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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 SILVASANDE 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 SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA 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 STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN 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 THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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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 LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE 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 MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES 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 MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA 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 NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS 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 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08ANKARA1265 | SCENESETTER FOR NSA HADLEY'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. US-Turkish relations have been transformed in the nearly three years since your last visit in 2005. You come right after Erdogan's visit to Baghdad (July 10),Boyden Gray's visit here (July 11) and President Bush's July 11 condolence call to President Gul over the Istanbul consul [...] | 2008-07-14 16:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON IZ SY IS IR AF PK CY TU |
08ANKARA1266 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT EXTENDS INCIRLIK HUB AGREEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: The MFA has extended bilateral agreements on the Air Cargo Hub at Incirlik airbase and related activities only to the end of 2008, anticipating the expiration of UNSCR 1790 (2007),which underpins government approval of those agreements. Extension of those agreements beyond 2008 [...] | 2008-07-15 05:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IZ TU |
08ANKARA1269 | TURKEY/RUSSIA: LAVROV VISIT HEAVY ON GOOD WILL, [...] (C) Summary: Russian FM Lavrov visited Ankara July 1 to continue ongoing efforts to increase bilateral dialogue. As during FM Babacan's February trip to Moscow, the conversation focused primarily on economic relations. The two leaders reaffirmed mutual views on Iran, Iraq, the Black Sea, and [...] | 2008-07-15 11:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU TU |
08ANKARA1270 | TURKEY: MEK IRANIAN REFUGUEES STILL NOT WELCOME [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past few weeks, the issue of MEK (Mujahideen-E-Khalq) Iranians entering Turkey has again come to the fore in Post's conversations with the GOT on refugee issues. At least 45 MEK Iranians are currently known to have entered Turkish territory from Iraq, nearly all having [...] | 2008-07-15 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM TU IZ |
08ANKARA1277 | DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH TURKISH [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's chief foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told visiting DAS Matt Bryza July 11 that Erdogan's July 10 Baghdad meetings were a "good start." The Turks discussed alternate sources of gas for the Nabucco pipeline with Iraqi officials, acknowledgin [...] | 2008-07-16 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG IZ AM CY TU |
08ANKARA1279 | TURKEY/IRAQ ENERGY COOPERATION: GOT OPTIMISTIC, [...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S for Middle East, Iran and South Asia Sinirlioglu expressed to visiting EUR DAS Bryza July 11 the GOT's satisfaction with PM Erdogan's July 10 visit to Baghdad. The visit was the first full-fledged ceremonial reception of a visiting leader held at Baghdad airport. Sinirliog [...] | 2008-07-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ENRG IZ TU |
08ANKARA1280 | TURKEY: PRIVATIZATION SUCEEDS DESPITE POLTICAL TURMOIL [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the global economic downturn and Turkish domestic political turmoil, the GOT successfully privatized two electricity distribution companies earlier this month. This sale demonstrated Turkey's continuing ability to attract foreign investment, to command a good price and [...] | 2008-07-16 12:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG TU |
08ANKARA1283 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 13:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1284 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY URGES TURKEY TO MOVE FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray discussed regional energy issues and moving Caspian gas westward with Turkish PM Erdogan, Energy Minister Guler and others on July 11. Erdogan reiterated Turkey's strong support for Nabucco and the Turkey-Greece-Italy gas projects [...] | 2008-07-16 16:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA1286 | CORRECTED: SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY URGES TURKEY TO MOVE [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray discussed regional energy issues and moving Caspian gas westward with Turkish PM Erdogan, Energy Minister Guler and others on July 11. Erdogan reiterated Turkey's strong support for Nabucco and the Turkey-Greece-Italy gas projects [...] | 2008-07-17 09:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA1288 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1289 | TURKEY: COURT RAPPORTEUR RECOMMENDS NON-CLOSURE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Constitutional Court's rapporteur July 16 submitted a non-binding recommendation against closing the ruling AKP or banning any of its MPs from politics. The Court has ignored the rapporteur's views in the past, when it voted unanimously to accept the AKP closure case and whe [...] | 2008-07-17 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA129 | TURKEY: GUL FOCUSES ON BUSINESS, ARAB LEAGUE IN [...] (C) President Abdullah Gul's January 14-16 visit to Egypt was successful and primarily focused on enhancing the bilateral economic relationship, according to MFA Levant Desk Officer Murat Omeroglu. In addition to his meetings with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, PM Ahmed Nazif, FM Ahmed Abou [...] | 2008-01-23 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EINV ETRD TU EG |
08ANKARA1290 | Update on PKK Violence (July 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 1-7, 2008 reporting period, one security o [...] | 2008-07-18 07:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1291 | Update on PKK Violence (July 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 8-15, 2008 reporting period, three security [...] | 2008-07-18 07:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1293 | TURKEY APPROACHES MEDITERRANEAN UNION WITH CAUTION [...] (C) Summary: Despite PM Erdogan's last minute decision to attend the Mediterranean Union Summit July 13-14, the GOT remains highly skeptical of the organization's viability, as well as French intentions. Turkey's MFA successfully negotiated a series of concessions in the final communiqu to e [...] | 2008-07-18 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR TU IS SY |
08ANKARA1296 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA130 | CODEL SHUSTER IN TURKEY: PKK TERRORISM, ARMENIAN [...] (C) Summary. During a January 11-15 trip to Turkey, MFA U/S Apakan said cooperation against PKK terrorists had created a "renewed partnership" but cautioned the House's Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.R. 106) remains a challenge. Codel Shuster asked the GOT to expand outreach efforts on Capi [...] | 2008-01-23 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
08ANKARA1301 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-21 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1303 | TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY SO FAR UNHINDERED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Domestic political uncertainty arising from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) closure case and Ergenekon prosecution (reftel) has not constrained PM Erdogan from painting himself the statesman through bold foreign policy activism. Turkey's foreign and security appa [...] | 2008-07-21 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1304 | TURKEY: DTP'S YEAR OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) Summary and comment. The results of the 2007 parliamentary elections raised hopes that Turkey could achieve progress on the Kurdish issue. Some 20 pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) MPs, elected as independents in districts throughout the Southeast, gave the party parliamentary r [...] | 2008-07-22 09:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU |
08ANKARA1306 | TERRORIST EXTRADITION ROUNDTABLE IN ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Top terrorism prosecutors and judges from Turkey, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iraq, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland met in Istanbul, Turkey June 24-26, 2008 to discuss their respective practices and overcome obstacles in extraditing terrorists. The meeting, co-hosted [...] | 2008-07-22 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1307 | TURKEY: MFA OUTLINES UPCOMING AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT [...] (C) MFA Africa Section Chief Aykut Kumbaroglu told us the GOT will host the Turkey-Africa Union Cooperation Summit in Istanbul August 18-21. President Gul extended invitations to heads-of-state from 51 African Union members (all with the exception of Western Sahara, which Turkey does not recog [...] | 2008-07-22 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AF |
08ANKARA1309 | TURKEY: CLUSTER MUNITIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to acting Deputy Director General for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Elif Ulgen on July 22. Ulgen expressed appreciation for the information, and said although Turkey has not used cluster munitions in operations for over a decade, it retains a significant st [...] | 2008-07-23 11:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS KPOA NATO |
08ANKARA131 | EBRD: DONOR TURKEY LUKEWARM ON BECOMING RECIPIENT [...] (C) Summary: Turkey, a founding donor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is considering becoming a recipient of EBRD funds. The EBRD would have to change its mandate for Turkey to receive funds, since the original 1991 mandate was to "nurture a new private sector in a [...] | 2008-01-23 17:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA1310 | TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT SETS DATE FOR AKP [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Constitutional Court will begin deliberations July 28 on the closure case pending since March against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). It is expected to take several days to produce a verdict, although the Court is not required to rule by any date certain [...] | 2008-07-23 11:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA1311 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS [...] We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Deputy Director General Elif Ulgen on July 22. She reiterated GOT's reticence in participating in Global Initiative activities, even technical, working-level events, since Cyprus became a partner in 2007. She offered to circulate the information she [...] | 2008-07-23 11:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL |
08ANKARA1312 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 11:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1313 | TURKEY: FILAMENT WINDING MACHINES WILL NOT BE [...] (S) Responding to the reftel demarche, MFA Acting Deputy Director General for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Elif Ulgen told us on July 22 that the Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade (UFT) was recently approached by Tet Makina reps regarding its application to export filament winding machine [...] | 2008-07-23 12:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCAE KSCA TU PK |
08ANKARA1314 | ECONOMIC IMPACT IF COURT CLOSES AKP [...] (SBU) Summary: Investors agree that AKP,s closure is the most likely outcome of the court,s deliberations and therefore, the effect of the closure has already been largely factored into market behavior. However, two key unknowns, the fate of PM Erdogan and AKP,s current economic policies, wi [...] | 2008-07-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA132 | S/I SATTERFIELD CONSULTATIONS ON IRAQ/PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In discussions with FM Babacan, MFA U/S Apakan, MFA Deputy U/S Sinirlioglu, Iraq Coordinator Celikkol, Presidency foreign affairs advisor Turkoglu, and D/CHOD Gen. Saygun January 18, S/I Satterfield noted progress made in Iraq on security and the economy, but characterized gains a [...] | 2008-01-23 17:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV ECON TU IZ IR KU |
08ANKARA1325 | TURKEY: MEDIA SUPPORT FOR ARMENIA TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish media have reported "secret," high-level Turkey-Armenia talks on normalizing bilateral relations with little fanfare, but positively; the political opposition and their media outlets have not objected. Nor has the military. The media's approach suggests broad public [...] | 2008-07-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OPRC AM TU |
08ANKARA1326 | BAKU-TBILISI-KARS RAILWAY GROUNDBREAKING; GOAJ [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Gul traveled to the ancient Armenian capital of Ani July 23 before joining Georgian President Saakashvili and Azerbaijani President Aliyev for a groundbreaking ceremony in Kars, Turkey on the Turkish leg of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway, July 24. The bilateral m [...] | 2008-07-24 12:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV AJ AM GG TU |
08ANKARA1327 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1331 | TURKISH GULENIST SCHOOLS: "BE EVERYWHERE OR BE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Gulenist-administered Turkish schools are inspired by the same humanistic philosophy no matter where they operate in Turkey or the world, according to teachers and students at a leading Gulenist math and science school in Ankara. The teachers underscored that these schools mus [...] | 2008-07-25 10:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI TU |
08ANKARA1334 | HARD-LINE TURKISH HISTORIAN OUSTED [...] (C) In a surprise move, reported by the press as a good will gesture toward Armenia, quasi-governmental Turkish Historical Society (TTK) President Yusuf Halacoglu was relieved from his duties by a Cabinet decision published in the July 23 Official Gazette. Halacoglu, during his 15-year tenur [...] | 2008-07-25 12:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1335 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Deputy Director General Elif Ulgen and MFA Head of Department for South Asian Affairs Devrim Ozturk on July 22. Our interlocutors thanked us for the information and reaffirmed Turkey's commitment to fully implement the requirements of the UNSC resolut [...] | 2008-07-25 13:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KNUC ETTC PREL TU IR |
08ANKARA1337 | ERGENEKON INDICTMENT STILL MURKY BUT PROCESS ALONE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court decided July 25 to accept the indictment filed in the Ergenekon case and proceed to prosecution (ref A). The 2,500 page indictment has clarified little about the case. Some Turks see the indictment as a courageous step toward bringing Turkey's stat [...] | 2008-07-25 13:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL TU |
08ANKARA1338 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON NATO MEMBERS AND ASPIRING [...] (c) Ambassador spoke July 25 with Turkish MFA U/S Apakan to inquire about FM Babacan's plans to attend the Tehran NAM ministerial and to carry out the demarche in reftel. The Turkish press has been reporting for some days that Babacan may attend, and lower-level MFA staff had previously sugge [...] | 2008-07-25 13:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL PHUM PTER IR TU |
08ANKARA134 | TURKISH DEPUTY CHOD GEN. SAYGUN'S VISIT TO US [...] (S) Summary: US-Turkish military-to-military relations are stronger now than at any time since 2003. GEN Saygun's January 15 visit to Baghdad has improved prospects for Turkey-Iraq cooperation on PKK terrorism and given impetus to bilateral dialogue. During January 29-30 High Level Defense G [...] | 2008-01-24 08:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR PTER TU |
08ANKARA1340 | (S) SHIPMENT OF PROLIFERATION CONCERN DEMARCHE [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Deputy Director General Elif Ulgen on July 25. Ulgen said the GOT determination that the machine in question was not controlled by the Wassenaar Arrangement or the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was made following consultations with interagency ex [...] | 2008-07-25 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC PK TU |
08ANKARA1341 | AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY FORCE SIZE INCREASE DEMARCHE [...] (U) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA South Asia Department Second Secretary Ilhan Sener on July 3. On July 10 MFA South Asia Deputy Director General Babur Hizlan told us Turkey was in favor of the proposal to expand the size of the Afghan National Army. On July 23, we followed up with Devri [...] | 2008-07-25 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO AF TU |
08ANKARA1342 | AKP INSIDERS DISCUSS CLOSURE CASE [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of Turkish Constitutional Court deliberations in the AKP closure case that begin July 28, the outcome is impossible to predict. A senior AKP-affiliated journalist told Ambassador July 24 that he is hopeful the Turkish Constitutional Court may avoid ruling to close the [...] | 2008-07-25 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1345 | Update on PKK Violence (July 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 16-23, 2008 reporting period, two security [...] | 2008-07-28 09:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1348 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1352 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST LEADERS SAY AKP CLOSURE UNLIKELY TO SPUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent visits to the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) stronghold in Eastern Anatolia, contacts from diverse political persuasions told us AKP's closure would set back Turkey's democratization and send the wrong message to the international community. Citing [...] | 2008-07-29 09:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1353 | TURKEY: EC ENERGY DELEGATION VISIT YIELDS NO [...] (C) Summary. Heinz Hilbrecht, Director for Energy Security at the EC Directorate General for Energy Transportation led a technical-level delegation to Ankara for talks with Turkey's Nabucco Coordinator Osman Goksel on July 17-18. The talks were to prepare the groundwork for the visit of Com [...] | 2008-07-29 11:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU IZ |
08ANKARA1355 | TURKEY: IRAQ ARREARS CAUSE DESPERATE ACTION BY [...] (C) Summary. Ignoring pleas from high-level GOT officials, BOTAS (state-owned oil and gas pipeline company) temporarily suspended, then resumed, operation of the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline, a major export route for Iraqi oil on July 22. BOTAS claims the inability to collect on large Iraqi d [...] | 2008-07-29 12:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU IZ |
08ANKARA1359 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA136 | TURKEY-U.S. RELATIONS: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador and Turkish MFA U/S Apakan reviewed developments in bilateral relations in the wake of President Gul's January 8-9 talks in Washington. They agreed to coordinate measures for a set of high-level meetings in Washington in mid-April. END SUMMARY. STRENGTHENING U.S.- [...] | 2008-01-24 08:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PARM PHUM ENRG EPET ECON TU |
08ANKARA1364 | TURKEY-AFRICA COOPERATION SUMMIT PREPARATIONS ON [...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S Cevikoz updated the DCM on preparation for the August 18-20 Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit in Istanbul (reftel). 17 heads of state or government have so far confirmed participation and the GOT is expecting more. Zimbabwe has not confirmed President Mugabe's participation, [...] | 2008-07-30 06:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XA TU |
08ANKARA1368 | TURKEY: POTENTIAL VISIT BY AHMADINEJAD TO TURKEY [...] (C) We spoke with Turkish MFA U/S Apakan and separately with the MFA Iran Desk July 30 about extensive media reporting indicating GOT preparations for a possible visit by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Istanbul on August 14. We made the following points: -- With the deadline for an Irania [...] | 2008-07-30 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR TU |
08ANKARA1369 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1370 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 14:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1371 | LOVE FOR SALE - THE TAUDRY TALE OF TURKISH MEDIA OWNERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV PHUM KDEM TU |
08ANKARA1372 | TURKEY: GUL-ALIYEV/SAAKASHVILI BILATERALS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Energy issues and Azerbaijani-Turkmen relations monopolized President Gul's bilateral with Azerbaijani President Aliyev, at the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway groundbreaking ceremony in Kars, July 24, MFA U/S Cevikoz told the DCM July 29. Gul also had an unexceptional discussi [...] | 2008-07-30 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ELTN ETRD ENRG EPET AJ AM GG TX TU |
08ANKARA1373 | TURKEY'S RULING PARTY FINED BUT NOT CLOSED BY [...] (U) In a six to five vote, Turkey's Constitutional Court decided July 30 not to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),ending weeks of uncertainty and speculation about Turkey's political future. While six judges voted for closure, the constitution requires that at least seven [...] | 2008-07-30 16:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM TU |
08ANKARA1374 | TURKEY RELIEVED AT COURT DECISION NOT TO CLOSE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turks breathed a collective sigh of relief July 30 as the Constitutional Court released its decision to fine but not close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for anti-secular activities (reftel). Announced after three days of deliberations, the ruling came [...] | 2008-07-31 10:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TU |
08ANKARA1377 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 13:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1378 | RUSSIA,S GROWING INTEREST IN TURKISH ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. According to the local press and commentators, the July 18 visit of Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev signified warming relations between Turkey and Russia on energy issues. The jury is still out on whether Medvedev's proposals for further access to Turkey's market or his n [...] | 2008-07-31 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU IZ |
08ANKARA1383 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 08:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1384 | AFRICA: TURKEY'S BLUSHING BRIDE? [...] (C) Summary: For Turkey, sub-Saharan Africa represents an opportunity to expand its international influence and advance its multilateral ambitions, foremost a UNSC non-permanent member seat. Since announcing its UNSC candidacy in 2003, the GOT has overtly wooed African states in the hopes of [...] | 2008-08-04 11:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TU AF |
08ANKARA1386 | REQUESTING DIPLOMATIC STATUS FOR OFFICE OF DEFENSE [...] Post requests Department approve diplomatic status for Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Turkey personnel in accordance with 3 FAH-1 H-2438.2 in lieu of status under the NATO Status of Forces (SOFA) Implementing Agreement with Turkey. ODC Turkey Chief enjoyed diplomatic status until 2005, w [...] | 2008-08-04 12:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | APER MARR TU |
08ANKARA1390 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1391 | TURKEY: SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL RESULTS [...] (U) Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) announced on August 4 the results of its annual meeting to determine new assignments, promotions, and dismissals. As expected, Turkish Land Forces Commander (TLFC) GEN Ilker Basbug (bio info reported septel) was named the new chief of the Turkish G [...] | 2008-08-04 13:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS MARR TU |
08ANKARA1392 | TURKEY'S NEW CHOD: GENERAL ILKER BASBUG [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish Land Forces Commander General Ilker Basbug (pronounced BAHSH-boo) was named as Turkey's next CHOD at the Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) that concluded on August 4 (full YAS results reported septel). Despite some shifts in civil-military relations, the [...] | 2008-08-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PINR TU |
08ANKARA1395 | PARLIAMENT AGAIN APPROVES FOREIGN LAND PURCHASES IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary. In separate decisions in January and April 2008, the Constitutional Court struck down portions of both the Title Deed Law and the Foreign Direct Investment Law, effectively barring real estate purchases by foreign real persons or corporations (reftels). In an amendment to the Tit [...] | 2008-08-05 07:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON BEXP TU |
08ANKARA1401 | TURKEY/NATO-EU: NO SIGNS OF LET UP IN TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary: While acknowledging recent French efforts to improve NATO-EU ties as a gesture of goodwill, Turkish officials are unimpressed. They view the recent French non-paper proposing a NATO-EU high-level working group with suspicion, and believe it is designed to circumvent the NATO-EU [...] | 2008-08-05 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL EUN NATO TU KV |
08ANKARA1402 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1403 | TURKEY: MIND THE GAP: PM ERDOGAN'S SOUTHEAST [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) had new life amid renewed doubts. PM Erdogan recently announced the GOT plans to dedicate $21.5 billion to complete the project by 2012 (Ref A). An ambitious $32 billion multi-sector regional development scheme harnessing the [...] | 2008-08-05 15:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TU |
08ANKARA1404 | TURKEY: KURDISH VIEWS ON AKP NON-CLOSURE, ERGENEKON [...] (U) This is an AmConsulate Adana message. 2. (C) Summary: Kurds in Turkey,s southeast expressed relief but not elation that the Constitutional Court declined to ban the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). AKP support remains high in conservative parts of the southeast, but nationa [...] | 2008-08-06 08:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1405 | TURKEY: GOT OUTLINES AHMADINEJAD VISIT [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. Iranian President Ahmadinejad will visit Turkey August 14, in what the GOT is describing to us as a "working visit." He will travel only to Istanbul -- not Ankara -- where he will meet with President Gul and, most likely, PM Erdogan. The visit has not been officially anno [...] | 2008-08-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR TU |
08ANKARA1407 | TURKEY'S TERRORISM LAWS: UNORTHODOX BUT WORKABLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent extended discussions with Turkish Ministry of Justice (MOJ) officials, we reviewed Turkey's legal framework for prosecuting terrorism activities. In response to our concern that Turkey's current terrorism law too narrowly focuses on domestic terrorism and does no [...] | 2008-08-06 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
08ANKARA141 | TURKEY: MFA BALKANS CHIEF DISCUSSES KOSOVO, [...] (C) Summary and Comment: GOT officials tell us that Turkey is ready to recognize Kosovo independence. Timing, however, is contingent on EU solidarity. Should a majority of EU countries, including key members, immediately recognize Kosovo, Turkey will rapidly follow suit. MFA Balkans Departm [...] | 2008-01-24 10:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU KV MW |
08ANKARA1410 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1411 | TURKEY'S NEXT DCHOD: GENERAL HASAN IGSIZ [...] (C) Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) (ref a) named General Hasan Igsiz (pronounced Ih-siz) as Turkey's next Deputy Chief of Defense (DCHOD),succeeding GEN Ersin Saygun. He is reportedly a protege of newly named CHOD Ilker Basbug (ref b). As general officers, Igsiz and Basbug have hel [...] | 2008-08-07 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS MARR TU |
08ANKARA1415 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1417 | GOT STATUS UPDATE ON TRANSFER OF BOEING 747 TO IRAN BY ANKAIR: THE PLOT THICKENS REF: SECSTATE 84112 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | EAIR ETRD ETTC IR PARM PK PREL TU UK |
08ANKARA1423 | TFGG01: TURKEY'S REACTION TO GEORGIA/SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 12:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR GG TU |
08ANKARA1424 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1426 | TURKEY: NAC STATEMENT ON GEORGIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO KCFE PARM GG RU TU |
08ANKARA1430 | TURKISH REACTION TO DEMARCHE DISCOURAGING AN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador raised US concerns per reftel with Turkish MFA U/S Apakan on August 8. Apakan said the US message was clearly understand and that there would be "nothing new, tangible or solid" on energy signed with Iran anytime soon. MFA Energy Office Director Altay said August 11 [...] | 2008-08-11 16:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC AJ IR TU |
08ANKARA1440 | TURKEY: MILITARY VS. OPPOSITION PART DEUX (THIS [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish military and the main opposition Republican People,s Party (CHP) recently entered into their second public clash in six months. On August 5, CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu publicly criticized the Supreme Military Council's (YAS) decision [...] | 2008-08-12 10:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
08ANKARA1441 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (JULY 2008) [...] (SBU) Summary: EXBS Advisor and Coordinator visited Kapikule and Ipsala Border Ports of Entry to review Customs Inspection and Enforcement operations and assess Turkish border security capabilities. MFA confirms Turkish interagency participation in a joint EXBS Nonproliferation Seminar at [...] | 2008-08-12 11:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA1442 | TFGG01: TURKEY PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey has provided some humanitarian assistance to Georgia already and is considering an additional request from the Government of Georgia for a field hospital in Gori. A Turkish Red Crescent team is on the ground in Tbilisi assessing the situation. The GOT has not yet evacuate [...] | 2008-08-12 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU GG |
08ANKARA1446 | TURKEY: ISRAELI CONCERNS ON AHMEDINEJAD VISIT [...] (C) The Israeli Government voiced its concerns to the GOT regarding Iranian President Ahmedinejad's August 14-15 Istanbul visit in both Ankara and Tel Aviv, August 7 (reftel). Israeli Embassy Spokesman Amit Zarouk told us Israeli Ambassador Gaby Levy underscored in his meeting with MFA Deputy [...] | 2008-08-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PROG PREL TU IS IR |
08ANKARA1448 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1449 | TURKEY: KURDS TIRING OF ANKARA'S BIG STICK [...] (U) This is an AmConsulate Adana message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Recent conversations in southeastern Turkey suggest that, regardless of GOT military successes against the terrorist PKK, sympathy for "the organization" is unwavering. Developments in 2008 ) stepped-up military operations, human ri [...] | 2008-08-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1450 | NO TURKISH DECISION ON BIT RENEGOTIATION THIS YEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey continues to tie prospects for renegotiation of its Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) to its EU accession process and views a wholesale renegotiation as unlikely. Turkish Treasury DDG for Foreign Investment Murat Alici described the 2004 Model BIT as an overly long, overly [...] | 2008-08-13 06:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV TU |
08ANKARA1451 | TURKEY: TEMPEST IN ACADEMIC TEAPOT [...] (C) Summary and comment: President Abdullah Gul's August 5 appointment of 21 university rectors brought little joy to AKP's opponents. As one of the first high-profile selection procedures following the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) narrow escape from being banned for anti-sec [...] | 2008-08-13 06:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1452 | Update on PKK Violence (July 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 24-31, 2008 reporting period, five security [...] | 2008-08-13 08:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1453 | Update on PKK Violence (August 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 1-7, 2008 reporting period, five village [...] | 2008-08-13 08:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1458 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 11:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1459 | TURKEY: NUCLEAR SUPPLIER GROUP EXCEPTION FOR INDIA [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on August 12 to MFA Department Head for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Affairs Bora Kerimoglu. Kerimoglu expressed appreciation for the information provided and our offer to respond to any questions the GOT might have on the issue, and pledged to convey th [...] | 2008-08-13 11:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC AORC ENRG IN TU |
08ANKARA146 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1465 | TURKEY: AHMADINEJAD VISIT SCHEDULE STILL FLUID [...] (C) President Gul's Foreign Policy Advisor Amb. Gurcan Turkoglu characterized Iranian President Ahmedinejad's August 14-15 Istanbul trip to CDA as a "political necessity" to maintain good bilateral relations. It is impossible for Turkey to ignore Iran, he said. Given the nuclear issue's grow [...] | 2008-08-13 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR TU |
08ANKARA147 | TURKEY: UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture appears to be following appropriate procedures in response to the AI outbreak in Zonguldak province. 2. On January 22, the Ministry of Agriculture's General Directorate of Protection and Control submitted a report to the World Organization for Animal Hea [...] | 2008-01-24 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU |
08ANKARA1471 | POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS FOR IPR IN TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. In recent months, the GOT has taken several positive steps in its protection of copyright, and plans to implement encouraging new programs in the latter half of 2008 and early 2009. 1) On June 1, a new system finally came online to certify and track all members of the distributi [...] | 2008-08-14 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR USTR TU |
08ANKARA1472 | TFGG01: GOT URGED TO DEMAND RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) CDA delivered reftel points August 14 to MFA Deputy U/S for Americas Berk and DDG for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Ozturk. Berk agreed that Russia should fulfill the commitments it made in the agreement with President Sarkozy and that OSCE observers should have immediate access to areas curren [...] | 2008-08-14 16:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS NATO OSCE PHUM PREL GG RS TU UN |
08ANKARA1475 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1476 | SECOND UPDATE ON TRANSFER OF BOEING 747 TO IRAN BY ANKAIR REF: A. SECSTATE 84112 B. ANKARA 1417 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | EAIR ETRD ETTC IR PARM PK PREL TU UK |
08ANKARA1477 | ALL GAIN, NO PAIN: TURKEY'S KYOTO PROTOCOL [...] (C) MFA Department head for Environment Nursel Berberoglu said August 13 Turkey is ready to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. By delaying until now, Turkey believes it can ratify without incurring any binding obligation to reduce emissions (despite being an Annex 1 country),and still participate full [...] | 2008-08-15 14:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENGR SENV EAGR TU |
08ANKARA1478 | PM ERDOGAN VISITS MOSCOW AND TBILISI; SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Erdogan received a warm reception from Russian leaders in Moscow, where he conveyed Turkey's clear support for Georgia's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. The Russians responded they have no intention of entering Tbilisi or occupying Georgia, but that Georgia was [...] | 2008-08-15 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS GG RS TU ZJ |
08ANKARA148 | TURKEY: SUDANESE PRESIDENT'S VISITS GARNERS HARSH [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese President Bashir met with President Gul and Energy Minister Guler during his controversial January 21 trip to Ankara. President Gul urged Sudan to cooperate with the international community to find a solution to Darfur, pushing Bashir to make the United Nations-African U [...] | 2008-01-24 16:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU SU |
08ANKARA1490 | Update on PKK Violence (August 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 8-15, 2008 reporting period, eleven secu [...] | 2008-08-18 12:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1494 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1497 | TURKEY URGES AHMADINEJAD TO ACCEPT P5/1 OFFER [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to an MFA readout, President Gul told visiting Iranian President Ahmadinejad August 15 that Iran should take advantage of the P5/1 refreshed package and urged the Iranians to be constructive on regional issues. Ahmadinejad did not respond substantively, other than to den [...] | 2008-08-19 12:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA1498 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 13:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA15 | TURKISH ELECTRICITY EXPORTS TO IRAQ CUT OVER [...] (C) Summary. Electricity exports to Northern Iraq by the private Turkish company Karadeniz Toptan Elektik Ticaret (Kartet) were cut on January 2, 2008. As we foreshadowed (ref A) a series of complicated commercial and intergovernmental agreements were not renewed before December 31, 2007, w [...] | 2008-01-04 11:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU EINV IZ |
08ANKARA1504 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1508 | HOW TURKEY'S YOUTH VIEW THE US: LOSING A [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Turkey faces a "demographic window of opportunity," with 60% of its population under the age of 30. Politically disengaged and generally neglected as a resource by political parties (refA),young Turks face high unemployment and a country struggling to balance tradit [...] | 2008-08-21 09:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA1509 | TURKEY: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 11:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN TU |
08ANKARA151 | TURKISH COURTS BLOCK ACCESS TO "YOUTUBE" WEBSITE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish courts banned access to the immensely popular "YouTube" website for five days beginning January 17, to block a picture with swear words imposed over Turkey's founding father, Ataturk, and the Turkish flag. The GOT maintains the courts are properly implementing a new In [...] | 2008-01-25 11:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1512 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1513 | TFGG01: TURKEY'S CAUCASUS STABILITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOT continues to roll out its "Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform" concept, with PM Erdogan visiting Baku August 20. Based on contacts with MFA officials, the concept, stemming from a 2000 proposal from then-President Demirel, is still being refined. MFA contacts h [...] | 2008-08-21 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM AJ GG RU TU |
08ANKARA1519 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA152 | TURKEY: CODEL DAVIS STRESSES COOPERATION IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During their January 10 - 12 visit to Ankara, CODEL Davis met with Turkish Members of Parliament (MPs),officials from the Central Bank, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Treasury, and representatives from the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges (TOBB),Turkey's [...] | 2008-01-25 13:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN TU IZ |
08ANKARA153 | Update on PKK Violence (January 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 16-23, 2008 reporting period, no GOT se [...] | 2008-01-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1532 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1541 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1546 | Update on PKK Violence (August 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 16-23, 2008 reporting period, one securit [...] | 2008-08-27 09:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1547 | TURKEY LINKS USS MOUNT WHITNEY PASSAGE WITH GLOBAL [...] (S/NF) This is an urgent action message. Post requests immediate guidance on request for USS Mount Whitney to transit the Turkish Straits. 2. (S/NF) As noted in ref b, Turkey has granted permission for overflight of its airspace by Global Hawk missions to conduct surveillance over Georgi [...] | 2008-08-27 10:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM GG TU |
08ANKARA1549 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 13:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1550 | TURKEY-AU SUMMIT OVERSHADOWED BY BASHIR'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOT-hosted Turkey-African Union (AU) Cooperation Summit, August 18-21, rendered no surprises. During the sessions, the GOT focused on developing good will, expanding trade ties, and lobbying for African support of Turkey's UNSC bid. Overall, the GOT was pleased with both atte [...] | 2008-08-27 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XA TU |
08ANKARA1552 | TURKEY: THIRD NATIONAL PROGRAM AIMED AT [...] (C) Summary: The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) recently rolled out a "Third National Program" to define the government's priorities and reinvigorate EU-related reforms over the next four years. Senior AKP contacts admit reaching consensus on the plan will be difficult, given the [...] | 2008-08-27 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1553 | TURKEY SUPPORTS GEORGIA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to MFA South Caucasus Department Head Firat Sunel, urging a clear statement rejecting Russia's recognition of Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. Sunel noted the August 26 MFA statement (see paragraph 6),calling it a short but clear message of concern, and [...] | 2008-08-27 16:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU TU |
08ANKARA1559 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA156 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 15:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1560 | TURKEY: SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES GEORGIA AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 26, Senator Lugar and delegation discussed the situation in Georgia, Caspian energy issues including Nabucco, Turkey's EU accession and other issues with President Gul, Foreign Minister Babacan and Energy Minister Guler. The Senator also hosted a dinner for represen [...] | 2008-08-28 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET IZ PREL TU |
08ANKARA1563 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 10:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1564 | TURKEY: AHMET TURK RAISES THE PROFILE OF DTP'S [...] (C) Summary and comment: Recent statements by pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Turk have raised the profile of DTP's more moderate wing. Turk, re-elected as party co-chairman at DTP's July convention, called for peaceful resolution through dialogue of Turkey's intractab [...] | 2008-08-29 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1565 | VICE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Your planned September 6 meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan offers an opportunity to consult on five sets of issues: Georgia and the Caucasus, energy, Iran, Iraq, and the need for renewed Turkish reform. Erdogan is in confident form following relative victory in the closure case against th [...] | 2008-08-29 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1566 | VICE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Your planned September 6 meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan offers an opportunity to consult on five sets of issues: Georgia and the Caucasus, energy, Iran, Iraq, and the need for renewed Turkish reform. Erdogan is in confident form following relative victory in the closure case against th [...] | 2008-08-29 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1567 | VICE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Your planned September 6 meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan offers an opportunity to consult on five sets of issues: Georgia and the Caucasus, energy, Iran, Iraq, and the need for renewed Turkish reform. Erdogan is in confident form following relative victory in the closure case against th [...] | 2008-08-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA157 | TURKEY RELUCTANT TO RECEIVE, SHARE INFORMATION [...] (S) Anticipating the flow through Turkey of foreign fighters and others affiliated with known terrorist organizations will increase in the future, the FBI has proactively reached out to Turkey's law enforcement and intelligence communities to initiate formal information sharing on known or su [...] | 2008-01-25 15:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER ASEC TU |
08ANKARA1572 | TURKEY-MACEDONIA STRATEGIC COOPERATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche points, MFA Balkans Department Head Ilhan Saygili underscored to us that the strategic cooperation document is not an agreement, but a statement of the two countries' intentions to promote and strengthen bilateral strategic relations. Within the document, th [...] | 2008-09-02 09:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK TU GR |
08ANKARA1575 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 11:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1576 | TURKEY: GEORGIAN FM URGES GLOBAL SOLUTIONS IN [...] (C) Georgian DCM Irakli Koplatadze on September 1 gave DCM a readout of the August 31 meeting between Turkish FM Babacan and Georgian FM Tkeshelashvili in Istanbul. Babacan, said Koplatadze, began the meeting by expressing "deep concern" for Russian actions and strong Turkish support for the [...] | 2008-09-02 12:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RU TU |
08ANKARA1579 | TURKEY ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 15:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNGA KV |
08ANKARA158 | CLOSING MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: HOW REALISTIC A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Efforts to re-energize negotiations to close Makhmour refugee camp in northern Iraq will continue to be hindered by GOT and UNHCR security concerns related to the camp. Working level GOT officials believe radical PKK elements continue to control the camp. They believe a permanen [...] | 2008-01-25 17:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PTER PGOV PHUM TU IZ |
08ANKARA1580 | TURKEY'S ENERGY DEAL WITH IRAN STALLED [...] (C) Summary. Local press continues to speculate that Energy Minister Guler will travel to Iran soon to conclude a detailed energy agreement. In private, Energy Acting Under Secretary Selahattin Cimen told us the deal has no legs. He confirmed that technical negotiations between Iran and Tur [...] | 2008-09-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA1584 | TURKISH MFA ON LAVROV TALKS, BURNS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Apakan briefed Ambassador September 2 regarding FM Babacan's talks with Russian FM Lavrov the same day in Istanbul. Babacan reportedly emphasized that Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia contradicts international law; associated Turkey with the st [...] | 2008-09-03 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU TU |
08ANKARA1585 | TURKEY SUPPORTS AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY INCREASE [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA DDG for South Asia and Iran Babur Hizlan September 3, requesting Turkish support for expanding the Afghan National Army (ANA) to 134,000 at the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board meeting in Kabul, September 10, and reminding him of the importance the U [...] | 2008-09-03 14:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF TU |
08ANKARA1586 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1588 | Update on PKK Violence (August 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 24-31, 2008 reporting period, eight secu [...] | 2008-09-04 06:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1595 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 10:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1596 | TURKEY: NEW MILITARY CHIEF'S FIRST POLICY SPEECH [...] (C) Summary: During new Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief Ikler Basbug,s nationally televised speech at his August 28 change of command ceremony, Basbug: -- Highlighted the importance of US-Turkey bilateral relations and preserving the "perfect level of cooperation" against the PKK; -- Vo [...] | 2008-09-04 14:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
08ANKARA1597 | TURKEY ENTHUSIASTIC ON EVE OF GUL VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Turkey is abuzz only two days ahead of a now-confirmed visit by President Gul to Yerevan September 6 to attend a Turkey-Armenia World Cup qualifier. Viewing the visit as a powerful Turkish contribution to promoting peace and stability in the Caucasus and to solving the Na [...] | 2008-09-04 14:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM TU |
08ANKARA1598 | TURKISH MFA: CYPRUS TALKS ARE "LAST CHANCE" [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish MFA's key Cyprus official views the direct talks as the "last chance" for a solution on the island, and notes that "other options" will need to be considered if these negotiations fail. Both Turkish Cypriot leader Talat and Ankara suspect the Greek Cypriot side plans [...] | 2008-09-05 10:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PREL TU US |
08ANKARA1599 | TURKEY: ALEVIS PROTEST GOT'S POLICY ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara and Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: Several Alevi groups organized an August 24 rally in Istanbul's Taksim square to protest the GOT's policy of requiring primary and secondary public school students to take a religious educa [...] | 2008-09-05 10:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1600 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 11:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1602 | BABACAN/LAVROV IN ISTANBUL: "FRIENDS CAN DISAGREE" [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey underscored its support for Georgia's territorial integrity during FM Babacan's September 2 meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Istanbul, MFA DDG for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Murat Burhan told us September 4. However, Lavrov called the decision to recognize Abkh [...] | 2008-09-05 13:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU TU |
08ANKARA1603 | MFA SUPPORTS IRAQI SCIENTISTS PROGRAM, AWAITING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 13:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IZ TU |
08ANKARA1604 | TURKEY: STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY IN ANKARA, SEPT. 1-2 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 1-2 September a House Foreign Relations Committee Staff delegation led by Alan Makovsky discussed the situation in Georgia, energy issues, and the ongoing Israel-Syria talks with senior Turkish government officials at the Presidency, Prime Ministry, and Ministry of Foreign Af [...] | 2008-09-05 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA1605 | TURKEY FINALLY JOINS WIPO TREATIES [...] On August 28, after more than a year of delay, Turkey finally deposited its instruments of accession for the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty with the WIPO in Geneva, with no reservations. The treaty will enter into force on November 28, 2008. As reported [...] | 2008-09-05 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR USTR WIPO TU |
08ANKARA1606 | TURKEY: MILITARY CHIEF VISITS LARGEST KURDISH CITY [...] (U) GEN Ilker Basbug, in his first domestic trip as the new chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS),traveled to 2nd Army Headquarters (primary responsibility of which is to prosecute the war against the PKK) in Malatya, and Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city. During his visit to 2nd [...] | 2008-09-05 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
08ANKARA1607 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1611 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL MEETS U/S BURNS [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a September 5 meeting with Under Secretary Burns, Turkish President Gul said his trip to Yerevan the next day is intended to lay the foundation for progress in bilateral relations. He spoke at length about his private "blunt" discussions with Iranian President Ahmadinejad [...] | 2008-09-09 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO |
08ANKARA1613 | TURKEY: MUNICIPAL POLICE BEAT ANKARA SHOPOWNER FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: A security camera captured two municipal policemen beating a shop owner with wooden sticks in the conservative Ankara district of Kecioren August 14 for allegedly violating the ban on alcohol sales after 11 p.m. Opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ankara MP Yilm [...] | 2008-09-09 10:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1619 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (AUGUST 2008) [...] Summary: EXBS Advisor and Coordinator finalized agenda and logistics for the Sept. 17-18 EXBS Nonproliferation Seminar, to he held in Ankara. DOE/SLD provided Turkey's first training on SLD provided radiation detection pagers, survey instruments and RIDDS to TNP's Bomb Disposal experts. Turk [...] | 2008-09-10 12:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA1622 | DELIVERY OF AI DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU AORC TBIO EAGR EAID PREL |
08ANKARA1623 | Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 1-7, 2008 reporting period, 13 securit [...] | 2008-09-10 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1624 | TURKISH MFA INTERESTED IN EU OBSERVER MISSION IN [...] (C) During a meeting to deliver reftel demarche (reported septel),MFA NATO Security Affairs Section Head M. Turker Ari took the opportunity to note Turkey's interest in the proposed EU observer mission in Georgia. Ari inquired whether the US has received any information from the EU about the [...] | 2008-09-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO TU GG |
08ANKARA1625 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1626 | TURKEY: RULING AKP AIMING HIGH IN MARCH 2009 [...] (C) Summary and comment: Showing signs of the political prowess that led to its political dominance, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is astutely gearing up for March 2009 local elections well before its opponents. AKP hopes to demonstrate it is "the party of all Turkey" by [...] | 2008-09-10 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1627 | U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TALKS, SEPTEMBER 5 [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a four-hour meeting and working dinner with Under Secretary Burns September 5, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan: -- underscored Turkey's desire for close cooperation with the U.S.; -- called for new impetus on the Nabucco pipeline; -- stated that Ankara seeks to strengt [...] | 2008-09-10 16:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO |
08ANKARA1628 | U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TALKS, SEPTEMBER 5 [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a four-hour meeting and working dinner with Under Secretary Burns September 5, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan: -- underscored Turkey's desire for close cooperation with the U.S.; -- called for new impetus on the Nabucco pipeline; -- stated that Ankara seeks to strengt [...] | 2008-09-10 22:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO |
08ANKARA1629 | IRAQ COALITION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 06:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO TU IZ |
08ANKARA1633 | CJCS VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (S) The timing of your visit to Turkey is ideal. The President's commitment in November to provide enhanced intelligence against the PKK immensely strengthened US engagement here. But we are now at some pivot points: -- in Turkey, a new CHOD and DCHOD, both critical people for our work on [...] | 2008-09-11 10:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR GG IZ TU |
08ANKARA1634 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1635 | TURKISH CAUCASIANS' INFLUENCE ON REGIONAL POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The conflict in Georgia has mobilized a large portion of Turkey's ethnic Caucasian community to lobby Ankara to join Moscow in recognizing Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. As during the Chechen wars of the 1990s, ethnic Caucasian groups will force the GOT to w [...] | 2008-09-11 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG RU TU |
08ANKARA1636 | TURKEY: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On September 4 we solicited from MFA Acting Head of Department for Council of Europe and Human Rights Yonca Sunel GOT support for U.S. priority country-specific and thematic resolutions that will be offered, urged Turkey to vote against the Defamation of Religions resolution, and sought [...] | 2008-09-11 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN TU |
08ANKARA1639 | TURKISH GDP GROWTH SLOWED SHARPLY IN SECOND QUARTER [...] Summary: TurkStat data released on September 10 showed Turkey's GDP grew only 1.9% (YOY) in the second quarter, far below market forecasts of 3.7% and down sharply from 6.7% growth in the first quarter. While first half growth was still a respectable 4.2%, the sharp slowdown from quarter to q [...] | 2008-09-12 08:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA164 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1640 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 13:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1641 | TURKEY: GULER PRESSES BAKU AND ASHGABAT FOR GAS [...] (C) Summary. In a September 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Energy Minister Guler continued to be obsessed by attracting gas to Turkey and expressed indifference over the fate of Nabucco. Guler said he had positive meetings in Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan but divulged few details. Turkey ap [...] | 2008-09-12 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR IZ TU |
08ANKARA1642 | GUL IN BAKU AND YEREVAN; GEORGIAN PM IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) MFA South Caucasus Section Head Firat Sunel briefed us September 11 on President Gul's September 10 visit to Baku. Despite criticism in the Azerbaijani media and some Turkish outlets of Gul's September 6 trip to Yerevan, President Aliyev gave Gul and the visiting Turkish side the impression [...] | 2008-09-12 15:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM AJ GG TU |
08ANKARA1643 | TURKEY: CHARITY FUND SCANDAL PROMPTS PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. A very public and ugly battle has erupted between Prime Minister Erdogan and the Dogan Group. The conflict dominated the news this week after Erdogan lashed out at business and media mogul Aydin Dogan for reporting on allegations in a German court that the German-based Deniz Feneri Cha [...] | 2008-09-15 04:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL TU |
08ANKARA165 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION CONFRONT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey's ban against headscarves at universities may soon be lifted if negotiations succeed between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and opposition Nationalist Action Party (MHP) on proposed constitutional amendments. PM Erdogan reignited the highly sensitive issue [...] | 2008-01-28 15:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU |
08ANKARA1650 | TURKEY: COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-15 13:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA TU |
08ANKARA1651 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary: On the ropes in its Constitutional Court closure case, pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) is staging "awareness-raising" walks, and reaching out to any who will listen to garner much-needed support. In his September 16 oral defense on behalf of the party, DTP Chairman Ah [...] | 2008-09-15 13:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1652 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-15 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1657 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 11:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA166 | TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: January 2008 [...] Turkey launched air strikes against PKK terrorist positions in northern Iraq on December 16, 17, 22 and 26. Several of the air strikes were supported by artillery fire. During the same period, counterterrorism operations within Southeast Turkey and against PKK terrorists in several cities con [...] | 2008-01-29 10:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL CH KZ GR TU |
08ANKARA1660 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1664 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 10:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1665 | Update on PKK Violence (September 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 8-15, 2008 reporting period, two secu [...] | 2008-09-18 11:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1667 | TURKEY: OPPONENTS SEE CHINKS IN AKP'S ARMOR AMID [...] (C) Summary and comment: Critics of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) point to a recent SONAR company poll showing a decline in AKP's popularity to 32 percent as a sign voters are souring on the party. Opposition politicians, journalists, and analysts believe a struggling econom [...] | 2008-09-18 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1669 | SCENESETTER FOR USG-GOT UNGA MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials will be highly visible in New York for this year,s UN General Assembly as their years-long effort to secure election to a UN Security Council seat representing the Western European and Others group comes to a climax. U.S. officials will want to engage the Turks o [...] | 2008-09-18 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU |
08ANKARA1675 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1676 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP DEFENDS ITSELF BEFORE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a two-hour verbal defense presented to the Constitutional Court September 16, Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Co-Chairman Ahmet Turk urged the Court not to close DTP and ban 220 of its members from politics. Turk claimed DTP has been working diligently to find a p [...] | 2008-09-19 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1679 | U.S.-TURKEY ENERGY WORKING GROUP: TURKEY RECOMMITS [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray and Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Bryza led the U.S. delegation to the first U.S.-Turkey Energy Working Group. A summary of Gray and Bryza,s points on Caspian energy is below. Iraq energy issues reported septel. -- Turkey mu [...] | 2008-09-22 08:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR IZ TU |
08ANKARA1680 | TURKEY REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR NORTHERN IRAQ GAS [...] (C) As part of the first U.S.-Turkey Energy Working Group held in Ankara on September 15, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray and DAS Matt Bryza discussed Iraq energy issues with the GOT. Caspian energy issues reported septel. Gray and the head of the Turkish delegation MFA Dep [...] | 2008-09-22 08:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ TU |
08ANKARA1681 | GULER STICKS TO TURKEY FIRST FORMULA FOR CASPIAN [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray and Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Bryza discussed Caspian and Iraqi gas with Energy Minister Hilmi Guler during a September 15 meeting. Guler asked for U.S. support for a northern export route for Iraqi gas to Turkey and Europe. [...] | 2008-09-22 08:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU IZ |
08ANKARA1686 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1687 | TURKEY: EMBASSY SUPPORT OF GE REQUEST FOR NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary. General Electric (GE) Turkey Managing Director Kursat Ozkan informed us September 4 that GE sent a formal request to GOT to postpone the deadline for bids for Turkey's first civilian nuclear power plant from September 24, 2008 to March 1, 2009 due to lack of project risk infor [...] | 2008-09-22 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT ENIV ENRG TU |
08ANKARA1688 | TURKEY-RUSSIA SIGN CUSTOMS DEAL TO RESOLVE TRADE DISPUTE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD TU |
08ANKARA1689 | CJCS ADMIRAL MULLEN CALL ON PRESIDENT GUL [...] (C) Summary: President Gul told CJCS Admiral Mullen September 15 that Turkey wanted our close counterterrorism cooperation to continue and that U.S. success in Iraq is critical for Turkey. Admiral Mullen pledged U.S commitment to sustaining intelligence cooperation. Gul said Turkey continue [...] | 2008-09-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ GG IR PK AF TU |
08ANKARA169 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-29 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1690 | MFA WANTS TO MAINTAIN NRC PREPCOM AS CHANNEL FOR [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA NATO Policy Department Head Gulhan Ulutekin on September 22. While she took our points on board, Ulutekin said Turkey views the PrepCom as a useful tool to maintain contact with Russia, particularly on issues in the long-term interest of the Alliance, i [...] | 2008-09-22 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO GG RS TU |
08ANKARA1693 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1694 | TURKEY FLOATS MIDDLE EAST SECURITY AND COOPERATION [...] (C) President Abdullah Gul will unveil Turkey's security and cooperation in the Middle East initiative (reftel) during his September 23 UNGA speech, according to MFA Middle East desk officer Murat Omeroglu. In very general terms, Gul will advocate for increased regional dialogue and propose th [...] | 2008-09-23 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA1696 | DAS BRYZA TALKS CYPRUS, MONTREUX CONVENTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 15 meeting in Ankara with EUR DAS Matt Bryza, MFA DU/S Berk said the GOT is pleased Cyprus negotiations have begun, but remains circumspect until it becomes more clear the Greek Cypriots are committed to negotiating a comprehensive settlement and not just going [...] | 2008-09-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS TU CY |
08ANKARA1699 | U.S.-TURKEY ENERGY WORKING GROUP: TURKEY RECOMMITS [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray and Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Bryza led the U.S. delegation to the first U.S.-Turkey Energy Working Group. A summary of Gray and Bryza,s points on Caspian energy is below. Iraq energy issues reported septel. -- Turkey mu [...] | 2008-09-24 08:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR IZ TU |
08ANKARA17 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. Per ref a. we met with Mechanical and Chemical Industries Corporation (MKEK) Director of Marketing and Export Akif Akgul on January 3, 2008 to discuss case number 05-050075628 related to an order for approximately one thousand Smith and [...] | 2008-01-04 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC TU KOMC |
08ANKARA170 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1700 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1701 | TURKEY: MORE ARRESTED IN ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION; [...] (C) Summary: As many as 17 more suspects were detained on September 23 in the latest round of police action in the investigation of the alleged anti-government Ergenekon organization. Detainees included a former Istanbul district mayor, a former senior police official, a prominent journalis [...] | 2008-09-24 15:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM TU |
08ANKARA1709 | TURKEY/TIP: NEW PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOT has launched a media campaign, including posters, TV and radio spots, to raise public awareness of TIP and promote the "157" hotline, and is taking additional steps to generate public support in the fight against TIP. A draft GOT-commissioned report on demand for TIP i [...] | 2008-09-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TIP SMIG PHUM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB TU |
08ANKARA171 | HEADSCARF LEGISLATION MOVING AT WARP SPEED THROUGH [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's parliament is expected to vote next week on changes designed to lift the ban on headscarves in universities. After intense negotiations (reftel),ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) leaders submitted a pack [...] | 2008-01-30 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU |
08ANKARA1710 | NEAR-TERM IRAQI GAS TO TURKEY? [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador discussed the near-term possibility of importing Iraqi gas to Turkey and Europe with the Chairman of Turkerler Group, Kazim Turker, on September 23. Turker said his Iraqi partner, Dana Gas, is committed to use early gas to supply Iraqi domestic needs but gas for expo [...] | 2008-09-25 13:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ TU |
08ANKARA1711 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 13:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1712 | TURKEY SEEKING MORE INFO ON NTM-I BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) We delivered ref a demarche to MFA Section Head for NATO Military Affairs M. Turker Ari on September 25. We noted that taking a lead role in the NTM-I border security mission would provide an additional opportunity for Turkey to engage with Iraq on and help support Iraq,s effort in streng [...] | 2008-09-25 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO TU IZ |
08ANKARA1714 | ADDRESSING AFGHAN CONCERNS FOLLOWING SHINDAND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 11:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO TU AF |
08ANKARA1715 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE EXERCISE PLANNING GROUP DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 11:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KNNP |
08ANKARA1716 | NATIONAL SECURITY AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) We passed the non-paper contained in reftel and a copy of the publicly-released paper to MFA Disarmament and Nonproliferation Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun on September 25. Gun welcomed the information and confirmed that the Turkish defense attache in Washington has received a brief [...] | 2008-09-26 11:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL PARM |
08ANKARA1718 | Update on PKK Violence (September 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 16-23, 2008 reporting period, one sec [...] | 2008-09-26 12:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1719 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA172 | TURKISH ELECTRICITY TO NORTHERN IRAQ: CONTRACT [...] (C) Turkish MFA Deputy Coordinator for Iraq Murat Ozcelik presented us with a two paragraph contract amendment on January 29 that he said was a "simple solution" to getting Turkish electricity supplies flowing again into Northern Iraq. The amendment needs to be signed by Kartet, the private T [...] | 2008-01-30 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EINV EPET IZ TU |
08ANKARA1721 | TURKS INTERESTED BUT CAUTIOUS IN FURTHERING EXPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: A 17-18 September 2008 Seminar co-sponsored by the EXBS program (State ISN/ECC) and the Turkish MFA highlighted opportunities for bilateral cooperation to strengthen Turkey's nonproliferation regime and engage with Turkey in outreach to promote stronger nonproliferation efforts [...] | 2008-09-26 13:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU EXBS |
08ANKARA1722 | TURKEY SHARES CONCERNS ON KHANAQIN STABILITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey is as concerned as the United States about stability in Iraq in light of events in recent weeks in the Khanaqin area of Diyala Province and the stand-off between Peshmerga and the IAF, according to MFA Iraq Desk Officer Can Oguz. The GOT has no intention of taking actions [...] | 2008-09-26 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1723 | TURKEY: CORRUPTION DEBATE FORESHADOWS A TENSE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Following a week of fast-flying accusations during which opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) whip Kemal Kilicdaroglu accused ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman Dengir Mir Firat of being a "drug baron" and Firat called Kilicdaroglu a "sland [...] | 2008-09-26 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1724 | RUSSIANS ARE THE SOLE BIDDER ON TURKEY'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. Ignoring delay requests from a majority of potential bidders, the GOT stuck to the September 24 bid submission deadline for the nuclear power tender and received only one bid, from AtomStroyExport of Russia. The bid will be subjected to an approval process, but GOT officials se [...] | 2008-09-26 16:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENIV ENRG RS TU |
08ANKARA1726 | TURKEY'S PATENT LAW REFORM ENDANGERED BY NEW [...] (SBU) On September 23, representatives from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA),briefed us about current issues affecting the pharmaceutical industry. Chief among their concerns were two proposed amendments to the new patent law, both of which would seriously wea [...] | 2008-09-30 11:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KIPR USTR TU |
08ANKARA173 | TURKEY: KARAMANLIS VISIT PAVES WAY FOR IMPROVED [...] (C) Summary: Greek Prime Minister Karamanlis' January 23-25 trip to Turkey symbolizes the improved state of Turkish-Greek relations. During his meeting with PM Erdogan, the two Prime Ministers focused on how to overcome the three most contentious bilateral issues -- Cyprus, the Aegean, and mi [...] | 2008-01-30 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU GR |
08ANKARA1737 | TURKEY: RATIFICATION OF NATO ACCESSION PROTOCOL [...] (U) We delivered reftel demarche requesting an update on the status of Turkey's efforts to ratify the NATO accession protocols for Albania and Croatia to MFA NATO Policy Department Head Gulhane Ulutekin on October 6. She said the bills to approve the accession protocols have been drafted and [...] | 2008-10-06 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MARR NATO PREL KTIA TU |
08ANKARA1738 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1739 | TURKEY STILL UNDECIDED ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNGA KV TU |
08ANKARA1740 | Update on PKK Violence (September 24-30, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 24-30, 2008 reporting period, three s [...] | 2008-10-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1744 | ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS SOUND, SO FAR [...] Summary and comment: The effects of the global financial crisis on Turkey's economy have not been significant, thus far. The stock market, known for volatility, has lost value and the lira has depreciated slightly. Structural reforms implemented by the GOT, especially in the banking sector, [...] | 2008-10-08 05:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA1747 | TURKEY LIKELY TO SUPPORT CANCELLATION OF ANNUAL [...] (S) Turkey is likely to support the call for cancellation of the annual Turkey-Turkish Cypriot military exercise Toros, according to MFA DDG for Northeast Mediterranean Kerim Uras, though a formal decision has yet to be taken. Uras told us the afternoon of October 8 that senior MFA colleagues [...] | 2008-10-08 15:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PM CY TU |
08ANKARA1748 | TURKEY: FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR DAVUTOGLU REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request. See para three. 2. (C) Prime Ministry and Presidential foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu informed Ambassador October 7 that he will travel to Washington October 26-29 to participate in a Brookings conference on the Middle East and expressed his interest [...] | 2008-10-08 15:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP TU |
08ANKARA1754 | TURKISH PETROLEUM CONFERENCE TARGETS UPSTREAM INVESTMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The purpose of Turkish Petroleum's "Northern Arabian Plate Oil and Gas Summit" (NAPOGS 2008) October 8-10 was to share information about ongoing or planned upstream development in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The conference targeted participation of energy ministers and nati [...] | 2008-10-09 09:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG TU IZ IR SY |
08ANKARA1760 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1761 | TURKEY: ENERGY MINISTER ON INVESTMENT IN IRAN [...] (U) On October 8, Reuters carried an interview with Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler on investment in Iran. The version in Turkish provided more detail than the wire service version. Below is a translation by Embassy staff of Guler's comments from the original story. 2. (U) Guler sai [...] | 2008-10-09 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG TU IR |
08ANKARA1762 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 04:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1763 | BANKS CLAIM LIMITED EXPOSURE TO GLOBAL CRISIS [...] Summary: While the world financial crisis continues, the Turkish banking sector is relatively robust thanks to its strong balance sheets and limited foreign exposure. The Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) is confident about the financial position of the sector, and says banker [...] | 2008-10-10 12:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA1766 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 14:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1767 | TURKEY: PARLIAMENT PLAUGED BY POLARIZATION AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: A climate of polarization fueled by allegations of corruption against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is expected to distract Parliament during the fall term that officially began October 1. The situation will likely be inflamed further by wrangling ove [...] | 2008-10-10 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1770 | TURKEY: KURDISH LAWYER CLAIMS PKK BEING WEAKENED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Hamza Yilmaz, a former lawyer for Abdullah Ocalan, told us he believes the PKK is losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the Kurdish community as the AKP has used religion to appeal to rural Kurds and the PKK/DTP's violent tactics and internal confusion have t [...] | 2008-10-10 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1771 | REQUEST FOR M113 ARMORED VEHICLES DELIVERED TO [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel request for third-party transfer of M113 armored personnel carriers to Yemen on October 7 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of Department for Security Affairs Inan Ozyildiz. Ozyildiz pledged that MFA would give the request serious consideration but said the decisi [...] | 2008-10-10 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM YM TU |
08ANKARA1779 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S [...] (C) Summary: A consensus appears to be emerging on the elements needed to defeat the PKK and the GOT and Turkish military are collaborating closely, according to several well-placed sources. These elements include: denying PKK safe havens in northern Iraq; granting security forces additional [...] | 2008-10-14 13:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ |
08ANKARA1781 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 14:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1786 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 13:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1787 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT - (SEPTEMBER 2008) [...] Summary: Activities this month focused primarily on executing the Sept. 17-18 Nonproliferation Seminar and making arrangements for the Customs VIP visit to the U.S. in November. EXBS also accompanied DOE/SLD rep to meetings with the Turkish national Police in support of their program. End Summ [...] | 2008-10-15 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA1788 | DELIVERY OF PRESIDENT BUSH - PM BROWN LETTER TO [...] (SBU) On October 14, jointly with the British Embassy, we delivered a copy of the President Bush - PM Brown letter to Hoseyin Avni Aksoy, Head of the MFA Multilateral Economic Affairs Office. Aksoy said he would consult with the Ministries of Agriculture and Industry on the proposed Global Par [...] | 2008-10-15 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID TU |
08ANKARA1791 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS [...] On October 14, we shared reftel information with Can Oguz, Office of the Special Envoy for Iraq, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oguz thanked us for the information, said he would promptly share it with the appropriate parties, and made no substantial additional comment. Visit Ankara's [...] | 2008-10-15 15:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC TU IZ IR SY |
08ANKARA1792 | DRUNKEN PASSENGER DISRUPTS TURKISH AIR FLIGHT, BUT [...] (U) Turkish and international media reported October 15 that a Turkish Airlines flight from Antalya, Turkey to St Petersburg, Russia had been hijacked during flight. Subsequent press reports said the hijacker had been subdued and that the flight was continuing on to St Petersburg. Still later [...] | 2008-10-16 04:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR TU RU |
08ANKARA1793 | Update on PKK Violence (October 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 1-7, 2008 reporting period, 19 security [...] | 2008-10-16 06:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA18 | TURKISH AIR STRIKES AGAINST PKK TERRORISTS IN [...] (S) Summary: Between December 16 and 26, Turkey launched four air strikes against PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq. The first attack on December 16 had the largest number of targets and struck the furthest south, hitting locations on south Qandil Mountain. Prior to the first attack, Tur [...] | 2008-01-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MOPS PTER IZ TU |
08ANKARA180 | TURKEY: ERDOGAN'S CRITICISM OF ISRAEL SPARKS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish/Israeli relations became tenser following Prime Minister Erdogan's January 23 comments criticizing the GOI for its siege of Gaza. In remarks to his party's parliamentary caucus, Erdogan called the Gaza Strip an "open air prison" and blamed Israel for this "humanitarian tr [...] | 2008-01-31 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU IS |
08ANKARA1801 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 14:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1805 | TURKEY WOOS ARAB LEAGUE FOR SUPPORT ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT continues to move forward with its Middle East outreach proposals -- the Turkey-Arab League Forum and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Middle East (CSCME) -- with only minimal results. Contrary to expectations, President Gul did not outline Turkey's CSCME [...] | 2008-10-17 04:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AL TU |
08ANKARA1806 | TURKEY: PKK ATTACK PUTS MILITARY UNDER A MICROSCOPE [...] (C) Since the October 3-4 PKK attack on the Aktutun military outpost, Turkey's military has come under unprecedented press criticism. This included calls for the resignation of the Deputy Chief of Staff (for failing to prevent the attack) and of the Chief of Turkey's Air Force (for being caug [...] | 2008-10-17 04:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA1807 | TURKEY PRESSING FOR RATIFICATION OF MONTREAL [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on October 16 to Basat Ozturk, DDG for Civil Aviation and Maritime Affairs at MFA. Ozturk said the GOT strongly supports the ratification of the Montreal Convention and pressed earlier this year to make it a legislative priority. The ratification legislati [...] | 2008-10-17 04:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ICAO TU |
08ANKARA1809 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 11:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1810 | TURKEY STILL OPPOSES OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION OFF [...] (C) We met October 16 with Basat Ozturk, DDG for Aviation and Maritime Affairs at MFA, to discuss Turkey,s position on oil and gas exploration off the coast of Cyprus. Ozturk said Turkey,s position has not changed from last year (reftel),and will not be affected by ongoing talks between the [...] | 2008-10-17 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT PBTS ENRG CY TU |
08ANKARA1818 | TURKEY: EUROPE MUST COUNT TURKEY AS PART OF ITS [...] (C) Summary: DCM and EconCouns met with Energy U/S Selahattin Cimen on October 16 to present copies of President Bush's letters to PM Erdogan and President Gul (reftel a) and to discuss Ministry of Energy (MOE) views on Turkey's energy supply policy. Cimen said Turkey appreciates the sincerity [...] | 2008-10-18 09:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG TU |
08ANKARA1819 | TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN: ELECTIONS, AFGHAN SPEAKER [...] (C) Turkey views upcoming Afghan elections as an important opportunity to strengthen Afghan national identity, MFA South Asia Section Head Emre Karagol told us October 17. President Gul and PM Erodgan underscored this point with Afghan National Assembly Speaker Kanuni during Kanuni's October [...] | 2008-10-20 05:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV AF PK TU |
08ANKARA182 | TURKEY'S OUTREACH TO THE KURDS OF THE SOUTHEAST: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish military operations in northern Iraq have opened new space in Turkey's political discourse. In sharp contrast to the situation throughout most of 2007, topics such as a focused economic development plan for southeastern Turkey, expanded Kurdish language broadcasting and e [...] | 2008-01-31 16:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ |
08ANKARA1820 | TURKEY: STRONG NEGATIVE REACTION EXPECTED ON NATO [...] (C) We understand plans are moving forward to commit NATO assets to participate in Exercise Noble Archer 2008, an exercise scheduled to begin December 2, which includes a flight track over Agios Efstratios, a small island in the Aegean Sea. Turkey asserts that the demilitarized status of this [...] | 2008-10-20 05:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO TU |
08ANKARA1824 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1827 | TURKEY: OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 16:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL GG TU |
08ANKARA1828 | TURKEY: TRABZON UP FOR GRABS IN NATIONWIDE LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Politics are personal and party affiliation counts for little in Turkey's Black Sea port of Trabzon. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is hoping to win Trabzon -- one of the very few large municipalities outside of its control -- in the March 2009 local [...] | 2008-10-20 16:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD EIND SOCI TU |
08ANKARA1829 | FIRST WAVES OF FINANCIAL CRISIS REACH TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: The financial crisis is affecting Turkey by reducing its GDP growth, employment, and exports, and by reducing capital and credit flows into Turkey. Combined, these have the potential to undermine Turkey,s relatively well-capitalized and lightly-leveraged banks (reftels). Economic [...] | 2008-10-21 04:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA183 | IRAQ NEIGHBORS PROCESS: MARCH 1-4 ENERGY WORKING [...] (SBU) MFA Energy Department Head Altay and GOT Iraq Coordinator Celikol told us in separate meetings that the GOI has agreed to dates for the next meeting of the Neighbors Process Energy Working Group. The GOT plans to host the Energy Working Group on March 1 and 2 in Istanbul. The GOT is p [...] | 2008-01-31 20:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET IZ TU |
08ANKARA1831 | TURKEY: AKP EYES SECULAR STRONGHOLD OF IZMIR IN [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Aegean jewel of Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, is at the heart of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) quest to dominate March 2009 local elections by besting its July 2007 parliamentary election performance, when it captured 47 percent of the [...] | 2008-10-21 07:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1833 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS PRESIDENT BUSH - PM BROWN [...] (SBU) Ambassador used the opportunity of an October 16 meeting to present the President Bush -- PM Brown letter to Gurcan Turkoglu, Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor to President Abdullah Gul. Turkoglu, who had not yet received a copy of the letter from the MFA, underscored the importance of food [...] | 2008-10-21 08:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PREL |
08ANKARA1837 | VAN: A GLIMPSE INTO TURKEY'S REMOTE EAST [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Two Embassy Econoffs recently visited the city of Van, a regional center in Turkey's remote east along the border with Iran. They found a pleasant lakeside city struggling to deal with a huge influx of intern [...] | 2008-10-21 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON BTIO PGOV EAID TU |
08ANKARA1839 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA184 | ANKARA'S WATER SUPPLY: SUPPLY UP QUALITY DOWN FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Water levels in Ankara,s reservoirs have risen from an approximate 15 day supply in December 2007 to an approximate 100 day supply in late January 2008. The usable water supply is still only 60% of the January 2007 level. To avoid another water shortage in summer 2008, the c [...] | 2008-02-01 06:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ABLD SENV TU |
08ANKARA1840 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1841 | TURKEY OPPOSES BLANKET MTCR OUTREACH, CONCERNED [...] (C) MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Head of Section Mustafa Yurdakul convoked us on October 17 to raise GOT concerns about the US proposal on technical outreach at the MTCR (reftel). Yurdakul, who will lead the Turkish delegation to the MTCR Plenary in Canberra , said while Turkey suppor [...] | 2008-10-22 12:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC PREL PARM KSCA TU |
08ANKARA1843 | PJAK STATEMENT ACCUSES U.S. OF SUPPORTING [...] (U) The Freedom Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK),the terrorist, anti-Iran affiliate of the PKK, released a statement threatening U.S. interests on October 18. It claims that U.S.-Turkey intelligence cooperation has prompted Turkey-Iran cooperation and coordinated joint attacks on "libertarian [...] | 2008-10-22 14:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PINR PINS PROP MOPS IR IZ TU |
08ANKARA1845 | TURKEY: NNSA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR TOBEY PROPOSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In October 20-21 meetings with GOT officials, NNSA Deputy Administrator Tobey stressed NNSA,s desire to enhance bilateral engagement on nuclear nonproliferation, proposed possible areas of cooperation, and underscored NNSA,s willingness to assist Turkey with the development of ind [...] | 2008-10-22 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KNNP ENRG EXBS TU |
08ANKARA1846 | SCENESETTER FOR DOE DEP SEC KUPFER'S OCT 30-31 [...] (SBU) Turkey remains the vital link in our strategy to bring gas from the Caspian Basin and Central Asia to Europe through a Southern Corridor. Turkish leaders with whom you will meet believe Turkey is facing acute electricity shortages as early as 2009 and natural gas shortages of up to 16 [...] | 2008-10-23 10:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA1850 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1852 | TURKEY TO ABSTAIN FROM FIRST COMMITTEE VOTE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO UNGA PARM TU |
08ANKARA1853 | TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT FLEXES MUSCLE IN [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's Constitution Court October 22 issued its "detailed verdict" fleshing out its June 5 annulment of constitutional amendments designed to lift the headscarf ban at Turkish universities. The Court ruled that the proposed amendments were an attempt to manipulate [...] | 2008-10-23 16:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1854 | TURKEY: A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 21 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a three-hour meeting October 21 with EUR A/S Fried, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan said that Turkey: -- hopes to wrap up an agreement with Armenia before the end of the year; -- wants both the U.S. and EU to join the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform in its se [...] | 2008-10-24 07:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO |
08ANKARA1855 | TURKEY: IMF MISSION SEES NEED FOR NEW FUND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wilson hosted IMF Mission Head Lorenzo Giorgiani, new IMF Turkey Desk Director Rachel Van Elkan, IMF Turkey Mission Chief Hossein Samei and Deputy Mission Chief Davide Lombardo for a breakfast with G-7 ambassadors on October 23. Giorgiani said the GOT has not yet ask [...] | 2008-10-24 10:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA1857 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 13:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1861 | TURKEY: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON NOV 13-14 BAKU [...] (C) Turkish MFA Energy Department First Secretary Berris Ekinci contacted the Embassy October 23 in hopes of learning more about the Nov 13-14 Baku Energy Summit. Ekinci expressed frustration about the lack of information from Baku and said the government of Azerbaijan had failed to respond [...] | 2008-10-24 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IZ TU AJ |
08ANKARA1864 | TURKEY: LIRA DEPRECIATES SHARPLY [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Turkish lira has taken a pounding, falling 37% against the dollar this month and 14.5% from October 20 to 24. The lira's sharp fall is mainly the result of foreign investors selling Turkish assets (USD $14 b [...] | 2008-10-27 05:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA1870 | TURKEY: MOU SIGNED ON HEU FUEL RETURN AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Office of Global Threat Reduction, and from the Department's Office of Nuclear Energy, Safety and Security (ISN/NESS) met with the president and other officials from the Turkish Atomi [...] | 2008-10-27 14:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG MNUC PARM TRGY TU |
08ANKARA1871 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1872 | TURKEY: PRIME MINISTER REJECTS IMF AND BUSINESS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan lashed out October 26 at the IMF and business groups pressuring the GOT to sign a new IMF agreement, saying "during a crisis, we will not bury the future in darkness by bowing to the de [...] | 2008-10-28 05:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA1877 | Update on PKK Violence (October 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 16-23, 2008 reporting period, one securi [...] | 2008-10-28 10:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1878 | Update on PKK Violence (October 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 8-15, 2008 reporting period, nine securi [...] | 2008-10-28 10:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1879 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1881 | TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ISSUES DETAILED [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following closely on the heels of its October 22 verdict in the headscarf case (ref A),Turkey's Constitutional Court October 24 issued its detailed verdict fleshing out its July 30 ruling not to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for alleged anti-se [...] | 2008-10-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1882 | PERSONNEL SHUFFLES ROCK STATE MEDIA GIANT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 05:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PHUM PGOV OSCE EU OIIP TU |
08ANKARA1885 | TURKEY: MFA DISCUSSES UNSC PREPARATIONS [...] (C) This is an action request for the Department. Please see para 4 below. 2. (C) MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs Hasan Gogus told DCM October 26 the GOT has begun initial preparations for Turkey's 2009-2011 non-permanent UNSC tenure. Gogus reported MFA has yet to de [...] | 2008-10-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC TU |
08ANKARA1888 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA189 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1897 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1898 | TURKEY: RESPONSE TO INFORMATION GATHERING REQUEST: [...] (C) The GOT has not yet publicly offered any ideas on reform of Bretton Woods institutions. GOT contacts say that they are awaiting the Summit agenda before meeting to discuss Turkey,s position on the specific agenda items. The Prime Minister and Treasury Minister have publicly said that T [...] | 2008-11-03 05:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA1899 | Update on PKK Violence (October 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 24-31, 2008 reporting period, no securit [...] | 2008-11-03 11:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA19 | TURKEY: 2007 - INTOLERANCE AND VIOLENCE TOWARD [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara-Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary: Intolerance and violence against Turkey's dwindling religious minority communities spiked in 2007. The January assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the brutal killing of three Christian [...] | 2008-01-04 12:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA190 | TURKEY: UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] There have been no new outbreaks since the small one reported in Zonguldak province on January 19th; however, the incubation period is not over. 2. According to a representative of the European UnionQs (EU) Technical Assistance team in Turkey, the Turkish Ministry of AgricultureQs General [...] | 2008-02-01 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU |
08ANKARA1901 | EU COMMISSIONER PIEBALGS TO GET TURKEY TO DROP [...] (C) Summary. On October 22, an EU Commission delegation led by Heinz Hilbrecht, Director for Conventional Energy Sources, Directorate General for Transportation and Energy met with Ministry of Energy Undersecretary Selahattin Cimen, MFA Deputy Undersecretary Selim Kuneralp and other GOT off [...] | 2008-11-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU XG |
08ANKARA1902 | SCENESETTER FOR THE WASHINGTON VISIT OF TURKISH [...] (C) Admiral Atac's visit will permit us to further cement strong bilateral military ties through the service with which we have perhaps the strongest bond. This visit will allow Atac to raise the most pressing issues for the Turkish Navy today: -- U.S. naval presence in the Black Sea in re [...] | 2008-11-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS IZ RU TU |
08ANKARA1904 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-03 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1905 | TURKEY: UNPRECEDENTED MILITARY BRIEFING TO COUNCIL [...] (SBU) At the military's request, the Chief of Turkish General Staff (TGS) Ilker Basbug briefed the Council of Ministers on Monday, October 27 on the military's counterterrorism efforts. This reportedly marked the first time the head of the Turkish military briefed the Council of Ministers and [...] | 2008-11-03 15:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS TU |
08ANKARA1907 | TURKEY: CAPITAL REPATRIATION LAW WILL NOT EXEMPT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: We met October 31 with Hasan Aktan, Undersecretary of Finance, to discuss the GOT's draft Capital Repatriation law and press reports that the GOT draft bill would exempt repatriated capital from money launderi [...] | 2008-11-04 11:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN TU |
08ANKARA191 | GOT PRESSES IRAQI TURKMEN TO RETURN TO KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials are pressing Iraqi Turkmen members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council to end their boycott and resume involvement in council deliberations. The Turks recognize it is in the interests of the Iraqi Turkmen people that their elected representatives participate in the pol [...] | 2008-02-01 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU IZ |
08ANKARA1910 | TURKEY: CYPRUS WATCHERS DOWNBEAT ON TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Skepticism about the chances for a Cyprus settlement continues across a range of Turkish academics and opinion leaders who track the issue, a small group of whom the DCM hosted October 31 for a free-ranging discussion. The prevailing sentiments include: -- G/C voters turned to [...] | 2008-11-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PREL TU US |
08ANKARA1911 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1914 | TURKEY: UNPOPULAR GAS PRICE INCREASES GO FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 1, the Turkish gas import monopoly BOTAS announced a 22.5% price increase in gas for households and 22% for industry. This is the fifth gas price increase in 2008 and brings the total gas price increase to over 70% so far this year. At a press conference on Novembe [...] | 2008-11-04 15:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG TU |
08ANKARA1916 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY PARTY [...] (C) Summary and comment: The symbolism of victory in the March 2009 local elections is helping fuel the rapidly rising tension and violence in Turkey's Southeast (reftel). PM Erdogan's repeated visits to the region in recent weeks are part of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) [...] | 2008-11-05 09:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1917 | FM BABACAN IN AFGHANISTAN; GILLANI, KARZAI IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Babacan stressed Turkey's commitment to Afghanistan during his October 26-27 visit to Kabul, Wardak and northern Afghanistan. The Turks are pressing forward on infrastructure and education projects, but face obstacles from local and national authorities in Kabul. Turkey has [...] | 2008-11-05 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PTER MARR EAID EINV AF PK TU |
08ANKARA1918 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1920 | (C) MINISTER SIMSEK ASKS USG HELP TO MODERATE IMF [...] (C) Summary: In a November 5 meeting with Ambassador Wilson, Treasury Minister Simsek asked the USG to intercede with the IMF to moderate its demands for a new program with Turkey. Simsek said the GOT sees a Precautionary Stand-By Agreement as an anchor for private sector expectations, but t [...] | 2008-11-05 17:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL TU |
08ANKARA1922 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1923 | TURKEY NOT PLANNING TO HOST PSI OR REGIONAL OEG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 15:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA1924 | TURKISH ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION HEAD REMAINS [...] (C) During a November 4 meeting with a team from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Safety Administration (DOE/NNSA) to discuss the repatriation of US-origin highly enriched uranium (septel),Turkish Atomic Energy Commission (TAEK) President Okay Cakiroglu expressed annoyance with the [...] | 2008-11-06 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP ENRG EXBS TU |
08ANKARA1926 | TURKEY: 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Following is Mission Turkey's submission of the Drugs and Chemical Control Section for the 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Turkey I. Summary Turkey continues to be a major transit route for Southwest Asian opiates moving to Europe, and serves as a staging area f [...] | 2008-11-06 16:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
08ANKARA1927 | TURKEY: GOT REQUESTS MEETINGS ON MULTILATERAL [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3 below. 2. (C) During a November 6 meeting with DCM and Economic Counselor, Turkish G-20 Summit Sherpa Selim Kuneralp asked about a proposed meeting between PM Erdogan and the Vice President on the margins of the G-20 Financial Summit, as a follow [...] | 2008-11-07 05:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG TU |
08ANKARA1928 | DRAFT NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN EINV TU |
08ANKARA1930 | TURKEY: PREPARATIONS AND OUTLOOK FOR G-20 [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Economic Counselor met November 6 with Turkish Summit Sherpa Selim Kuneralp and MFA Department Head for Multilateral Economic Affairs Serap Ozcuksun to discuss Turkish preparations for the G-20 Summit. Kuneralp said the Prime Minister has not yet decided who will sit with [...] | 2008-11-07 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KSUM PREL TU |
08ANKARA1931 | RECOGNIZED ORGANIZATIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 13:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT EUN IMO |
08ANKARA1932 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1935 | TURKEY: PKK SUCCEEDING IN DRIVING WEDGE BETWEEN [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: During one week of meetings in southeastern Turkey, PolOff met with political figures, writers and NGOs to discuss the Kurdish issue, growing regional tension, and upcoming local elections. Contacts said the PKK is using the pro-Kurdish [...] | 2008-11-07 16:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1936 | GOT AND PIEBALGS AGREE ON CASPIAN DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary. Ankara EU Commission Economic Counselor Ulrike Hauer described EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs' November 6 visit to Ankara as very successful. Piebalgs met with President Gul, Prime Minister Erdogan, Treasury Minister Simsek and Energy Undersecretary Cimen. Gul told Piebalgs he [...] | 2008-11-07 17:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA1937 | TURKEY: EU PROGRESS REPORT CITES LACK OF REFORMS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The EU's annual progress report on Turkey released November 5 met with mixed reaction here. Referring to the assessment as "balanced," GOT officials publicly highlighted its positive aspects, including Turkey's contributions to regional and energy security and progress [...] | 2008-11-07 17:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1938 | HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: TURKEY'S NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bureaucratic turf battles and finger pointing continue to frame Ankara's recent announcement of a new civilian structure to manage GoT efforts against the PKK in southeastern Turkey. That announcement came after extensive discussion on a new counterterrorism approach, amid mount [...] | 2008-11-07 17:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR TU |
08ANKARA1939 | HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: TURKEY'S NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bureaucratic turf battles and finger pointing continue to frame Ankara's recent announcement of a new civilian structure to manage GoT efforts against the PKK in southeastern Turkey. That announcement came after extensive discussion on a new counterterrorism approach, amid mount [...] | 2008-11-10 05:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINR TU |
08ANKARA1940 | TURKEY RECEPTIVE TO STAFFING UN KOREA COMMAND AND [...] (C) Summary: Turkish General Staff (TGS) told Major General John Weida, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff, UN Command Korea, November 7 that Turkey would participate in planning for the theater-level exercise Key Resolve and would consider sending a Turkish officer to staff the UN Korea Command (Re [...] | 2008-11-10 07:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KS TU |
08ANKARA1942 | TURKEY: EXPORT CONTROL INTERAGENCY CONTEMPLATING NEXT STEPS IN NONPRO COOPERATION [...] (C) We delivered letters from DOE/NNSA Deputy Administrator Will Tobey (Ref a) and ISN/ECC Director Yvette Wong (ref b) to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament DDG Ahmet Gun on November 3. He thanked us for the letters and provided a readout of the October 24 meeting of the interagency Export [...] | 2008-11-10 09:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU ETTC |
08ANKARA1943 | TURKEY: RESIGNATION OF POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHT [...] (C) Summary and comment: The November 7 resignation of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman and party co-founder Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat surprised Ankara's political establishment and engendered immediate waves of speculation. Political circles dismissed Firat's stated re [...] | 2008-11-10 12:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1948 | TURKEY TO SEND MOI OFFICIAL TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) The MFA confirmed on November 10 that the GOT will be represented at the November 13-14 Global Initiative Exercise Planning Group meeting (ref a) by Hasan Huseyin Gercek, a superintendent from the Ministry of Interior's Directorate General for Security Affairs. 2. (C) Comment: To our [...] | 2008-11-10 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KNNP |
08ANKARA1950 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-10 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1953 | Update on PKK Violence (November 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the November 1-7, 2008 reporting period, no security [...] | 2008-11-12 10:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA1956 | COMBATING TIP IN TURKEY: UNEVEN PROGRESS TOWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey is facing a number of deadlines in 2009 in achieving long-term and sustainable support for core aspects of its anti-trafficking program: the TIP shelters and the "157" hotline. Our EU, NGO and GOT contacts remain confident that Turkey will do so, but the effort has take [...] | 2008-11-12 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | TIP SMIG PHUM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB TU |
08ANKARA1957 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1959 | TURKEY: DTP CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (U) The following congratulatory message was received for the President-elect from Co-President of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). Begin text: We would like to present our hearty congratulations on your election as the President of the United States of America. We hope that, your co [...] | 2008-11-13 10:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP TU |
08ANKARA196 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1960 | TURKEY: CHP CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT ELECT [...] (U) The following congratulatory message was received November 6 for the President-elect from the Chairman of the opposition Republican Peoples' Party (CHP). Begin text: Dear Mr. President-Elect, I warmly congratulate your election as the President of the United States of America. I am [...] | 2008-11-13 10:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP TU |
08ANKARA1961 | TURKEY: BABACAN DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ WITH UK FS [...] (C) Summary: In an attempt to reconnect following a tense meeting on the margins of UNGA, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband hosted FM Ali Babacan in his hometown of South Shield November 7. Babacan provided an optimistic update on GOT's ongoing discussions with the Kurdistan Regional Govern [...] | 2008-11-13 10:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN IR IZ TU UK |
08ANKARA1964 | TURKEY/IRAQ: GOT ACCEPTS POSTPONEMENT OF TRILAT [...] (S) The GOT has accepted Iraq's request that the IZ-TU-US Trilateral meeting on security issues scheduled to take place November 14 be postponed. The delegation is now planning to travel to Baghdad November 19 and, according to GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Ozcelik, will be led by Interior [...] | 2008-11-13 11:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR IZ TU |
08ANKARA1965 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 12:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1967 | TURKEY: MFA ASSERTS EU MOMENTUM CONTINUES, BUT [...] (C) MFA European Union Political Affairs Section Head Yaprak Alp told us that the pace of EU reform in Turkey has not slowed. As the focus shifts from controversial political reforms to more technical aspects, Turkey's EU accession bid simply is no longer front page news and thus many believe [...] | 2008-11-13 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU |
08ANKARA1969 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON FEDERAL RESERVE SWAP LINES [...] (C) Economic Counselor delivered reftel demarche on November 13 to Ibrahim Yagli, Acting Department Head for Multilateral Economic Affairs at MFA. Econ Counselor emphasized that we were responding to the Minister's non-offical request to explore a Fed swap line as an option (reftel B),and t [...] | 2008-11-13 15:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN TU |
08ANKARA1972 | FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN: TURKEY TO FOCUS ON [...] (C) We conveyed ref A points on the "Friends of Pakistan" meeting in Abu Dhabi to MFA South Asia Section Head Emre Karagol November 13. Karagol, who will accompany MFA DG for South Asia and Iran Huseyin Dirioz to the November 17 meeting, told us Turkey plans to concentrate on the security and [...] | 2008-11-14 08:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON EAID AF PK TU |
08ANKARA1974 | TURKEY/NSG: TURKEY CONCERNED ABOUT "SUBJECTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-14 11:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA TU |
08ANKARA1975 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (OCTOBER [...] Summary: TDY EXBS Advisor Kevin Cummings and EXBS Coordinator met with Turkish Customs Enforcement officials during this period and provided a comprehensive briefing on U.S. Customs. Final preparations have been confirmed for the November 12-24 visit of Director General of Customs Enforcemen [...] | 2008-11-14 11:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA1978 | TURKISH REAL SECTOR BEING SQUEEZED FROM ALL SIDES [...] (SBU) Summary: With the financial crisis hitting both Turkey and the region, the real sector finds itself squeezed between a sharp economic slowdown in key export markets and a tightening of credit. With $191 billion in FX debt (combined real and financial sector) outstanding, Turkey,s priva [...] | 2008-11-14 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA198 | TRENDS FOR TURKISH ECONOMY IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: 2008 will be a challenging year for the Turkish economy and the government's economic policies. Turkey already has felt effects from the global credit crisis and investor risk re-assessment and it remains vulnerable because of its external financing needs. Economic growth is s [...] | 2008-02-04 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EFIN TU |
08ANKARA1980 | TURKEY/AZERBAIJAN: GUL PROPOSES TRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S for Eastern Europe and South Caucasus Unal Cevikoz and PM Foreign Policy Advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador separately that President Gul proposed a trilateral Turkey-Armenia-Azerbaijan summit, perhaps in late January or early February, to President Aliyev, during Aliye [...] | 2008-11-14 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM AJ TU |
08ANKARA1982 | TURKEY NEEDS AN IMF DEAL AND EXTERNAL FINANCING [...] (C) Summary: Reftel A describes multiple pressures on the real sector in Turkey. Key among them is financing. Banking fundamentals in Turkey remain sound, but banks are becoming skittish and limiting or cutting off credit to all but their best customers. The GOT is getting pressure to make [...] | 2008-11-14 13:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA1983 | TURKEY TAKES BTC TO COURT [...] (C) Summary. On November 7, recently-promoted BP Turkey President Djan Suphi told us that negotiations with Azerbaijan on Shah Deniz Phase II pricing are deadlocked, but he feels Azerbaijan is softening its position and that could lead to a compromise. Suphi argued that SOCAR does not want [...] | 2008-11-14 13:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA1984 | TURKEY: MOVIE DEPICTING "REAL" ATATURK EVOKES [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's current box-office leader "Mustafa" is stirring emotions due to its portrayal of the modern Turkish Republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a lonely, hard-drinking man beset by doubts. After opening to sold out shows and rave reviews, hard-line Kemalist critics launc [...] | 2008-11-14 15:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1985 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-14 15:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1987 | TURKEY: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-14 16:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR BL TU |
08ANKARA199 | TURKEY CONSIDERING REQUEST TO INSPECT SYRIA BOUND [...] (S) We delivered reftel paper to MFA Deputy Director General for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun, and Head of Department for Aviation Affairs Hamit Olcay on February 4. Both Gun and Olcay expressed appreciation for the advanced notification and the detailed information regar [...] | 2008-02-04 15:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC TU IR KN |
08ANKARA1990 | TURKISH FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER TUZMEN'S VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a November 12 meeting, the Ambassador spoke with Kursad Tuzmen, State Minister for Foreign Trade, on a range of issues, with special attention to the future of Iraq and Georgia. Tuzmen was pessimistic about Iraq, but sees opportunities to reshape Iraq's future through trade and [...] | 2008-11-17 11:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN TU IZ GG |
08ANKARA1991 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1992 | TURKEY/IRAN: TURKEY EAGER FOR CHANGE IN IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials and Think-tankers in Ankara told Department of State Iranian Affairs Office Director Todd Schwartz during November 13 meetings that the U.S. should initiate direct talks with Iran and signal a willingness to "extend a hand of friendship" early in the Obama Admini [...] | 2008-11-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG IR TU |
08ANKARA1993 | TURKEY: AKP FLIRTS WITH ALEVI INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Alevi leaders greeted with skepticism Turkish press accounts that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) plans to create an office within the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to fund Alevi prayer houses (cemevis) and broaden Alevi rights. They believe AKP is c [...] | 2008-11-17 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA1994 | TURKEY: MINISTER GULER IN TEHRAN TO TRY TO CLOSE [...] (C) On November 15, a delegation led by Turkish Energy Minister Guler went to Tehran to try to conclude negotiations begun in July 2007 to develop natural gas in Iran's large South Pars field and to construct a dedicated pipeline to bring Iranian gas to Turkey (reftel). The delegation also i [...] | 2008-11-17 17:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA1996 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA1997 | TURKEY WILL HANDLE TWO EASTERN MED MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: Charge and Econ Counselor met November 17 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary Haydar Berk to discuss two maritime incidents that occurred in the eastern Mediterranean on November 14 and 15 in waters that Turkey claims as part of its continental shelf (reftel B). The first started midd [...] | 2008-11-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ENRG CY GR TU |
08ANKARA1998 | TURKEY SIGNS NATURAL GAS MOU WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary. MFA Energy Department Head Berris Ekinci characterized the MOU signed between Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler and Iranian Petroleum Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari on November 17 as "nothing new." There was no progress on long-standing issues such as gas price, investment ter [...] | 2008-11-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA200 | GOT EXPLAINS WHY GAS TO GREECE IS SHUT OFF [...] (C) Summary: BOTAS (state gas pipeline company) Chairman and General Manager Saltuk Duzyol told us that he cannot supply both the domestic Turkish market and meet supply commitments to Greece because of both deep and sustained supply cuts from Iran and supply reductions from Azerbaijan. Duyz [...] | 2008-02-05 05:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA2002 | TURKEY: WHIRLING ISSUES BYPASS KONYA [...] (C) Summary and comment: The central Anatolian city of Konya has a rich history and unique modern-day economic and political importance to Turkey. In the past decade, this "Anatolian Tiger" of 1 million people has built a dynamic economy centered on industrial agriculture but expanding rapid [...] | 2008-11-19 12:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA2003 | TURKEY: IRAN NUCLEAR CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) CDA delivered reftel demarche to MFA Near East and South Asia Deputy Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu on November 19, underscoring that, as a member of the NSG and the IAEA Board of Governors and soon-to-be member of the UNSC, GOT participation in the conference would send the wrong sign [...] | 2008-11-19 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IR TU |
08ANKARA2004 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-19 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2005 | OBAMA SPELLS HOPE FOR TURKEY'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary and comment: An array of Turkey's most prominent human rights defenders hailed the election of Barack Obama as the beginning of a new era for the advancement of human rights in Turkey and the world. In the eyes of these activists, the European Union's ability to influence the GOT [...] | 2008-11-19 15:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA2006 | DP PARTY CONGRESS: FANFARE FOR A COMMON MAN [...] (C) Summary: The center-right Democrat Party (DP),a former electoral powerhouse with a checkered history, held its national party congress on 15 November. The convention hall was packed, the participants energetic, and the incumbent chairman, Suleyman Soylu, was reelected easily with a mess [...] | 2008-11-19 16:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV TU |
08ANKARA2008 | HOLY TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT! IT'S BATMAN VS. BATMAN [...] SUMMARY. In a story that received a great deal of play in the blogosphere and in both the U.S. and Turkish press (including mention on CNN and in Variety),Huseyin Kalkan, mayor of the small Turkish city of Batman, has announced plans to sue Warner Brothers and director Christopher Nolan for u [...] | 2008-11-20 06:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR PHUM KCRM TU |
08ANKARA2011 | TURKEY PLANS TO AMEND NATURAL GAS MARKET LAW TO FREE GAS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOT is expediting long-awaited legislative amendments to liberalize the natural gas market in Turkey. Iran's gas cut-off the past few winters, and increasing pressure from companies wanting to enter the market pushed the Energy Ministry to prepare a Gas Sector Strategy Pap [...] | 2008-11-20 13:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG TU |
08ANKARA2012 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN'S PASSAGE TO INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Eight years after the last visit to New Delhi by a Turkish Government leader, Prime Minister Erdogan departs November 20 for a four-day trip to India. Both the MFA and Indian Embassy in Ankara describe the visit as "overdue," but emphasize that it reflects a healthy bilateral r [...] | 2008-11-20 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL TU IN AF PK |
08ANKARA2013 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2014 | TURKEY SEEKING A COMPROMISE WITH IMF [...] (C) Summary: Charge and Econ Couns met November 19 with State Minister for Treasury Simsek to get a readout on the G-20 Summit and GOT discussions with the IMF. Simsek said the G-20 was a "good first meeting," but produced nothing concrete. While G-20 countries were encouraged to take fiscal [...] | 2008-11-20 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA2016 | TURKEY: MFA DEPUTY U/S SINIRLIOGLU ON IRAQ, [...] (S) Summary: MFA Deputy Undersecretary for the Middle East and South Asia Feridun Sinirlioglu provided CDA with an overview of pressing regional issues November 19. He reported that President Gul intends to visit cities outside Baghdad in addition to the capital during his upcoming Iraq visit [...] | 2008-11-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS PINS PGOV TU IZ IR |
08ANKARA2017 | ILL-TIMED RATE REDUCTIONS IN TURKEY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. In a move analysts called "shocking, premature, futile, and destructive," the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) on November 19 cut its overnight borrowing rate to 16.25% (down from 16.75%) and its [...] | 2008-11-20 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA2018 | TURKEY: MFA'S AFRICA DEPARTMENT RAMPING UP FOR UNSC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The MFA's Africa Department (AFGY) is ramping up its efforts to prepare for Turkey's rapidly approaching 2009-2011 non-permanent UNSC tenure. While MFA leadership has not determined how the decision-making process will work, the three-man department is taking nascent [...] | 2008-11-21 06:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC TU |
08ANKARA202 | TURKEY: NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK [...] The Ministry of Agriculture announced on February 4th, that there is a new outbreak of Avian Influenza in the country. This outbreak is in Samsun province on the Black Sea, about 400 Kilometers east of Zonguldak, where the last outbreak occurred. 2. On January 28, Ministry officials were in [...] | 2008-02-05 09:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU |
08ANKARA2022 | TURKEY-IRAN NATURAL GAS MOU: OUTSTANDING ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. We continue to seek information on the November 17 natural gas MOU signed between Turkey and Iran. The MFA is reluctant to share the text but did read from it during our meeting. The MOU is a "statement of intent" rather than a firm commitment, the MFA argued. As reported refte [...] | 2008-11-21 16:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA2024 | PM MALIKI SENDS ENVOY TO REASSURE NEIGHBORS ON SOFA [...] (C) PM Maliki sent an envoy, State Minister for National Dialogue Akram al-Hakim, to deliver a personal message to PM Erdogan, and other regional leaders, regarding the Iraq-U.S. SOFA, according to MFA Department Head for Iraq Aydin Acikel. Al-Hakim, who arrived in Ankara early November 20 fro [...] | 2008-11-21 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IZ TU |
08ANKARA2025 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-21 16:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2028 | TURKEY-IRAN NATURAL GAS MOU: OUTSTANDING ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. We continue to seek information on the November 17 natural gas MOU signed between Turkey and Iran. The MFA is reluctant to share the text but did read from it during our meeting. The MOU is a "statement of intent" rather than a firm commitment, the MFA argued. As reported refte [...] | 2008-11-21 16:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA203 | TURKEY: POSITIVE SHIFTS IN PUBLIC OPINION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The overwhelmingly positive reaction of political leaders to US-Turkey cooperation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is now also being reflected in public opinion. Recent polls indicate that the US has reversed the downward trend in public opinion that had U [...] | 2008-02-05 09:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA2031 | TALAT ON CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS: GLASS IS HALF-FULL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat portrayed the status of ongoing Cyprus negotiations in realistic yet optimistic terms in a November 20 speech in Ankara. Talat was clear in pointing out the trouble spots where negotiations have to date accomplished little, and agreed wit [...] | 2008-11-24 07:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CY TU |
08ANKARA2038 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2039 | TURKEY-AZERBAIJAN GAS TALKS HELD UP BY RESALE [...] (C) On November 20, BOTAS International Relations Department Head Emre Unger described to us the state of play on Turkey-Azerbaijan gas negotiations. He said the two sides are nearing agreement on how much Azerbaijan Shah Deniz Phase II (SD II) gas would be available for purchase by Turkey. [...] | 2008-11-24 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET AJ TU |
08ANKARA2040 | TURKEY'S MAIN OPPOSITION PARTIES FIND RELIGION [...] (C) Summary: Sensing that the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) may be vulnerable in the lead-up to local elections, the leaders of both of Turkey's main opposition parties -- the arch-secular Republican People's Party (CHP) and the nationalist Nationalist Action Party (MHP) -- h [...] | 2008-11-24 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA2041 | TURKEY: POLICE LIFT CURTAIN ON ERGENEKON PROBE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish National Police on November 21 gave the Embassy an extensive briefing on their investigation into Ergenekon, the shadowy group alleged to have plotted an overthrow of the AKP government. The briefing presented a seamless informational overview, underscoring that Ergeneko [...] | 2008-11-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV TU |
08ANKARA2044 | Update on PKK Violence (November 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the November 8-15, 2008 reporting period, no securit [...] | 2008-11-25 07:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA2045 | TURKEY WELCOMES U.S. CT DIALOGUE PROPOSAL, URGES [...] (S) Summary. S/CT Dell Dailey urged Turkey November 14 to agree to an annual high-level counterterrorism (CT) dialogue, pressed it to use its influence with Syria to halt the transit of foreign terrorists and asked it to positively respond to earlier U.S. information-sharing proposals. Inter [...] | 2008-11-25 12:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV IZ SY EU TU |
08ANKARA2049 | TURKEY: PKK LEADER OCALAN MAY GET COMPANY [...] (U) This is an AmConsulate Adana message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Acting on a year-old rebuke from the Council of Europe's Committee (COE) for the Prevention of Torture (CPT),the GOT has announced potential plans to modify the conditions of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in solitary c [...] | 2008-11-25 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA2050 | TURKEY ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE AND [...] Ag Counselor delivered reftel talking points to Selma Ayture at the External Relations Division at the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs (MARA) on Nov. 25. She replied that they were aware of the initiative but said there had been no coordinated discussion within the ministry. She a [...] | 2008-11-25 14:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO EAID PGOV |
08ANKARA2051 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-25 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2052 | TURKEY'S RULING AKP: LET THE ELECTION GAMES BEGIN [...] (C) Summary and comment: Facing its first nationwide electoral test since its landslide victory in the July 2007 parliamentary elections, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is sparing no expense in taking organizational steps to help secure victory. AKP Deputy Chairman for Electo [...] | 2008-11-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
08ANKARA2055 | TURKISH RESPONSE: POTENTIAL PAKISTAN DONORS [...] (SBU) On November 26, we delivered reftel message to Babur Girgin, Department Head, Directorate of South Asia, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Girgin said Turkey is generally supportive of the concept of holding a Pakistan Donors, Conference, but has not determined the level of its parti [...] | 2008-11-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK TU AF |
08ANKARA2056 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 13:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2057 | TURKEY/IAEA: TURKEY WILL EXPRESS "NUANCED" [...] (C) CDA delivered reftel demarche to MFA International Security and Disarmament DG Tomur Bayar on November 25. Drawing on reftel background, CDA stressed that, as a neighbor of both Iran and Syria, a member of the IAEA Board of Governors (BoG) and soon-to-be member of the UN Security Council, [...] | 2008-11-26 13:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY TU |
08ANKARA2058 | AN IRAN VIGNETTE; DUAL EXISTENCES IN DAILY LIFE [...] (C) Summary: In a September interview with Leila E, an official with the Iranian Ministry of Interior, she offered insights into political, social, and religious issues occurring in Iran. She described pervasive efforts by the regime to monitor and control the activities of the Iranian po [...] | 2008-11-26 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS IR PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SCUL SOCI TU |
08ANKARA206 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2063 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2064 | TURKEY WILL NOT SIGN THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER [...] (U) MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul confirmed on November 28 that the GOT will not/not sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Turk ey SILLIMAN [...] | 2008-11-28 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MOPS TU |
08ANKARA2065 | TURKEY WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT RESOLUTION ON [...] (U) We delivered the demarche regarding the "Compliance with non-proliferation, arms limitation and disarmament agreements and commitments" (reftel) to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul on November 29. Yurdakul said the USG can count on GOT support for the res [...] | 2008-11-28 12:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL UNGA TU |
08ANKARA2066 | TURKISH WOMEN TOO FIGHT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's young but steadily growing women's rights movement can claim progress in recent years. A handful of committed NGO's pushed the GOT to make women's rights one of the centerpieces of the government's 2003-2004 effort to accelerate EU-related reforms. They succeeded: the [...] | 2008-11-28 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA2068 | Update on PKK Violence (November 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the November 16-23, 2008 reporting period, three se [...] | 2008-12-01 13:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA2069 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2070 | TURKEY: PREMIER THINK TANK ASAM CLOSES ITS DOORS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: One of Turkey's premier think tanks the Eurasian Strategic Research Center (ASAM) unexpectedly closed in November after losing its main corporate sponsor. The Ulker Group pulled its funding on short notice. While neither ASAM nor Ulker have publicly addressed the re [...] | 2008-12-01 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU |
08ANKARA2077 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-03 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2078 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-03 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2083 | SIVAS AND YOZGAT: COMPLACENCY IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV TU |
08ANKARA2085 | TURKEY: MFA ON THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 11:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU |
08ANKARA2086 | TURKEY: ERDOGAN SHIFTS INTO NATIONALIST GEAR [...] (C) Summary: Islamist columnist Fehmi Koru's November 6 comment that Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2002 as an "Obama-like personality but came to resemble President Bush" drew an aggressive reaction from Erdogan and generated a groundswell of commentary. Many who had once supported [...] | 2008-12-04 12:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA2087 | TURKEY ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT PROTECTIONIST SPIRAL, [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel talking points to Ibrahim Yagli, MFA Department Head in the Office of Multilateral Economic Affairs. He observed that the GOT had not been aware of the protectionist measures taken by India, Brazil, and Argentina. Yagli agreed that such activities could create a dan [...] | 2008-12-04 12:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD PREL ECON WTRO |
08ANKARA2088 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY [...] (C) MFA Under Secretary Apakan's December 8-9 visit will be the fifth iteration of the "Shared Vision and Structured Dialogue" agreed upon by Secretary Rice and then-FM Gul in July 2006. Knowing it will take some time for the new administration to have its new team in place, U/S Apakan presse [...] | 2008-12-04 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL TU |
08ANKARA2089 | TURKEY: ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE [...] (U) Summary: To respond to the Department's call for action in recognition of November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the United Nations' "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence" (ref A),Embassy Ankara: --engaged with a diverse array of ci [...] | 2008-12-04 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM TU |
08ANKARA209 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR MANN DISCUSSES GAS TRANSIT WITH [...] (C) Summary. During a 14-hour stopover in Istanbul on January 28, U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steve Mann discussed a range of energy issues with BOTAS (state oil and gas pipeline company) General Manager Saltuk Duzyol, British Petroleum Turkey Director Tahir Uysal [...] | 2008-02-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG EPET IZ TU TX |
08ANKARA2091 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON INCREASING FINANCIAL [...] (C) Econ Counselor delivered reftel demarche on December 3 jointly with representatives of the UK, Italian, French and German embasssies to Devrim Ozturk, Head of MFA's South Asia Department. Italian DCM Alessandro Azzoni read the joint talking points, noting that he was speaking for all five [...] | 2008-12-05 04:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KNNP MNUC IR TU |
08ANKARA2096 | TURKEY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT: RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's relations with Cuba are limited and its investment on the island is nonexistent. The two countries conduct a yearly Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting, most recently chaired in March in Ankara by Cuba's Minister for Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Investment a [...] | 2008-12-05 12:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU TU |
08ANKARA21 | TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR BOMBING KILLS FIVE, INJURES [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate Adana - Embassy Ankara cable. 2. (U) On January 3 at approximately 1650 hours local, an explosion in Diyarbakir's busy Yenisehir district rocked an area adjacent to the upscale Dedeman Hotel, a shopping mall, and military barracks, shattering windows in neighbo [...] | 2008-01-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PGOV TU |
08ANKARA2106 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON POTENTIAL PAKISTAN DONORS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Econ counselor delivered reftel talking points December 11 to Babur Girgen, Head of the Afghan-Pakistan Department at MFA. Girgen said having a fixed date for the conference was the most important factor to ensure the [...] | 2008-12-11 10:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD PK TU |
08ANKARA2109 | TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR MAYOR ENVISIONS 2009 PROGRESS [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Diyarbakir mayor Osman Baydemir voiced hope that the incoming Obama administration will address Turkey's Kurdish issue by mediating a dialogue that would result in an end to violence by the PKK and an expansion of Kurdish political righ [...] | 2008-12-12 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA211 | TURKEY: ACADEMIC CONVICTED FOR INSULTING ATATURK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA2114 | INCIRLIK HUB AGREEMENT: ANOTHER STEP FORWARD [...] (SBU) The Iraqi Ambassador in Turkey delivered ref a request to the Turkish Foreign Ministry during the morning hours of December 15. MFA officials told us that the GOI note, together with the U.S. request to extend the validity of agreements regarding support to OIF through Turkey, was sent [...] | 2008-12-15 17:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MARR TU IZ |
08ANKARA2115 | Update on PKK Violence (November 24-30, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the November 24-30, 2008 reporting period, no securi [...] | 2008-12-16 07:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA2116 | Update on PKK Violence (December 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 1-7, 2008 reporting period, no security [...] | 2008-12-16 07:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA2118 | TURKISH INTELLECTUALS APOLOGIZE TO ARMENIANS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: 275 intellectuals have signed a petition apologizing for the "great disaster" suffered by Armenians in 1915. The apology has prompted considerable debate in Turkey, with some criticizing the authors for not calling on the state to apologize and others arguing that the apology, w [...] | 2008-12-16 10:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM TU |
08ANKARA2119 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-16 14:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA212 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2123 | TURKS ASK WHETHER AZERBAIJAN IS SERIOUS ABOUT [...] (C) MFA Energy Department Head Berris Ekinci expressed frustration with Azerbaijan after the latest round of talks on gas transit in Ankara on December 5. Ekinci, who attended the talks, told Econoff that the purpose of the talks was to finalize an agreement on a gas transit MOU first propose [...] | 2008-12-16 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA2126 | U/S APAKAN ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, IAEA, NSG [...] (S) SUMMARY: MFA U/S Apakan and Amb discussed U.S.-Turkish cooperation on energy, Afghanistan, and Iran. Apakan asked for U.S. support for a Turkish proposal to increase NATO-ESDP cooperation, and expressed concern for NATO's support for exercise Noble Archer. Amb asked for Turkey's continu [...] | 2008-12-17 09:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL NATO CY US TU |
08ANKARA2128 | AS CALLS FOR REFORM INCREASE, TURKISH PATENT LAW [...] (C) Summary. On November 20, Turkey's International Investor Association (YASED) released a report on the status of intellectual property rights in Turkey and the economic importance of improving those rights. The report, which YASED presented directly to Prime Minister Erdogan, estimates th [...] | 2008-12-17 13:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ECON USTR EINV TU |
08ANKARA2129 | TURKEY: SIX MILLION NEW VOTERS CAN'T BE WRONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Controversy is swelling in Turkey surrounding a new voter registration system that has added six million additional registered voters to the voter lists in the runup to the 2009 local elections, fueling speculation of political manipulation. Critics of the new system charge th [...] | 2008-12-17 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA213 | TURKEY: TOP COURTS DEFEND POLITICAL ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two of Turkey's highest courts are publicly and privately signaling an intention to play an interventionist role in constraining government efforts to lift the headscarf ban at universities -- a proxy for what they view as the larger struggle for the Republic's soul. Court of App [...] | 2008-02-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU |
08ANKARA2134 | INCIRLIK CARGO HUB: GOT MOVING TOWARD EXTENDING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-19 11:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PARM IZ TU |
08ANKARA2137 | TURKEY: RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POWER BID PASSES FIRST [...] (C) Summary. The Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK) announced December 19 that it accepted the technical merits of the bid by a Russian-led consortium to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant. The consortium consists of Russian companies Atomstroyexport and Inter RAO UES and Turkish fin [...] | 2008-12-19 15:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ENRG EPET RS TU |
08ANKARA2138 | UNSYG SPECIAL ADVISOR DOWNER TALKS TURKEY ON CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNSYG Special Advisor on Cyprus Alexander Downer told the Ambassador December 17 he: -- hopes to learn Turkish bottom lines and who speaks for the GOT on Cyprus policy; - depends on the U.S. and U.K. to wield influence on the process; - foresees referenda by the end of 2009; - n [...] | 2008-12-19 15:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY |
08ANKARA2139 | TURKEY RESTORING ANCIENT ARMENIAN CITY OF ANI [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The excavation, preservation and restoration of the ancient Armenian city of Ani continues with renewed emphasis since President Gul's July 2008 visit there. The Culture Ministry (MOC) is working in partner [...] | 2008-12-19 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PREL PGOV AM TU |
08ANKARA214 | TURKEY: THIRD AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN JUST OVER TWO [...] On February 6, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture (MARA) confirmed a third outbreak of Avian Influenza in just over two weeks. This one is in Sakarya province, 125 kilometers east of Istanbul. MARA officials stated that on February 4 suspicious birds were tested. The test results showed tha [...] | 2008-02-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU |
08ANKARA2140 | TURKEY WELCOMES OPENING OF EU CHAPTERS [...] (C) The GOT readily welcomed the European Union's decision to open two accession chapters, "free movement of capital" and "information, society, and media," following the 6th Turkey-EU Accession Conference in Brussels. This brings the total number of opened chapters to ten. (Note: The EU froz [...] | 2008-12-19 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU |
08ANKARA2147 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 11:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2148 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 11:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2151 | TURKEY: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Domestic and transnational terrorist groups have targeted Turkish nationals and foreigners in Turkey, including, on occasion, USG personnel, for more than 40 years. Terrorist groups that operated in Turkey have included Kurdish separatist, Marxist-Leninist, radical Islamist, and pro-Chechen gr [...] | 2008-12-22 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PTER TU |
08ANKARA2156 | TURKEY: RESPONSE TO NOBLE ARCHER LIMITED TO [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Basat Ozturk told Pol-Mil Couns on December 22 that Turkey's response to Noble Archer is complete; it was limited to three letters: From Turkey's NATO PermRep to the NATO SecGen, from Turkey' Military Representative at SHAPE to [...] | 2008-12-22 16:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO GR TU |
08ANKARA2157 | TURKEY: IRAQI VP HASHIMI SEEKS GOT SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Iraqi VP Tariq Al-Hashimi visited Turkey December 20-21 for meetings with President Gul and PM Erdogan. According to MFA Iraq Department Head Aydin Acikel, Hashimi complained about PM Maliki's administration to GOT officials and reported on discussions Iraqi Sunni, Kurdish, and some Shia p [...] | 2008-12-22 17:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA2158 | OSMANLI CUMHURIYETI: A TURKEY WITHOUT ATATURK [...] (SBU) Summary: "Osmanli Cumhuriyeti," a recently released comedy film hypothesizes what Turkey would look like today had its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, not lived past the age of eight. Its vision is bleak, a combination of anti-Westernism and nostalgia for a largely-imagined golden age [...] | 2008-12-23 08:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EU OSCE PGOV TU |
08ANKARA2159 | TURKEY: REACTION TO READOUT OF FRIED-ANTONOV [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE NATO PARM PREL |
08ANKARA216 | TURKEY-IRAN JOINT ECONOMIC COUNCIL ADVANCES [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's economic relationship with Iran continues to grow, with the bilateral trade volume increasing from $1 billion in 2000 to $7.4 billion in 2007. 80% of this trade, however, continues to be Iranian fuel exports to Turkey, totaling $5.2 billion in 2006. The number of Irania [...] | 2008-02-07 11:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL TU IR |
08ANKARA2162 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (NOVEMBER [...] Summary: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports Turkish Nonproliferation interagency continues to review findings and recommendations of September EXBS and Nonproliferation Seminar. EXBS TDY Advisor Kevin Cummings and EXBS Coordinator accompanied five senior Turkish Customs Enforcement [...] | 2008-12-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA2166 | TURKEY: RELATIONS WITH GREECE STEADILY [...] (C) During a December 19 courtesy call with Greek Ambassador Fotios Xydas, he and Ambassador agreed that there remain a number of problems in Turkey-Greece relations, including delimitation of borders and EEZs in the Aegean, flow of third-country migrants, treatment of religious minorities and [...] | 2008-12-24 14:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU GR |
08ANKARA2167 | TURKEY: SECURITY SUPPORT FOR 2009 AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA NATO Operations Section Head Turker Ari and Afghanistan Desk Officer Emre Karagol on December 19. Ari expressed appreciation for the non-paper, noting that the information is timely: an interagency senior working-level (likely at the deputy undersecreta [...] | 2008-12-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR |
08ANKARA2168 | TURKEY/ENR: STILL REVIEWING NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS [...] (C) Following Ambassador's 12/15 meeting with MFA U/S Apakan (ref a),Pol-Mil Couns met with MFA DDG Ahmet Gun on 12/23 to press GOT to support the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) guidelines on the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology (ENR),drawing on reftel guidance. DDG Gun said [...] | 2008-12-24 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY TU |
08ANKARA217 | AFGHANISTAN: TURKEY FEARS IMPACT OF DOSTUM ARREST; [...] (C) MFA U/S Apakan called Ambassador February 5 to relay concerns about Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum. Apakan said he had information that Afghan police might soon arrest Dostum (ref A). The GOT believed his arrest would be counterproductive; every effort should be made to use him on [...] | 2008-02-07 12:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF TU |
08ANKARA2172 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 14:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2173 | TURKEY/UNESCO: STILL UNDECIDED ON DG CANDIDATE [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA Multilateral Cultural Affairs Section Head Orhan Cetinel December 24. Cetinel does not expect Turkey to decide on a UNESCO DG candidate until shortly before the Executive Council meets later in 2009, but observed that Turkey's criteria for a DG are broadly [...] | 2008-12-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO TU |
08ANKARA2174 | TURKEY/ISRAEL/SYRIA: OLMERT REMAINS POSITIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Israeli PM Olmert visited Ankara December 22 in what was billed a "farewell" call, meeting privately with PM Erdogan (we believe PM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu translated) and, with delegations, President Gul. Syria and Gaza dominated the agenda. According to Israeli Embass [...] | 2008-12-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV PTER IS SY TU |
08ANKARA2175 | MINISTRY OF JUSTICE RAMPING UP IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Summary. Mustafa Akkus, Judge and DDG for European Union Affairs at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),and Hulya Cetin, a judge specializing in IPR issues in the same department, provided Econoff with a summary of the MOJ's efforts to improve Turkey's IPR regime and increase the level of enfor [...] | 2008-12-29 07:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ECON KCRM USTR TU |
08ANKARA2177 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 12:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA218 | Update on PKK Violence (January 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 24-31, 2008 reporting period, no GOT se [...] | 2008-02-07 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA2180 | TURKEY: TIGHTENED 2009 BUDGET WILL HELP PAVE WAY [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish parliament approved the 2009 budget on December 27, While the budget as passed still contains some dubious macroeconomic assumptions, such as 4% GDP growth (private economists'estimates range from -4% to 2%),the GOT reduced planned expenditures by YTL 3.6 billion in [...] | 2008-12-29 18:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA2181 | TURKEY/GEORGIAN SEPARATIST REGIONS: ANKARA CANNOT [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points to MFA Deputy U/S for Eastern Europe and South Caucasus Unal Cevikoz December 29, underscoring the importance of collective support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Cevikoz promised to analyze the U.S. strategy on Georgia's separatist [...] | 2008-12-30 10:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RS TU |
08ANKARA2186 | TURKEY: COURTS CLASH OVER ELECTION PROFILE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: A squabble between the Council of State (Danistay) and the Constitutional Court has cast a further shadow over municipal elections scheduled for March 29, 2009. The argument nominally concerns whether a number of municipalities that recently appealed a decision to dissolve them [...] | 2008-12-30 16:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TU |
08ANKARA2187 | TURKEY URGES IRAQI PM MALIKI TO PRESS AHEAD WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both PM Erdogan and President Gul encouraged PM Maliki, during his December 24 visit to Ankara, to enact political reforms that will encourage Sunni participation in government, according to an MFA readout. Maliki reportedly understood the political challenges he faces. The Turk [...] | 2008-12-30 16:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
08ANKARA2188 | TURKEY/ENR: TURKEY WANTS TO KEEP DOOR OPEN ON [...] (C) Pol-Mil Couns met again with MFA DDG for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun on December 30 to ask for an update on Turkey's position on the draft Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) guidelines on the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR)technology and equipment (Refs a and [...] | 2008-12-30 16:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY TU |
08ANKARA2190 | TURKEY CONDEMNS GAZA ATTACKS [...] (U) Turkey has reacted strongly to Israeli attacks in Gaza. PM Erdogan has called the attacks a "crime against humanity," a "blow to world peace," and complained they showed a "lack of respect" for Turkey, which has been exerting great efforts to restore peace in the region. President Gul wa [...] | 2008-12-30 17:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS PGOV PTER IS TU |
08ANKARA2191 | THOUSANDS OF IPR CASES MAY BE DISMISSED [...] (SBU) Summary. As reported reftel, in July the Constitutional Court struck down provisions of the trademark law criminalizing IPR violations and gave the GOT until January 5, 2009 to pass legislation that meets constitutional requirements. With January 5 fast approaching and the Parliament in [...] | 2008-12-31 04:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON KCRM TU |
08ANKARA2192 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 06:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2194 | TURKEY/TIP: STRONG COMMITMENT, UNEVEN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: GOT, NGO, and IOM experts discussed with visiting G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Jennifer Donnelly December 15-17 the considerable progress Turkey has made in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) sin [...] | 2008-12-31 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG |
08ANKARA2195 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 14:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA2196 | TURKEY: INFLUENTIAL THINKERS LOOK AHEAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Influential Ankara-based opinion makers told visiting EUR/SE Deputy Director Brink that: -- Continuation of US support for the fight against the PKK and the prevention of an Armenian Genocide Resolution (AGR) will be the key early bell-weather for Turkish-U.S. relations under th [...] | 2008-12-31 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER CY TU |
08ANKARA2197 | TURKEY PUSHING FOR "END OF HOSTILITIES" IN GAZA [...] (S) The Ambassador on December 31 discussed PM Erdogan's diplomatic efforts to end the military conflict in Gaza with Turkish PM Foreign Policy Adviser Ahmet Davutoglu and separately with MFA U/S Apakan. Davutoglu was preparing to depart with PM Erdogan for Amman and Damascus, followed by co [...] | 2008-12-31 16:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV IS TU |
08ANKARA22 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA222 | TURKEY: HEADSCARF BAN AMENDMENTS PASS FIRST ROUND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Round one of the constitutional amendment package to lift the headscarf ban at Turkey's universities passed easily February 6, with support from three of four parties in parliament. The second round of voting is scheduled for February 9, after which it will go to President Abdul [...] | 2008-02-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU |
08ANKARA224 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 15:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA226 | SCENESETTER FOR ASD SO/LIC/IC VICKERS' FEBRUARY [...] (S) Summary: US-Turkish mil-to-mil relations are stronger now than at any time since 2003. Both the political and military leadership welcome US intelligence support for Turkish military efforts against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq. This positive environment has helped revitalize the hist [...] | 2008-02-07 15:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR PTER TU |
08ANKARA227 | ELECTRICITY TO NORTHERN IRAQ: IMPORT PERMIT [...] (SBU) The Kartet electricity plant in Turkey that supplies electricity to northern Iraq ran out of fuel and shut down on January 2. The plant is fueled by Iraqi heavy fuel oil. As reported reftel, the final hurdle to getting fuel deliveries resumed and the plant restarted was issuance of an [...] | 2008-02-08 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG IZ PREL TU |
08ANKARA228 | TURKEY'S GAS TO GREECE FLOWING AGAIN [...] (C) On February 7, the Prime Minister's office notified the Ambassador that Turkey had resumed natural gas exports to Greece. BOTAS (state pipeline company) Director for Natural Gas Contracts Selcuk Advan confirmed that the gas was flowing to Greece again, although the level was less than the [...] | 2008-02-08 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA23 | Turkish Exports Boomed in 2007 [...] Summary: Turkish exports reached USD 105.9 billion in 2007, enjoying a 23.5 percent increase from 2006 and surpassing the official target of USD 100 billion. Turkish State Minister for Trade, Kursad Tuzmen, said 2008 exports would continue to be the locomotive for Turkey's economic growth. Th [...] | 2008-01-04 15:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN TU |
08ANKARA234 | TURKEY - TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF [...] On February 8, we shared reftel information and points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General Sakir Torunlar. He promised to share the information with relevant GOT ministries and offices promptly. He expressed appreciation for the notification and will follow up with us i [...] | 2008-02-08 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL |
08ANKARA235 | TURKEY : TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] On February 8, we shared reftel information and points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General Sakir Torunlar. He promised to share the information with relevant GOT ministries and offices promptly. He expressed appreciation for the notification and will follow up with us i [...] | 2008-02-08 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC |
08ANKARA236 | KOSOVO: TURKEY WELCOMES STEERING GROUP INVITATION [...] (C) Both MFA Deputy Director General for Americas Ersin Ercin and Deputy Director General for Balkans and Western Europe Hasan Asan assured us that Turkey's early recognition for Kosovo's independence is certain. They described President Tadic's re-election in Serbia as positive, and hoped t [...] | 2008-02-08 16:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU YI ZL |
08ANKARA237 | TURKEY: SUPPORTS LEBANON, NOW AND ALWAYS, BUT [...] (C) We conveyed reftel points on support for Lebanon February 8 to MFA Department Head for Middle East Kerem Kiratli and Lebanon/Syria Desk Officer Cem Ulusoy. Kiratli said he would convey the substance of the demarche to Deputy Under Secretary Sinirlioglu and Under Secretary Apakan. He emph [...] | 2008-02-11 06:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN EINV LE SY TU |
08ANKARA238 | TURKEY: CONDEMNING ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT OF [...] (SBU) We conveyed the substance of reftel demarche urging condemnation of the SARG's arrest and detention of democracy activists in Syria February 8 to MFA Department Head for Middle East Kerem Kiratli and Lebanon/Syria Desk Officer Cem Ulusoy. Kiratli undertook to convey the substance of the [...] | 2008-02-11 06:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMPI TU SY |
08ANKARA24 | TURKEY'S ULTRANATIONALIST "VALLEY OF THE WOLVES" [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's popular television drama "Valley of the Wolves" is back on the air and setting new records in its fourth season. "Show TV" temporarily canceled the program in February 2007 due to government pressure and viewer complaints over the show's violence. Television [...] | 2008-01-04 16:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA242 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-11 07:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA244 | WHAT'S TIED UP IN TURKEY'S HEADSCARF DEBATE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the second, final round of voting February 9, Turkey's parliament approved two constitutional amendments aimed at lifting the headscarf ban at universities. The amendments, addressing equality under the law and right to education, lay the groundwork for lifting the ban, though [...] | 2008-02-11 10:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU |
08ANKARA248 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA252 | TURKEY: TSA MOVES FORWARD ON PROVIDING SECURITY TRAINING [...] (SBU) During a January 22 meeting, Embassy Athens Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Representative Daniel Furlong and Turkish Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGCA) Deputy Director General for Security Haydar Yalcin discussed various training programs previously requested by t [...] | 2008-02-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAIR TU |
08ANKARA263 | TURKEY WILL CONDITION OVERFLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR AIR [...] (S) We delivered ref a demarche to MFA Department Head for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Elif Ulgen on February 11. Given the likelihood that the cargo contained in this flight may be in violation of UNSCR 1718, Ulgen said the MFA had decided to require an inspection of the aircraft and carg [...] | 2008-02-12 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC EAIR TU IR KN |
08ANKARA264 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 15:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA265 | TURKEY SHARES USG CONCERNS ABOUT OSLO PROCESS [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on February 11 to MFA Department Head for Arms Control and Disarmament Elif Ulgen, who is coordinating Turkey's interagency position on cluster munitions and was a member of the Turkish delegation to the Oslo Process meeting in Vienna on 5-7 December. Ulgen sai [...] | 2008-02-12 16:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL NATO TU |
08ANKARA266 | TURKEY: SE KURDS SKEPTICAL OF ANKARA'S NEWFOUND [...] (U) This is an AmConsul Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary. Despite increasing hints in Ankara that the GOT is considering proposals to start addressing the root causes of the Kurdish issue, leaders in southeastern Turkey are skeptical the GOT is committed to the reforms needed for a lasting solut [...] | 2008-02-13 07:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
08ANKARA268 | DOE DAS HEGBURG DISCUSSES CLEAN ENERGY WITH ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. On the margins of a January 29-30 Department of Energy-sponsored Clean Energy Technologies Conference, DOE DAS for International Policy Alan Hegburg discussed a range of energy issues with Energy Minister Hilmi Guler. Guler said Turkey wants to be a regional leader in clean ene [...] | 2008-02-13 11:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA270 | Update on PKK Violence (February 1 - 7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 1 - 7, 2008 reporting period, no GOT s [...] | 2008-02-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA271 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (JANUARY [...] Summary: EXBS Advisor met with EU Commission representative to coordinate future border security assistance programs with Turkish Customs. EXBS program completed Customs clearance of CT-30 Kits and Gerber tool Kits and moved them into temporary storage at Post, awaiting MFA acceptance of new [...] | 2008-02-13 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA273 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA275 | TURKEY/KOSOVO: TURKEY TO FOLLOW CLOSE ON OUR HEELS [...] (U) This message contains an action request at para 5. 2. (C) Ambassador emphasized our hope that countries would recognize Kosovo soon after it declares independence, and reviewed with MFA U/S Apakan the request that Turkey become a member of the Kosovo International Steering Group (ISG) (r [...] | 2008-02-13 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNMIK PROV YI EU OSCE TU |
08ANKARA277 | TURKEY: BANK MELLI ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE A TURKISH [...] (S) A January 28 visit by Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey gave us the opportunity to share Ref A points widely with appropriate parties in the Turkish Government, including Treasury Minister Mehmet Simsek, Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan, MASAK President Adnan Erturk, and Ministry of Fo [...] | 2008-02-14 05:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KNNP MNUM IR TU EFIN |
08ANKARA278 | TURKEY: NEW GOT TAX IMPLEMENTATION UPSETS FREE TRADE ZONES [...] (U) Summary: A recent communique issued by Turkish Customs levies additional taxes against companies operating in Free Trade Zones. This unforeseen change in tax policy substantially increased production costs in these zones. The Aegean Free Trade Zone, which has majority U.S. ownership, was a [...] | 2008-02-14 07:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON TU |
08ANKARA279 | TURKEY OPPOSES ICAO PLANS TO TRANSFER SAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish MFA Civil Aviation officials summoned PMA Counselor on February 12 to request U.S. support at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Turkey has written an objection letter to ICAO leadership opposing its plans to transfer "state" responsibility for Search [...] | 2008-02-14 08:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL TU CY |
08ANKARA280 | MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: TURKS MULLING REACTION TO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: GOT officials have received an invitation from the GOI to resume discussion of closing Makhmour refugee camp (ref a) and are considering their response. Any decision to move forward on Makhmour will be made at the political level in Ankara. The GOT wants the camp clo [...] | 2008-02-14 12:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL IZ TU |
08ANKARA282 | CFE: TURKS SEEK COPY OF U.S. ACTION-FOR-ACTION [...] (C) Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun told us February 14 that he appreciated being in close contact with DAS Karin Look and other U.S. officials on the way forward on CFE. Gun said he understood the U.S. had prepared a revised draft of [...] | 2008-02-14 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL NATO TU |
08ANKARA284 | RE-STARTING THE IRAN DIALOGUE WITH TURKEY [...] (S) Ambassador raised with MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan February 12 the need significantly to intensify our consultations with Turkey on Iran under the Shared Vision and Structured Dialogue paper on which the Secretary and then-FM Gul agreed in July 2006. He suggested that these consultations shou [...] | 2008-02-14 15:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MNUC UNSC TU IR |
08ANKARA285 | TURKEY: ANKARA CONFERENCE DISCUSSES HOW TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 09:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA288 | TURKEY NOT READY TO COSPONSOR U.S./EC TAFT GOODS [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points in coordination with the EC's Economic Counselor in Turkey, Ulrike Hauer. Turkish Foreign Trade Undersecretariat Deputy Director General for Multilateral Agreements, Hasan Yalcin, told us that Turkey supports the ideas presented in the joint proposal "in princ [...] | 2008-02-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON TU |
08ANKARA289 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA290 | TURKEY PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVAR INDEPENDENCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT will recognize an independent Kosovo soon after the Quint and the U.S. GOT officials remain uncertain whether Kosovars will declare independence over the weekend, or merely announce a date on which they will proclaim their independence. Regardless, they are expecting an [...] | 2008-02-15 14:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU RU GG YI AA |
08ANKARA292 | TURKEY: AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK SITUATION UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Ag office is now aware of six outbreaks of Avian Influenza (AI),three of which have confirmed lab results and have been reported to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) by TurkeyQs Ministry of Agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [...] | 2008-02-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU |
08ANKARA296 | TURKEY SUPPORTS NIMETZ PROCESS, AMBITIOUS [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director General for NATO Affairs Serdar Kilic and Deputy Director General for Balkans Affairs Hasan Asan. Both Kilic and Asan stated Turkey's support for the Nimetz process as the appropriate channel to resolve the dispute between Greece and Maced [...] | 2008-02-15 16:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL GR MK TU |
08ANKARA298 | TURKEY: MORE FROM BRSA ON IRANIAN BANKING INTEREST [...] (S) Summary. In a follow-up meeting on Ref B issues, Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) Chairman Tevfik Bilgin (please protect) told us that the proposed Bank Melli purchase of Adabank is not possible at this time. Adabank is under the supervision of Turkey's Securities Deposit [...] | 2008-02-19 05:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KNNP MNUM IR TU EFIN |
08ANKARA30 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-07 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA302 | Update on PKK Violence (February 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 8-15, 2008 reporting period, no GOT se [...] | 2008-02-19 09:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA306 | TURKEY'S INTERNET REGULATION AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) Summary: An ongoing struggle between Google and Turkey's Telecommunications Authority (TTA) highlights the difficult issues Turkey is grappling with as it attempts to harness the positive aspects of the Internet while limiting harmful content. Google, which owns the popular video-sharing [...] | 2008-02-19 11:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA307 | MGKV01: TURKEY SWIFTLY RECOGNIZES KOSOVO [...] (U) At approximately 19:30 local time, February 18, the GOT formally recognized Kosovo's independence. FM Babacan's statement (see paragraph 4) emphasized the importance Turkey attaches to peace and stability in the Balkans. The statement also noted Turkey's historical and cultural ties to [...] | 2008-02-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU YI ZL |
08ANKARA309 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 14:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA31 | TURKEY: GOT ON NON-MILITARY SOLUTIONS TO PKK [...] (C) Summary and comment. The GOT is taking preliminary steps to address the political and economic demands of its Kurdish population, in conjunction with recent military attacks against terrorist PKK targets in northern Iraq. Both PM Erdogan's government and the Turkish General Staff (TGS) u [...] | 2008-01-08 06:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IZ TU |
08ANKARA313 | TURKEY: SOLDIERS CAPTURED BY PKK ON TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The trial of the eight Turkish soldiers captured and subsequently released by the PKK in October 2007 began on February 1 in the Jandarma Command Military Court in Van. Following the hearing, the soldiers were released and will return to court April 25. The trial has been belo [...] | 2008-02-19 15:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER TU |
08ANKARA314 | TURKEY: NO OBJECTIONS TO US PLANS TO SEEK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM NATO PREL TU |
08ANKARA315 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR EXPANDED [...] (C) Summary and comment. PM Erdogan and officials from the state-controlled "TRT" broadcasting network announced plans February 17 for TRT to dedicate a channel to broadcast an array of Kurdish language programs. The PM set no rollout date, but his statement provides the most specifics to dat [...] | 2008-02-19 16:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA316 | TURKEY NEEDS GAS TO BE A RELIABLE TRANSIT PARTNER [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is under increasing pressure to conclude a transit agreement with Azerbaijan to clear the way for Caspian gas to flow into Europe. The negotiation between Turkey and Azerbaijan is not only about transit but also about supply. Our Caspian Strategy needs to look at Turkey [...] | 2008-02-20 08:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA319 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA32 | Update on PKK Violence (December 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 24-31, 2007 reporting period, no GOT s [...] | 2008-01-08 07:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA320 | TURKEY: HEADSCARF DEBATE REVEALS FISSURES [...] (C) Turkey again finds itself in a state of domestic tension and polarization. Among politicians, the debate over the headscarf (whether or not to allow girls who cover their heads into universities) has degenerated into a series of sophomoric arguments. They're not battling it out on the st [...] | 2008-02-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA321 | EU NABUCCO COORDINATOR SAYS TURKEY MUST ACT NOW ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, EU Coordinator for Nabucco Jozias van Aartsen told us he would deliver a firm message to his Turkish interloctuers (which included Prime Minister Erdogan) that Turkey must act now to save the Nabucco pipeline. He said he has a six-month time horizon for progress [...] | 2008-02-21 07:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA324 | TURKEY/IRAQ: ASSISTING TURKEY WITH BORDER SECURITY [...] (S) Summary: U.S. intelligence cooperation in support of Turkish operations against the PKK has transformed our bilateral relations. As we look for ways to lower Turkey's reliance on purely military means to protect its borders, Turkey has expressed an interest in intelligence, surveillance [...] | 2008-02-21 12:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER KCRM MARR MOPS TU IZ IR |
08ANKARA326 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT PASSES FOUNDATIONS LAW [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara - Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's parliament passed the long-delayed Foundations Law to expand non-Muslim religious property rights February 20, despite vocal condemnation from opposition parties and subdued criticis [...] | 2008-02-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PREL PGOV OSCE TU |
08ANKARA327 | TURKEY: TERRORIST TAK THREATENS NEW WAVE OF VIOLENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The terrorist organization TAK (Kurdistan Freedom Falcons),close affiliate of the PKK terrorist group, announced February 19 it will initiate an extensive new wave of violence against military and civilian targets inside and outside Turkey. END SUMMARY. 2. (S) TAK, a deadly terrori [...] | 2008-02-21 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA328 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA33 | TURKEY: INSUFFICIENT TIME TO RECALL SHIPMENT TO PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | EWWT GM PARM PK PREL SN TU |
08ANKARA331 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 1: TURKEY LAUNCHES GROUND [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) has publicly announced that Turkish forces have launched a ground operation into northern Iraq, which began at 1700 hours Zulu on February 21. Predator imagery has identified two columns of approximately 800 dismounted infantry six kilometers in [...] | 2008-02-22 10:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA332 | TURKEY: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) A strict reading of the criteria outlined in reftel paras 2 and 8 could lead to the conclusion that Turkey does not possess critical infrastructure (CI) or key resources (KR) whose incapacity or destruction would have a "debilitating impact on (U.S.) security, national economic security, [...] | 2008-02-22 12:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ECON ASEC PREL ETTC TU |
08ANKARA335 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-22 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA336 | BUSINESS GROUPS WARN GOT ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Three major business organizations warned the government on February 21 about rising unemployment and slowing industrial activity. The Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB),Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) and Turkish Clothing [...] | 2008-02-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD TU |
08ANKARA337 | AS TROOPS GO AFTER PKK, TURKEY LOOKS TO INCREASE [...] (S) SUMMARY: GOT officials are considering ways to increase engagement and cooperation with Iraqi counterparts, even as Turkish troops move across the Iraqi border to root out the PKK presence from areas through which they routinely access Turkish territory. Murat Ozcelik, the GOT's new Actin [...] | 2008-02-22 15:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA338 | GOT PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY CYPRIOT ELECTION FIRST [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials expressed pleasant surprise at the unexpected outcome of the first round of Cyprus' presidential election. Regardless of the final outcome, Turkey remains prepared to press for resumption of final settlement negotiations as soon as possible. The Turks are hopeful t [...] | 2008-02-22 16:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY |
08ANKARA339 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL CONGRATULATES [...] (U) On February 21, Turkish President Abdullah Gul sent a message to Armenian President-elect Sargsyan, addressing him as "Esteemed President," and congratulating him on his election victory (see full text, para 4). Gul expressed his wish that their joint efforts would contribute to stability [...] | 2008-02-22 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM TU |
08ANKARA34 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 13:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA340 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 2: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES, [...] (C) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue. According to press reporting, the Turkish ground units involved are two brigades from the Second Army based in Malatya. U.S. military logistics personnel at the Habur Gate crossing between Turkey and Iraq reported traffic flowing [...] | 2008-02-22 17:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA341 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 3: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES, [...] (U) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. 2. (U) In a public announcement late on February 22, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) reported that operations are being carried out by J [...] | 2008-02-23 12:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA342 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 3: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES, [...] (U) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. 2. (U) In a public announcement late on February 22, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) reported that operations are being carried out by J [...] | 2008-02-23 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA343 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 3: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES, [...] (U) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. 2. (U) In a public announcement late on February 22, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) reported that operations are being carried out by J [...] | 2008-02-23 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA345 | PM ERDOGAN TELLS CODEL BIDEN TURKEY CAN DO MORE IN [...] (C) Summary. Turkish PM Erdogan briefed visiting Senators Biden, Kerry and Hagel February 22 on GOT efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, the fight against terrorism and Turkey's relations with Armenia. Noting the senators' previous stop in Afghanistan, Erdogan said Turkey can do more in Afghanistan [...] | 2008-02-25 07:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PTER PGOV AF IZ TU |
08ANKARA348 | Update on PKK Violence (February 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 16-23, 2008 reporting period, two secu [...] | 2008-02-25 08:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA349 | TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: January 2008 [...] Turkey carried out air strikes against PKK terrorist positions in northern Iraq on January 15. Turkish General Staff (TGS) announced that over 60 targets were hit. Counter-terrorism operations within Southeast Turkey against PKK terrorists continued during month. TGS reported that 36 terrori [...] | 2008-02-25 08:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL IZ IT UK MK QA GR TU |
08ANKARA35 | DESPITE IRANIAN GAS CUTS, TURKEY KEEPS THE LIGHTS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. In the midst of cold winter weather and snow, Turkey is suffering from reduced gas imports from Iran and Russia. The GOT is taking several measures to assure that power is kept on. In a worse case scenario of bad weather forcing Russia to cut gas supplies to Turkey via the West [...] | 2008-01-08 15:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA350 | TURKEY'S PRESIDENT APPROVES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish President Abdullah Gul signed two constitutional amendments February 22, laying the groundwork for lifting Turkey's headscarf ban at universities. Opposition parties plan to file a challenge in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Heated debate continues over whethe [...] | 2008-02-25 09:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TU |
08ANKARA354 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 4: GROUND OPERATIONS, MILITARY [...] (SBU) Turkish ground operations in the Zap-Metina area of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. Weather in the objective area is expected to deteriorate significantly over the next 24-48 hours, limiting air operations [...] | 2008-02-25 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA355 | TURKEY: ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY URGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Attorney General Mukasey discussed counterterrorism and law enforcement cooperation with Turkish Justice Minister Sahin and Interior Minister Atalay during his February 14-15 visit to Ankara, apparently the first official visit by a U.S. Attorney General. Both sides reaffirme [...] | 2008-02-25 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CJAN OVIP PGOV PREL PTER SNAR KCRM TU |
08ANKARA356 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA357 | TURKEY: DPM CICEK,S HARSH RHETORIC SETS BACK CT [...] (C) Summary. In separate February 19 meetings with the Belgian Ministers of Justice and the Interior, Turkey's DPM Cemil Cicek used very blunt language to insist that Belgium crack down on terrorism, according to both Turkish MFA and Belgian Embassy sources. Cicek implied Belgium should not [...] | 2008-02-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL BE TU |
08ANKARA358 | EU NABUCCO COORDINATOR SAYS TURKEY MUST ACT NOW ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, EU Coordinator for Nabucco Jozias van Aartsen told us he would deliver a firm message to his Turkish interloctuers (which included Prime Minister Erdogan) that Turkey must act now to save the Nabucco pipeline. He said he has a six-month time horizon for progress [...] | 2008-02-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA36 | Turkish Parliament Ratifies 2008 Budget [...] (U) Summary: The most significant aspect of Turkey's 2008 budget is the decrease in the primary surplus target to 5.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). For five years, the Government of Turkey (GOT) has used a primary surplus target of 6.5 percent of GDP. In working to achieve the amb [...] | 2008-01-09 05:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN TU |
08ANKARA360 | TURKS TERM INAUGURAL TURKEY-EU CT TALKS "GOOD [...] (C) Summary. The first Turkey-EU bilateral counterterrorism talks held February 19 in Brussels were generally positive, according to MFA officials. Although the Euros continue to be focused on Al Qaeda and counter radicalization, new CT mechanisms can also be applied to the PKK, they noted. [...] | 2008-02-25 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EU TU |
08ANKARA366 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 5: GROUND OPERATIONS CONTINUE, [...] (C) Turkish ground forces continue to engage PKK terrorists in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, supported by air and artillery strikes. Deteriorating weather conditions in the objective area will likely hamper operations over the next 24 hours. Normal logistics and customs operations [...] | 2008-02-26 12:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA369 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 15:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA371 | TURKEY: DOSTUM UNWELCOME IN TURKEY, STAND-OFF [...] (C) The Dostum stand-off continues, MFA South Asia DDG Babur Hizlan told us February 26. Hizlan had phoned us on February 25 to relate that Dostum wants security guarantees to leave Kabul and go to the north, and the ten days on the Chief Prosecutor's order to Dostum to turn himself in or le [...] | 2008-02-26 15:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF TU |
08ANKARA374 | TURKEY-WORLD BANK COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador joined World Bank Country Director for Turkey Ulrich Zachau February 14 to discuss the World Bank's role in Turkey and the upcoming release of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS),outlined below, which is embargoed until February 28. The CPS outlines a four-year [...] | 2008-02-27 10:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID EINV TU |
08ANKARA375 | TURKEY: MALATYA LAWYERS REQUEST RECUSAL OF [...] (C) Summary: Attorneys for the families of victims of the April 2007 Malatya triple murder of Christian bookstore workers (ref B) argued at the February 25 proceeding that the three-judge panel should be removed for bias. The court postponed the trial to March 17, to allow a Diyarbakir penal [...] | 2008-02-27 10:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA376 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 6: DAY 5 OF GROUND OPERATIONS [...] (C) Turkish ground troops continued to receive air and artillery support on February 26, despite poor weather conditions. Weather in the objective area is expected to improve over the next 24-48 hours. Normal logistics and customs operations continue at Habur Gate. 2. (U) A Turkish Genera [...] | 2008-02-27 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA377 | TURKEY PRIORITIZES PAKISTAN STABILITY; COURTS INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey favors a grand governing coalition in Pakistan, to continue to include President Musharraf, MFA South Asia DDG Hizlan told us February 26. Rather than internal politicking, Pakistan's politicians should be focused on curtailing violence and extremism. Turkey is not dir [...] | 2008-02-27 12:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF IN PK TU |
08ANKARA378 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 12:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA379 | TURKEY: U/S LEVEY ON DANGERS OF DOING BUSINESS [...] (C) Summary: In his January 28th meetings with the Turkish Foreign, Finance, and Treasury Ministries and Halkbank, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey discussed the dangers of doing business with Iran and warned of the need for constant vigilance and extraordinary scrutiny in financial relat [...] | 2008-02-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | EFIN KTFN KNNP EINV TU IR |
08ANKARA381 | TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHALLENGES HEADSCARF AMENDMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition parties applied to Turkey's Constitutional Court February 27 to stay implementation and ultimately annul constitutional amendments designed to lift the headscarf ban at universities. The court is expected to rule quickly on the stay motion; a decision on annulling the [...] | 2008-02-27 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU |
08ANKARA382 | SOMALIA AND PIRACY: TURKEY INTERESTED IN POSSIBLY [...] (SBU) We discussed reftel with MFA Department Head for Maritime Affairs, Mehmet Poroy, on February 27. Poroy provided us with some background on Turkey's previous engagement on this issue. Because of Turkey's involvement in the International Maritime Organization (IMO),the IMO Secretary Gen [...] | 2008-02-27 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PBTS PREL UNSC EWWT TU SO UN |
08ANKARA384 | CODEL BIDEN MEETS WITH FM BABACAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL Biden discussed with Turkish FM Babacan ongoing U.S.-Turkey cooperation and efforts to promote stability in the region, notably in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, during a February 22 meeting. Babacan described the EU accession process as integral to Turkey's ongoing dem [...] | 2008-02-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV TU |
08ANKARA385 | Codel Biden talks Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan with [...] (SBU) Summary: President Gul, in a February 22 meeting with Codel Biden, focused on political realism and participation as the key to stability in Iraq. Maximalist demands were counterproductive. The surge was working. Passage of important legislation would further enhance political integra [...] | 2008-02-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV PK BM AF EUN TU |
08ANKARA386 | CODEL BIDEN MEETS WITH FM BABACAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL Biden discussed with Turkish FM Babacan ongoing U.S.-Turkey cooperation and efforts to promote stability in the region, notably in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, during a February 22 meeting. Babacan described the EU accession process as integral to Turkey's ongoing dem [...] | 2008-02-28 07:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV TU |
08ANKARA387 | Codel Biden talks Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan with [...] (SBU) Summary: President Gul, in a February 22 meeting with Codel Biden, focused on political realism and participation as the key to stability in Iraq. Maximalist demands were counterproductive. The surge was working. Passage of important legislation would further enhance political integra [...] | 2008-02-28 07:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV PK BM AF EUN TU |
08ANKARA389 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 7: DAY 6 OF GROUND OPERATIONS [...] (C) Turkish forces continued to engage PKK in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, backed by close air support and artillery. Operations at the Habur Gate crossing remained normal. 2. (U) A Turkish General Staff (TGS) statement on February 27 reported 77 terrorists and 5 Turkish soldier [...] | 2008-02-28 09:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA39 | TURKEY: ONGOING PKK VIOLENCE TAKES A NEW TACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: PKK violence has continued since 2004, when the terrorist group ended a ceasefire it had observed following the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. In 2007, the PKK was responsible for the deaths of at least 139 security personnel and 27 civilians. Another 216 security [...] | 2008-01-09 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA390 | CUBA: TURKEY EXPECTS SLOW BUT POSITIVE CHANGE [...] (C) We delivered reftel points February 27 to MFA Americas DG Vefahan Ocak. Ocak -- Turkish Ambassador to Cuba from 2002-2007 -- said Turkey shares our hopes for liberalization and a better life for the Cuban people. Noting his experience in Cuba, Ocak opined that the continuing presence of [...] | 2008-02-28 10:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CU TU |
08ANKARA392 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA393 | TURKEY-RUSSIA RELATIONS REMAIN ON TRACK DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The atmosphere was surprisingly positive during Turkish FM Babacan's February 19-20 visit to Moscow, MFA Russia and Eastern Europe Department Head Meltem Buyukkarakas told us February 26. Trade and investment continue to drive relations, though the Turks are dissatisfied with a [...] | 2008-02-28 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU TU |
08ANKARA394 | S/CT PDAS URBANCIC'S ANKARA VISIT: PROGRESS ON [...] (C) Summary. Ankara-based diplomats expressed frustration in dealing with Turkish prosecutors and described successes in tackling the PKK during a February 12 meeting with S/CT PDAS Urbancic. The Belgian police liaison reported establishment of a new federal prosecutor dedicated to PKK crime [...] | 2008-02-29 08:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EU TU |
08ANKARA395 | TURKEY WELCOMES U.S. EFFORTS AGAINST PKK, WANTS [...] (C) Summary. European officials are starting to treat the PKK as both a terrorist organization and an organized crime operation that poses a danger to Europe, S/CT PDAS Urbancic told a February 12 interagency meeting of Turkish officials lead by MFA Security Affairs Director General Hayati Guv [...] | 2008-02-29 08:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EU TU |
08ANKARA396 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidate for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on this candidate in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and [...] | 2008-02-29 11:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA398 | TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 8: DAY 7 OF GROUND OPERATIONS [...] (S//REL TO USA, GBR) Although we have received no formal TGS notification, elements of the Turkish forces involved in the cross-border operation in northern Iraq appear to have begun withdrawing from their forward operating bases. Turkish air force and artillery units conducted cross-border C [...] | 2008-02-29 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA402 | TURKEY'S VIEW ON LNG THROUGH THE BOSPORUS STRAITS [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara/Consulate General Istanbul report. 2. (C) Summary and comment: In reference to proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Constanza (ref A),we researched LNG transit through the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits. Currently, no LNG transits the Bos [...] | 2008-02-29 13:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PREL RO TU |
08ANKARA403 | TURKEY: TGS ANNOUNCES WITHDRAWAL OF GROUND TROOPS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA405 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA41 | TURKEY'S PM DISCUSSES TERRORISM, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary. In a January 7 meeting with Codel Martinez, Prime Minister Erdogan said he hopes for continued, vigorous bilateral cooperation against terrorism and stressed Turkey wants to contribute positively to Iraq's welfare. He said the House's Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.R.106) had [...] | 2008-01-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV AM IZ TU |
08ANKARA410 | TURKEY: WILLING TO CONSIDER INFORMAL KOSOVO [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for NATO Affairs Serdar Kilic told us February 28 Turkey was willing to consider informal consultations among "Kosovo Contributors," but emphasized that a formal response to ref a points will have to wait until the March 6 NATO Foreign Ministers meeting. He ask [...] | 2008-02-29 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO EU PREL PGOV TU |
08ANKARA416 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA417 | TURKEY: MEDIA COVERAGE OF MILITARY OPERATION IN [...] (U) Summary: Civilian and military officials have had to respond to criticism from the opposition, reflected both in the mainstream and opposition press, that Turkey bowed to U.S. pressure to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq. The withdrawal occurred the day after Defense Secretary Gates' [...] | 2008-03-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA418 | TURKEY CONFIRMS AIR KORYO OVERFLIGHT REQUESTED AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 15:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC EAIR TU IR KN |
08ANKARA423 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA424 | TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to reftel A questions. This is part 1 of 3 (septels). Embassy point of contact is Anthony Renzulli, telephone 90-312-457-7178, fax 90-312-468-4775. Renzulli (FS-03) spent approximately 90 hou [...] | 2008-03-04 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
08ANKARA425 | TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: INVESTIGATION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to reftel questions. This is part 2 of 3 (septels). INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS -------------------------------------------- A. (U) Chapter 1, Article 80 of the Turkish Pen [...] | 2008-03-04 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
08ANKARA426 | TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: VICTIM PROTECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to reftel A questions. This is part 3 of 3 (septels). VICTIM PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE -------------------------------- A. (SBU) Foreign victims identified by Turkish authorities may apply f [...] | 2008-03-04 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
08ANKARA429 | TURKEY: UPDATE IOM DG CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 09:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG |
08ANKARA43 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA430 | TURKEY: MILITARY LASHES OUT AT OPPOSITION IN [...] (C) Summary: In an ironic twist, controversy over the Turkish military's pull-out from Iraq has pitted the Turkish General Staff (TGS) against its erstwhile political allies, the Republican People's Party (CHP),and has driven the TGS closer to PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) [...] | 2008-03-05 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS TU IZ |
08ANKARA431 | AFTERMATH OF TURKEY'S REDEPLOYMENT FROM IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: As reported in reftel, the military and government have come under public criticism here for having withdrawn Turkish troops from northern Iraq "in response to US pressure" that was conveyed in remarks Secretary Gates and the President made on February 28. One senior officer com [...] | 2008-03-05 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS IZ US TU |
08ANKARA432 | Update on PKK Violence (February 24 - 29, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 24-29, 2008 reporting period, 17 securi [...] | 2008-03-05 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA435 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA436 | TURKEY: KURDISH REACTIONS TO THE CROSS-BORDER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 05:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU IZ |
08ANKARA438 | TURKEY CONFIRMS AIR KORYO OVERFLIGHT REQUESTED AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 08:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC EAIR TU IR KN |
08ANKARA439 | GOT REMAINS COMMITTED TO RENEWED PUSH FOR CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials reiterated their commitment to push for a new effort to achieve a comprehensive settlement on Cyprus (Ref A) during March 3 meetings with EUR DAS Bryza. Turkey sees 2008 as a "window of opportunity" to make progress in advance of spring 2009 local elections in Turkey [...] | 2008-03-06 08:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU CY |
08ANKARA440 | DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ARMENIA, GEORGIA WITH FM [...] (C) SUMMARY. DAS Bryza stressed to FM Babacan and MFA Deputy U/S for Eastern Europe (former Soviet Union),Africa, East Asia and Pacific Cevikoz, March 3, the need to move forward on normalizing Turkey-Armenia relations and resolving Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K),though this will be difficult until [...] | 2008-03-06 09:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV NATO AM AJ GG TU |
08ANKARA442 | SCENESETTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Since your 2002 visit, US-Turkey relations have been buffeted by differences over Iraq, combatting the PKK, and the House Armenian genocide resolution. We are pulling out of that tailspin, largely due to recently expanded cooperation against the PKK. Anti-Americanism is easing and we are [...] | 2008-03-06 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV PTER ECON IZ TU |
08ANKARA444 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA448 | TURKEY'S COMPULSORY RELIGION COURSES ILLEGAL, TOP [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's highest administrative court ruled March 3 that students may be exempted from mandatory religious education classes. Alevis welcomed the ruling as a major victory, urging its immediate implementation. The EU called it a landmark decision, noting the court relied not [...] | 2008-03-07 09:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA449 | ENERGY COORDINATOR MANN URGES TURKEY TO NEGOTIATE [...] (C) Summary. On February 25-26, Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Steve Mann met with GOT officials to discuss gas and oil issues. Energy Minister Guler stressed that security of supply is Turkey's most urgent priority. He suggested Turkey and the U.S. work together to develop Iraqi [...] | 2008-03-07 11:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA452 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 14:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA453 | TURKEY/NABUCCO: DAS BRYZA URGES COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Nabucco pipeline is economically feasible as Russia can supply the gas for South Stream only from Turkmenistan, with Nabucco enjoying a forty percent advantage over South Stream in terms of the cost of shipping Caspian gas to Austria, DAS Matt Bryza told FM Babacan March 3. [...] | 2008-03-07 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET AJ IQ RU TX TU |
08ANKARA456 | TURKEY TO FULLY IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1803, DENIES [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Deputy Undersecretary Haydar Berk, Deputy Director General (DDG) for South Asia Babur Hizlan, and DDG for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Ahmet Gun. We highlighted the resolution's call on states to exercise vigilance in dealing with Iranian ban [...] | 2008-03-07 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR TU |
08ANKARA457 | TURKEY TO ADVOCATE FOR KOSOVO AT OIC SUMMIT [...] (C) Turkey will actively advocate for Kosovo at the March 13-14 Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) ministerial summit in Dakar, Senegal, MFA Deputy Director General for the Balkans and Western Europe Hasan Asan told us March 7. As one of the first countries to recognize Kosovo, Turk [...] | 2008-03-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC EU KV TU |
08ANKARA460 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (FEBRUARY [...] Summary: EXBS Advisor attended dedication ceremony in Izmir for one of five new Customs Enforcement container x-ray and inspection facilities donated by European Union (EU) Commission as part of the EU Accession project to provide border security assistance programs to Turkish Customs at majo [...] | 2008-03-10 08:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA461 | TALABANI GOES TO ANKARA: A BREAKTHROUGH VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's March 7-8 visit to Ankara, hailed by President Gul as the first ever by a democratically-elected Iraqi head of state to Turkey, should help to repair bilateral relations. It is remarkable for having occurred only one week after the return of Turkis [...] | 2008-03-10 09:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA463 | GOT RECTIFIES ERRONEOUS VAT TAX COLLECTIONS FROM FREE TRADE [...] (U) On February 27, the Ministry of Finance ended the collection of additional value-added (VAT) tax levied on Free Trade Zones (FTZs) operating in Turkey. Companies operating in FTZs were blindsided by a Turkish Customs Undersecretariat circular issued on January 21 (Reftel) requiring them to [...] | 2008-03-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON TU |
08ANKARA464 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA465 | TURKEY ADVOCATES DIALOGUE, UNDERSTANDING IN MIDST [...] (C) Summary: In the months following Annapolis, Turkey has adopted an increasingly responsible and constructive tone in its engagement with Israel and Palestine. The Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led government has reduced its casual use of anti-Israel rhetoric and added a more conciliat [...] | 2008-03-10 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU IS |
08ANKARA467 | TURKEY PLEDGES TO INVESTIGATE IMMINENT SHIPMENT OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (S) We delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director General for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Ahmet Gun on March 10. Gun pledged to investigate the matter on an urgent basis, and immediately inform all relevant agencies, including [...] | 2008-03-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC KSCA PARM PREL PGOV TU PK |
08ANKARA468 | YOUNG TURKS VISIT ARMENIA: BUILDING TIES THAT BIND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Several Turkish alumni of British universities who visited Armenia January 20-25 shared with us a taste of their unique experience and the favorable impressions made by their Armenian contacts. The realization [...] | 2008-03-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL OPRC AM TU |
08ANKARA471 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-11 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA473 | TURKEY: FINANCING GAP LOOMS [...] (C) Summary: There is a growing likelihood that Turkey will face a financing gap this year, which would pressure the exchange rate and make private sector borrowing much more difficult. Most of Turkey's financial indicators are deteriorating, and recent GOT announcements that indicate substan [...] | 2008-03-11 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA475 | TURKEY: MILITARY ROW WITH POLITICAL OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The war of words between the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over the latter's allegation that the army pulled out of northern Iraq prematurely due to U.S. pressure continues unabated. CHP vice chair Mustafa Ozyurek state [...] | 2008-03-11 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC MOPS IZ TU |
08ANKARA481 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-12 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA482 | TURKEY AND TALAT ON THE SAME PAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: "TRNC President" Talat's March 6 visit to Ankara underscored the congruity of Turkish views and those of their Turkish Cypriot counterparts on the way forward toward resuming comprehensive settlement talks. The GOT position remains unchanged: it wants to push forward on comprehen [...] | 2008-03-12 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY TU |
08ANKARA483 | TURKEY/IRAQ: DIPLOMACY MUST COME FIRST [...] (S) SUMMARY: Senior GOT officials are committed to following through with efforts to transform Turkey's relationship with Iraq and set a new course focused principally on diplomacy. Jalal Talabani's successful March 7-8 visit to Ankara, the first by a democratically elected Iraqi head of stat [...] | 2008-03-12 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA484 | TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROSECUTION: [...] (U) The Turkish Ministry of Justice (MOJ),through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),sent us, March 10, supplemental information on prosecutions and convictions of traffickers, including of two GOT officials, and also provided clarification on the law governing legal prostitution and the [...] | 2008-03-12 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
08ANKARA487 | TURKEY: MORE ATTENTION TO AL-QA,IDA, GLOBAL [...] (S) Summary. S/CT PDAS Urbancic, during February 12 meetings in Ankara, briefed a Turkish interagency group on Al-Qa'ida and its wider network (AQN) and the findings from the AQ documents obtained through Objective Massey, urging Turkey to strengthen its fight against Al-Qa'ida and other terr [...] | 2008-03-12 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL TU |
08ANKARA488 | Update on PKK Violence (March 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 1-7, 2008 reporting period, no Turkish se [...] | 2008-03-13 03:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA489 | TURKEY: NO PLANS TO SELL ARMS TO SUDAN; [...] (C) In the read-out of Sudanese President al-Bashir's January 21 visit to Ankara (reftel),MFA Africa Section Chief Aykut Kumaroglu denied media reports that Turkey has any immediate plans to supply Sudan with military equipment. Kumaroglu did acknowledge that the two sides are seeking to expa [...] | 2008-03-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AA PGOV PREL SU TU |
08ANKARA490 | TURKEY: GAS PRICE HOLDS UP GAS TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary. Our focus on getting Turkey to quickly conclude a bilateral agreement with Azerbaijan for gas supply does not address the most important issue for Turkey: price, and how the price is determined. The Turks do not believe they can get a good price from Azerbaijan in bilateral nego [...] | 2008-03-13 09:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA494 | TURKEY: IRAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: NO STATEMENT [...] (C) It is not Turkish practice to issue a statement on any country's elections, MFA Iran deskoff Mehmet Sekerci told us March 12, and he was confident Turkey will not do so following Iran's parliamentary elections. He pledged, however, to convey our points to his superiors. Turkish Parliame [...] | 2008-03-13 11:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IR TU |
08ANKARA495 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] We met with Aselsan (Full name Aselsan Electronics Industries Inc.) Purchasing Manager Ahmet Arpaozu on March 4 regarding reftel case (license number 050064457). Arpaozu relayed our questions to the production and project managers, with whom we also met on site. They confirmed Aselsan's orde [...] | 2008-03-13 13:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EG ETTC KOMC TU |
08ANKARA497 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA50 | TURKISH PROSECUTOR INVESTIGATES CHILDREN'S CHOIR [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara-Consulate Adana cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: A Diyarbakir prosecutor's office may file charges shortly against fourteen local children, ages 12-17, for singing the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) anthem at a US music festival. The prosecutor recently comple [...] | 2008-01-10 13:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA502 | TURKEY'S TOP COURTS IN THE THICK OF POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the power struggle continues between forces of change and the status quo, Turkey's top courts are playing an increasingly prominent role as de facto opposition. This prominence is in part a predictable outgrowth of the cases brought before them -- and underscores GOT determin [...] | 2008-03-14 10:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA503 | TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS CREEPS FORWARD [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish academics and civil society activists are voicing frustration at the slow pace of EU membership-related reforms. They charge the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is putting its "pet projects," such as lifting the headscarf ban at universities, ahead [...] | 2008-03-14 11:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA504 | TURKEY PREVIEWS MARCH 24-25 BERDIMUHAMEDOV VISIT [...] (C) Summary. The GOT is prepared to encourage Turkmenistan to open its energy sector to foreign investment and work with Western energy companies during Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov's March 24-25 visit. A lack of enthusiam from the Turkmen side has forced the Turks to pull-back on their [...] | 2008-03-14 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU TX |
08ANKARA506 | TURKEY: MFA STOPS M72 LAW TRANSFER/SALE TO GEORGIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (S) Following up on ref a demarche on the potential transfer of U.S.-origin M72 light antitank weapons to Georgia (ref b),MFA Department Head for Caucasus Affairs Firat Sunel told us on March 13 that the GOT interagency investigation [...] | 2008-03-14 13:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC GG MAS PARM PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA508 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA513 | THE STATE STRIKES BACK: CLOSURE CASE FILED AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment: The closure case filed March 14 against PM Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is a body blow to Turkey's political and economic stability. Turkey's entrenched secular establishment establishment has chosen to try to fight the AKP where the inept pol [...] | 2008-03-17 13:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TU |
08ANKARA514 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA518 | TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/18) [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Forceful reactions to the closure case against ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) continue. Politicians and media are connecting the closure case with the government's crackdown on the Ergenekon gang (a band of retired military and others charged with assassi [...] | 2008-03-18 10:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TU |
08ANKARA522 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA524 | TREASURY MINISTER SAYS NO NEW IMF STAND-BY [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Minister Mehmet Simsek was widely reported in the press March 17 as saying that Turkey did not need a new stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Simsek said the GOT is considering other types of agreements with the IMF after the current stand-by a [...] | 2008-03-19 05:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON TU |
08ANKARA525 | Update on PKK Violence (March 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 8-15, 2008 reporting period, no Turkish s [...] | 2008-03-19 10:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA526 | TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/19) [...] (C) Summary and Comment: As everyone awaits the Constitutional Court rapporteur's opinion on whether the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is technically complete, some are urging AKP to press forward with reforms of the judiciary, the political parties law, [...] | 2008-03-19 13:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TU |
08ANKARA527 | TURKEY REVISES GDP UP SHARPLY, BUT NEGATIVE TREND [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkstat, the Turkish statistical agency, released a long-awaited GDP revision on March 8, increasing Turkey's 2006 GDP by 31.6%, and making upward revisions to all Turkish GDP calculations since 1998. Final 2007 GDP figures will be released on March 31, and the upward revisio [...] | 2008-03-19 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA529 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA530 | TURKISH RESPONSE ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE [...] (SBU) On March 19, we shared reftel information and points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department Head for Multilateral Economic Affairs Serap Ozcoskun. She agreed to share reftel points with the Turkish mission to the OECD. She noted the information has already been discussed in an inf [...] | 2008-03-19 15:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON CM TW OECD TU |
08ANKARA536 | TURKEY: RULING AKP TO TRY TO OVERCOME CLOSURE CASE [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is drafting a mini-constitutional amendment package to attempt to overcome the closure case filed against it in Constitutional Court. The package will include a temporary clause that would wipe out existing closure cases, including ag [...] | 2008-03-19 22:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA537 | TURKEY: ALEVIS DETERMINED TO END MANADATORY [...] (C) Summary and comment: Alevi groups are committed to ensuring the GOT implements the Council of State's (Danistay's) March 3 ruling allowing students to be excused from Turkey's mandatory religious courses (ref A). These groups believe the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) cri [...] | 2008-03-20 08:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA54 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 15:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA541 | TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/20) [...] (C) Summary and comment. While the embattled Justice and Development Party (AKP) squares off to fight its closure case tooth and nail, it is also redoubling its efforts to push forward EU-oriented reforms. One AKP MP reflected on the party's past shortcomings, and opposition parties criticize [...] | 2008-03-20 12:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA542 | NEW R&D LAW GIVES MORE INCENTIVES FOR PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Summary: We met with Dr. Omer Anlagan, Vice President of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK),to discuss the current state of research and development (R&D) in Turkey, and TUBITAK's expectations for the new R&D law, which passed on February 28. Turkey [...] | 2008-03-20 14:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TU EIND TPHY TNGD |
08ANKARA543 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA547 | TURKEY: PARTY CLOSURE CASE AGAINST RULING AKP - [...] (C) Summary and comment: Abdullatif Sener, former Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP and deputy prime minister -- and rumored possible leader of a post-AKP party -- told us the closure case was long in the making. He staunchly denied that AKP has any aims against the secular nature of t [...] | 2008-03-21 11:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA549 | TURKEY'S PARTY CLOSURE CASE: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT [...] (C) Turkey's Constitutional Court consists of 11 members, of whom 8 were appointed by the previous president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, himself a former Constitutional Court judge. Unlike previous presidents coming from a political background, Sezer selected his appointments to reflect not only hi [...] | 2008-03-21 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TU |
08ANKARA55 | TURKEY: TALAT VISIT SHOWS GOT INTERAGENCY [...] (C) Summary and comment: "TRNC President" Talat enjoyed full head of state honors during a January 3-4 visit to Ankara that created broad interagency agreement within the GOT on an effort to re-energize comprehensive settlement negotiations on Cyprus. Talat's meetings with President Gul, Prim [...] | 2008-01-10 15:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY |
08ANKARA550 | TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/21) [...] (C) SUMMARY. "Rule of law" is the watch phrase for one key retired general, who defends the case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by arguing that they were acting outside the bounds of legitimacy. His views illustrate the strain between the military and its traditional [...] | 2008-03-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA552 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-21 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA553 | TURKEY: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF GOVERNMENT-MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Turkish military operations against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq over the past three months have lent a facade of unity to the contentious relationship between the military leadership and Prime Minister Erdogan's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). The Turkish Gener [...] | 2008-03-21 16:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PSEC MOPS PTER TU |
08ANKARA559 | TURKEY: SE KURDS HOPE REFORM MOMENTUM WILL [...] (C) Optimistic voices in the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and Diyarbakir NGO community view the combination of Western pressure, alleged Turkish military set-backs against the PKK, and the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) self-interest in expanding democratic refor [...] | 2008-03-24 10:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA56 | Update on PKK Violence (January 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 1 - 7, 2008 reporting period, no GOT se [...] | 2008-01-11 07:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA561 | TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/24) [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. In the wake of several detentions of prominent individuals on March 21, the focus is on connections between the closure case against ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the crackdown on the Ergenekon gang, a shady collection of leftist ultra-nationalists wh [...] | 2008-03-24 13:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA562 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA563 | TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/25) [...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Erdogan, initially quick to claim that the closure case against his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was a reaction against the government crackdown on the Ergenekon gang, has begun to defer to the prosecutor,s denials as media increasingly portray the ne [...] | 2008-03-25 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA564 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-25 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA565 | CFE: TURKEY WANTS NO MENTION OF FLANKS IN NATO [...] (C) We queried MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun March 25 on MFA reactions to the proposed NATO statement on CFE (reftel). Gun said he had examined the statement and consulted with senior MFA officials, who agreed that Turkey strongly opposes any reference to "flank limits" o [...] | 2008-03-25 15:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS NATO KCFE MARR GG MD TU |
08ANKARA566 | Update on PKK Violence (March 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 16-23, 2008 reporting period, no Turkish [...] | 2008-03-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA567 | TURKEY/NATO: TURKEY AND OUR BUCHAREST SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Turkey broadly supports USG priorities for the NATO Summit in Bucharest. MFA and Turkish General Staff (TGS) contacts told us Turkey: -- continues to make significant contributions to Afghanistan and may be open to additional contributions to ISAF; -- does not oppose on-the-groun [...] | 2008-03-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO TU |
08ANKARA568 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA57 | PRUDENTIAL REVOCATIONS: NEED FOR TIMELY RESOLUTION [...] (U) Post enthusiastically supports of the prudential revocation process and the vital role it plays in our border security. We also know that the review of the reapplications is a multi-agency process. However, the sensitivity of prudential revocations, which often involve prominent figures, [...] | 2008-01-11 08:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS CMGT TU |
08ANKARA573 | TURKEY SAYS IT IS IMPLEMENTING THE DUAL USE ITEM [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Department Head Elif Ulgen expressed appreciation for reftel non-paper and stressed Turkey's commitment to implementing the dual use item prohibitions of UNSCR 1803, during a March 27 meeting. Ulgen shared that Turkish Customs officials had prevented the shipment of dual [...] | 2008-03-27 15:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM NSG IR MNUC TU |
08ANKARA574 | TURKEY-DENMARK C/T COOPERATION AND ROJ-TV [...] (C) During Danish FM Per Stig Moller's March 25-26 visit, he and Turkish FM Ali Babacan signed an MOU (reported septel) which, among other things, agreed to enhance "bilateral cooperation in the field of the fight against terrorism," Danish DCM Soren Jacobsen told us March 27. A separate add [...] | 2008-03-27 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER DE TU |
08ANKARA575 | TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL'S NEW TAKE ON ACTIVISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Six months into his tenure as Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul was striding confidently across the world stage while walking more carefully on the domestic tightrope. It is an image that encapsulated his presidency up to March 14, 2008, the day the chief public prosecutor filed [...] | 2008-03-27 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA576 | TURKEY AIMS TO MODERATE, MODERNIZE THE OIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: As evidenced at the Dakar Summit, Turkey is endeavoring to capitalize on its growing influence in the Muslim world to modernize and moderate the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Turkey independently advocated for communique language supporting the newly i [...] | 2008-03-27 15:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL OIC KV TU |
08ANKARA577 | TURKEY STRESSES TO FM SPANTA ITS CONTINUED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Afghan FM Spanta, visiting Ankara March 18, did not ask for more troops from Turkey, saying it was a NATO decision. He did, however, ask for more military training. Turkey is prepared to respond; FM Babacan will take up the issue with the Turkish General Staff (TGS). Spanta als [...] | 2008-03-27 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER NATO AF PK TU |
08ANKARA578 | TURKEY: CALLS FOR CALM FROM CIVIL SOCIETY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an environment overheated by controversy surrounding the closure case against the governing party (reftels),seven civil society organizations released a delicately-worded joint statement March 26, calling for common sense and warning against polarization. President Gul calle [...] | 2008-03-27 16:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA579 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-28 06:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA583 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-28 12:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA584 | PARLIAMENT PASSES ANOTHER LAW TO SAVE CARGILL'S SWEETENER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Turkish Parliament yesterday passed an amendment to the Soil Protection and Land Use Law that is intended to protect several thousand companies from closure, including Cargill's Orhangazi sweetener plant. This is the third attempt by the ruling party AKP to give an amnesty t [...] | 2008-03-28 12:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV ETRD TU |
08ANKARA585 | TURKEY SAYS IT IS IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1803, BUT [...] (S) We delivered reftel B and C demarche and non-paper on March 28 to MFA Department Head for South Asian Affairs Devrim Ozturk, and Iran Desk Officer Mehmet Sekerci. They thanked us for the information, and said they would translate the paper and distribute it with appropriate classification [...] | 2008-03-28 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PARM PGOV PREL KNNP MNUC |
08ANKARA587 | TURKEY: INDICTMENT IN AKP CLOSURE SUIT - THE CASE [...] (C) Summary: The 162-page indictment that Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor Yalcinkaya submitted to the Constitutional Court, asking that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) be closed as a center of anti-secular activity, is a typical Turkish indictment - high in accusations, low i [...] | 2008-03-28 16:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU |
08ANKARA588 | C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 ANKARA 000588 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-28 17:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PREL PTER |
08ANKARA59 | TURKEY'S PLANS TO AMEND CONTROVERSIAL "ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: Divisions in Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have delayed plans by at least a week to introduce amendments to controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing insulting "Turkishness"). Four main amendments are under discussion: changing "insulting [...] | 2008-01-11 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA591 | TURKEY: GOVERNMENT PRESENTS REVISED SOCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: After reaching an agreement with most unions on March 25, the GOT presented a revised Social Security Reform law directly to the parliament floor on March 27. The revised bill raises the number of "premium days" a worker would need to work before being eligible for a pension [...] | 2008-03-28 21:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN TU |
08ANKARA598 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 13:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA6 | REQUEST FOR NIE BRIEFING TEAM TO VISIT ANKARA [...] (C) Post requests Ankara be added to the Iran NIE briefing team's itinerary. We understand that Ankara is currently not among the twenty posts that the Iran NIE briefing team plans to visit. Turkey, as the only NATO member bordering Iran, has substantial economic ties with Iran, and is in p [...] | 2008-01-02 14:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KMNP MNUC PARM IR TU |
08ANKARA60 | TURKEY: LAWYERS PREPARING TO PROBE MALATYA MURDERS [...] (C) Summary: Attorneys for the families of victims of the April 2007 triple murder of Christian bookstore workers in Malatya (reftel) will have their first chance to question the five defendants when the trial continues on Monday, January 14. They plan to press the suspects to explain telep [...] | 2008-01-11 12:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA600 | TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AGREES TO HEAR AKP [...] (SBU) After a four-hour meeting March 31, Constitutional Court Vice President Osman Paksut announced that the Court agreed to hear the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Paksut stated the Court voted unanimously on all parts of the indictment (reftel) except [...] | 2008-03-31 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA603 | TURKEY BLOCKS "YOUTUBE" AND OTHER POPULAR WEBSITES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: As Turkey's recent ban of the YouTube video sharing site entered its 13th day, a frustrated senior official at Google, YouTube's owner, told us Google would decide within three to six months whether to abandon operations in Turkey. Google contends that Turkey's curren [...] | 2008-04-01 09:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA605 | TURKEY: REALITY TV SHOW RATINGS ON THE RISE [...] (U) As the Turkish public grows weary of the complicated and discouraging political developments dominating the news and talk shows, they are turning increasingly to reality TV shows for entertainment. TRT Program Director Nisan Budalalik has seen a marked increase in viewership of American-s [...] | 2008-04-01 12:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA607 | TURKEY: NATIONALIST OPPOSITION LOOKING TO CASHING [...] (C) SUMMARY. The opposition Nationalist Action Party (MHP) since its entry into parliament in July 2007 has shrewdly managed to corner the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and exploit its weaknesses. MHP is keenly aware that hiving off votes from AKP is its only hope to strength [...] | 2008-04-01 12:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA608 | PROSECUTOR FILES CLOSURE CASE AGAINST DEEP STATE [...] (C) In a surprise move, Chief Prosecutor of the Court of Appeals Abudrrahman Yalcinkaya filed a party closure case March 31 against the "Deep State" (the shadowy organization long believed to operate in secret to uphold the Kemalist state, though no one knows if they have actually met them). [...] | 2008-04-01 12:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA610 | TURKEY: COMPREHENSIVE EU ANTI-TIP PROJECT LAUNCHED [...] (U) In a standing room-only ceremony March 19, Turkish Ministry of Interior (MOI) Deputy Under Secretary Alim Barum, IOM Chief of Mission Maurizio Busatti, and European Commission Delegation Institution Building and Civil Society Section Head Michael Vogel inaugurated a two-year, three millio [...] | 2008-04-01 13:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU |
08ANKARA611 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA614 | TURKEY: STATUS REPORT ON INVESTIGATION OF TET [...] (S) We delivered ref C points as non-paper to MFA Head of Department for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Elif Ulgen on April 1. Ulgen appreciated the additional information and stated she would share it with other agencies involved in the investigation. She provided the following update on G [...] | 2008-04-02 04:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC KSCA PARM PREL PGOV MTCRE TU PK |
08ANKARA62 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-11 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA620 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA622 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN AND AKP DECIDE TO RIGHT THE SHIP [...] (C) Summary and comment: The closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),now formally accepted by the Constitutional Court, is now a fact the party has accepted, AKP Vice Chair Saban Disli told us. AKP and PM Erdogan understand the Turkish public is weary of political [...] | 2008-04-03 07:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON TU |
08ANKARA623 | TURKEY'S POLICY ON GAS TRANSIT FIRMLY UP IN THE AIR [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey is at least considering a change in its strategy on natural gas transit from Azerbaijan to Europe. They appear to have gotten the message that their 15% reserve at net-back price formula (reftel A) is not viable. However, they have not yet come up with an al [...] | 2008-04-03 07:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA627 | TURKEY/IRAQ: S/I SATTERFIELD CONSULTS GOT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In discussions with MFA U/S Apakan, MFA Deputy U/S Sinirlioglu, GOT Iraq Coordinator Ozcelik, Presidency foreign affairs advisor Turkoglu, and D/CHOD Gen. Saygun March 31, S/I Satterfield warned of the political situation in which Iraq PM Maliki finds himself as a result of the se [...] | 2008-04-03 12:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS PINS PGOV TU IZ IR |
08ANKARA628 | TURKEY: ERDOGAN'S BALKAN TOUR HEAVY ON GOOD WILL, [...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Erdogan's March 24-28 regional trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH),Albania, and Bulgaria was "successful, but light on substance." It came at a time when Turkey wants to demonstrate what it can to enhance stability in the Balkans, and signaled as well to the Tur [...] | 2008-04-03 12:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZL BK AL BU TU |
08ANKARA629 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 14:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA63 | TURKEY: PKK DEMOBILIZATION IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary: The idea of an amnesty as part of a comprehensive plan to deal with the PKK issue is under broad discussion in Turkey (reftel). Suggesting leniency, even for PKKers without blood on their hands, poses political risks. But for Turkey to resolve this decades-old insurgency, it must [...] | 2008-01-11 16:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
08ANKARA630 | TURKEY/TURKMENISTAN: BILATERAL TIES INCH AHEAD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite media reports to the contrary, Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov discussed energy matters in some detail with President Gul and PM Erdogan during his March 24-25 visit to Turkey, MFA Central Asia Department Head Sule Gurel and Energy Department Head Berris Ekinci told us [...] | 2008-04-03 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ENRG TU TX |
08ANKARA631 | TURKEY: U.S. AUSTRALIA GROUP PROPOSALS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ETTC CBW TU |
08ANKARA632 | TURKEY WILL MAINTAIN AIR KORYO OVERFLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC EAIR TU IR KN |
08ANKARA633 | TURKEY: GOT REQUESTS USG SUPPORT ON "TRNC" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is concerned that Greek Cypriot efforts to block engagement of Turkish Cypriot Authorities by the OECD's Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of Turkish Cypriot authorities under the guise of "recognition" concerns threatens to further isolate economically and financially the [...] | 2008-04-03 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON CY TU |
08ANKARA636 | Update on PKK Violence (March 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 24-31, 2008 reporting period, three Turkis [...] | 2008-04-04 07:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA639 | TURKEY: OPPOSITION PARTY CHALLENGES FOUNDATIONS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) applied to the Constitutional Court on March 23 to annul nine articles of the recently adopted Foundations Law on the ground that they violate Turkey's Constitution, laws, and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The nine articl [...] | 2008-04-04 11:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA64 | TURKEY: PM, OPPOSITION TRIPS TO DIYARBAKIR MOVE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The tragic January 3 PKK bombing in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, which prompted condolence visits to the city by PM Erdogan and opposition head Deniz Baykal as well as CHOD Buyukanit, provided a platform for Turkey's highest ranking politicians to hear ordina [...] | 2008-01-14 06:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON TU IZ |
08ANKARA640 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA642 | TURKEY: PRIVATIZATION PROCESS ADVANCES, DELAYS [...] (C) Summary: The GOT has 16 major privatizations on its 2008 agenda that are expected to begin and/or be completed this year. Their estimated sales prices are USD 24.475 billion, although the GOT would not actually receive much of that money until 2009. These deals are estimated to draw in [...] | 2008-04-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EFIN TU |
08ANKARA643 | TURKEY ENCOURAGED BY SAAKASHVILI'S ABKHAZ AUTONOMY [...] (C) The GOT believes Georgian President Saakashvili's March 28 proposals offering significant autonomy to Abkhazia are important, South Caucasus Section Head Yavuz Kul told us April 2. Turkey remains prepared to play a "facilitating" role with the Abkhaz if Georgia allows it, according to Kul [...] | 2008-04-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG TU |
08ANKARA644 | TURKEY: A LOST CHANCE [...] (C) Summary. Murat Mercan, the chair of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and a long-time contact, is pessimistic about Turkey's future in light of the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). He echoed AKP Vice Chair Saban Disli's description (reftel) of AKP' [...] | 2008-04-04 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA645 | EL KADI'S ASSETS REMAIN FROZEN IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) On April 2, the Administrative Court Council rejected the appeal of Saudi national Yassin el Kadi to release his frozen assets. El Kadi had appealed to vacate an earlier decision by the Danistay, or Council of State, that reconfirmed the authority of the Turkish Government to freeze hi [...] | 2008-04-04 15:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN TU |
08ANKARA654 | TURKEY: MINISTER SIMSEK ON IMF RELATIONS, EBRD [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wilson met April 3 with State Minister for the Treasury Mehmet Simsek. Simsek said Prime Minister Erdogan has told ministers that, to the maximum extent possible, it should be "business as usual" in the face of the AKP party closure suit and that the GOT should proceed [...] | 2008-04-07 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL TU |
08ANKARA659 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA660 | TURKEY: KUWAITI AMIR'S VISIT FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During his March 29-April 5 visit, Kuwaiti Amir Sabah met with President Gul and PM Erdogan in Ankara before traveling to Istanbul for a Turkey-Kuwait Business Forum meeting and recreation. In private sessions with Gul and Erdogan, the Amir discussed regional issues [...] | 2008-04-08 05:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KU TU |
08ANKARA661 | TURKEY: MAVERICK KURDISH POLITICIAN SHOWS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Kurdish schoolteacher-turned-politician Abdullah Demirbas recently described to us the immense pressure brought to bear on him for his attempts to use Kurdish language in public services while serving as Democratic Society Party (DTP) mayor of Diyarbakir's Sur distric [...] | 2008-04-08 05:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA670 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA671 | TURKEY'S RULING PARTY MAKES ITS FIRST MOVE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) revealed the first moves in its strategy to survive the party closure case now pending in the constitutional court. Following AKP's April 7 Central Decision Making and Administrative Board meeting, party officials a [...] | 2008-04-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA672 | TURKEY: VIOLENT CLASHES CAST SHADOWS OF PAST COUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Violent clashes at universities around Turkey over the last several weeks, while small in scale, are being widely identified as deliberate provocations to polarize and destabilize the country. In the back of everyone's mind is clashes as prelude to a possible coup. I [...] | 2008-04-08 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA673 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA675 | TURKEY: TNP COUNTERS TERRORIST RECRUITMENT IN THE [...] (C) Summary. The Turkish National Police (TNP) in Ankara are countering efforts by terrorist groups to recruit in high schools, according to TNP sources. The terrorist groups typically befriend vulnerable youth through "innocent" activities and gradually introduce anti-government comments an [...] | 2008-04-09 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC TU |
08ANKARA678 | IRAN: TURKEY IMPLEMENTING UNSCRS TRAVEL BAN AND [...] (SBU) Turkey will abide by all provisions of UNSCRs 1737, 1747 and 1803, including those pertaining to travel, MFA Iran Section Head Mehmet Sekerci told us April 9. He said would convey our reftel points to his superiors. According to Sekerci, all the individuals' names subject to "vigilance [...] | 2008-04-10 09:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC KNNP UNSC IR TU |
08ANKARA679 | TURKEY/GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA DISCONNECT [...] (C) The GOT has told Georgia it is ready to facilitate Georgia's Abkhaz autonomy proposals (ref A and B),Georgian DCM Irakli Koplatadze told us April 8. Turkish facilitation is acceptable to Georgia, he said, as Georgian President Saakashvili has previously told President Gul and FM Babacan. [...] | 2008-04-10 09:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG TU |
08ANKARA680 | TURKEY: ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION INEXTRICABLY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Alleged links between the investigation into the Ergenekon deep state gang (ref A) and the chief public prosecutor's closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are both difficult to prove and impossible to ignore. Although evidence of a direct link remai [...] | 2008-04-10 10:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA684 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 14:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA687 | TURKEY PRIORITIZES ITS OWN GAS NEEDS OVER NABUCCO [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Energy Minister Guler confirmed that Turkey has offered to buy all 12 bcm of Shah Deniz Phase II gas, but said it really wants "only" 8-9 bcm. The Ambassador noted that this would leave only 3-4 bcm for transit to Europe, undermining th [...] | 2008-04-11 08:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA688 | ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP COMMISSION SCENESETTER [...] (C) The EPC has added balance to a bilateral relationship that has been heavily weighted to political and security cooperation. At the start of last year's EPC meeting, Turkey's economy was in its sixth year of strong growth, the government was steering a steady course, and the business clim [...] | 2008-04-11 09:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL TU |
08ANKARA690 | TURKEY: NGO'S PRESENT KURDISH SOLUTIONS TO A [...] (C) A broad coalition of Diyarbakir civil society organizations sent a delegation to Ankara this week to present a series of recommendations on how the government can address the Southeast's socio-economic problems. On the economic side, the recommendations focus on improving the effectivenes [...] | 2008-04-11 11:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA691 | IMPLICATIONS OF AKP CLOSURE CASE AND OUR PUBLIC [...] (c) Summary: The closure case against Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is a blow to this country's future. It reflects unresolved conflicts about the nature of Turkey, the state, the extent of popular democracy and the role of religion in society. It also results from fai [...] | 2008-04-11 12:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA692 | TURKEY: A NONPROLIFERATION PARTNER ON ITS OWN TERMS [...] (C) Summary: As the only NATO ally bordering Iran and Syria, Turkey plays a pivotal role in our nonproliferation efforts in the region. Turkey shares our nonproliferation goals, but is also sensitive to its relations with neighbors. Turkey is frequently called upon by the U.S. and others to [...] | 2008-04-11 14:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KNNP PREL PARM ETTC TU IR SY |
08ANKARA695 | Update on PKK Violence (April 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 1-7, 2008 reporting period, one village g [...] | 2008-04-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA699 | TURKISH CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BANS FUTURE REAL ESTATE [...] Summary: On March 11, Turkey's Constitutional Court annulled the section of the Foreign Investment Law that authorized property sales to foreigners in Turkey. The ruling will enter into force 6 months following the issuance of the court reasoning, and it will not be retroactive. The GOT is ex [...] | 2008-04-14 11:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON BEXP TU |
08ANKARA7 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA700 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-14 12:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA707 | TURKEY/PSI: MFA DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY TO LEAD GOT [...] (U) MFA Department Head for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Elif Ulgen told us on April 15 that her office, which is responsible for PSI and all nonproliferation matters, has proposed having newly-appointed MFA Deputy Undersecretary for Security Affairs Ecvet Tezcan lead the GOT delegation t [...] | 2008-04-15 11:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KSTC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA708 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA709 | TURKEY: UN USYG PASCOE CONSULTS MFA ON CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Following consultations in Nicosia and Athens, UN Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Pascoe visited Ankara April 8 to discuss the UN's proposal for the next round of comprehensive Cyprus settlement talks. MFA sources report the GOT is pleased with the details Pascoe lai [...] | 2008-04-15 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY TU |
08ANKARA711 | TURKEY'S BIG PLANS TO DEVELOP IRANIAN GAS [...] (C) Summary: Energy Minister Guler's informal advisor Faruk Demir told us April 3 that Turkey plans to develop Iranian South Pars gas for Turkish and European consumption, and expects to obtain financing and Western partners to develop the field and construct a new pipeline to Turkey. Turkey [...] | 2008-04-16 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET IR TU |
08ANKARA712 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA714 | TURKEY: RULING PARTY STILL WORKING OUT "ARTICLE [...] (C) Summary: As a bill to amend controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing insulting "Turkishness") inches its way toward the floor of Turkish Parliament, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members remain divided on the key issue of who should review cases to [...] | 2008-04-16 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA719 | TURKEY: BILL EXPANDING KURDISH LANGUAGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Parliament's Planning and Budget Subcommittee will take up a bill April 18 submitted by Turkey's state-controlled "TRT" broadcasting network to expand Kurdish-language (and other foreign language) broadcasting. The draft legislation follows up on PM Erdogan's Februar [...] | 2008-04-17 11:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA72 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-14 14:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA720 | TURKEY: 53 KURDISH MAYORS CONVICTED IN FREE SPEECH [...] (U) Summary and Comment. The Diyarbakir Heavy Criminal Court convicted 53 mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) April 15 of "praising criminal activity" and fined them USD 1500, a much-reduced penalty than the hard prison time originally sought by the prosecution. The co [...] | 2008-04-17 12:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE DE TU |
08ANKARA721 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-17 13:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA722 | (S) FOLLOWING UP WITH THE GOT ON FILAMENT WINDING [...] (S) We followed up on this case April 17 with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Deputy Director General (DAS-equivalent) Ahmet Muhtar Gun and Department Head Elif Ulgen, emphasizing our strong belief that Tet Makina Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret is seeking ways to evade export controls to sell filame [...] | 2008-04-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC KSCA PARM PREL PGOV MTCRE PK TU |
08ANKARA723 | TURKEY: COURT RULINGS LEAVE FOREIGNERS' LAND PURCHASE [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The Constitutional Court has issued two opinions this year striking down parts of two different laws that had allowed foreigners to purchase real estate in Turkey. A January ruling struck down provisions of the Title Deed Law that allowed foreign individuals to purch [...] | 2008-04-18 11:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON BEXP TU |
08ANKARA724 | Update on PKK Violence (April 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK-related violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 8-15, 2008 reporting period, two s [...] | 2008-04-18 12:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA725 | BP VALIDATES TURKEY,S DEMAND FOR LARGE GAS [...] (C) Summary. BP Natural Gas Manager Oktay Sen shared with us his view that the GOT,s play for large volumes of gas from Shah Deniz Phase II development is based on realistic projections of Turkey's future gas needs. Turkish industrial consumers and households will continue to convert to nat [...] | 2008-04-18 12:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG EPET TU |
08ANKARA727 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-18 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA728 | EU PRESIDENT BARROSO GOES "BACK TO BASICS" IN [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara - Consulate Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: European Union President Jose Manuel Barroso's April 11-12 visit to Turkey coincided with intense national debate and polarization over the March 14 indictment to close the ruling Justice and Develop [...] | 2008-04-18 12:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA73 | TURKEY: MAIN ALEVI ORGANIZATIONS BOYCOTT PM [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's main Alevi organizations boycotted a January 11 Muharram iftar organized by Justice and Development Party (AKP) MPs as outreach to Alevi communities. They saw the event as "Sunni-centric", aimed at assimilating Alevis into mainstream Sunni society, and demonstrated their [...] | 2008-01-14 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA730 | Subject: Turkey: Parliament Passes Amended Social Security [...] (U) Summary: The Turkish Parliament approved an amended version of the Social Security Reform bill on April 18, after a three-week debate. The vote was 225 - 55. The bill will become law after President Gul signs it and it is published in the Official Gazette. 2. (SBU) The Parliament mad [...] | 2008-04-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON BEXP TU |
08ANKARA731 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (MARCH 2008) [...] Summary: The EXBS Program advisor met with Turkish Customs officials to review proposed CBP offered training in anticipation of the EXBS Agreement going into force. EXBS team completed preparations for DHS/CBP's Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) training for Turkish Customs, which began on April 10. C [...] | 2008-04-18 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA74 | TURKEY: CONSIDERING ACTION ON PAKISTAN SHIPMENT, CONCERNED ABOUT SHORT LEAD TIME [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-14 16:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL EWWT SN GM TU PK |
08ANKARA742 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 13:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA745 | (S) ADVISING THE GOT OF TET MAKINA'S PREPARATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 14:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA PK TU |
08ANKARA746 | TURKEY: CHP CONVENTION TO AFFIRM BAYKAL'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. Few expect great change to come from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) regular general convention, April 26-27. Deniz Baykal's iron grip on internal party processes virtually assures his reinstatement as chairman, and any changes to the Administrative Board will lik [...] | 2008-04-22 07:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA747 | TURKEY-IRAN SECURITY DIALOGUE: COOPERATION REMAINS [...] (C) Turkey-Iran security cooperation was not advanced substantially at the 12th Turkey-Iran Supreme Security Commission meeting, held in Ankara, April 15-16, MFA Security Affairs Head of Department (bilateral and multilateral security cooperation) Metin Ergin told us April 21. Ergin describe [...] | 2008-04-22 09:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PINS PREL PGOV PTER IR TU |
08ANKARA748 | TURKEY: STOPPING TRAVEL TO ANNUAL PKK TERRORIST [...] (S) Turkey is appreciative of USG efforts to raise the level of attention paid by European and regional governments to the potential for PKK members to travel to northern Iraq to participate in the group's annual conference, as instructed in ref a. MFA Department Head for the PKK Ceren Etiz t [...] | 2008-04-22 09:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KTFN PTER PREL IZ TU |
08ANKARA751 | TURKEY: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DECLARATION [...] (U) On April 21 we delivered reftel demarche to MFA Department Head for Council of Europe and Human Rights Hasan Ulusoy. He lamented the plight of prisoners of conscience and said Turkey would give due consideration to the declaration. Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at http://www.intel [...] | 2008-04-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PHUM PREL TU |
08ANKARA752 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA753 | ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA: TURKEY CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Turkey shares our concerns about the new presidential instructions to the Russian government to create "mechanisms" to protect the rights of Russian citizens in Abkhazia and South Ossetia (reftel),MFA Deputy DG for South Caucasus and Central Asia Umit Yardim and South Caucasus Department [...] | 2008-04-22 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS TU |
08ANKARA755 | TURKEY: SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS WITH ISRAEL AND THE [...] (U) This cable is in response to ref a request. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT supports the Annapolis process and the Road Map, and increasingly sees itself as an impartial regional facilitator, capable of playing a constructive role in the Middle East peace process. Ankara hosted PA President A [...] | 2008-04-22 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS KPAL TU |
08ANKARA767 | TURKEY-AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN: SUMMIT DATES BEING FINALIZED; DOSTUM ARREST WOULD THREATEN TURKISH-AFGHAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | AF PGOV PK PREL TU |
08ANKARA770 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA772 | TURKISH MFA ON IRAQ MEETINGS IN KUWAIT [...] (C) Turkish MFA Deputy U/S Sinirlioglu briefed Ambassador April 24 on Turkish FM Babacan's talks with PM Maliki in Kuwait earlier this week. He said the Turks found Maliki more confident after the Basra confrontation. Both sides were pleased with progress on the mil-mil front, economic coope [...] | 2008-04-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ US TU |
08ANKARA773 | TURKS POLITICK ON AKP CLOSURE CASE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Babacan appealed privately for stronger Western support of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),which faces a closure case, during his London visit last week. Turkey's two most prominent business associations are pushing for a constitutional convention as a [...] | 2008-04-24 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA778 | Update on PKK Violence (April 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK-related violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 16-23, 2008 reporting period, six [...] | 2008-04-25 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA78 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (DECEMBER [...] Summary: The EXBS Program Manager for Turkey met with post and Turkish officials to review the state of the program. EXBS Advisor completed transfer of the Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) to Turkish Customs. Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK) has requested a joint proliferation "threat" assessmen [...] | 2008-01-15 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA780 | TURKEY CONDITIONS CLEARANCE FOR SUSPECT NORTH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP NK SY TU |
08ANKARA781 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA792 | TURKEY: VIEWS ON A TURKEY-ARMENIA HISTORICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Creating an historical commission to analyze the shared histories of Turkey and Armenia and the genocide issue has been Ankara's proposed first step toward normalizing relations between the two countries. In Turkey, political, legal and institutional obstacles undermine prospec [...] | 2008-04-28 11:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM TU |
08ANKARA795 | TURKEY: RIVALS FIND COMMON CAUSE IN CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Long-standing civil society rivals have linked arms to press politicians to resuscitate efforts for comprehensive constitutional reform -- this time in a fashion that draws on a broad base. Two top business organizations, TUSIAD and TOBB, have quietly pitched to the major parties [...] | 2008-04-28 12:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA797 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA799 | TURKEY: GOT CONGRATULATES NEW ARMENIAN [...] (U) PM Erdogan congratulated newly-appointed Armenian PM Tigran Sarkissian on his assignment in an April 22 letter in which he called on the two "neighborly countries" to take concrete steps to find lasting solutions to their existing problems through dialogue and establishing good neighborly [...] | 2008-04-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM TU |
08ANKARA80 | TURKEY: JAN 15 AIR STRIKES ON PKK TARGETS IN [...] (S) Turkish warplanes attacked suspected PKK terrorist positions in the Zap-Sivi, Avasin-Basyan, and Hakurk regions in northern Iraq on January 15. The air strikes took place between 1045 and 1400 hours local time. The Turkish General Staff (TGS) provided approximately 12 hours of advance not [...] | 2008-01-15 15:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MOPS TU IZ |
08ANKARA800 | Turkey Visit by Native American Storyteller a Resounding [...] Summary: Embassy Ankara hosted Native American storyteller and singer Redfeather Woman for 21 performances from April 7-20, 2008. Redfeather Woman (AKA Rose Haywood) performed to over 4,000 high school and university students in eight cities in southwestern Turkey and in Ankara. The program [...] | 2008-04-29 05:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL KPAO TU |
08ANKARA817 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-29 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA818 | TURKEY: CHP PARTY CONGRESS SERVES UP MORE OF SAME [...] (C) SUMMARY. A predictable and lackluster Republican People's Party (CHP) convention April 26-27 re-elected Deniz Baykal as chairman and cleaned house of his opponents, further strengthening his sclerotic hold over a party that does not want him, but cannot fight him. The convention declarati [...] | 2008-04-29 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA824 | MORE FROM TURKEY ON BECOMING AN EBRD RECIPIENT [...] (C) Summary: Although not an action addressee on reftel A, we wanted to provide the latest GOT position on Turkey becoming an EBRD recipient. On April 28, we met with Treasury Director General for International Affairs Memduh Akcay. While in Washington April 11-13 for the World Bank/IMF me [...] | 2008-04-30 04:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL TU |
08ANKARA825 | TURKEY-IRAQ: SPRING WEATHER BRINGS UPSWING IN [...] (S) Summary: Turkish security operations against PKK terrorists in Turkey and in northern Iraq have increased with the onset of spring. Meanwhile, clashes within Turkey have occurred as far north as Kars and have claimed up to eleven Turkish dead this month. Turkish forces conducted the lar [...] | 2008-04-30 07:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU |
08ANKARA833 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT (FINALLY) AMENDS "ARTICLE 301" [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following an all-night session and two years of heated debate, Turkey's parliament voted 250-65 to amend controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing "insulting Turkishness") at 5 am April 30. The bill, which requires that the Justice Minister authorize [...] | 2008-04-30 11:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
08ANKARA834 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - TURKEY [...] This report was coordinated with FAS Ankara. 2. SUMMARY: Turkey has the highest per capita wheat consumption in the world, and in a normal year is not only self-sufficient but exports wheat flour to neighboring countries. Severe drought in 2007 slashed Turkish crop yields, and commodity pri [...] | 2008-04-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA843 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-01 13:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA85 | TURKEY: CERD DEMARCHE UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 08:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PREL PHUM TU |
08ANKARA850 | TURKEY EPC: IRAQ INTERNATIONAL FAIR IN GAZIANTEP MAY 22 - [...] Turkey will host its Third Iraq International Fair in the southeastern city of Gaziantep May 22 - 25. This trade fair is jointly organized by the Iraqi Ministry of Trade and the Turkish Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) and will include exhibitors from Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Italy, Russia, Ta [...] | 2008-05-02 13:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL TU IZ |
08ANKARA852 | TURKEY WILL PLEDGE AT PARIS AFGHANISTAN SUPPORT [...] (C) The GOT expects to make a fresh pledge at the June 12 Paris Support Conference for Afghanistan, MFA Pakistan/Afghanistan Section Head Ilhan Sener told us May 1. He promised to convey reftel points to his superiors; we will continue to monitor Turkey's position in advance of the conference [...] | 2008-05-02 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL AF TU |
08ANKARA853 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 14:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA855 | U.S. DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPCOM DELIVERED TO TURKEY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA TU |
08ANKARA859 | TURKEY: SENIOR AKP INSIDERS SEND PM ERDOGAN STRONG [...] (C) Summary and comment. Three senior members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) are separately sending strong messages to PM Erdogan to pursue confidence building measures and decrease tensions that have polarized Turkey. AKP MP Vehit Erdem, former Deputy PM Abdullatif Sener and Depu [...] | 2008-05-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA860 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 14:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA861 | Update on PKK Violence (April 24-30, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 24-30, 2008 reporting period, seven securi [...] | 2008-05-05 14:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA862 | Turkey Re-launches Privatization of Electricity [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. On April 28, the Privatization Agency (PA) announced that the GOT's long-delayed privatization of electricity distribution companies would re-start. Privatization was delayed in January 2007 to avoid raising electricity prices prior to July 2007 parliamentary elect [...] | 2008-05-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV TU |
08ANKARA87 | TURKEY: OPPOSITION TO DIALOGUE WITH KRG SLOWLY [...] (S) Repeated and ongoing efforts to convince the GOT to engage directly with Iraqi Kurds, beginning with President Talabani and eventually include Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) officials, appear gradually to be gaining traction. GOT Deputy Iraq Coordinator Murat Ozcelik (please protect) is [...] | 2008-01-16 09:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA873 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA878 | TURKEY: MFA DEPUTY U/S CEVIKOZ INTERESTED IN [...] (SBU) This is an action message for EUR, AF, and SCA. 2. (SBU) MFA Deputy U/S (A/S equivalent) for Central Asia and Caucasia, Eastern Europe (former Soviet Union),East Asia and Africa Unal Cevikoz has expressed interest in visiting Washington before August 2008 for consultations on Africa [...] | 2008-05-07 11:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU |
08ANKARA879 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-07 12:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA885 | TURKEY: AKP'S PRELIMINARY DEFENSE TARGETS Chief PROSECUTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) submitted its preliminary defense against the party closure case charging AKP with being a center of anti-secular acts on April 30, two days ahead of deadline. The 98-page defense condemns what it portrays as a contradictory, anti-dem [...] | 2008-05-07 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA886 | TURKEY: U/S APAKAN UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S Apakan discussed his recent Washington consultations, Turkey's efforts with Iraq, and Georgia's participation in NATO's Air Situation Data Exchange (ASDE) during a meeting with Ambassador May 5. Apakan was positive on meetings with USG officials. He highlighted confidenc [...] | 2008-05-07 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ GG |
08ANKARA887 | TURKEY: UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) During April 28-29 meetings in Ankara with MFA Undersecretary Apakan, Presidency advisor Turkoglu, PM advisor Davutoglu, Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) president Cakiroglu, six members of parliament, and Turkish General Staff J-5 LTG Zorlu, UNVIE Ambassador Schulte urged continued [...] | 2008-05-08 09:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KNUC UNSC IR TU |
08ANKARA889 | TURKEY: INT'L COMPACT WITH IRAQ MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel demarche request. 2. (C) Summary. On May 2, we met with MFA Department Head for Iraq Aydin Selcen to discuss Turkey's support for the upcoming International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial to be held in Stockholm, Sweden on May 29. Selcen was quick [...] | 2008-05-08 11:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IZ PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA89 | TURKEY RE-LAUNCHES BID TO WIN CENTRAL ASIAN HEARTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish President Abdullah Gul is spearheading a renewed GOT effort to strengthen Turkish-Central Asian relations through visit diplomacy. Unlike Turkey's initial, post-Soviet era approach to the region, the Turks are viewing Central Asia as a partner not a patron, and offering [...] | 2008-01-16 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EPET EINV KZ KG TI TX |
08ANKARA890 | TURKEY: U/S APAKAN PREVIEWS CYPRUS GRIEVANCES TO [...] (C) During a May 5 meeting on various subjects, Turkish MFA U/S Apakan outlined GOT concerns about Cyprus that he planned to raise with the EU Troika during its May 6 meetings in Ankara. His purpose was not to complain, but to highlight areas where Greek Cypriots and President Christofias are [...] | 2008-05-08 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY TU |
08ANKARA891 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 12:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA894 | TURKEY MUST CONSULT WITH EU BEFORE RENEGOTIATING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Turkish Treasury DDG for Foreign Investment, Murat Alici, who told us that, because Turkey is involved in the EU accession process, the GOT will have to consult with the European Commission (EC) [...] | 2008-05-09 06:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON TU |
08ANKARA895 | SHELL AND TPAO TO ANNOUNCE MOU FOR WORK IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. On May 12, Shell will announce an MOU framework agreement with Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) to work together in Iraq, with Shell having its sights on the Akkas Field as a first step in their new partnership. TPAO is still trying to reverse the Iraqi Oil Ministry,s April 14 decision [...] | 2008-05-09 08:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IZ TU |
08ANKARA898 | TURKEY: MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN [...] (U) To commemorate May 21 Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, post plans to feature on our website the Department's statement on solidarity with the Cuban people, and appropriate background information. Additionally, two post political officers who previously served at USINT Havana plan [...] | 2008-05-09 09:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU TU |
08ANKARA899 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 13:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA90 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA901 | TURKEY: IRAQ SPECIAL REP. OZCELIK LOOKS AT NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish MFA Special Representative for Iraq Murat Ozcelik plans to return to Baghdad May 13 to resume consultations with the GOI and has the green light from President Gul and the Turkish military to meet with Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) president Massoud Barzani in Baghdad. [...] | 2008-05-09 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ECON ENRG TU IZ |
08ANKARA902 | GSP PROGRAM VITAL TO TURKISH EXPORTERS [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish officials and businessmen have already begun expressing their concern about this year's review of Turkey's participation in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program. Turkey's GSP exports account for one-quarter of its total $4.6 billion exports to the U.S. A [...] | 2008-05-09 16:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON TU |
08ANKARA903 | LEBANON NEEDS ITS FRIENDS - TURKEY [...] (c) We spoke separately on May 9 with Turkish Presidency/Prime Ministry foreign affairs advisor Ahmet Davutoglu, MFA U/S Apakan and MFA Syria desk officer Cem Ulusoy regarding Lebanon. Drawing on reftel points, we emphasized the need for Turkey to be as fully supportive now as possible of the [...] | 2008-05-09 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE TU |
08ANKARA906 | THREATS AGAINST U.S. INTERESTS UNDERSCORE NEED TO [...] (SBU) A spokesperson for the Party of Free Life for Kurdistan (PJAK) stated May 4 that PJAK had "changed its mind about the United States Government and we are standing against them now," AP reported May 5 from Qandil in northern Iraq. Peritan Derseem, described as a senior PJAK official, cla [...] | 2008-05-12 07:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU |
08ANKARA907 | TURKEY SHARES USG'S OSLO PROCESS CONCERNS [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA Department Head for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Elif Ulgen on May 8. Ulgen said the GOT shared USG concerns about Article 1 (b) and (c) of the Oslo Process draft text, and agreed with the U.S. position that the workarounds developed for the Ottawa Co [...] | 2008-05-12 09:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN TU |
08ANKARA908 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (APRIL 2008) [...] Summary: The EXBS Team met with Turkish Customs officials and DHS/CBP Training specialist to review previously offered training and expand new training initiatives to include accession and OJT training programs. DHS/CBP training team completed Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) training for Turkish Cus [...] | 2008-05-12 10:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
08ANKARA909 | TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CHIEF'S SURPRISINGLY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Constitutional Court Chairman Hasim Kilic candidly acknowledged tensions between law and politics in Turkey, noting a serious crisis of confidence within society in April 25 remarks marking the Court's 46th anniversary. Kilic challenged all players, the judiciary inc [...] | 2008-05-12 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
08ANKARA91 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA910 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA911 | TURKEY-IRAQ: TURKEY RETALIATES AGAINST PKK ATTACK [...] (S) Following a May 9 PKK attack against a Turkish jandarma border post in Hakkari province that killed several Turkish soldiers, Turkish artillery and warplanes launched strikes on May 10 targeting suspected PKK facilities and PKK elements fleeing into northern Iraq following the attack. Turk [...] | 2008-05-12 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU |
08ANKARA912 | Turkey's Pledges USD 1 Million in Assistance to Burma [...] (SBU) On May 7, the Government of Turkey announced a USD 1 million pledge of humanitarian assistance to Burma to help alleviate suffering in the aftermath of tropical cyclone Nargis. Turkey will work through the United Nations to make good on its assistance pledge. The Turkish Disaster Manag [...] | 2008-05-12 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI TU XC |
08ANKARA918 | TURKEY STILL UNDECIDED ON WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche May 9 to Serap Ozcoskun, Head of the Multilateral Economic Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ozcoskun thanked us for our short list. Shw said that Turkey has not yet finalized its list and probably will not finalize it until just before v [...] | 2008-05-13 04:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | WIPO KIPR ETRD PREL TU |
08ANKARA92 | TURKEY ASSERTS INFORMATION ON PAKISTAN SHIPMENT INCORRECT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | EWWT PARM PK PREL TU |
08ANKARA920 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST CONTACTS HOPEFUL ON GOT-IRAQ [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate Adana-Embassy Ankara message. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Kurdish leaders in Turkey's southeast are pleased that Ankara has initiated formal contacts with northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG),reflecting a more pragmatic Turkish approach to the reg [...] | 2008-05-13 08:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON TU IZ |
08ANKARA922 | Turkey: FY 2009 IVLP Nomination Slate [...] Ahmed Arpat, News Reporter/Editor, Kanal D television European Regional Project, Current Social, Political, and Economic Issues for Young European Leaders I (October 20 - November 7, 2008) (Alternate: Ozan Acar, Research Associate at the Turkish Economic Policy Foundation) 2. Orhan Kema [...] | 2008-05-13 10:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL TU |
08ANKARA924 | TURKEY: POLLS PUT RESPONSIBILITY FOR TENSIONS AT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turks hold the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) responsible for current political tensions, with mixed consequences for party support, according to recent surveys by rival polling companies A&G and Metropoll. A&G's April poll showed voter support for AKP sl [...] | 2008-05-13 11:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA925 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 14:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA926 | TURKEY-IRAQ: TURKEY RETALIATES AGAINST PKK ATTACK [...] (S) Following a May 9 PKK attack against a Turkish jandarma border post in Hakkari province that killed several Turkish soldiers, Turkish artillery and warplanes launched strikes on May 10 targeting PKK elements fleeing into northern Iraq following the attack and other suspected PKK facilities [...] | 2008-05-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU |
08ANKARA931 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA932 | TURKISH RESPONSE ON UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (S) Summary. We met May 14 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Inan Ozyildiz and Section Chief Metin Ergin. Ozyildiz promised to share reftel A information promptly with appropriate e [...] | 2008-05-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KTFN PTER PINR EFIN PREL BA QA TU |
08ANKARA934 | HOST NATION NOTIFICATION COMPLETED ON USAFE PAR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL NATO TU |
08ANKARA935 | TURKEY/IRAN SANCTIONS: NO PLANS TO SUBMIT 60-DAY [...] (C) We delivered ref a demarche to MFA Iranian Affairs Department Head Devrim Ozturk and MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Head Bora Kerimoglu on May 9. Thanking us for the report, Ozturk stated that Turkey is fully implementing UNSC Resolution 1803, as well as Resolutions 1737 and 1747. H [...] | 2008-05-14 15:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN AORC ETRD UNSC TRGY IR TU |
08ANKARA937 | TURKEY: EU TROIKA, IN ANKARA, FOCUSES ON NEED FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: The EU continued its intense engagement with Turkey (following EC President Barroso's recent visit) with a May 6 EU Troika meeting in Ankara. The EU delegation stressed the accession door remains very much open for Turkey, but reforms must be reinvigorated. Turkish [...] | 2008-05-15 05:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU EUN |
08ANKARA939 | TURKEY: CFE CONSULTATIONS WITH RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK [...] (C) Summary: MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun told us May 14 that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak probed for weaknesses in the Alliance's position on CFE, griped about Alliance "failures" to respond to Russia's concerns, and pressed Turkey to give up the Flank [...] | 2008-05-15 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCFE OSCE RS TU |
08ANKARA940 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 13:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA941 | TURKEY/NATO: TURKEY REQUESTS SUPPORT ON EXERCISE [...] (C) Summary: In conversations with Ambassador on May 14 and 15, MFA Undersecretary Apakan requested the U.S. urge NATO political and military authorities to maintain NATO impartiality in Aegean disputes, stating that conduct of Exercise Noble Archer under the current scenario will escalate te [...] | 2008-05-15 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO GR TU |
08ANKARA942 | TURKEY/IRAN: TURKEY OFFERS TO HOST MEETING BETWEEN [...] (C) During May 12 bilateral consultations with Turkey that focused on CFE issues (ref) Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak made the following points regarding Iran, according to MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun: -- No one has full intelligence on Iranian intention [...] | 2008-05-15 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR RS TU |
08ANKARA947 | Update on PKK Violence (May 1-7, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 1-7, 2008 reporting period, one security of [...] | 2008-05-16 11:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA948 | TURKEY: FOLLOW-UP MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 11:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU TU |
08ANKARA950 | TURKEY: DRAFT LEGISLATION SHOULD STRENGTHEN GOT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Underseretariat of Foreign Trade (UFT),in coordination with all other GOT entities with export control responsibilities, has submitted to the Prime Ministry draft export control legislation as part of an effort to meet EU standards, close loop holes, and rationalize Turkey [...] | 2008-05-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PGOV TU |
08ANKARA952 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA953 | AFRICA: TURKEY'S NEXT FRONTIER? [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Like China and India, Turkey has joined the rush to forge relations with sub-Saharan Africa. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has raised Turkey's political profile since coming to power in 2002 -- declaring 2005 the "Year of Africa" and announcing plans to open 1 [...] | 2008-05-16 12:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TU AF |
08ANKARA956 | Update on PKK Violence (May 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 8-15, 2008 reporting period, seven security [...] | 2008-05-20 07:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
08ANKARA958 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA964 | TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP LEADER AHMET TURK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 13:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ TU |
08ANKARA965 | TURKEY: STOPPING THE FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is acutely aware of the Al Qaeda Network (AQN) threat and is actively collecting against it, an MFA official told us May 20. Turkey cannot, however, engage in broad "profiling" of young male travelers. Urged to consider new border security and information-sharing arrange [...] | 2008-05-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC IZ SY TU |
08ANKARA966 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA970 | TURKS SEEK ELECTORAL EQUALITY IN KIRKUK [...] (S) SUMMARY: GOT officials are seeking to gain traction on a proposal to amend Iraq's draft provincial elections law to incorporate a guaranteed power-sharing arrangement for Kirkuk that would help protect Turkmen equities. Acknowledging they are late, since the draft law is already far along, [...] | 2008-05-21 18:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA971 | TURKS SEEK ELECTORAL EQUALITY IN KIRKUK [...] (S) SUMMARY: GOT officials are seeking to gain traction on a proposal to amend Iraq's draft provincial elections law to incorporate a guaranteed power-sharing arrangement for Kirkuk that would help protect Turkmen equities. Acknowledging they are late, since the draft law is already far along, [...] | 2008-05-22 04:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU IZ |
08ANKARA975 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 13:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA976 | TURKEY RESPONSE: PRESIDENT'S GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY [...] This report was coordinated with FAS Ankara. 2. We delivered reftel messages to Turkish Foreign Trade Undersecretariat Deputy Director General for Multilateral Affairs, Hasan Yalcin. He told us that Turkey too is concerned about rising food prices. It has long supported a reduction of ag [...] | 2008-05-22 14:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO TU |
08ANKARA979 | TURKISH JUDICIARY LASHES OUT AT GOVERNMENT - AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a May 21 statement, the Court of Appeals (Yargitay) publicly accused the government of pressuring the judiciary while two critical cases are pending, one of them the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The court criticized the gover [...] | 2008-05-23 09:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
08ANKARA981 | TURKEY ON BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE [...] On May 22, we delivered reftel demarche to Volkan Oskiper, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, First Secretary for International Political Organizations. Oskiper said the Government of Turkey (GOT) shares the U.S.Government's concerns about the Burma regime's rush to move to reconstruction [...] | 2008-05-23 11:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM BM |
08ANKARA982 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
08ANKARA984 | CUBA: REVIEW OF TURKEY FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's relations with Cuba are limited, and its investment on the island is nonexistent. The two countries conduct a yearly Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting, chaired in March in Ankara by Cuba's Minister for Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Investment and Turkey's [...] | 2008-05-23 12:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC EINT PREL TU CU |
08ANKARA989 | TURKEY: CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS FOR IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP TRGY MNUC IR TU |
08ANKARA99 | TURKEY AT A CROSSROADS ON SOUTHEAST, [...] (C) Summary and comment: Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat (please protect),ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) vice chair, political veteran and ethnic Kurd, believes President Gul and PM Erdogan's recent White House meetings created an opportunity for progress on Turkey's Kurdish issue. It [...] | 2008-01-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU IZ |
08ANKARA996 | ERDOGAN'S GAP PLAN - LONG ON RHETORIC, SHORT ON [...] (C) Summary. During a May 27 visit to Diyarbakir, Prime Minister Erdogan turned an official speech into a two-hour political rally. His aim was to detail plans to complete the Southeast Development Project (GAP, in Turkish). After 90 minutes of platitudes about his administration's contribu [...] | 2008-05-28 04:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PREL PTER TU |
08ANKARA999 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT - TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
09ANKARA1 | TURKEY TO CAUTION SYRIA ON SUPPORT FOR HIZBALLAH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-31 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER LE SY TU |
09ANKARA10 | TURKEY: STATE TV LAUNCHES KURDISH CHANNEL [...] (C) Summary: This is a joint cable Embassy Ankara, Consulate Istanbul, and Consulate Adana. On January 1 the government-run broadcasting service Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) began official 24-hour Kurdish broadcasting on the new TRT 6. While some representatives from Kurdish and human [...] | 2009-01-06 08:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE EU |
09ANKARA100 | TURKEY LOOKS TO BROADEN/DEEPEN TIES WITH IRAQ AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkey continues its outreach to Baghdad and to Erbil in an effort to broaden and deepen its ties to Iraq and the KRG. GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Ozcelik recognizes the pace of progress remains slow but is encouraged that progress continues and that the tenor of discussions betwee [...] | 2009-01-22 07:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV ENRG TU IZ |
09ANKARA1000 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-13 10:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1004 | TURKEY'S EU SCORECARD: SLOUCHING TOWARD BRUSSELS [...] (C) Summary: Since beginning its EU accession talks in 2005, Turkey has made partial technical progress toward meeting the membership requirements as prescribed by the acquis communautaire, resulting in the opening of 11 politically benign chapters. To further fulfill the Copenhagen criteria [...] | 2009-07-14 09:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EU PREL TU |
09ANKARA1008 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 13:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1012 | TURKEY: ABBAS TO TELL GOT "STOP EMPOWERING HAMAS" [...] (S) Summary: Despite multiple embassies' expressions of concern regarding the growing number of NGO-sponsored Muslim-based conferences in Turkey attended by radical regional participants, the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party-led (AKP) GOT has chosen to turn a blind eye. PLO Amba [...] | 2009-07-15 12:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ECON KWBG MARR TU IS |
09ANKARA1013 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1015 | TURKEY: WOUNDED AKP DISPUTES SIGNS OF DECLINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speculation that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) poor performance in March 29 local elections represented the first sign of the fall of AKP is mere "wishful thinking," according to a number of AKP insiders and analysts. AKP contacts told us that the party remain [...] | 2009-07-15 16:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1018 | TURKISH MFA: CYPRUS SETTLEMENT MUST HAVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA Undersecretary Apakan told DAS Bryza and the Ambassador July 13 that Turkey: -- continues to support the Cyprus negotiating process; -- is committed to a solution if there is a referendum; -- views the guarantee system as "vital"; -- insists on genuine bizonality; -- believ [...] | 2009-07-16 10:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PREL TU UNFICYP US |
09ANKARA1022 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1024 | Update on PKK Violence (July 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 1-7, 2009, seven security officials were i [...] | 2009-07-16 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1025 | TURKEY: DPM CICEK REQUESTS US TRIP POSTPONEMENT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on July 15, Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek requested of the Ambassador that his trip to the US -- scheduled for July 21-24 -- be postponed until September or October. Complaining bitterly about the lack of concrete results out of Northern Iraq to eliminate the P [...] | 2009-07-16 15:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TU |
09ANKARA1028 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-17 11:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1029 | TURKEY: GOT RESOLUTE ON OPENING HALKI SEMINARY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Government is signaling new resolve to reopen Halki Seminary and seems to be preparing public opinion for such a move, while cautioning that Ankara wants to avoid overturning constitutional provisions that mandate state control over all schools. The GOT is also deli [...] | 2009-07-17 12:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PREL TU US |
09ANKARA1030 | CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM IN WESTERN BLACK SEA REGION [...] (C) Summary: Bartin, Zonguldak, and Karabuk, provinces in Turkey's western Black Sea region, form part of Turkey's industrial heartland. The provinces' largely unionized workers provide coal, iron, steel, and tin for heavy industry not only in Turkey, but in Europe and other markets. With [...] | 2009-07-17 14:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR TU |
09ANKARA1031 | TURKEY EXPECTS RIPPLE EFFECTS FROM NABUCCO IGA [...] (C) Summary: The heads of state of Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria signed the Nabucco pipeline Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) July 13 in Ankara, with EU Commission President Barroso, Georgian President Shaakashvili, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, ministers from Germany, Egypt, [...] | 2009-07-17 15:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EU TU |
09ANKARA1032 | TURKEY: END-OF-TOUR REFLECTIONS ON THE KURDISH [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. It distills my observations on the Kurdish issue following three years service as Principal Officer. 2. (C) I first ventured east of the Euphrates in August, 2006. Turkish grievances against the U.S. were numerous and intensifying. The war in Iraq s [...] | 2009-07-20 09:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1033 | YOUR VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Admiral Stavridis: Welcome to Turkey. Your trip will underscore Turkey's status as an essential Ally in every existing NATO operation and in what we seek to accomplish in this region. 2. (C) Issues to Raise: -- Turkey's primary security focus remains its counter-insurgency effort a [...] | 2009-07-20 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS NATO TU |
09ANKARA1039 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1043 | TURKEY HOPES TO ATTEND JORDAN BIOMETRICS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL KISL TU JO |
09ANKARA1046 | TURKEY: GOT ON ALERT FOR SHIPMENT OF MILITARY [...] (S) We delivered ref a points to MFA Deputy Director General for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Gun on July 2 and Ambassador raised this issue the same day during a pull aside with Customs Enforcement Director General Neset Akkoc during the Embassy's July 4 reception. Akkoc told us th [...] | 2009-07-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC |
09ANKARA1047 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1049 | USG-UK COOPERATION CONTINUES ON TURKEY'S CT ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During July 6-8 meetings in London, Embassy Ankara's Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) and her British counterparts agreed that Turkey is unlikely to change its attitude toward its terrorism legislation without clear evidence of the law's inadequacy. Separately, the UK proposed work [...] | 2009-07-23 04:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1050 | Turkey's Terrorism Laws: Little Likelihood of Change [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite repeated prodding, Turkey continues to resist suggestions that it needs to amend its terrorism laws to broaden the definition of terrorism. Lacking releasable concrete examples of shortcomings in the current law, continued USG requests on this front are unlikely to mee [...] | 2009-07-23 04:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1053 | TURKEY BUSILY PREPARING FOR AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials fully agree with the need to press forward on supporting Afghanistan post-elections and welcome a "whole of government" approach. The GOT has already obligated the USD 200 million pledged at the June 2008 Paris and January 2006 London Donors Conferences, and expe [...] | 2009-07-23 10:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF TU |
09ANKARA1054 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-23 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1055 | IRAQ-TURKEY MILITARY MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING [...] (C) Summary and Commment: MFA provided Post a signed copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and the Ministry of Defense of Iraq on military cooperation in training, technology and science, with the understanding that we not inform the Iraqis. The memor [...] | 2009-07-23 12:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR IR TU |
09ANKARA1056 | TURKEY: ABBAS VISIT MUCH BETTER THAN EXPECTED [...] (C) Summary: GOT leadership maintained a positive and constructive tone during Palestinian Authority (PA) President Abbas' July 8-10 Ankara visit despite previous concerns surrounding Abbas, recent Cyprus trip and past pro-Hamas GOT rhetoric. Erdogan and Abbas discussed USG regional policy, e [...] | 2009-07-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON KWBG MARR TU IS |
09ANKARA1057 | TURKEY: WARNING SIGNS FOR THE ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish economy remains in deep recession. While analysts expect it to recover by late 2009 or early 2010, there are several downside risks -- internal and external -- that threaten to delay the recovery and move it to stagnation in 2010. The intent of this cable is to expla [...] | 2009-07-23 17:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
09ANKARA1059 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-24 10:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1063 | SMOKE LIKE A TURK NO MORE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-24 18:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TU |
09ANKARA1073 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1080 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1081 | TURKEY: STILL UNDECIDED ON UNAMID RENEWAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREL SU TU |
09ANKARA1082 | TURKISH ENERGY POLICY UNDER ENERGY MINISTER YILDIZ [...] (C) We met July 1 and July 27 with Faruk Demir, a long-time advisor to former Energy Minister Guler who was negotiating a new advisory contract with the new Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz. According to Demir, the change of minister is likely to bring changes in energy policy. While some areas [...] | 2009-07-28 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TU |
09ANKARA1083 | TURKEY: JUDICIARY LOGJAM CLEARS, BUT SCARS REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: A 21-day logjam over judicial appointments has broken, allowing the prosecutors investigating the Ergenekon case to stay in place, but also putting them under greater scrutiny by the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK). The compromise allows judicial proceedings to c [...] | 2009-07-29 04:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TU |
09ANKARA1084 | TURKEY-IRAN BORDER: A TALE OF TWO CUSTOMS POSTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-29 04:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PINS PTER EAID IR TU |
09ANKARA1085 | Update on PKK Violence (July 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 16-23, 2009, one security official was kill [...] | 2009-07-29 08:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1087 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-29 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1093 | Iranian Applicants Intimidated Yet Hopeful [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This week's visa applicants representing a spectrum of Iranian society updated CONOFF regarding the unrest in Iran. In line with earlier reporting from Ankara, all expressed shock that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the election and expressed hope that the situation in Iran would chan [...] | 2009-07-30 09:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1096 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1100 | TURKEY: PUTIN VISIT AND THE ENERGY AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: Russian Prime Minister Putin will visit Turkey on August 6 with an agenda heavily focused on energy issues, including: extension of the Westline gas contract; Southstream; Bluestream II; Russian oil for the proposed Samsun-Ceyhan Bosporus bypass pipeline; and the long-delayed Russ [...] | 2009-07-31 04:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL RS TU |
09ANKARA1101 | TURKEY: PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS THE LEAD [...] (S) Ambassador summarized REF A points to MFA U/S Apakan, July 24. 2. (S) POLOFF reiterated demarche to MFA Israel/Palestine desk officer Rauf Alp Denktas, July 27. Denktas underscored GOT policy that the Palestinian Authority led by President Abbas is the legitimate authority for all Pa [...] | 2009-07-31 04:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EAID TU WBG IS |
09ANKARA1102 | TURKEY: URBAN POOR LEERY OF MODERN COMFORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Urban renewal remains problematic in Turkey. Today's gecekondus (illegally built shanty houses) are a visible reminder of the rapid influx of rural migrants into the cities. The GOT wishes to develop the land occupied by these gecekondus into modern high rises with the aim of [...] | 2009-07-31 04:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1104 | TURKEY: YOK LIFTS YOKE ON RELIGIOUS SCHOOL GRADS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A recent decision by Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK) has ended a decade-old official policy that made it much harder for religious school graduates to compete for regular University admissions. The decision has accentuated the current schism in Turkish society between [...] | 2009-07-31 09:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1105 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-31 11:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA111 | TURKEY: NUCLEAR TENDER FATE STILL UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Summary. On January 19, the Turkish Electricity Trading and Contracting Company (TETAS) announced the results of the final step in the bid to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant. The Russian consortium of AtomStroyExport, InterRAO UES and the Turkish firm Park Teknik submitted a bid [...] | 2009-01-22 17:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TU |
09ANKARA1111 | SOUTHEAST ANATOLIA'S POTENTIAL NOT FULLY REALIZED [...] (SBU) Summary. We visited Sanliurfa, Mardin, and Diyarbakir and heard opinions ranging from optimism for the future to disillusion over security and economic concerns. After 20 years of work on the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP),we learned that more than 90 percent of the GAP electricit [...] | 2009-08-03 04:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECIN ENRG ECON TU |
09ANKARA1119 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1126 | TURKEY: CONSULTATIONS ON RUSSIAN PM'S VISIT [...] (C) The Ambassador met August 3 with MFA Under Secretary Apakan to discuss the upcoming visit of Russian Prime Minister Putin. In attendance were Deputy Director General for Eastern Europe, Levent Murat Burhan, and Deputy Director General for Disarmament, Ahmet Muhtar Gun. The Ambassador not [...] | 2009-08-04 07:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL PINR TU |
09ANKARA1127 | Update on PKK Violence (July 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 24-31, 2009, three security officials were [...] | 2009-08-04 09:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1128 | TURKEY: USG APPROVAL RATINGS STILL IN BASEMENT; [...] (C) SUMMARY. Based on the latest PEW survey (but broadly consistent with other polls we have seen recently) USG approval ratings in Turkey continue to lag, although there are glimmers of improvement in certain categories such as confidence that the US will do the right thing in international [...] | 2009-08-04 12:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PGOV PREL TU US |
09ANKARA113 | TURKEY'S NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY STILL WON'T BUDGE [...] (C) Turkish Atomic Energy Administration (TAEK) Chairman Okay Cakiroglu told the Ambassador that, with its exponentially increasing energy demand, Turkey was not now ready to exclude any options or any technology from its consideration. Turkey needed time to decide whether it could accept re [...] | 2009-01-23 07:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY TU |
09ANKARA1130 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-04 14:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1131 | TURKEY: SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL NAMES NEW DEPUTY [...] (U) The Supreme Military Council (YAS) results were announced on August 4. Turkish Land Forces Chief of Staff GEN Aslan Guner will replace GEN Hasan Igsiz as the deputy chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and will thus become the lead Turkish representative at the next High Level Defense [...] | 2009-08-04 15:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PINR TU |
09ANKARA1135 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 11:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1136 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT ELECTS PM LOYALIST AS SPEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) elected Mehmet Ali Sahin, a former Minister of Justice and a close ally of PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as its speaker August 5. Sahin's legal and ministerial experience will contribute to ushering the government's ambitious Kurdish initiat [...] | 2009-08-05 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PINR TU |
09ANKARA1139 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-06 11:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1144 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-07 10:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1145 | TURKEY: SWEDES VIEW INCREASING AEGEAN TENSIONS AS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador discussed reftels joint efforts with Swedish Ambassador Christer Asp August 5 and noted, in particular, that rising Turkish-Greek tensions over recent Aegean events could inadvertently impact Turkey's EU accession bid. Asp commented that Greece and Cyprus already ha [...] | 2009-08-07 11:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU SW |
09ANKARA1146 | TURKEY: CHP ARGUES KURDS MUST BE TURKS FIRST [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting with Republican People's Party (CHP) President Deniz Baykal, the Ambassador stressed the important role CHP must play in finding an effective solution to the Kurdish issue. Baykal agreed in principle, but undercut the whole point by adding that any plan th [...] | 2009-08-07 12:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1149 | US AND TURKEY REAFFIRM CT COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is generally pleased with the U.S.-Turkey-Iraq Trilateral Process, but Iraq must take concrete measures against the PKK, Turkish officials told S/CT Amb. Benjamin during his July 30-31 visit. Turkey is developing a new broader "democratization" approach to the Kurdish issu [...] | 2009-08-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL EU IZ TU |
09ANKARA1150 | LET'S MAKE A DEAL (OR TWENTY): PUTIN IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. Russian Prime Minister Putin's August 6 visit to Ankara resulted in a flurry of deals and media frenzy, further heightened by the last-minute participation of Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi. The visit focused on energy pipelines and economic cooperation, and twenty separate ag [...] | 2009-08-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL RS IT TU |
09ANKARA1152 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-10 10:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1155 | TURKEY: DTP UPBEAT ON PROSPECTS FOR KURDISH OPENING [...] (C) Summary. During an August 6 dinner hosted by Democracy and Society Party (DTP) Chairman Ahmet Turk, the Ambassador stressed the importance of the DTP continuing to cooperate closely with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to f [...] | 2009-08-10 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1156 | TURKEY: MFA BRIEFS CODEL MURPHY-MCKEON ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Codel Murphy-McKeon attended a lunch on August 4 hosted by MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan during their visit to Ankara. The delegation discussed the importance of the U.S.-Turkish relationship and current issues in Afghanistan and Iraq. Apakan highlighted the need to build a national, [...] | 2009-08-10 15:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL PGOV AF TU IZ KDEM |
09ANKARA1157 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-11 10:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1158 | TURKEY AND ITS KURDS: STARS ARE ALIGNED [...] (C) Summary: With increasing prominence and gusto, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in recent weeks has been proclaiming its desire to find a lasting solution to the Kurdish "problem." Though the details are officially still under discussion, it is clear that AKP is mobili [...] | 2009-08-11 11:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PINR TU |
09ANKARA1165 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 13:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1166 | U.S.-TURKEY TRADE: NEED FOR HIGHER-LEVEL DIALOGUE [...] (C) During President Obama's meeting with Turkish President Gul in April, the two leaders agreed that we need to do more to encourage the two-way flow of bilateral trade and investment and President Obama tasked me to make that happen (a message that was reinforced during the later meetings be [...] | 2009-08-12 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV USTR US TR |
09ANKARA117 | SIXTH TIFA ADVANCES TRADE DIALOGUE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The sixth meeting of the U.S.- Turkey Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council held January 13 in Ankara was an opportunity for the U.S. and Turkey to discuss ways to further advance the bilateral trade relationship and to enhance cooperation in regional efforts. [...] | 2009-01-23 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON KIPR TU |
09ANKARA1178 | TURKEY: DEMARCHE SEEKING DONOR SUPPORT TO SOMALI'S [...] (C) We passed REFTEL points to MFA Africa Section Chief, Aykut Kumbaroglu, on August 12. Kumbaroglu reported the Government of Turkey (GOT) plans to complete its pledged donation of 2 million dollars to programs supporting Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and African Union Mi [...] | 2009-08-13 09:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
09ANKARA1179 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-08-13 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA118 | TURKEY - NO AUTOMOTIVE PACKAGE YET, BUT EXPECTED [...] Summary. Turkey has not yet implemented a formal program to stimulate its automotive industry, but the sector has been publicly clamoring for support and action is expected soon. The automotive sector is one of Turkey's most important growth engines and it has been hit especially hard by the c [...] | 2009-01-23 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL WTO TU |
09ANKARA1184 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-13 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1185 | Iran Election Outrage Muted For Time Being [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A broad range of Iranian visa applicants interviewed in the past two weeks expressed that the public unrest in Iran has calmed, but hope outrage over the recent election in the long run will force Mahmoud Ahmadinejad out of office. As one Armenian middle aged couple stated, "thi [...] | 2009-08-13 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1186 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-08-13 14:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1187 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-08-13 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA119 | TURKEY: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND [...] Turkey continues its efforts to eliminate all forms of child labor, with a special emphasis on eliminating all instances of worst forms of child labor, to include increasing access to basic and vocational education to improve the prospects of children currently working, and withdrawing them f [...] | 2009-01-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUS SOCI USAID TU |
09ANKARA1191 | Update on PKK Violence (August 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 1-7, 2009, one security official was kill [...] | 2009-08-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1194 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-14 12:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA120 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
09ANKARA1207 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 04:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1208 | TURKEY: MFA WORKING-LEVEL ASSESSMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish MFA, at a working level, believes the Iranian regime, backed by an IRGC in the ascent, has successfully contained the opposition movement and that there will be no credible challenge to the ruling regime in the near term. Yet there is uncertainty and conflicting signal [...] | 2009-08-18 08:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR TU |
09ANKARA1211 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 12:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1214 | MHP CONTINUES TO SEE KURDISH INITIATIVE AS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Charge, Oktay Vural, the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) point-man for arguing against the government's still-gestating Kurdish Initiative, explained MHP's rejectionist stance in existential terms for the future of Turkey. Claiming that the Turkish political [...] | 2009-08-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TU |
09ANKARA1216 | TURKEY: ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's experience as an ISAF participant and lead nation, its long-term leadership of Wardak PRT and its sponsorship of the "Ankara Process" confirm its commitment to security and democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though constrained by limited resources, Turkey is willi [...] | 2009-08-19 04:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PTER PINS EAID MASS |
09ANKARA1217 | TURKEY: ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's experience as an ISAF participant and lead nation, its long-term leadership of Wardak PRT and its sponsorship of the "Ankara Process" confirm its commitment to security and democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though constrained by limited resources, Turkey is willi [...] | 2009-08-19 04:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PTER PINS EAID MASS |
09ANKARA1218 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-19 11:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA122 | TURKEY: GOT HITTING POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE LIMITS [...] (C) Treasury Undersecretary Ibrahim Canakci briefed DCM and Econ Couns on the status of IMF negotiations on January 23, the day the talks were scheduled to conclude. Canakci said that they had closed some issues but there were both technical and policy issues still open. The Fund Mission wil [...] | 2009-01-23 15:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN TU |
09ANKARA1222 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (AUGUST 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the week of August 8-15, 2009, one security officia [...] | 2009-08-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1223 | TURKEY: ON BOARD WITH US APPROACH TO BROADEN [...] (SBU) MFA Maritime Affairs Section Head Haldun Tekneci confirmed on August 19 that the GOT fully supports the proposal to shift from the concept of "membership" in the Contact Group for Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) to one of participation, in line with ref a and the presentation Pri [...] | 2009-08-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL |
09ANKARA1224 | AFGHANISTAN ELECTIONS: TURKEY NEEDS LITTLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In both their public statements and private conversations with us, GoT officials have repeatedly confirmed their commitment to a free and fair Afghan presidential election. The GoT's dispatch of a 12-person MFA-led team of election monitors to Afghanistan substantiates that com [...] | 2009-08-19 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF TU |
09ANKARA1226 | TURKEY FRUSTRATED WITH AZERI GAS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Following the recent round of gas negotiations between Turkey and Azerbaijan, Turkish interlocutors expressed frustration at the lack of progress. Going into the meetings, the Turks had fully expected that they would be finalizing the deal and were surprised by what they see as A [...] | 2009-08-20 08:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV AJ TU |
09ANKARA1229 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 11:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA123 | TURKEY REFOCUSES ON EU ACCESSION AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: Launching what many believe to be a make or break year for Turkey's EU accession bid, PM Erdogan reinvigorated Turkey's efforts by naming Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman Egemen Bagis as State Minister for EU Affairs and by visiting Brussels for the first time in [...] | 2009-01-23 17:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU |
09ANKARA1230 | DAVUTOGLU URGES ISRAELI SETTLEMENT RESTRAINT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 12:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU IS |
09ANKARA124 | Update on PKK Violence (January 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 16-23, 2009, reporting period, no securi [...] | 2009-01-26 10:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1240 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-24 04:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1245 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-24 10:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1247 | SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: You will find Turks increasingly focused on Erdogan's still inchoate "Democratic Initiative," which seeks to address the social and economic factors contributing to many Turkish Kurds' sense of alienation from their government and modern Turkey. The initiative's opponents fear [...] | 2009-08-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA125 | TURKEY: MARCH LOCAL ELECTIONS - A PRIMER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 29 will face its first nationwide electoral test since its landslide victory in the July 2007 parliamentary elections. Some 48 million voters will go to the polls to elect approximately 2,300 mayors and almost 100,00 [...] | 2009-01-26 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1253 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-25 10:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1254 | LEAHY VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR KURDISTAN [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. 2. PURSUANT TO THE LEAHY ACT AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT, POST REQUESTS THAT THE DEPARTMENT SCREEN THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES OF THE IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, WHO HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR US GOVERNMENT PROVIDED BASIC COUNTER-NARCOTICS INVESTIGATIONS TRAINING IN IRBIL, I [...] | 2009-08-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR DEA |
09ANKARA126 | TURKEY TO SEND BACK VENEZUELA-BOUND IRANIAN [...] (C) MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament DDG Ahmet Muhtar Gun confirmed for Pol-Mil Couns on January 26 that the GOT has decided to turn back the Iranian shipment bound for Venezuela (reftel). According to Gun, detailed investigations into the contents of the shipment concluded that the shipm [...] | 2009-01-26 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL TU IR |
09ANKARA1262 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-26 10:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1263 | TURKEY: MILITARY BREAKS SILENCE ON KURDISH OPENING [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish Military Chief GEN Basbug used his August 25 Victory Week commemoration message to break the military's silence on the government's "Democratic Opening" on Kurdish issues (ref a). His message gave support to the government's effort to take steps in the "economi [...] | 2009-08-26 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1264 | GOT PROTESTS GEORGIAN SEIZURE OF MERCHANT SHIPS [...] (SBU) The GOT has protested the seizure of two ships, which, it claims, were stopped by the Georgian Coast Guard in international waters in the Black Sea off the coast of Georgia and taken into the port of Poti (see reftel). The Turkish-crewed Panamanian-flagged oil tanker "Buket," which was [...] | 2009-08-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EWWT TU GG |
09ANKARA1267 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 10:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA127 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
09ANKARA1274 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1277 | Update on PKK Violence (August 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 16-23, 2009, two security officials were [...] | 2009-08-28 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA128 | EXBS: GOT INTERAGENCY RESPONSE TO EXBS SEMINAR [...] SUMMARY: MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Department provided us an official response to U.S. proposals for practical nonproliferation cooperation originally put forward during the September 2008 EXBS and Nonproliferation Seminar (ref a). MFA indicated GOT is interested in pursuing limi [...] | 2009-01-27 05:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA1288 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-31 11:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1290 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1293 | NATO SYG'S INITIAL VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: During his initial trip to Turkey as the new NATO SYG, Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged senior GoT officials to provide significant additional training support in Afghanistan and received strong push back when he pressed Turkey to show more flexibility to help improve NATO-EU cooperati [...] | 2009-09-01 20:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO TU |
09ANKARA1294 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 12:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1295 | TURKEY: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE KURDISH ISSUE FROM [...] (SBU) Adana Principal Officer Daria Darnell, accompanied by Embassy Poloff and a locally-employed political advisor, engaged local political and NGO leaders on the Democratic (Kurdish) Initiative during a trip to six provinces in southeastern Turkey from August 17-21. Turkish Kurds expressed [...] | 2009-09-02 12:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1298 | TURKISH MILITARY DENIES HARASSMENT OF GREEK [...] (SBU) The Turkish General Staff (TGS) posted a statement (unoffical translation in para. 2) on September 2 refuting Greek media claims that Turkish F-16s harassed a Greek airliner in the Aegean on August 31. 2. (U) Begin unofficial translation of TGS statement: Allegations from Greece h [...] | 2009-09-03 10:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS GR TU |
09ANKARA1299 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 12:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA13 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-06 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
09ANKARA1300 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 10:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1303 | TURKEY: REMARKABLE HARMONY IN DIYARBAKIR'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite the heavy presence of police and checkpoints to search celebrants, and in contrast to past gatherings in Diyarbakir, the Democratic Society Party (DTP)-organized celebration of September 1 World Peace Day was remarkably violence free. Media report conflicting numbers of [...] | 2009-09-04 14:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECPS TU |
09ANKARA1304 | Update on PKK Violence (August 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 24-31, 2009, four security officials were [...] | 2009-09-04 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1309 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 10:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1310 | CODEL WEXLER URGES TURKISH ACTION ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary. Rep. Robert Wexler met August 26-27 with a wide array of top-level Turkish officials to discuss the current state of U.S.-Turkish relations and to urge them to push for greater regional support for President Obama's initiatives on Middle East peace and his willingness to deal wit [...] | 2009-09-08 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG AM AZ IS IR TU |
09ANKARA1311 | PROGRESS AT TURKEY - IRAQ - SYRIA WATER TRILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 12:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL SENV IZ SY TU |
09ANKARA1312 | CFE: TURKEY'S REACTIONS TO A/S GOTTEMOELLER'S [...] (C) We briefed September 8 Turkey's HLTF Rep and MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun on A/S Gottemoeller's discussions with Russian Disarmament Director Antonov (reftel). Gun expressed appreciation for the briefing and told us that Ambassador Sensoy will meet w [...] | 2009-09-09 05:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
09ANKARA1317 | TURKEY: VIEWS ON THE LATEST IAEA REPORTS ON IRAN [...] (C) We shared U.S. views on the latest IAEA reports on Iran and Syria (ref a) and passed the non-paper to MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmement Ahmet Gun on September 8. Gun agreed that the measures undertaken by Iran at Arak and Natanz as signals of cooperation were minimalist, [...] | 2009-09-09 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC TRGY PREL TU |
09ANKARA1320 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1324 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-09-09 14:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1326 | DAS KAIDANOW'S INITIAL CONSULTATIONS IN TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: GoT officials told EUR DAS Kaidanow during her initial visit to Ankara that: -- Turkey is committed to the reconciliation process with Armenia, but Ankara also needs to see progress on Nagorno-Karabakh; -- Ankara fully supports Talat and is giving him maximum flexibility, but [...] | 2009-09-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AR GR TU |
09ANKARA1327 | TURKEY: PRESS FREEDOM - OTTOMAN STYLE [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Turkey slammed independent Dogan Media Group (DMG) on September 8 with a record $2.5 billion dollar fine for alleged tax evasion, relaunching a direct assault on Turkey's largest non-pro-government media group and dramatically intensifying concerns about the st [...] | 2009-09-09 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1328 | TURKEY: ANKARA BRAVES OPPOSITION TO ARMENIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition parties continue to object vigorously to the Turkish MFA's August 31 announcement of the agreement between Turkey and Armenia to begin consultations on bilateral protocols on establishing diplomatic relations and opening the border. Given the opposition's pre-existing [...] | 2009-09-10 04:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
09ANKARA1329 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for a TNP sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and advise Post whether any derogato [...] | 2009-09-10 06:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1332 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-09-10 10:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1333 | Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During September 1-7, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-09-10 11:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1334 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidate for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on this flag officer in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-09-10 12:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1336 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1337 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: TURKEY SEEKING US VIEWS ON [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para. 3 2. (C) The MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Department contacted Post on September 10 to request a copy of the Iranian proposal in response to the P5 Plus 1 offer and our initial assessment of that proposal. FM Davutolgu is scheduled t [...] | 2009-09-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KNNP IR TU |
09ANKARA1339 | TURKEY: "DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVE" STILL INCOMPLETE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Details of the Government's Kurdish Initiative remain elusive. Interior Minister Atalay's August 31 press conference on the "Democratization Initiative," which is being developed as a solution to the long-simmering tensions between the Turkish state and its Kurdish population, h [...] | 2009-09-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PINR PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1341 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 10:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1343 | TURKEY: CHILD LABOR REPORT RUFFLES GOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post delivered the points in reftel to appropriate officials in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MOLSS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The GOT's response ranged from moderately negative to baffled. Even though the USDOL report on Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL [...] | 2009-09-11 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PREL PGOV TU |