard to threats to Turkey's internal and external security, and based on input from all Council member agencies, was expected to be finalized at the June 21 National Security Council meeting. The new draft do [...]
2005-07-15 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TU
05ANKARA4127ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-15 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4141TURKEY'S LIBERALIZATION WOES: SMOKE, BUT NO FIRE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a modest but tangible political will to privatize, and efforts by the Privatization Administration, Competition Authority, and other sectoral regulatory bodies, Turkey's program of sectoral reform, liberalization, and privatization remains delayed and troubled. Across [...]
2005-07-18 04:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ECPS PGOV TU ENGR
05ANKARA4149TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, July 1-15,
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Sabah on Friday, July 1: [...]
2005-07-18 10:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA4163ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-18 15:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4182TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: UPDATE ON PRO-PKK POLITICAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-19 14:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PHUM PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA4186TURKEY AND THE PKK: RAISING THE HEAT
[...] (S/NF) Both the Turkish Deputy CHOD and MFA spokesman publicly confirmed July 19 that Turkey reserves the right to conduct cross-border operations against the PKK in northern Iraq. Additionally, the D/CHOD, GEN Ilker Basbug, reported that the U.S. has ordered the arrest (or capture) of key PKK [...]
2005-07-19 17:54:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ EUN PKK
05ANKARA4187IRAQ: TURKS PLEASED WITH KORUTURK'S WASHINGTON
[...] (C) On July 13, PolMilCouns and PolMilOff called on MFA Deputy Director General Safak Gokturk to get the Turkish assessment of the July 5-6 Washington visit of the GOT's Special Envoy for Iraq, Amb. Osman Koruturk (Gokturk accompanied Koruturk). Gokturk characterized the meetings as positive [...]
2005-07-19 18:00:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETRD IZ TU SY US
05ANKARA4188ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-20 05:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4214DEMARCHE ON IRAQ DEBT AND ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: On Iraq debt, Turkish MFA officials again confirmed they have not been pressed on the debt issue by the ITG. The MFA officicals made very clear that they want to negotiate this issue directly with ITG officials, not outside advisors, although they agreed to meet with the advisors. [...]
2005-07-20 16:08:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN EAID PREL IZ TU
05ANKARA4215TURKISH MILITARY ON PKK: CALM DOWN PUBLIC
[...] (S) Summary: In an extended one-on-one meeting July 20 with Turkish D/CHOD Basbug, Charge cautioned against an accelerating public dispute between Turkey and the US over PKK countermeasures, including &hot pursuit8 into Iraq. Basbug agreed on the importance of calming down public rhetoric [...]
2005-07-20 17:12:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ EUN PKK
05ANKARA4227ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-21 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4232004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-26 15:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KTFN PTER TU
05ANKARA4230TURKS ANNOYED WITH IRAQI AND IRANIAN INTERIOR
[...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, seemed to take his lead from the Iranians at the July 18-19 meeting of Iraq's neighbors' interior ministers. Jabr annoyed the Turks by ignoring their advice to steer clear of the press, especially on the PKK issue; his private assurances to th [...]
2005-07-21 15:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCRM TU IZ IR BA EG SY KU SA JO
05ANKARA424ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-26 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4252ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-22 15:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4258THE TURKISH PRESS DEBATES THE PKK ISSUE
[...] (U) The increase in PKK violence in Turkey, culminating in the July 16 bus bombing in the Turkish resort of Kusadasi, has accelerated the public debate over how best to deal with the PKK. The dominant view continues to blame the violence on the perceived US failure to fulfill its commitment t [...]
2005-07-22 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PTER PREL TU PKK
05ANKARA426SCENESETTER FOR JAN.31-FEB.1 VISIT OF UNDER
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit will extend a series of January visits by Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones and Commander of Central Command General Abizaid, and will provide an opportunity to echo their pledge that the US will fight all forms of terroris [...]
2005-01-26 15:39:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP PREL MARR TU
05ANKARA427TURKISH MFA ON CYPRUS
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA Northeastern Mediterranean Affairs acting DDG Bilman is confident Turkey will sign the Ankara Agreement extension protocol this summer, but in the face of domestic criticism about the lack of measures to help Turkish Cypriots, the MFA is not inclined to propose unila [...]
2005-01-26 16:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU CY
05ANKARA4278ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-25 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4288TURKEY'S ELECTRICITY EXPORTS TO IRAQ - REGULATORY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S., Turkish, and Iraqi Governments share the goal of increasing exports from Turkey to Iraq. Turkey's Kartet Company currently exports 200 MW and seeks to increase in two steps: 1) to 350 MW, generally using existing capacity, and 2) to 1200 MW, asserting that it has the s [...]
2005-07-26 13:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ETRD IZ TU
05ANKARA4290ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-26 14:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4296TURKEY-EU: STEP BY STEP TOWARD TURKISH SIGNING OF
[...] (C) Summary: The UK Embassy hopes UK lobbying will have steered the Turkish government to sign the additional protocol to the Ankara Agreement shortly after the July 27 Blair-Erdogan meeting in London. At the same time, the UK has been pressing Turkish authorities to issue Turkey's expected r [...]
2005-07-26 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU CY EUN EU
05ANKARA4364CHARGE DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH SENIOR MFA OFFICIALS,
[...] (C) Summary: GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Koruturk told Charge July 25 that Turkey hopes the Sunni Arabs will return soon to constitutional negotiations. He rebutted Kurdish criticism of Turkish outreach efforts, expressed concern that the Kurds may be agitating for Turkish troops to leave nort [...]
2005-07-27 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MOPS TU IZ SY
05ANKARA4405ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-29 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4409TURKEY'S SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL
[...] Summary: The Supreme Military Council (Yuksek Askeri Surasi - YAS) will meet August 1-4 and decide general and flag officer promotions. We provide a description of the YAS and the military promotion and assignment system as background in advance of the announcement of senior promotions and as [...]
2005-08-01 04:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PINR TU
05ANKARA4425 TRACKER 23827 - REPORT ON U.S. SPEAKER DANIEL
[...] DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY: U.S. Speaker Daniel Jacobs visited Turkey July 18-22, 2005, for a four-day speaker program that brought him into contact with government, business, NGO, and academic audiences for presentations and discussions of U.S. Environmental Policy with special emphasis on [...]
2005-08-01 11:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OIIP SCUL TU
05ANKARA4443ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-01 15:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4484ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-02 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4486TURKEY-EU: AKP GOVERNMENT SIGNS ADDITIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: By its July 29 signing of an additional protocol extending the 1963 EEC-Turkey Ankara Agreement to the EU's 10 newest members, Turkey appeared to have fulfilled the remaining pre-condition for an Oct. 3 start to accession negotiations. However, the ability of the UK as EU Preside [...]
2005-08-02 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU CY EUN EU
05ANKARA4490ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-02 15:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4494FOREIGN PORTFOLIO INVESTORS FIGHT WITHHOLDING TAX
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-03 08:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV BEXP TU
05ANKARA4513ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-03 13:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4555ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-04 13:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4556DAS BRYZA PRESSES TURKISH MFA FOR CLOSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a series of introductory meetings and a lunch with Turkish MFA officials on August 1, EUR DAS Matt Bryza welcomed the recent positive turn in bilateral relations and pressed for a structured approach to rebuilding US-Turkey partnership through agreement on a shared strategic [...]
2005-08-04 13:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR PINS TU IZ AF CY
05ANKARA4563TURKEY'S SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL MEETING PRODUCES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) announced on August 4 the decisions made by the Supreme Military Council (Yuksek Askeri Surasi - YAS) at its August 1-4 meeting, during which the promotion, retirement and re-assignment of Turkey's senior military officers, as well as the dismissal [...]
2005-08-05 04:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PINR TU
05ANKARA46Turkey Biotech Regulations On Hold
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. TURKEY HAS DRAFTED BIOTECHNOLOGY REGULATIONS THAT IF ADOPTED IN THEIR CURRENT FORM, WOULD RESTRICT AGRICULTURAL TRADE. THE DRAFT WAS RECENTLY FINALIZED AND CIRCULATED TO RELEVANT INDUSTRIES. INDUSTRY SOURCES INDICATE THAT THE DRAFT REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN PUT ON HOLD AFTER A [...]
2005-01-04 15:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR KPAO TU
05ANKARA4607ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-05 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4609TURKEY AND IRAQ DEADLOCKED ON SECOND BORDER
[...] (C) Summary: With reports of increasingly tight fuel supplies in Iraq, the Charge called the MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs and wrote to the GOT to urge SIPDIS whatever action can be taken by Turkish customs to maximize throughput at Habur Gate. Separately, an MFA official [...]
2005-08-05 17:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECIN EPET ETRD PREL IZ TU
05ANKARA4619RESIGNATION OF TURKEY'S SECGEN FOR EU AFFAIRS
[...] (C) Summary: The resignation of Turkey's Secretary General for EU Affairs, a senior career diplomat highly regarded by his EU interlocutors, reflects a drift in ruling AKP's EU policies. The resignation also foreshadows a fundamental political struggle between the secular State and Islamist-o [...]
2005-08-08 10:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU EUN
05ANKARA4636ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-09 05:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4658TURKISH PM ON CYPRUS AND U.S. ACTION AGAINST PKK
[...] (S) Summary: In an August 8 introductory call on Prime Minister Erdogan, Charge reviewed the goals Turkey and the U.S. share regarding a comprehensive Cyprus settlement and Turkey's EU accession bid. Erdogan expressed frustration with the lack of concrete U.S. actions against the PKK in nort [...]
2005-08-09 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PTER TU PKK
05ANKARA4661TURKEY WILLING TO TRANSFER F-16S TO PAKISTAN, FOR
[...] (C) This is an action request. MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia Aydin Evirgen informed us on Aug. 9 that the Turkish General Staff (TGS) is willing to provide to Pakistan some F-16 Block 30s that will not be included in Turkey's F-16 modernization program. He added, however, that T [...]
2005-08-10 04:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS TU PK
05ANKARA47TURKEY AND IRAQ DISCUSS STEPS TO IMPROVE TRUCKER
[...] (C) Summary: Iraqi and Turkish delegations met in Ankara December 29-30 to discuss implementation of agreements reached at the November 30 trilateral (U.S.-Iraq-Turkey) trucker security meeting. The Iraqis proposed a more eastern route for Turkish truckers driving from Zakho to Baghdad and [...]
2005-01-05 05:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEPET ETRD IZ PREL TU
05ANKARA4732TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, JULY 2005
[...] Throughout the month, government and military officials publicly accused each other, Turkey's neighbors, the EU and the US of inaction to respond to the PKK terrorist threat. However, they were unified in emphasizing that Turkey reserved the right to pursue the PKK into Iraq if necessary. Turk [...]
2005-08-11 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA4733ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 15:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4734ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 15:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4735ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 16:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4742SCENESETTER FOR THE SEPT. 2-3 VISIT OF SENATOR TED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when our bilateral relations are on the mend from a difficult period when events in Iraq and Turkey's focus on getting a date from the EU to start accession negotiations overshadowed our traditionally close cooperation. With a growing economy, a sched [...]
2005-08-12 10:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OREP TU
05ANKARA4765TURKISH VIEWS ON RENEWAL OF ISAF'S UN MANDATE AND
[...] (C) Polmilcouns raised ISAF's UN mandate with MFA Deputy Director General for NATO Affairs Fatih Ceylan on August 11 as instructed ref A. Ceylan said that some offices within MFA had been discussing the use of force, mandates and international legitimacy recently. His office has argued that [...]
2005-08-12 13:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL AF TU IZ NATO UNSC
05ANKARA4781ISAF: TURKEY AND FRANCE TO HOLD MIL-MIL TALKS ON
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia Aydin Evirgen told PolMilCouns and Deputy PolMilCouns on Aug. 9 that a French military team would arrive in Ankara within days to hold talks with the Turkish General Staff (TGS) on the modalities of the proposed shared command of ISAF Central Regi [...]
2005-08-15 12:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL TU AF FR NATO
05ANKARA4785TURKS OF TWO MINDS ABOUT TRILATERAL MEETING ON THE
[...] (SBU) The Turkish media provided generally low-key, negative initial coverage of US-Turkey-Iraq meeting on the PKK/KGK that took place in Washington August 6 (ref a). Most papers reported that the USG and the ITG had rejected Turkey's demand for immediate action against the terrorist group's [...]
2005-08-15 14:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA4789CDA ASSURES TURKISH MFA OF U.S. SUPPORT IN THE EU,
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy U/S Apakan called in CDA August 15 to urge that the U.S approach new EU members in support of Turkey's candidacy. CDA informed Apakan the process is underway (reftel),and urged that Turkey act quickly to demonstrate to the EU that it is ready for October 3. End Sum [...]
2005-08-15 15:05:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU EU
05ANKARA4790ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-15 15:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4791ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-15 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4794TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, July 31-
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Vatan on Sunday, July 31: [...]
2005-08-16 08:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA4795JUSTICE MINISTER CICEK VOWS COOPERATION ON TERROR
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 3. 2. (C) During an August 10 meeting with Charge, Turkish Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek stressed the desire of the GOT to cooperate with the U.S. on counterterrorism issues, including counterterrorism financing. The Minister expects the Turki [...]
2005-08-16 08:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL PTER TU PKK
05ANKARA482TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP REQUIRES ADEQUATE
[...] (C) Summary. European Commission social policy sector manager in Ankara Zeynep Aydemir told us EU membership will require Turkey to guarantee full rights for trade unions and to establish a clear legal definition regarding the burden of proof in legal disputes. Aydemir attaches major signific [...]
2005-01-28 10:49:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI TU
05ANKARA4827ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-17 05:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4840ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-17 15:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4842TURKISH PM'S KURDISH INITIATIVE: SEARCHING FOR
[...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan is portraying his public extension of a hand to Turkey's Kurds as the democratic alternative to resolving what he calls "the Kurdish problem". However, the ad hoc, undefined nature of his approach and rhetoric have left him vulnerable to charges that he has no real pl [...]
2005-08-17 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM TU
05ANKARA4861ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-18 15:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4862SIGNIFICANT CHANGES AT TGS PROVIDE A WINDOW OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Further to reftels report on Turkish military promotions that were decided at the August 1-4 meeting of the Supreme Military Council (Yuksek Askeri Surasi - YAS),post has learned of numerous assignment changes for key military interlocutors (Note: as well as additional information [...]
2005-08-19 04:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PINR TU
05ANKARA4880TURKEY WORKING TO EXPEDITE FUEL EXPORT TO IRAQ,
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT seems to be doing its best to maximize truck traffic at Habur Gate, but shipping flow through the gate will remain an on-going problem for a variety of reasons, particularly because the single gate will remain a bottleneck and because civilian and military needs in Iraq a [...]
2005-08-19 13:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECIN EPET ETRD PREL IZ TU
05ANKARA4881TURKISH CLASSICAL LIBERALS CRITICIZE AUTHORITARIAN
[...] (C) POLOFFS met with Dr. Atilla Yayla, professor of political theory and political economy at Gazi University and the president of the Association for Liberal Thinking (LDT). Yayla is a genuine classical liberal, i.e. an advocate of religious freedom, freedom of thought, market economics, prop [...]
2005-08-19 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA4882ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-19 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA489ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-28 12:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4905ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-22 15:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4906TURKISH MFA ON PKK TRILATERAL FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 8. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, PolMilCouns and Deputy PolMilCouns on Aug. 19 presented to MFA Deputy Director General (DDG) for Security Affairs Bicakli the Framework for Action resulting from the recent PKK Trilateral Talks. Bicakli conf [...]
2005-08-22 15:59:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MOPS TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA4946TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION IN SEVENTH ANNUAL
[...] Post received a diplomatic note in reply to the invitation by the Nonproliferation Bureau to attend the Seventh Annual International Export Control Conference. This note states that the GOT will send two representatives to participate in the Conference in Stockholm, Sweden from September 20-2 [...]
2005-08-24 10:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KSTC PARM PREL TU
05ANKARA4955ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] Roj TV: Broadcasts in Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish from Brussels and follows the PKK line. It broadcasts for 12 hours starting at 1000 GMT. Roj TV, known as `PKK television,' airs news, political discussions, music, and children's programs. 2. Mesopotamia TV (Me-TV): Close to the PKK ca [...]
2005-08-24 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4965ACTION REQUEST: TURKEY CONCERNED THAT NEW
[...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 7. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey believes the language on Kirkuk in the Iraqi draft constitution will remove safeguards currently in place in the TAL and give the Iraqi Kurds a "green light" to press forward with making the province part of the KRA. [...]
2005-08-24 16:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ
05ANKARA497U.S. VISITS HELPS TURKISH FEMA REFORM TURKEY'S
[...] Summary: Turkey's Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) received the political endorsement of Deputy Prime Minister Sahin and key ministers to broaden its authority to coordinate Turkey's emergency management system. TEMA Director General Hassan Ipek said his December visit to the U.S. with Sa [...]
2005-01-28 16:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PREL SENV TU
05ANKARA499TURKS SEEK PROCEDURE FOR EMERGENCY HELO FLIGHTS
[...] (S) Summary: TGS has requested permission to fly Turkish military helicopters into northern Iraq in case of an emergency and also for rotating personnel in and out of the area. We understand such permission would require the overall permission of the IIG, though MNF-I would implement the nece [...]
2005-01-28 16:46:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR MOPS PREL TU IZ
05ANKARA500CHARGE URGES TURKS TO PRODUCE POSITIVE STATEMENT
[...] (C) MFA Director General for the Middle East Oguz Celikkol called in Charge Jan. 28 to discuss the upcoming elections in Iraq. Celikkol provided us with MFA's Jan. 28 statement on the elections (see para. 3). Celikkol covered familiar Turkish ground: the election process in Kirkuk as well as [...]
2005-01-28 16:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ
05ANKARA5035ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-26 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA504TURKEY PLANS TO PROVIDE STAFF AND MATERIALS FOR
[...] (C) TGS/J3 LTG Yalcin told DCM and PolMilCouns on Jan. 26 that Turkey was planning to offer significant training and support for the Afghan War College. PolMilOff followed up Jan. 27 with Aydin Evirgen, MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia. Evirgen said that the plan--which still requir [...]
2005-01-29 17:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL EAID TU AF
05ANKARA5061ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-29 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5065FUEL FLOWING AGAIN TO IRAQ
[...] (C) Summary. Fuel shipments through Turkey to U.S. military and SOMO depots appear to have resumed following the partial clearing of SOMO payment arrears owed to Turkish suppliers and the establishment of a new Turkish system for monitoring deliveries in order to reduce smuggling. At the s [...]
2005-08-29 15:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALETRD ECIN PREL IZ TU
05ANKARA5107TURKEY: UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] Turkey has made a commitment to eliminate child labor as it pursues its EU membership bid. The GOT's short-term goal is to limit and improve the conditions under which children work. The GOT's long-term goal is to increase access to basic and vocational education as a means of improving the [...]
2005-09-01 12:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
05ANKARA5109GOT WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY FOLLOWING THROUGH ON
[...] (C) Summary: Political observers widely credit PM Erdogan with breaking new rhetorical ground on the Kurdish issue in the context of his recent visit to Diyarbakir. But contacts say they doubt the GOT is prepared to follow through on the initiative. Members of the (PKK-related) Democratic Peo [...]
2005-09-01 13:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA5122TRADE MINISTER TUZMEN WASHINGTON MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary. Turkish State Minister Tuzmen does not appear to have a specific agenda for his September 8-9 meetings at USTR, Commerce and DHS. In addition to our agriculture and IPR issues, it would be helpful to remind the tin-eared Minister of the importance of communication and dialogue [...]
2005-09-02 08:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALETRD EAGR EINV BEXP TU
05ANKARA5133ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-02 08:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5140TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, AUGUST 16- 31, 2005
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Tempo Magazine in its August 1 [...]
2005-09-02 13:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA5157ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-02 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5165TURKS CONCERNED ABOUT TALAFAR
[...] (C) The GOT Deputy Special Envoy for Iraq, Ethem Tokdemir, briefed PolMilCouns Sept. 1 on Turkish concerns and actions regarding Talafar. He reported that a delegation of 17 tribal Turkmen leaders from Talafar (nine Shia, six Sunni, two unknown--full list in para. 5) traveled to Ankara and met [...]
2005-09-02 16:06:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ
05ANKARA5166ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UN: TURKEY HAS INVITATION
[...] (C) A/DCM and PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Oguz Celikkol on September 2. Celikkol, who was already aware of the points based on USUN's demarche to the Turkish Mission to the UN, acknowledged that PM Erdogan had, indeed, received an invitation [...]
2005-09-03 03:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SY TU UNGA SYRIA
05ANKARA5190RULING AKP'S GRASSROOTS DIFFICULTIES IN ANKARA'S
[...] (C) Summary. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) faces challenges in trying to maintain momentum in meeting its extremely ambitious goals for grassroots party building. AKP is running into difficulty filling party slots with clean, competent people; corrupt politicians, businessme [...]
2005-09-07 11:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA5196ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-07 14:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5209TURKS AND TALAFAR: CONTINUING CONCERN, MOUNTING
[...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 4. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT continues to express deep concern about the situation in Talafar, a predominantly Turkmen city in northwest Ninewah province. MFA officials have peppered us with questions about the latest situation there and have [...]
2005-09-07 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS EAID TU IZ
05ANKARA5210TFUS01: TURKS RESPOND WITH COMPASSION AND
[...] Summary: The GOT and Turkish citizens responded generously and compassionately in the aftermath of Katrina, both by publicly expressing condolences and by offering assistance to the affected region. Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan rebutted some of the commentary in the Islamist-oriented press by [...]
2005-09-07 16:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PREL TU
05ANKARA5220 TURKEY NUCLEAR QUEST AND U.S. TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Turkish officials prefer U.S. technology to implement its decision to develop a civilian nuclear power capability, Westinghouse and GE reps, both with previous bad experiences in Turkey, are skeptical about Turkey's will, capacity, and commitment to a transparent, non-pol [...]
2005-09-08 08:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV BEXP TU
05ANKARA5221TALAFAR SITUATION: TURKS ALLEGE IRANIAN (AND
[...] (C) Summary: A senior Turkish MFA official speculated that Iran and/or the Iraqi Kurds may be "playing a game" in Talafar in order to eventually control the city, using CF ops to their own ends. We continue to try to feed as much factual information on Talafar as possible to the Turks in orde [...]
2005-09-08 08:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS EAID TU IZ
05ANKARA5222NEW DCHOD WANTS US TO TAKE ONE STEP TO DEMONSTRATE
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish General Staff (TGS) Deputy Chief GEN Isik Kosaner told the Charge on Sept. 7 that he wanted to further improve US-Turkey mil-mil relations during his tenure. He pointed to the expected Sept. 8-9 visit of EUCOM CDR and CENTCOM D/CDR as a positive contribution to a relatio [...]
2005-09-08 09:45:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PINR TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA5223DAS BRYZA'S AUGUST 25-26 VISIT TO TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary: DAS Bryza attended a series of positive meetings with Turkish officials to promote a renewed strategic partnership between the US and Turkey. While noting that the U.S.-Turkish relationship is broad and multidimensional, Turkish interlocutors repeatedly stressed the importance of [...]
2005-09-08 10:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALTU PGOV PINS PREL
05ANKARA5244ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-08 15:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5248NEW TGS J-5 STRATEGY DIVISION CHIEF READY TO ENGAGE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a Sept. 8 introductory call by PolMilCouns and Deputy PolMilCouns, new TGS J-5 Strategy Division Chief MG Savas confirmed TGS interest in holding Caucasus Working Group and HLDG meetings this fall. Savas listed his [...]
2005-09-08 16:32:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL PARM PINR TU
05ANKARA5270KING ABDULLAH VISITS TURKEY, SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT
[...] (C) Jordan's King Abdullah visited Ankara September 5 at his initiative and met briefly with Turkish President Sezer, PM Erdogan and FonMin Gul. Focusing on Iraq, Abdullah reportedly expressed two major concerns: first, that Iraq's Sunnis are becoming alienated from the constitutional proce [...]
2005-09-09 12:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL IS IR IZ TU
05ANKARA5277EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (AUGUST 2005)
[...] Summary: EXBS Advisor continued to monitor the NP projects that are underway in Turkey, including Internal Control Program (ICP),Commodity Identification Training (CIT),Product Identification Tool (PIT) and Second Line of Defense (SLD). Work continued to progress despite being in the m [...]
2005-09-09 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC IZ KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA5282ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-09 15:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA53059/11 EVENTS IN ANKARA, ISTANBUL GENERATE POSITIVE
[...] Commemorations organized by Embassy Ankara and Congen Istanbul to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks generated unusually widespread and positive coverage in the Turkish media today. Embassy Ankara organized a ceremony and wreath-laying at a monument to Turkish martyrs in the nearby muni [...]
2005-09-12 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PTER TU
05ANKARA5306TURKS ALLEGE COALITION F-16S VIOLATED TURKISH
[...] (C) Turkish General Staff informed ODC Turkey Sept. 9 that it had data indicating that on the same day two F-16 aircraft "assumed having taken off from Iraq" violated Turkish airspace 20 km southeast of Sirnak. TGS's note claimed that the aircraft entered Turkish airspace at 1155 local time at [...]
2005-09-12 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL TU IZ
05ANKARA5308ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-12 15:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5333TURKEY WELCOMES U.S. ASSISTANCE FOR
[...] Summary. Faced with massive financial and implementation challenges in meeting EU environmental standards, Turkey is interested in working with the U.S. Government and private sector in key environmental areas such as medical waste, municipal solid waste, air quality monitoring, wastewater t [...]
2005-09-14 06:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO BEXP TU EU
05ANKARA5342TURKS PUT ON POOR SHOW AT ISTANBUL TIP CONFERENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a prime opportunity to provide valuable input in the August 25-27 TIP conference, the Turkish MFA, academia, and gendarmerie representatives dropped the ball. From not understanding the difference between smuggling and trafficking, to shamelessly touting Turkey's libera [...]
2005-09-14 11:32:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU
05ANKARA5346EUCOM/CENTCOM OFFER TURKS HELP WITH PKK; ASK FOR
[...] (S/rel UK and AUS) Summary: At talks with EUCOM Commander Gen James Jones and CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt.Gen. Lance Smith on Sept. 8-9, TGS Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok indicated that Turkish cross border operations targeting the PKK in northern Iraq were not imminent, but that Turkish patience was [...]
2005-09-14 13:38:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER MARR PREL TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA5350TURKEY'S NSC SECGEN LOOKING FOR WASHINGTON
[...] (U) During an August 26 meeting with EUR DAS Bryza, Turkish National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan raised the possibility of a visit to Washington this fall to meet his NSC counterparts. Alpogan first mentioned his interest in such a visit during the Charge's initial [...]
2005-09-14 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA5352TURKEY'S REFINERY PRIVATIZATION: ANOTHER CROWN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's Privatization Authority seems to have taken another important step forward, with a Koc Holding - Shell consortium committing to pay a higher-than- expected $4.14 billion for a 51 percent stake in TUPRAS, Turkey's state-owned monopoly refiner. Given past court rulings a [...]
2005-09-14 14:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EINV KTDB TU
05ANKARA5353TURKEY OFFERS REVISIONS TO PKK "FRAMEWORK FOR
[...] (C) MFA Director General for Security Affairs Amb. Hayati Guven called in PolMilCouns Sept. 9 to hand over Turkey's proposed revisions to the PKK "Framework for Action" document (reftel) as part of the trilateral U.S.-Turkey-Iraq process on the PKK. Guven noted that MFA Deputy Under Secretary [...]
2005-09-14 14:46:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA5354ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-14 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5357TURKEY GENERALLY UNHAPPY WITH DRAFT IRAQI
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT is generally unhappy with the draft Iraqi constitution; chief concerns are Sunni Arab participation, Kirkuk, and official recognition of the Kurdistan region. The Turks see all of these issues as tending to pull the country apart, which would be seen as an existential thr [...]
2005-09-14 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU IZ
05ANKARA5393CONTACTS FORESEE CONTINUED CONFLICT IN SOUTHEAST
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-15 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINS TU
05ANKARA5396ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-15 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5420TURKEY APPARENTLY NOT YET DECIDED ON CANCELING
[...] (C) Summary: The Turkish MFA and TGS will discuss the cancellation of military exercises on Sept. 19. MFA is inclined to cancel (if Greece does); the TGS J5 Greece/Cyprus Branch Chief told us he will recommend the decision be linked to whether EU accession negotiations commence Oct. 3. We be [...]
2005-09-16 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL CY GR TU
05ANKARA5421ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-16 15:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5444ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-20 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5448US OFFICIALS COOPERATION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: In an important gesture of our preparedness to work together with Turkey to shut down the PKK's European support network, Washington analysts presented a list of PKK financiers to an interagency group of Turkish officials. In subsequent meetings, the Charge urged Finance Minister [...]
2005-09-20 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PREL TU PKK
05ANKARA5451ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-20 15:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5452TURKISH RED CRESCENT DELIVERS HUMANITARIAN AID TO
[...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 8. 2. (C) Summary: Press coverage of the Turkish Red Crescent's delivery of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons' camps near Talafar has included accusations by Red Crescent that U.S. forces intimidated Turkish aid workers and attempte [...]
2005-09-20 16:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS EAID TU IZ
05ANKARA5483ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-21 15:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5502BABACAN SCENESETTER: TURKISH ECONOMY AT A WATERSHED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister Babacan comes to Washington at what may be a watershed moment for the Turkish economy. If Turkey officially becomes an EU accession country October 3, and recent privatization and FDI deals are consummated, Turkey will have taken another important step away from its bo [...]
2005-09-22 14:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV BEXP TU
05ANKARA5504TURKEY FINE WITH F-16 REQUEST WITHDRAWAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-22 14:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS PK TU
05ANKARA5506 US MISSION TURKEY: RESPONSIBILITY AND
[...] THE U.S. MISSION IN TURKEY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST IN EUROPE. WITH OVER 1200 EMPLOYEES LOCATED IN FOUR SEPARATE CITIES (ANKARA, ISTANBUL, ADANA, AND IZMIR),THE MISSION IS COMPRISED OF OVER 20 AGENCIES ENGAGED ACROSS THE FULL RANGE OF USG POLICY PRIORITIES. TURKEY IS A COUNTRY OF GREAT STRATEG [...]
2005-09-22 15:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDAPER AMGT
05ANKARA5507ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-23 04:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5536 TURKEY AND TURK TELEKOM: EMBASSY ASSISTS AT&T
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy helped AT&T obtain GOT regulatory approval for its merger with SBC and with researching timely resolution of problems with downed leased lines in Turkey. The Turk Telekom privatization has been delayed due to some legal attacks launched by labor unions, but all parties ar [...]
2005-09-23 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV BEXP TU
05ANKARA5539G-8 BMENA: TURKISH PARTICIPATION IN OCTOBER 1-3
[...] MFA Policy Planning Directorate Department Head Levent Gumrukcu told Poloff September 21 that MFA Director General for Policy Planning Ambassador Mehmet Akat would lead the Turkish delegation to Rabat. MFA Coordinator for BMENA Omur Orhun has a meeting in Cairo at that time and will not be a [...]
2005-09-23 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KPAO PREL KMPI TU BMENA
05ANKARA5540ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-24 01:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA561SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO ANKARA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: You arrive in Turkey as we begin to recalibrate bilateral relations emphasizing renewed dialogue on areas of mutual concern to maximize achievable cooperation. We are working with a different democratizing Turkey as elites rotate and under the impact of widespread, and disaffect [...]
2005-02-01 11:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON TU IZ
05ANKARA5627TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, August 2005
[...] (SBU) Discussion of a new National Security Policy document (outlining the government's priorities with regard to threats to Turkey's internal and external security),which was postponed to August from the June NSC meeting, was not discussed in the NSC bi-monthly meeting of August 23. No offic [...]
2005-09-27 11:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA5634TURKISH MEDIA COVERAGE - VISIT OF APNSA HADLEY
[...] Turkish media coverage of APNSA Hadley's September 23-25 visit to Ankara has generally been straightforward, accurate, and positive. Not surprisingly, most papers focused on Hadley's public remarks on the the need for the United States to do more to address Turkey's concerns about PKK terrori [...]
2005-09-27 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5635TURKEY: INTERAGENCY TERRORISM FINANCE MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In follow-up to Treasury U/S Levey's June visit and the subsequent exchange of letters regarding Turkey's counter-terror finance (CTF) regime, Embassy met with an interagency GOT group on September 15. The focus was on pending legislative changes that GOT officials assert wi [...]
2005-09-27 14:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER TU
05ANKARA5636ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-27 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA566TURKEY ENERGY: BTC, GAS, AND LIBERALIZATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the Energy UnderSecretary, Turkey continues to make progress on liberalizing its electricity and gas sectors, but there are still details to be filled in on the underlying legislation and action plan for privatization. He said Russia is welcome to compete for priv [...]
2005-02-01 12:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET TU
05ANKARA5721BOTH GOT AND MARKET PLAYERS SAY THEY'RE READY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-29 15:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL TU
05ANKARA5727ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-29 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA577ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-01 15:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5841APNSA HADLEY'S MEETING WITH NSC SECRETARY GENERAL
[...] SUMMARY: In a one-hour meeting with APSNA Hadley on September 23, National Security Council Secretary General Yigit Alpogan spoke of the importance of opening new channels of dialogue to enhance the U.S.-Turkish relationship. The GOT appreciates U.S. support with the accession process, but w [...]
2005-09-30 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MNUC TU US EU IR IZ SY IS PA
05ANKARA5845APNSA HADLEY'S MEETING WITH TURKISH CHOD OZKOK
[...] (C) Summary: Despite our occasional differences over Iraq, Turkey remains America's strategic partner, asserted Turkish CHOD GEN Ozkok to APNSA Hadley. Ozkok reviewed Turkish views of the Black Sea, Caucasus, and Central Asia. He outlined the "nuclear chain" stretching from North Korea, Indi [...]
2005-09-30 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PTER KPKO TU IZ AF RS NATO
05ANKARA589TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROTECTION
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 4 of 4 (septel). Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------------ A. (U) The GOT issued 26 humanitarian visas to allow victims [...]
2005-02-02 11:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA590TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PREVENTION
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 3 of 4 (septel). Prevention ---------- A. (SBU) Turkish MFA Illegal Migration Department Head Iskender Okyay stated that the two hundred sixty-two TIP [...]
2005-02-02 11:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA591TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 1 of 4 (septel). Embassy point of contact is Maria Lane, who replaces David McFarland following the submission of this report. McFarland (rank: FS-04) spent [...]
2005-02-02 11:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA592TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROSECUTION
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 2 of 4 (septel). Investigation and Prosecution of Traffickers -------------------------------------------- A. (U) Chapter 1, Article 80 of the Turkish [...]
2005-02-02 11:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA5943TURKEY - INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-03 12:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI TU WHO
05ANKARA5947SUBJECT: TURKISH MEDIA COVERAGE - VISIT OF UNDER
[...] Turkish media coverage of Under Secretary Hughes' September 27-29 visit to Ankara and Istanbul was generally fair and factual. Coming on the eve of Turkey's historic start of EU accession talks, scheduled for October 3, coverage was less comprehensive than it might otherwise have been. The v [...]
2005-10-03 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5951HOW TO TALK TO TURKS: THREE PROTOTYPICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Our Turkish interlocutors can roughly be divided into three groups: elites; players; and "real Turks". USG officials generally find themselves speaking with elites (western-oriented decision makers or aspiring decision makers),who appear to share their views in order to be polit [...]
2005-10-04 06:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPA PGOV PINS PREL TU KISL
05ANKARA5978TURKEY, THE MORNING AFTER
[...] (C) Summary: The morning after Turkish FM Gul made his late-evening, oft-postponed flight to Luxembourg to officially open Turkey's EU accession negotiations, Turkish officials and media alike are hailing the step as an historic accomplishment. Last minute changes to the negotiating framewo [...]
2005-10-04 12:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU TU
05ANKARA5984ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-04 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6033TURKEY TO CONSIDER DRAFT AGREEMENT ON REMOTE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-06 11:25:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETETTC MARR PARM PINR PREL MASS TU
05ANKARA606TURKEY IMF AGREEMENT IN TROUBLE OVER INVESTMENT LAW
[...] (C) Summary. According to the local IMF representative, a Turkish government decision to move ahead with a regional investment incentives law is imperiling the Fund's December agreement on the terms of a new three-year stand-by program. Minister Babacan was apparently powerless to prevent Co [...]
2005-02-02 15:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN TU
05ANKARA6062ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-06 14:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6065MILITARY PENSION FUND WINS STEEL PRIVATIZATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, the Turkish Privatization Authority held a tender auction for another "Crown Jewel," the state-owned steel company, Erdemir (Eregli Iron and Steel Industries of Turkey). The OYAK group, the military pension fund with diversified industrial holdings, won the auction [...]
2005-10-06 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPRV EFIN ECON BEXP EIND EINV TU
05ANKARA607USDP FEITH'S DISCUSSION WITH DCHOD BASBUG
[...] (C) On January 31 in Ankara, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith met with Turkish Deputy Chief of Defense General Ilker Basbug. 2. (C) The Bilateral Relationship - Basbug described TU-US relations as "long-lasting" and "comprehensive" and added "It's not wise to tie our rela [...]
2005-02-02 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR IZ AF TU
05ANKARA6077 TURKEY'S DISASTER MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE: HAS IT
[...] (SBU) Summary: After the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake that occurred in Turkey, the World Bank required the 2000 establishment of a Turkish Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts. In addition, the GOT investigated charges of fraud and abuse of office in th [...]
2005-10-07 09:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID TU
05ANKARA608ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-02 15:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6096IRAQ/KURDS: VISIT OF IRAQI PLANNING MINISTER
[...] (C/Rel MCF-I) During a late September visit to Turkey, Iraqi Planning Minister Barham Salih proposed opening a second Turkey-Iraq border crossing about five kilometers west of the Habur Gate. According to the MFA, he noted with concern increasing Iranian influence in Iraq and was critical of [...]
2005-10-07 13:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL PTER IZ TU
05ANKARA6099(S) IRAQ: TURKEY ENCOURAGES SUNNI PARTICIPATION,
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) MFA Director General for the Middle East and South Asia Oguz Celikkol briefed us October 7 on recent GOT contacts with Iraqi Sunni representatives as well as two envoys from Muqtada al-Sadr. Celikkol said the GOT u [...]
2005-10-07 13:47:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL IZ TU
05ANKARA6106COMBATING EXTREMISM
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey has a reputation for being a moderate, secular, and democratic country with a Muslim population. The reality of Islam in Turkey, however, is more complicated. The State actively represses unofficial expressions of Islam. Violent Turkish Islamic extremism does exist. Mi [...]
2005-10-11 06:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA611USDP FEITH'S FEB. 1 MEETING WITH TURKISH NSC
[...] (U) During their Feb. 1 meeting in Ankara, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith and Turkish National Security Council Secretary-General Amb. Yigit Alpogan discussed the following issues: 2. (C) Iraq: Alpogan analyzed the elections: --"More or less successful." --60% turnou [...]
2005-02-02 17:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL PTER TU IZ AF
05ANKARA6183ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-13 04:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6190GOT SEES TIFA AS OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE IMPROVED
[...] (U) During an October 11 meeting with visiting State EUR/SE Director Doug Silliman, Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) Director General of Agreements Tevfik Mengu said that the upcoming November 30 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting provides an opportunity for Tu [...]
2005-10-13 06:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV TU
05ANKARA6191EXBS: PROBLEMS WITH BORDER SECURITY IN TURKEY
[...] (U) Summary: Turkish MFA has requested a hold on travel to border areas under the EXBS program until the Turkish Parliament ratifies the recently signed Nonproliferation Cooperation Agreement. Following ratification, expected by the end of October, full implementation of the EXBS program, in [...]
2005-10-13 07:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KSTC LG PARM PREL TU
05ANKARA6230UKRAINE MUNITIONS: TURKEY WILL URGE UKRAINE TO
[...] (SBU) On Oct. 3, PolMilOff called on MFA Head of Department for NATO Political Affairs Atilla Gunay to deliver ref a demarche. Gunay responded that Turkey will indeed urge the Ukrainian government to finalize the NATO-PfP Trust Fund implementing agreement with the NATO Maintenance and Supply [...]
2005-10-13 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MASS UP TU NATO
05ANKARA6233TURKISH MFA ON COOPERATION AGAINST PKK
[...] (S) Summary: In a meeting with visiting EUR/SE Director Doug Silliman, Turkish MFA Director General for Security Affairs Hayati Guven provided a list of seven PKK names that the GOT recommends we jointly target in Western Europe, all of which are the subject of Interpol red notices. Three of [...]
2005-10-13 15:06:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER KTFN PREL PREF IZ PKK
05ANKARA6245SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY ACTIVIST ON PKK AND GOT'S
[...] (U) This message is from Consulate Adana. 2. (C) Summary: Diyarbakir Human Rights Association President Selahattin Demirtas reflects the views of many Consulate regional contacts regarding recent increased PKK activities in the Southeast. He believes that both the PKK and the military a [...]
2005-10-14 11:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV TU PHUM
05ANKARA6246OCTOBER 7 LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM TURKISH
[...] Embassy Ankara received a diplomatic note dated October 7 from the MFA requesting that we forward to the Secretary the text of a letter from Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Abdullah Gul. According to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turkish Embassy in Wa [...]
2005-10-14 11:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TU
05ANKARA6248U/S JOSEPH DISCUSSES NONPROLIFERATION IN TURKEY,
[...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary Joseph urged Turkey to take a resolute stand on Iran's nuclear weapons program during his September 29-30 visit to Ankara. Finance Minister Unakitan pledged to work with the United States to address proliferation financing and requested additional information on c [...]
2005-10-14 12:00:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU
05ANKARA6255TURKEY AND TALAFAR: A GOOD NEWS STORY, MOSTLY
[...] (C/REL GBR, AUS) Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues in Iraq, Embassy Ankara was able to work effectively to blunt negative public and policymaker opinion regarding the operations in Talafar last month. Turks are particularly sensitive about Talafar, a predominantly Turkmen city in northw [...]
2005-10-14 13:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS TU IZ
05ANKARA6293ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-17 15:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6294 TURKEY AND BTC: PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE EAST
[...] (SBU) Summary. As oil creeps through BTC toward the Turkish border, Turkish officials privately expect that a "first oil" ceremony will not be held in Ceyhan until March 2006. Meanwhile, a UK official looking at allegations of human rights abuses by BTC in Turkish villages, was generally [...]
2005-10-17 15:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PHUM EINV TU GG BTC
05ANKARA63DEPUTY SECRETARY'S JAN. 3 MEETING WITH SPEAKER OF
[...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Secretary emphasized the importance of strong U.S.-Turkish consultations on a wide range of issues. In response to Speaker Arinc's emotional criticism of "100,000 deaths" in Iraq and the Fallujah operation, the Deputy Secretary pointed to the misuse of mosques by insur [...]
2005-01-05 16:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA6302AFYON: PROSPERITY AND INEQUALITY IN AN ANATOLIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Afyon, a clean and prosperous town located three hours southwest of Ankara, is better off than many Turkish cities, yet visiting PolOffs heard complaints about the economy. We met with a variety of citizens in Afyon, including businessmen, farmers, academics and government off [...]
2005-10-18 08:20:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA6308 TURKS PRESENT CSI DRAFT AGREEMENT
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On October 12, GOT MFA Maritime Director Basat Ozturk presented emboffs with a GOT draft of an agreement that would implement the Container Security Initiative (CSI). Ozturk focused on the import [...]
2005-10-18 13:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT PTER ETRD PREL ETTC KTIA PBTS TU
05ANKARA6311URGENT DEMARCHE ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-18 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL SCUL TU BHUM ETRC UNESCO
05ANKARA6312ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-18 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6313ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-18 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6315TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, SEPTEMBER 2005
[...] The 7th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF - the bi-annual Turkish defense fair) was held on September 27-30 in Ankara. Four hundred thirty-one companies from 52 countries participated in the fair. Twenty-one American companies had stands in IDEF: Boeing, Bren-Tronics, CPS, EOTECH, Ha [...]
2005-10-19 07:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA6316TURKEY: EDUCATION COUNCIL PRESIDENT SUPPORTS
[...] (U) Summary: Erdogan Tezic, president of Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK),told Charge during an October 17 meeting that he supports the reopening of the Halki seminary, and believes a solution can be found if Greece and Turkey discuss their respective religious minorities. He said Halk [...]
2005-10-19 10:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA6318TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, October 1-
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Guardian Unlimited on Saturday [...]
2005-10-19 11:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA6324TURKEY'S VIEW ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY VOTE
[...] PolCouns delivered ref E demarche on UNESCO Cultural Diversity Vote to Ambassador Sule Soysal, Director General for Overseas Promotion and Cultural Affairs on October 19. PolCouns explained U.S. concerns regarding the restriction of trade and the free flow of ideas that may occur. 2. Soys [...]
2005-10-19 14:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL SCUL TU BHUM ETRC UNESCO
05ANKARA6325TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQI
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-19 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL IZ TU
05ANKARA6326AFYON: PROSPERITY AND INEQUALITY IN AN ANATOLIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Afyon, a prosperous town located three hours southwest of Ankara, is better off than many Turkish cities, yet visiting PolOffs heard complaints about the economy. We met with a variety of citizens in Afyon, including businessmen, farmers, academics and government officials. A [...]
2005-10-20 06:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS ECON EFIN EAGR TU
05ANKARA6337CENTER-RIGHT ANAP: A TURKISH BEE RISES FROM THE
[...] (C) Summary. Over the past several months, more than 20 Turkish MPs have defected to the ostensibly center-right, liberal, and democratic Motherland Party (ANAP),giving ANAP the right to form its own group in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA). As an official parliamentary group, ANA [...]
2005-10-20 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINS PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA6339CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): TURKEY REQUESTS
[...] Acting PolMilCouns delivered to Turkish MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Office Director Osman Yavuzalp on Oct. 20 reftel talking points and request for a meeting with Turkish experts on the margins of the CWC 10th Conference of the States Parties to discuss the draft agreement on challenge i [...]
2005-10-20 13:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM MARR KTIA TU GR CWC
05ANKARA6399IMF PROGRAM: GOT ACCEPTS FISCAL AUSTERITY,NEEDS
[...] (C) Summary: Though the GOT has accepted the IMF's fiscally austere 2006 primary surplus target, the GOT has again run into fierce delaying tactics by the political opposition party on the social security reform legislation. Fund staff (strictly protect) is awaiting a decision from IMF Managem [...]
2005-10-24 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ECIN IMF
05ANKARA64DEPUTY SECRETARY DISCUSSES IRAQ AND SYRIA WITH
[...] (C) Summary: At their Jan. 3 meeting, Deputy Secretary Armitage told Turkish General Staff Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok that his most recent visit to Iraq made him more optimistic about the January 30 elections there. He outlined steps that were being taken to reach out to Sunni Arabs, to improve s [...]
2005-01-05 16:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS TU IZ SY JO IR
05ANKARA6400TURKS REQUEST U.S. TAKE TOUGH LINE WITH BARZANI ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary: MFA requests that U.S. principals take a tough line with KRG President Masoud Barzani on the PKK and Kurdish expansionism, especially in Kirkuk but also in Ninewah. Additionally, the Turks hope we will publicize that this occurred. End summary. 2. (C/NF) MFA Director Gener [...]
2005-10-24 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER KPAO TU IZ
05ANKARA6426ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-25 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6428ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-26 04:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR
05ANKARA644ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-03 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6440TURKS REACH OUT TO IRAQIS ON HUMANITARIAN AID FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Turkish MFA has revised its humanitarian aid (HA) offer for Talafar in order to generate a positive Iraqi response and to mend fences with the Iraqi Red Crescent. Senior MFA officials raised the HA issue Oct. 26 with both Charge and ECONCouns. We responded that Turkey must a [...]
2005-10-26 12:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL MOPS IZ
05ANKARA6463TURKEY/IRAQ: SECOND TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY
[...] The Turkish Foreign Ministry published the following press statement on October 27 with reference to the Iraqi constitutional referendum. A previous statement was published October 17 (reftel). This statement emphasizes the importance of free and fair elections in December and the internati [...]
2005-10-27 10:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL IZ TU
05ANKARA6478TURKISH RESPONSE TO US OFFER AGAINST PKK
[...] (S) On October 27, ODC-Turkey received the letter in para 2 from the Turkish General Staff. The letter provides the Turkish position on various proposals regarding actions against the PKK made during the September 9 visit to Turkey of EUCOM CDR GEN Jones and CENTCOM DCDR LT GEN Smith, as well [...]
2005-10-27 13:44:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL PKK
05ANKARA6479ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-27 15:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6480ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-27 15:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6481 TURKEY: AVIAN INFLUENZA AND PREPAREDNESS RAPID
[...] (SBU) Summary. Turkey experienced one confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza in Balikesir in northwestern Turkey in early October without reports of human illness or deaths. The Ministry of Health has taken a leadership role in contingency planning for a potential pandemic [...]
2005-10-27 16:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED
05ANKARA649 Turkey FDI: Rising Investor Interest, But
[...] (SBU) Senior GOT officials are predicting a turnaround in FDI inflows to Turkey on the strength of the continuing recovery of the economy and the EU's decision to open accession talks late last year. There does seem to be increasing interest in Turkey on the part of foreign investors, in part [...]
2005-02-04 08:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON TU
05ANKARA6498ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-28 12:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6507TURKEY CONVINCED THAT PRELIMINARY USG LICENSE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U/S for Defense Industries Bayar advised PM DAS Suchan that an Advisory Opinion issued by the USG to a US firm on a license request related to a Turkish defense tender meets the requirement for "preliminary government approval" contained in two recent Requests for Proposal (RFP) [...]
2005-10-31 12:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PGOV
05ANKARA6518TURKISH MFA'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN
[...] (SBU) On 31 October 2005, POLCOUNS and POLOFF delivered to Turkish MFA Acting Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Ambassador Aydin Evirgen reftel demarches. Evirgen responded by saying, "we share the same views on Ahmadi-Nejad's statement" and that it was "completely unacceptable." H [...]
2005-10-31 16:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PHUM IR TU
05ANKARA6535ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-01 16:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6536ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-01 16:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6540CONSULATE ADANA TRAVELS TO TUNCELI AND ELAZIG
[...] Classified by AmCon Adana Principal Officer Walter S. Reid, E.O. 12958, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. This message is from AmConsulate Adana. 3. (C) Summary: Officers from Consulate Adana traveled to Tunceli and Elazig provinces October 25 and 26 to discuss PKK movements and human right [...]
2005-11-02 09:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER TU
05ANKARA6543AT THREE, TURKEY'S AKP GOVERNMENT SHOWING ITS AGE
[...] (C) After three years in power, Turkish PM Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) government remain atop Turkey's political heap in popularity, and in control of the Turkish parliament and Turkey's municipalities. Yet the AKP government is beginning to show its age: it has reced [...]
2005-11-02 09:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EU TU CY
05ANKARA6546TURKEY: FM GUL DODGES ISSUE OF IRANIAN EXTREMISM
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarches to the MFA on October 31, emphasizing the need for the GOT to make clear its rejection of Ahmadi-Nejad's violent and irresponsible rhetoric. Acting Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Ambassador Aydin Evirgen promised us that Gul would deliver a stro [...]
2005-11-02 10:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
05ANKARA6547TURKEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS: NOVEMBER 1 FM GUL PRESS
[...] Summary. In a wide-ranging November 1 press conference, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul acknowledged a "new phase" in U.S. - Turkish cooperation against (PKK) terrorism and addressed developments with a number of Turkey's problematic neighbors. His remarks on Iran in the wake of Irani [...]
2005-11-02 10:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA6554TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, October 16-
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Monday, October 17 [...]
2005-11-02 11:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA6561TURKEY'S PLANS FOR MOVING FORWARD ON EU ACCESSION
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy U/S Bozkir, one of the leads in Turkey's EU accession negotiations, told us that the GoT's inter-ministerial negotiating structure is up and running, and they are proceeding with the screening of initial chapters. His immediate concerns are the Progress Report and Acc [...]
2005-11-07 06:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD PROV TU EU
05ANKARA6586TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey's three main left-of-center parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The left-of-center parties share similar ideologies and compete for the same minor segment of the Turkish electorate but are unable to cooperate and are plagued by poli [...]
2005-11-08 07:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
05ANKARA6593Turkey's Policies Moderate Impact of High Oil
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-08 14:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EPET ECON TU
05ANKARA6636CORRECTED COPY -- WORLD BANK HELPS ADDRESS DEEP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Within its total $6 billion portfolio, the World Bank is currently allocating $1.7 billion to social sector projects that assist workers laid off by privatization, strengthen health care delivery through transitioning to universal health insurance, and improve school curricula [...]
2005-11-09 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ELAB SOCI TU
05ANKARA6637ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-09 15:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6641 TURKEY TIFA: PROPOSED DATE, AGENDA
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 & 3. 2. Turkey has proposed January 23 through 24, 2006, for the next Trade and Investment Framework (TIFA) Council meeting with the US. Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) U/S Tuncer Kayalar will lead the Turkish delegation. Embassy w [...]
2005-11-10 11:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR TU USTR
05ANKARA6642TURKISH MFA CLARIFIES POSITION ON AZERBAIJAN
[...] (C) Following a weak initial MFA statement and amid press reports that Turkish observers found no irregularities during the November 6 Azerbaijan elections, MFA Director General Halil Akinci clarified the Turkish position during a November 9 meeting with visiting Senior Advisor for Eurasia Stev [...]
2005-11-10 11:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU OSCE AZ
05ANKARA6671EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (OCTOBER
[...] Summary: EXBS Advisor continued to monitor NP projects that are underway in Turkey, including Internal Control Program (ICP),Commodity Identification Training (CIT),Product Identification Tool (PIT). EXBS Advisor also coordinated Turkish participation in CIT Instructor Training, a Bl [...]
2005-11-12 16:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC IZ KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA6710TURKEY LIKELY TO GO AHEAD WITH CYPRUS EXERCISES
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish forces are planning to participate in "Toros" exercises on Cyprus in response to Greek Cypriot "Nikiforos" exercises in October. Although some in the Turkish MFA and TGS are counseling restraint, Cyprus hardliners are depicting failure to participate in "Toros" as anoth [...]
2005-11-15 10:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS TU CY
05ANKARA6749ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-15 16:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6751COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DEPUTY SENIOR
[...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Deputy Senior Advisor and Deputy Coordinator for Iraq Robert Deutsch and NEA Iraq Desk Officer Michele Siders to travel to Turkey from December 1-2, 2005 for consultations on Iraq. The point of contact for the visit is Political Offi [...]
2005-11-16 08:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PGOV PREL IZ AU PL RO RS IT FR BE NATO EUN
05ANKARA6754TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, November 1-
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Milliyet and also reported by [...]
2005-11-16 11:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA6763GOT "SATISFIED" WITH EU REPORTS, DESPITE CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary: MFA contacts say the November 9 EU reports on Turkey are acceptable to the GOT, although they have some objections to language relating to Greek Cypriot access to Turkish ports, minority language rights, and religious freedom. GOT leaders have been more supportive of the reports [...]
2005-11-16 16:05:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU
05ANKARA6768ENGAGING TURKEY ON ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA
[...] (C) Senior Advisor for Eurasia Steven Mann discussed the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia during November 8-9 meetings at the Turkish Foreign Ministry. He encouraged Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul to declare Turkey's support for Georgia's diplomatic initiative for South Ossetia. In a [...]
2005-11-17 07:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL GG ZJ RS TU
05ANKARA6772JANDARMA INVOLVEMENT IN BOMBING ROCKS TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey has been rocked by alleged jandarma involvement in a November 9 bombing in the town of Semdinli, in the ethnically-Kurdish southeastern province of Hakkari. After the blast, bystanders caught and severely beat three suspects. Police released two of the three, including a [...]
2005-11-17 13:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TU
05ANKARA6775Meeting at Turkish Foreign Trade Regarding WTO Rice
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Turkish Under Secretariat for Foreign Trade has requested the U.S. response for dates in Geneva for consultations in connection with the U.S. WTO case concerning Turkey's import rice regime as well as data regarding the case. Turkish officials expressed the desire to res [...]
2005-11-18 05:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR PGOV PREL GR TU
05ANKARA68ASSISTANT SECRETARY BURNS DISCUSSES IRAQ AND MEPP
[...] (S) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary Bill Burns reconfirmed for senior Turkish MFA Middle East officials US commitment to the fulfillment of Iraq-wide elections on January 30, the establishment of an equitable government thereafter and the creation of an Iraqi security force able to take the l [...]
2005-01-05 16:40:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER PREL OVIP TU
05ANKARA680TURKEY 2004 END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] Since 1986, the International Narcotics Crime and Control (INCC) program has provided approximately 5,500 units of equipment and training, valued at over USD 5.7 million, to five Turkish agencies with responsibility for Turkey,s anti-narcotics programs: The Turkish Grain Board (TMO),Turkish [...]
2005-02-04 14:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN SNAR TU
05ANKARA6805ASD FLORY AND MOD GONUL DISCUSS US-TU DEENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting ASD Flory thanked Defense Minister Gonul for his record of public support for the US-Turkey relationship when they met on November 10. In response to Gonul's complaint about US inaction against the PKK in northern Iraq, the ASD pointed out concrete steps the USG is taki [...]
2005-11-18 12:40:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MASS TU IZ
05ANKARA6827CHARGE TELLS TURKS NO MORE TALK ON SYRIA
[...] (C) Charge re-engaged with Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Oguz Celikkol on November 18 and told him the USG is definitely not/not interested in a trilateral dialogue with Turkey and Syria, as the Turks had conveyed upon FM Gul's return from Damascus (refs b and c). The time for tal [...]
2005-11-18 16:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL SY TU SYRIA
05ANKARA683ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-04 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6846NOV. 8 CAUCASUS WORKING GROUP MEETING IN ANKARA
[...] (C) During Nov. 8 Caucasus Working Group discussions, the U.S. and Turkey shared assessments of the strategic situation in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The U.S. side briefed on the Caspian Guard program, and urged the Turks to participate in the upgrade of Nasosnaya Airbase in Azerbaijan, t [...]
2005-11-21 13:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS TU AJ AM GG KZ RS
05ANKARA6849PKK TERRORISM: TURKS PROVIDE MORE INFO ON HIGH
[...] (S) Summary: MFA provided us with additional information on the seven high value PKK individuals in Europe, responding to our earlier request (ref B),and thought Ankara could accommodate a visit by a technical team from Washington to develop further information the week of November 28. Secur [...]
2005-11-21 13:39:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER TU US
05ANKARA6865DEMARCHE REQUEST: KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION
[...] (S) Poloff delivered ref a demarche to MFA Iraq Department Head Avni Botsali on November 10. Botsali said the MFA had already issued instructions to its Baghdad embassy to engage the IECI on the issue of PKK front parties and planned to do so as well with the Iraqi embassy in Ankara. In ter [...]
2005-11-22 11:40:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR PREL IZ PKK
05ANKARA688SUBJECT: Turkey unveils adopted a nnew
[...] (U) Summary: Using new, updated inflation baskets for the first time, the State Institute of Statistics (SIS) announced February 3 that ptionswith base year 2003, and the new inflation data based Forthe January , theConsumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.55 percent and the Producers Price Ind [...]
2005-02-05 11:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON TU
05ANKARA6884 TURKEY: AVIAN INFLUENZA - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
[...] Summary. Turkey experienced one confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza in Balikesir in northwestern Turkey in early October without reports of human illness or deaths. Turkey has received generally high marks for its transparency, response, and containment of the outbreak, [...]
2005-11-22 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL AMED TU
05ANKARA6899PROPOSAL WOULD GUT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
[...] (SBU) Summary. A bill abolishing penalties for infringing the industrial property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications) of goods produced outside Turkey remains on the Turkish Parliament's agenda. Embassy contacts claim that the legislation was recentl [...]
2005-11-22 16:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU USTR
05ANKARA6900ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-22 17:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6930TURKEY FACES OBSTACLES ON PATH TO EU MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Now that Turkey has begun EU accession talks, it faces the difficult prospect of meeting EU requirements regarding Cyprus, minority rights, religious freedom, civil-military relations, and freedom of expression. This will require Turkey to open debate on sensitive topics and chan [...]
2005-11-23 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU
05ANKARA6952TURKEY-IRAQ HABUR GATE - WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?
[...] (C) Summary. Geographical and political realities make Turkey the only neighbor of Iraq with the potential to meet Iraq's growing civilian and military needs for imported fossil fuels and consumer goods. While there are certain short and medium term fixes that can increase the capacity of [...]
2005-11-25 13:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEPET PREL ETRD TU IZ
05ANKARA6954ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-25 15:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6955ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-25 15:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7013ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-29 16:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7014ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-29 16:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7016ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-30 05:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7027(S) TURKS OFFER DEC 3 MEETING WITH IRAQI SUNNIS
[...] (S) Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Celikkol called in PolCouns November 30 to convey an invitation to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad, Ambassador Jeffrey or another appropriate USG official to meet privately this Saturday afternoon, December 3, in Istanbul with a group of Iraqi Su [...]
2005-11-30 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV TU IZ US
05ANKARA70312005 DECA: MOVING THE BASING RELATIONSHIP WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 2005 DECA inspection was incrementally more positive and productive than the remarkably productive 2004 inspection (reftel). The Turkish delegation was generally constructive in its approach, and efforts by the US delegation to immediately resolve some issues and to question [...]
2005-11-30 15:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS TU
05ANKARA7069ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-01 16:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7071OFFERS TO BRING TEAM ON PKK IN EUROPE, TREASURY
[...] (C) Summary: Given the inability of the GOT to produce hard facts on PKK criminal activities in Europe, Econ/C discussed with MFA DDG for Security Affairs Huseyin Bicakli the utility of sending a law enforcement team to Ankara to meet with GOT counterparts on enhanced cooperation against PKK n [...]
2005-12-01 16:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER KTFN PREL TU PKK
05ANKARA7097TURKEY'S MOH OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish Health U/S Necdet Unuvar appeared optimistic about his ministry's new responsibilities after the MOH assumed many of the programs previously administered by Turkey's Social Security Commission (SSK). The GOT views these reforms, and the costs involved with them, as nec [...]
2005-12-02 16:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD TBIO KIPR EFIN TU
05ANKARA7098IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI'S VISIT TO ANKARA
[...] (C) Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki visited Ankara November 30 to December 1 and met President Sezer, PM Erdogan, FM Gul and key opposition party leaders. Press coverage was low-key and largely positive. Turkish leaders reportedly gave Mottaki a "clear message," warning that Iran,s nuclear [...]
2005-12-02 16:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ENRG PHUM ETRD IR TU
05ANKARA7099ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-04 06:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7138ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-05 16:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7156PSI: TURKEY INVITES UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION IN
[...] This is an action request-- see para 6. 2. Summary: The GOT seeks a formal commitment of U.S. participation in the first PSI exercise that Turkey will host. In September 2005, we informed Turkey that we would participate in the exercise (ref a),however the level of participation would b [...]
2005-12-06 14:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL TU
05ANKARA7158ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-06 15:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7186ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-07 15:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7191SCENESETTER FOR 10-16 DEC COUNTERPART VISIT OF
[...] (S) Summary: This Counterpart Visit (CPV) by the Commander of the Turkish Land Forces, GEN Yasar Buyukanit, will be the most significant event in US-Turkish Army to Army relations in over half a decade. The already slowing post-Cold War US-Turkish mil to mil relationship was derailed in 2003 [...]
2005-12-08 09:14:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MASS TU IZ AF
05ANKARA7214DEPUTY IRAQ COORDINATOR DEUTSCH'S CONSULTATIONS IN
[...] (S) In December 1-2 meetings with Turkish Prime Ministry advisor Davutoglu and senior MFA officials, Deputy Senior Advisor and Deputy Iraq Coordinator Robert Deutsch discussed the U.S. National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and the PRT concept, encouraged the Turks to consider contributing obs [...]
2005-12-08 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL ENRG EPET IZ IR TU
05ANKARA7215NO SPLITS IN TURKEY'S GOVERNING AKP PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) Summary: Despite media reports and opposition rumors of splits among PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party's (AKP) 357 parliamentarians, the group remains intact )- for now. Among AKP MPs, there are distinctive pious, pragmatic and nationalist currents, with crosscutting personal l [...]
2005-12-08 15:55:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA7216ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-08 16:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7218PKK TERRORISM: PKK/KONGRA GEL PRISONER'S STATEMENT
[...] (S) MFA Security Affairs Director General Hayati Guven on Dec. 7 raised with us the assertion by a PKK/Kongra Gel member who was arrested last month in Izmir that he received targeting information via Roj TV. (He had first informed us about this during a Nov. 18 meeting -- reftel.) Guven said [...]
2005-12-08 16:44:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER TU US PINR IZ DA
05ANKARA7239TURKEY 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) Turkey is a major transit route for Southwest Asian opiates to Europe, and serves as a base for major narcotics traffickers and brokers. Turkish law enforcement organizations focus their efforts on stemming the traffic of drugs and intercepting precursor chemicals. Turkish law enforcement [...]
2005-12-09 14:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR TU
05ANKARA7241ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-12 05:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7247TURKISH MFA SPOKESMAN ON IRANIAN LEADER'S DECEMBER
[...] (U) On 9 December 2005, Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan delivered a statement in reply to a question about Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's 8 December 2005 statement casting doubt on the holocaust. The text of the Turkish statement is below. 2. (U) Begin Text: It is very impo [...]
2005-12-12 11:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TU IR
05ANKARA7266GOT TAKES STEPS TO BOLSTER ITS COUNTER-TERROR
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey's current counter-terror finance regime lacks the legal authority to carry out effective action against financiers of terror and it is weak on enforcement and interagency coordination. For example, terrorism finance is not clearly criminalized in Turkish law and Turkey do [...]
2005-12-12 13:49:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKTFN EFIN PTER TU
05ANKARA7271IRAQ: KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION PARTY
[...] (C) Per ref a request, MFA Director General for Security Affairs (S/CT-equivalent) Amb. Hayati Guven passed us a document which he stated the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad has presented to the Independent Election Commission of Iraq regarding PKK front parties (text at para. 3). 2. (C) COMMENT [...]
2005-12-12 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINR IZ TU
05ANKARA7289TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 2005
[...] After months of delay, at the bi-monthly National Security Council (NSC) meeting on Oct. 24, a revised National Security Policy Document (NSPD) was approved. The policy document outlines the Government of Turkey (GOT) priorities with regard to threats to Turkey's internal and external securit [...]
2005-12-13 10:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA7296 BUSINESS GIVES MIXED REVIEWS TO TURKEY'S IPR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of Turkish music, film, and publishing industries give mixed reviews to the GOT's latest IPR enforcement efforts. While they agree that the 2004 IPR enforcement law is a welcome improvement, they argue that poor enforcement due to lack of training and knowledge [...]
2005-12-13 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU USTR
05ANKARA730 OUTREACH TO TURKISH NON-GOVERNMENTAL
[...] Ref A requested information on private sector organizations which might have an interest in a sectoral initiative within the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiating framework in the WTO. While there are a number of Turkish industries (especially the apparel, leather, tile, glasswar [...]
2005-02-08 12:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KTEX TU
05ANKARA7303ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-13 15:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7308TURKISH JUDGE LIFTS ZYPREXA INJUNCTION AND GENERIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: A recent lifting of a Turkish court injunction allowed a generic copy of the Eli Lilly product Zyprexa to come on the market December 9. Lilly representatives plan to continue fighting the case in court, but asked us to refrain from discussing their specific case with the GO [...]
2005-12-14 10:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA7330GERMAN EXCHANGE DIPLOMAT EVALUATES TURKISH MFA
[...] (C) Summary: A German diplomat who spent two months at the Turkish MFA told us the ministry's "top down" mentality discourages officials from evaluating state policies. He said a majority of MFA officials oppose EU membership for Turkey, though most support the recent EU-related legal reforms [...]
2005-12-14 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
05ANKARA7342 TURKEY FUMBLES BOTAS GAS CONTRACT TRANSFER
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a complicated tale of intrigue and ineptitude, an apparent effort by the Turkish state-owned pipelines company BOTAS to demonstrate that the 2001 law requiring transfer of import contracts to the private sector was unworkable blew up in the company's face as the press level [...]
2005-12-15 08:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV EPET TU
05ANKARA7359ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-15 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7377TURKISH MFA ON IRAQ ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. The Turkish Foreign Ministry released a generally positive press statement December 15 on the Iraqi elections (para 7). The statement did note that the GOT is concerned about information it has received on alleged irregularities in northern Iraq. MFA officials told us Turkmen [...]
2005-12-15 16:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ TU
05ANKARA7394TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, December 1-
[...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Thursd [...]
2005-12-16 14:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA7397ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-16 15:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7400TURKEY 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] The following is Embassy Ankara's submission of Part II of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Money Laundering and Financial crimes. 2. BEGIN TEXT OF REPORT. TURKEY Turkey is an important regional financial center, particularly for Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well a [...]
2005-12-16 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR TU
05ANKARA7437HYPE VERSUS REALITY OVER TURKEY'S ALCOHOL "BAN"
[...] (C) Summary: Reports of alcohol "bans" by Turkey's ruling pro-Islam Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the headlines are largely exaggerated and misleading. The reality is that control over liquor sales and licensing, once held by provincial governors, has been turned over to municipali [...]
2005-12-19 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI TU
05ANKARA7439ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-19 15:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7443TURKEY: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) Combating terrorism has long been a priority for the Government of Turkey (GOT). In 2005, Turkey continued its strong support of the coalition in the global war against terror in Afghanistan by commanding the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from February to August 2005. T [...]
2005-12-20 09:33:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO
05ANKARA7453ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-20 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA748ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-08 15:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7498ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-21 15:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7513THE CHANGING FACE OF POVERTY IN TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: While the incidence of extreme poverty is very low, nearly 25 percent of Turks live below the World Bank's international poverty line, with poor people increasingly concentrated in large cities. Despite an improving economy, regional disparities in income, together with intern [...]
2005-12-22 10:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PHUM KWMN TU
05ANKARA7519REINVIGORATING PUBLIC DIPLOMACY CULTURAL AND SPORTS
[...] CULTURAL AND SPORTS PROGRAMS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OUTREACH. IN ADDITION TO THEIR INTRINSIC VALUE, THEY GENERATE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR POST TO PARTNER WITH A VARIETY OF ORGANIZATIONS AND ENGAGE BROAD AND NON- TRADITIONAL AUDIENCES. SUCH PROGRAMMING ADDRESSES POST'S MPP OBJE [...]
2005-12-22 13:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OEXC SCUL TU
05ANKARA753NPT 2005 REVIEW CONCERENCE (REVCON): REQUEST TO
[...] EXBS Adviser delivered reftel issue paper and talking points to MFA Head of Department for Arms Control and Disarmament Sabri Ergen on February 4, 2005. Ergen thanked us for the information and assured EXBS Adviser that the information would be provided to the Turkish delegation attending the [...]
2005-02-09 10:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM TU
05ANKARA7534ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-22 14:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7539ACTION REQUEST: TURKEY TO OPEN CONSULATE IN MOSUL,
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. five. 2. (C) Turkey plans to re-open its consulate in Mosul imminently. The Consul General will be Huseyin Avni Botsali, until recently Head of Department for Middle Eastern Affairs. Botsali notified us Dec. 18 that he will travel to Mosul [...]
2005-12-22 15:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ
05ANKARA7558ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-23 10:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7590ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-27 14:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7592NOV. 9-10 HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE GROUP MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the first High Level Defense Group (HLDG) meeting with Turkey in two years, the US side emphasized recent concrete US actions to assist Turkey in its efforts against the PKK terrorist organization and underscored the need for Turkey to publicly recognize the US role. The Turks [...]
2005-12-27 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR MASS PREL PARM TU US IZ AF
05ANKARA7593Minister of Agriculture, Mehdi Eker's comments on
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a December 22 meeting, Minister of Agriculture Mehdi Eker gave the Ambassador a general overview of the new Turkish agriculture policy and commented on the Turkish rice situation, in light of the current WTO case. Both sides agreed that the best manner to resolve the rice [...]
2005-12-28 09:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR PGOV PREL GR TU
05ANKARA7594COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV
[...] (SBU) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy personnel Harvey W. Clark, Ronald August Hansen, Scott Eston Hulse and Christopher John Joines to travel to Turkey from January 6-29, 2006. The purpose of the visit is in support of Department of Defense custome [...]
2005-12-28 10:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY KSCA PREL OTRA TU
05ANKARA7605NEW USAFE AND TURKISH AF COMMANDERS GET OFF TO A
[...] (C) Summary: On his initial visit to Ankara as USAFE commander, General Thomas Hobbins and Turkish Air Force (TUAF) Commander General Faruk Comert focused on how to improve the relationship through practical cooperation like sharing US lessons learned flying air patrols over Lithuania before [...]
2005-12-28 15:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL TU
05ANKARA7648COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EUR/SE CYPUS DESK
[...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR/SE Cyprus Desk Officer Elise Mellinger to travel to Ankara January 18 - 19 and to Istanbul January 20 - 22, 2005. The purpose of the visit is to conduct meetings with local government officials. The point of contact for the visit [...]
2005-12-30 08:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OTRA PREL TU GR CY
05ANKARA7658 TURKEY'S 2006 "YEAR OF THE AMERICAS"
[...] (SBU) Summary. Based on the success of similar regional strategies the GOT has been implementing since 2003, Turkey's Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) will focus its 2006 trade promotion strategy on the United States. With a target of increasing the share of Turkish goods in U.S. impor [...]
2005-12-30 11:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD BEXP TU
05ANKARA7674REVISED ACTION REQUEST: TURKS FORMALLY REQUEST
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. seven. 2. (C) Summary: MFA has revised its request for assistance for a Turkish team to travel to Mosul -- now o/a Jan. 16-19 -- to meet with local and U.S. officials and look at sites for the new Turkish consulate. We hope our colleagues in [...]
2005-12-30 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ
05ANKARA775CONVERSION OF CEKMECE RESEARCH REACTOR AND RETURN
[...] Summary: A DOE-State team visited Ankara and Istanbul January 14-17 to meet with officials of the Turkish Atomic Energy Commission (TAEK) and operators of the TR-2 research reactor at the Cekmece Nuclear Research Center. Discussions focused on possible Turkish participation in a combined shi [...]
2005-02-09 15:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP TRGY TU
05ANKARA776HUMAN RIGHTS BOARD CHAIRMAN RESIGNS AMID FEUD OVER
[...] (C) Summary: The chairman and vice chairmen of a GOT human rights board resigned from the body in protest Feb. 7, asserting that the Prime Ministry dismissed them one year before their terms were up. The resignations followed a bitter dispute over the board's taboo-breaking October report on [...]
2005-02-09 16:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA778EXBS; TURKEY ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] Summary: EXBS advisor's primary focus this month was on two significant events, DOS/DOE meeting with GOT officials concerning the proposed plan for the early return of spent HEU fuel rods to the United States and coordination of the DOC team to propose the Product Identification Tool (PIT [...]
2005-02-10 05:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TU
05ANKARA8052004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] As reported in ref a, Post has ascertained additional information for the 2004-2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) section on money laundering and financial crime. This information follows the corrections that were e-mailed (ref b) to the Department in draft form. [...]
2005-02-11 14:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KTFN PTER TU
05ANKARA809ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-11 15:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA814GOT'S NEW APPROACH TO PROTESTANTS SPARKS BACKLASH
[...] (U) Summary: Protestants in Turkey say the GOT has made tentative steps toward a more flexible approach to churches and missionaries, partly due to the influence of the EU process. For example, during Christmas authorities in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir for the first time gave permission for m [...]
2005-02-11 16:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA835 GOT DEFENDS NEW DATA EXCLUSIVITY REGULATION
[...] (SBU) Health Ministry and Foreign Trade Undersecretariat representatives argued that Turkey's new data exclusivity regulation goes as far as is legally possible to protect research-based companies within Turkey's legal framework. The Health Ministry reported that it had implemented a system f [...]
2005-02-14 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA839 GOT Defends New Data Exclusivity Regulation
[...] (SBU) Health Ministry and Foreign Trade Undersecretariat representatives argued that Turkey's new data exclusivity regulation goes as far as is legally possible to protect research-based companies within Turkey's legal framework. The Health Ministry reported that it had implemented a system f [...]
2005-02-14 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA861ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-15 10:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA862 SENIOR BIOTECH ADVISOR'S MEETINGS WITH
[...] (SBU) In meetings with GOT officials and private sector organizations, State's Senior Agricultural Biotech Advisor raised U.S. concerns about the potential of Turkey's draft biosafety law to hinder trade and development, and provided an overview of U.S. biotechnology policies, particularly w [...]
2005-02-15 11:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD TBIO KPAO TU
05ANKARA864ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-15 13:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA865AFGHANISTAN: TURKS RELAXED ABOUT MAZAR REJECTION
[...] (C) The subject of Turkey's interest in replacing the UK at its PRT in Mazar-e Sharif (refs A and B) came up during a meeting on another subject between MFA DDG for South Asia Aydin Evirgen and polmilcouns. Evirgen understood that London was no longer interested in Turkey taking over the Maza [...]
2005-02-15 13:32:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV TU AF UK
05ANKARA88ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-06 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA891TURKISH PAPER ON KIRKUK
[...] (C) During the Secretary's Feb. 6 meeting with FonMin Gul, Gul handed over a Turkish paper on ideas regarding the Kirkuk issue. MFA provided the paper to us on Feb. 7. Full text in para. 2. 2. (C) BEGIN TEXT OF TURKISH PAPER: SET OF IDEAS REGARDING THE ARRANGEMENTS NEEDED TO SAFEGUARD [...]
2005-02-16 11:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ
05ANKARA902TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, Feb 1-10,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published Wednesday, February 9 by M [...]
2005-02-17 07:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA903TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, Feb 11-15,
[...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published Sunday, February 13 by the [...]
2005-02-17 07:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA905TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION IN PSI OEG MEETINGS- MARCH
[...] This is an action request- see para 5. 2. MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Head of Department Sabri Ergen on February 16 informed EXBS Advisor that MFA had received a copy of an OSD invitation to Turkey to participate in the next PSI Operational Experts Group meeting to be held in Omaha, N [...]
2005-02-17 09:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM TU
05ANKARA911RESIGNATION FROM TURKISH CABINET: WHEN AND HOW
[...] (C) Summary: Culture and Tourism Minister Mumcu's resignation from the AKP cabinet and the party will not split AKP. Nor is Mumcu or anyone else outside AKP with aspirations to form a credible political alternative able to challenge AKP's dominance in the near term. But Mumcu's move highligh [...]
2005-02-17 11:47:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA920TURKS REQUEST EMERGENCY HELO FLIGHTS AUTHORIZATION
[...] (S) MFA Middle East/South Asia Director General Oguz Celikkol informed the DCM on February 16 that the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad had formally requested from the Iraqi Interim Government authorization to fly helicopters into northern Iraq for emergency extractions and personnel rotations. The [...]
2005-02-17 17:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR MOPS PREL TU IZ
05ANKARA929EX-MILITANTS CLAIM KONGRA-GEL "PEACEFUL"
[...] (C) Summary: A group of ex-convict PKK militants faxed a letter to the Embassy making reference to the January U.S.-Turkey-Iraq talks on the PKK and claiming that the PKK successor organization Kongra-Gel seeks a peaceful solution to its conflict with the Turkish State. Officials from the pro [...]
2005-02-18 09:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
05ANKARA939 TURKEY: DATA EXCLUSIVITY DEMARCHE TO MFA
[...] (SBU) Following-up on our meetings with the Health Ministry and Foreign Trade Under Secretariat (ref A),DCM made ref B demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas Selhattin Alpar on February 18. The DCM highlighted the important role intellectual property issues have played in our bi [...]
2005-02-18 14:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA941Turkey Takes Positive Steps in IPR Enforcement
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Culture considers the 2004 copyright legislation, which brought about a significant fall in street sales of pirated materials and jail terms for several convicted pirates, to be successful. The Ministry is now waiting for the Prime Ministry to approve a new C [...]
2005-02-18 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR TU
05ANKARA944TURKISH CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON IMF DISPUTE
[...] (C) Summary: Central Bank Governor Serdengecti described how the government's effort to extend regional investment incentives over the objection of the IMF opened the door to a resurgence of the dangerous political notion that Turkey could go it alone without the support of the IMF in particu [...]
2005-02-18 15:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN TU
05ANKARA949TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATO TRAINING
[...] (C) During a wide-ranging discussion of Middle East issues with the DCM on February 16, MFA Director General for Middle East and South Asia Affairs Oguz Celikkol highlighted Turkey's support for the NATO training mission in Iraq through its offer to train Iraqi Security Force leadership in Ank [...]
2005-02-18 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU
05ANKARA967ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-22 15:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA97SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S JANUARY 11-12
[...] (C) Summary: Our bilateral relationship with Turkey has become quite bumpy over the last years. The comfort of our NATO Alliance has been tested by Turkish perceptions of our operations in Iraq, developments on the domestic scene, and the movement toward the EU. Turkey shares our overall poli [...]
2005-01-06 16:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS TU IZ AF
05ANKARA987ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-23 15:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA993 TURKEY MFA UPDATE ON TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In February 11 and 15 meetings with Econ Counselor and Econoff, MFA transport officials: indicated that the GOT would respond favorably to the Container Security Initiative (CSI); raised problems in managing Turkish-Iraqi airspace; warned that Bosphorus tunnel construction coul [...]
2005-02-24 09:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT EAIR IZ TU
05ATHENS1505CONTINUED GREEK ANGST, BUT POSITIVE NUMBERS ON
[...] (C) Summary. Senior Greek officials continue to express concern about the level of Turkish air activity in the Aegean. At the same time, statistics recently released by the MOD paint a more positive picture of the actual situation in the region. Greek officials insist that, the content and [...]
2005-06-03 07:24:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MARR GR TU TURKEY
05ATHENS1528GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER REJECTS LINK BETWEEN
[...] (SBU) In advance of Greek FM Molyviatis' June 2 press conference with the Foreign Press Association in Athens, Ambassador drew on reftel points to suggest to Molyviatis, chief of staff Constantinos Rallis that the FM use the occasion to emphasize that the French referendum outcome should have [...]
2005-06-03 13:50:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDGR TU PREL TURKEY
05ATHENS1598MOLYVIATIS ON TURKEY/CYPRUS
[...] (C) At a June 9 lunch, FM Molyviatis and Ambassador discussed Cyprus and Turkey issues in light of Turkish PM Erdogan's visit to Washington and Under Secretary General Prendergast's recent trip to the region. Molyviatis commented that the idea of a report to the SYG on "the failures of 2004" [...]
2005-06-10 08:32:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALCY GR PREL TU TURKEY
05ATHENS2161SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HYDE (ATHENS, AUGUST 25-28)
[...] (SBU) Embassy Athens warmly welcomes the August 25-28 vist by CODEL Hyde to Greece. You will arrive just as the summer holidays are winding down, and your visit will provide an excellent opportunity, not only to showcase U.S.-Greece relations, but to kick off the fall quarter with high-level [...]
2005-08-18 10:34:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV GR OREP PREL VISIT
05ATHENS2403DAS BRYZA AND GREEK DEFMIN ON DEEPENING BILATERAL
[...] (C) Summary. DAS Bryza with Greek DefMin Spiliotopoulos discussed how to deepen bilateral military ties during a September 7 meeting. Bryza praised the increased focus on strategic concerns, such as promoting stability in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans, and away from relatively minor, [...]
2005-09-14 11:59:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR GR TU CY AMB
05ATHENS2529COMBATING EXTREMISM IN GREECE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In Greece, the twin threats of extremism and violence stem more from a decades-old, homegrown anti-U.S., anti-NATO, anti-globalization sentiment that is deeply engrained in Greek society than from extremism exported from the Middle East. Domestic terrorist groups and an active a [...]
2005-09-27 13:53:00Embassy AthensSECRETPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI GR INTERNAL
05ATHENS2635SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF HHS ACF A/S DR. WADE HORN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Athens warmly welcomes the October 8-12 visit of Dr. Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, HHS to Greece. Your visit will provide an excellent opportunity not only to showcase U.S.-Greece relations, but to reiterate our strong commitment to [...]
2005-10-06 14:42:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PHUM TBIO EI GR HRIGHTS
05ATHENS2647THE WAY AHEAD ON CYPRUS: THE VIEW FROM ATHENS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Athens welcomes an exchange with the Department, Nicosia, and Ankara on the way ahead on the Cyprus issue. From our perspective, the October 3 accession wrangle provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at the Cyprus problem, and underscore the importance of grasping [...]
2005-10-07 15:34:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CY GR
05ATHENS3094AVIAN FLU: GREEK POULTRY INDUSTRY UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-06 13:33:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR AVIANFLU
05ATHENS315MFA SECRETARY GENERAL: "QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCE" TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Secretary General Gennimatas complained to Ambassador and visiting EUR DAS Kennedy during a January 28 meeting about reported airspace incursions by Turkey, claiming formations of Turkish fighters had flown within two nautical miles of the Greek islet of Antipsara -- a "qua [...]
2005-01-31 16:05:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GR TU TURKEY
05ATHENS589GREECE PART 1: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the Fifth TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to requests under "Overview" and "Prevention." -------- Overview -------- A. Greece is a destination countr [...]
2005-03-01 17:22:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GR TIP
05ATHENS616CODEL GOODLATTE'S FEBRUARY 24-27, 2005 VISIT TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A congressional delegation led by Representative Bob Goodlatte visited Athens on February 24th to 27th, 2005 and held wide ranging meetings on agricultural, telecommunication, and other issues. CODEL Goodlatte discussed Internet opportunities in Greece with the Minister of Trans [...]
2005-03-03 14:17:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDOREP EAGR ECON EINT PREL GR VISIT
05ATHENS629GREECE: NEW SECURITY POLICY, BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN
[...] (C) Summary. An updated Greek national security strategy appears to suggest that Athens' concern about a military threat from Turkey may be diminishing. Initial discussions with senior- and mid-level defense and national security officials offer little evidence of such a change, however. [...]
2005-03-04 14:40:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR GR TU INTERNAL
05ATHENS643TURKISH AMBASSASDOR UPBEAT ON BUSY SCHEDULE OF
[...] (C) As part of a broader effort to improve the tone of bilateral relations, Greece and Turkey are planning a busy season of high-level meetings, including visits to Ankara by the Greek Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Defense Minister, an optimistic Turkish Ambassador to Athens Tahsin B [...]
2005-03-08 06:22:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR GR TU CY TURKEY
05ATHENS830YOUR VISIT TO GREECE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I am delighted to welcome you to Greece March 30-31. The Greeks see your trip to Athens, following on the heels of Foreign Minister Molyviatis' March 24 visit to Washington, as more proof of America's reengagement with Europe. Greece will want to characterize your visit -- the [...]
2005-03-24 10:14:00Embassy AthensSECRETCY GR PGOV PREL TU ZL VISIT
05BAGHDAD2381IRAQ - INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During the fifth meeting of the National Energy Committee (NEC),DPM Chalabi discussed his recent visit to the Al-Fatah crossing, expressing dissatisfaction with its current security. He instructed the Ministry of Defense to immediately develop an effective security plan for the [...]
2005-06-03 07:22:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON EFIN ENRG EPET IZ MASS MOPS PGOV PREL
05BAGHDAD2552KRG KURDS DEMAND ACTION ON KIRKUK, ALMOST SEAL
[...] (U) This is a REO Kirkuk cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kurdish leaders told DCM and MNF-I DCS for Political Military and Economic Relations June 13-15 that Kirkuk's provincial council will elect new leaders this week, but the two parties -- who are now directly dictating solutions in the city -- h [...]
2005-06-16 15:48:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS KDEM IZ
05BAGHDAD3068TALABANI PONDERS HOW TO REACH OUT TO SUNNI ARABS,
[...] (C) Summary: President Talabani told Ambassador Khalilzad that the Sunni Arabs have to be brought back into the constitution-drafting process, and agreed with the Ambassador's point that the Iraqi Government should provide security for their negotiators to facilitate that return. Talabani no [...]
2005-07-24 14:58:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL IZ TU SY
05BAGHDAD3103IRAQ INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY: FIRST REAL PROGRESS
[...] SUMMARY: (C) On July 4, the Deputy Commander of the Iraqi Armed forces briefed the NEC on a new plan for the defense of the oil infrastructure in the vicinity of Kirkuk-Bayji, including the Al-Fathah Crossing. The key elements were the planned commitment of two battalions of the Iraqi Army t [...]
2005-07-27 03:25:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET MASS MOPS EFIN EAGR PREL PGOV IZ
05BAGHDAD3161IRAQIS SAY THEY PLAN TO ATTEND PKK TRILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of Staff Fawzi Hariri confirmed that Iraq plans to send a three person delegation to the PKK trilateral talks in Washington originally scheduled for August 2. However, the MFA was not able to submit the required visa applications unt [...]
2005-07-31 10:38:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL PINS TU IZ
05BAGHDAD3445UPDATE ON TURKISH EXTRADITION REQUEST
[...] (SBU) Coalition Forces are working with the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) to expedite the trial of two Turkish nationals requested for extradition by Turkey on suspicion of involvement in the Istanbul bombings. (As noted in Reftel, the CCCI has informed Post that it intends to try bot [...]
2005-08-23 11:33:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PHUM PINS PTER TU IZ
05BAGHDAD3500PROGRESS REPORT ON KEY INITIATIVES FOR THE
[...] (C) Following is Embassy Baghdad's latest update on the status of Key Initiatives. See reftels for prior updates. ------------------ ELECTRICITY UPDATE ------------------ 2. (C/NF) Status: -- Generation: Iraq Electricity - During the reporting period, the average peak generation for [...]
2005-08-28 19:36:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID ELTN ENRG EPET PREL IZ KCRS
05BAGHDAD3727TAL AFAR SITREP: SEPT. 11, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-11 14:17:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETEAID ECON IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PREF PREL
05BAGHDAD3781DAILY IRAQI WEBSITE MONITORING - September 13, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-13 17:10:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO IZ
05BAGHDAD4006(U) FIRST KURDISTAN REBUILDING EXPO ATTRACTS 200
[...] (SBU) Summary: A USG delegation attended the Rebuild Iraq Expo and Conference on September 15 & 16 in the Kurdish city of Erbil. Organized by the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, it was the first such event held in Iraq. Kurdish areas want to show they are open and ready for [...]
2005-09-27 12:01:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EIND PGOV IZ
05BAGHDAD4073TAL AFAR WRAP-UP: SHORT-TERM SUCCESS BUT MOMENTUM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Major fighting in Tal Afar has concluded and the reconstruction process is proceeding apace. The operation is considered by MNF-I to be an overall success: an important base for terrorists and insurgents has been disrupted, with a number either killed or detained. The Iraqi Arm [...]
2005-10-02 17:49:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PGOV PREF PHUM IZ
05BAGHDAD4322OIL MINISTRY OFFICIAL SAYS IRAQ WILL PAY ARREARS
[...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor to the Minister of Oil Abdul Sahib al-Qutub said that he was working with the Ministry of Finance to organize payment o/a October 19 of some $450 million in arrears to Turkish firms for fuel imports. Ministry of Oil officials blamed the poor security situation in t [...]
2005-10-19 19:04:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET MOPS MARR PGOV PREL TU IZ
05BAGHDAD4356NATIONAL ENERGY COUNCIL REVIEWS ENERGY CRISIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Energy Council October 20 reviewed the increasing attacks against energy infrastructure and tactics used in response resulting in Iraq,s current energy shortages. An increase in the effectiveness of attacks in the north has cut off the electricity flow to Baghdad and [...]
2005-10-23 08:49:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETENRG EPET EFIN ECON MOPS PGOV PREL TU IZ
Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1'000 rows / 7'402 results

This work is licensed under a creative common licence creative commons image creative commons another image