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05ANKARA2696	TURKEY'S PENSION REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: The Turkish government has submitted to Parliament a major reform of Turkey's social security institutions. The reform--a requirement of IFI programs--will consolidate three separate social security agencies into one, aligning the three systems' parameters on a less costly glid [...]	2005-05-10 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV TU

05ANKARA2719	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-11 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2729	ANKARA FORUM PROMOTES BUSINESS COOPERATION AMONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's Chamber of Commerce organized the first meeting of Israeli, Palestinian and Turkish business associations April 27 in Ankara, Turkey. In a joint statement after the meeting, the three parties named the initiative "the Ankara Forum for Palestine-Israel-Turkey Economic [...]	2005-05-12 07:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ECIN ECON ETRD IS PREL TU
05ANKARA2737	New Data Continue Pattern of Stubbornly-High [...] Summary: The National Statistics Office (SIS) announced that the unemployment rate was 11.5 percent in January, higher than the year-end 2004 rate of 10.3 percent. Seasonal factors and the use of a new methodology, however, mean that it is not clear the higher rate reflects a worsening unemplo [...]	2005-05-12 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ELAB SOCI TU
05ANKARA2738	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-12 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2761	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-13 13:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2784	LABOR MINISTRY ON UNEMPLOYMENT IN TURKEY [...] (U) Summary. The Labor Ministry's ISKUR, the Turkish Employment Organization, an agency charged with developing and enacting employment policies, is trying to match jobs with workers at the micro level to alleviate Turkey's official 11.5 percent unemployment rate, which may understate the se [...]	2005-05-16 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON ELAB SOCI TU
05ANKARA2810	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-17 13:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2811	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-17 13:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2832	SCENESETTER FOR WASHINGTON VISIT OF TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: Courteous but highly protocol-conscious and volatile Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Bulent Arinc looks forward to a highly ceremonial May 24-26 visit to Washington at the invitation of Speaker of the House Hastert. What matters above all to Arinc, who sees his visit [...]	2005-05-18 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA2837	ABSENT GOT LEADERSHIP, TURKISH MILITARY LAUNCHES [...] (C) Summary: Contacts report heavy Turkish military presence in southeastern Turkey. Adana PO reports that, while rural flows of recruits to the PKK may be occurring, contacts are not seeing a similar phenomenon from urban areas. Absent any Erdogan government strategy for dealing with the [...]	2005-05-19 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS MOPS PHUM TU
05ANKARA2890	SIKORSKY SEAHAWK SALE TO TURKEY CONTINGENT ON EXIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sikorsky Aircraft Corps, after three years of negotiation, may be closing in on an agreement with Turkey for the sale of Seahawk helicopters to the Turkish Navy. According to the local Sikorsky rep, the Turkish Naval Forces Commander wants an agreement finalized before the Prime M [...]	2005-05-20 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MARR PREL EFIN BEXP TU EXIM
05ANKARA2892	ACTION REQUEST: TIME TO RESTART TRILATERAL [...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 8. 2. (C) The United States engaged in trilateral talks with the Turkish and Iraqi governments on trucker security on Nov. 30, 2004 and on the PKK on Jan. 11 of this year. At both sets of talks--which were USG initiatives--all three sides agre [...]	2005-05-20 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ETRD MOPS EAID TU IZ US
05ANKARA2900	DEMARCHE TO GOT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS [...] (U) The Ambassador delivered reftel A points May 18 to MFA U/S Tuygan, reiterating points raised by EUR DAS Kennedy during her May 3 visit to Ankara. He emphasized that PM Erdogan and FM Gul should be prepared to discuss human rights issues during their upcoming visit to Washington. 2. (C) [...]	2005-05-23 12:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM US EU TU
05ANKARA2910	TURKEY SCENESETTER FOR MAY-JUNE CODELS [...] Summary: The Erdogan government's drift on relations with the U.S., with the EU, and on reform is of concern, as are trends inimical to religious freedom. U.S. Turkish relations remain solid in specific areas and we look for new opportunities to expand cooperation, but our relations are not [...]	2005-05-23 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OREP PINS ECON MARR TU
05ANKARA2911	CHIEF OF THE TURKISH GENERAL STAFF MOVES CENTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unprecedented public address at the Istanbul War College on the occasion of his annual evaluation of the Turkish military, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) Ozkok broke his almost two year silence on Turkish foreign policy to lay out his views, in the name of the Tur [...]	2005-05-23 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA2912	TURKS REPORT SUCCESSFUL JA'AFARI VISIT [...] (C) ITG PM Ja'afari made a successful May 19-21 visit to Turkey, according to a senior MFA official. Turkey offered to double its electricity exports to Iraq right away, and to increase these exports seven-fold in the next half a year. The Iraqi Finance Minister proposed an unorthodox procedur [...]	2005-05-23 17:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EAID ENRG PTER IZ TU
05ANKARA2938	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-24 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA295	TURKISH FM GUL'S VISIT TO ISRAEL AND PALESTINE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish and Israeli contacts in Ankara portray FM Gul's January 3-5 visit to Israel and Palestine as giving mixed results: signaling the end of 2004's Turkish-Israeli public tensions (both Turkish and Israeli interlocutors affirm that deeper, long-standing security and intel coo [...]	2005-01-18 08:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IS
05ANKARA296	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S VISIT TO SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: The Turks, led by PM Erdogan, FonMin Gul, and chief foreign policy advisor Davutoglu, are selling improved relations with Syria as a major foreign policy success. GOT leaders cast Turkey as a channel of communication for the U.S. and Israel with Syria and as a friend that can supp [...]	2005-01-18 08:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD TU IS IZ SY
05ANKARA2969	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-25 14:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2975	BABACAN NAMED TURKEY'S EU NEGOTIATOR [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan announced that Minister of Economy Ali Babacan will be Turkey's EU negotiator. Although Babacan is among the most internationally-savvy Ministers, having long experience dealing with the IMF and the international financial community, some observers believe [...]	2005-05-26 04:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN TU
05ANKARA3014	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-26 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3018	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN AND FONMIN GUL'S JUNE VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: The Erdogan government's serious drift on EU-related reform; failure to take the lead on religious tolerance and indeed encouragement of intolerance; flawed handling of relations with still powerful Turkish State institutions; and unwillingness to invest in a robust bilateral rela [...]	2005-05-27 04:23:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS ECON MARR TU
05ANKARA3032	GOT INTIMIDATION FORCES CANCELLATION OF [...] (U) This is a joint Ankara-Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary: Under accusations of treason by GOT and other political leaders, and the threat of prosecution, Bogazici University officials announced May 24 their last-minute decision to cancel a conference at which independent-minded intellectua [...]	2005-05-27 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA3033	IMF FIGHTING GOT'S POST-BOARD VOTE POPULISM, AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: In yet another case of proposing populist measures shortly after a board vote, in contravention of its commitments to the IMF, the GOT proposed legislation in mid-May that would soften repayment terms and penalties for missed social security premia payments. IMF pressure (and pe [...]	2005-05-27 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN PGOV TU
05ANKARA3035	AMERICAN-TURKISH COUNCIL BRINGS DEFENSE/SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: MOD Gonul, DCHOD Basbug and NSC SecGen Alpogan will all be in Washington June 5-7 for the American Turkish Council's annual conference. (It is possible that Alpogan may postpone his visit due to the heavy traffic of Turkish visitors that week.) While we understand many official [...]	2005-05-27 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PINR TU
05ANKARA3055	TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, May 15-31, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published in Radikal on Monday, May [...]	2005-06-01 07:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA3084	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-01 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3086	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FONMIN GUL, MAY 26 [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-01 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA3104	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-02 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3105	FRENCH AND DUTCH "NO'S": MINIMAL INITIAL [...] (C) Summary: Ruling AKP and most pundits and media channels say they have taken the French and Dutch "no" votes in stride and opine that the results will not affect Turkey's Oct. 3 start date for EU harmonization. Markets have reacted in a similarly low-key way. However, in the midst of cont [...]	2005-06-03 05:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PHUM TU EUN EU
05ANKARA3112	HIGH COURT RULES FOR CLOSURE OF TEACHERS' UNION [...] (U) Summary: A Turkish appeals court ruled May 25 for the closure of Egitim Sen, the country's largest teachers' union, on the grounds that the union's bylaw violates the Constitution by advocating education in "mother tongues," which would include Kurdish. The union will appeal the ruling to [...]	2005-06-03 09:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA3134	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-03 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3163	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-06 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3164	CODEL KOLBE VISITS ANKARA, JUNE 2 [...] (C) Summary: In a June 2 visit to Ankara, CODEL Kolbe met with FM Gul and Parliament Speaker Arinc. Representative Kolbe reminded both Gul and Arinc of the importance of political leaders speaking out in support of our bilateral relationship. Gul emphasized the "common values" he asserted t [...]	2005-06-06 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU CY PHUM IR
05ANKARA3165	CONGRESSIONAL TURKEY STUDY GROUP/CODEL WEXLER [...] (C) Summary: The Congressional Turkey Study Group visited Turkey May 31 - June 2, meeting with PM Erdogan, FM Gul, CHOD Ozkok, Economy Minster and chief EU negotiator Babacan, DefMin Gonul, Parliament Speaker Arinc. Media coverage was positive, even from normally anti-U.S. outlets. All expr [...]	2005-06-06 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON SY CY IZ PHUM
05ANKARA3177	TURKISH MFA AND MILITARY ON SYRIAN MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Summary: Despite a blase official statement and light media coverage, Turkish MFA official says privately that the MFA considers as "serious" Syria's May 27 missile launch that resulted in one missile going astray over Turkey and scattering debris. MFA is not satisfied with the Syrian e [...]	2005-06-07 12:08:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PINS PBTS SY TU SYRIA
05ANKARA3180	TURKS COMPLAIN SOMO STIFFING TURKISH OIL COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction, Ambassador Koray Targay, says the Iraqi Central Bank has stopped making payments to the 16 Turkish energy companies providing refined products to SOMO because of a lack of cash. The MFA fears that the over $800 million in arrears th [...]	2005-06-07 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL EPET IZ TU
05ANKARA3192	TURKISH MFA ON BRUSSELS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Gul will head Turkey's delegation to the Brussels conference. The GOT does not yet have a position on bilateral debt, but is resisting outright forgiveness. MFA officials say progress on assistance continues to be on hold until security improves. End Summary. [...]	2005-06-08 12:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAID TU IZ
05ANKARA3195	SENATOR HAGEL REINFORCES IMPORTANCE OF BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his May 30-31 visit to Ankara, Senator Chuck Hagel met with Prime Minister Erdogan, Energy Minister Guler, Agriculture Minister Guclu and MFA Deputy Under Secretary Sensoy and exchanged views on the state of the SIPDIS bilateral relationship, Cyprus, Armenia, the PKK terr [...]	2005-06-08 13:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV PREL OVIP TU
05ANKARA3199	CABINET SHUFFLES AND THE LONG SQUEEZE: PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary: Long rumored to be considering a cabinet re-shuffle, PM Erdogan has made his first move suddenly and in limited fashion. However, more ministers in a cabinet which is still dominated by people loyal to Erdogan's chief internal rival FonMin Gul may be in Erdogan's sights as he tries slo [...]	2005-06-08 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS PHUM TU
05ANKARA323	TURKEY: BOSPHORUS BYPASS VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish government still seeks to pursue its proposed "Voluntary Principles on the Turkish Straits" as a way to engage all stakeholders in seeking a solution to the risks of growing tanker congestion. The GOT is interested in U.S. comments and support for this proposal, as [...]	2005-01-18 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG TU
05ANKARA325	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-18 15:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3328	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-10 13:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3340	TURKEY-ARMENIA RELATIONS: PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE [...] (C) Summary: Despite recent high-profile people-to-people contacts between Turkey and Armenia involving journalists, artists and a maverick Turkish parliamentarian, official relations remain stalemated. End Summary. MFA: Armenia at Fault for No Warsaw Meeting --------------------------- [...]	2005-06-13 08:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM
05ANKARA3354	POSSIBLE DELAYS IN IMF REVIEW [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-14 04:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON TU IMF
05ANKARA3357	GMAC/DILLINGHAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) On June 1, ECON/C raised GMAC/Dillingham's problems in completing the long-delayed Izmir Ring Road project with Under Secretary Ibrahim Canakci, the head of the Turkish Treasury who reports directly to State Minister Ali Babacan. Canakci was familiar with the letter sent by OPIC VP Ro [...]	2005-06-14 07:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EFIN EINV TU OPIC
05ANKARA3367	JUNE 13 GAERC DEMARCHE - TURKEY [...] (U) We delivered reftel demarche on June 13 to Turkish MFA EU Political Affairs Department First Secretary Ege Turemen; he provided minimal responses to the following demarche topics. ------ Kosovo ------ He noted that the U.S. position remains the same as that enunciated in an earlier dem [...]	2005-06-14 09:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	CM IR IZ LE PREL YI PARM TU EUN
05ANKARA3380	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-14 12:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3385	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-14 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3387	UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO VISITS TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's June 6-8 visit to Turkey, his first since becoming President, focused mainly on commercial issues. The two sides signed six agreements, including on energy, transport, and combating crime. Although Turkey claims to support Ukraine's EU and NATO aspiration [...]	2005-06-14 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG ECON TU UP
05ANKARA3410	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-15 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3413	TURKEY SEEKS TO CONTRIBUTE ROBUSTLY TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) PolMilCouns and PolMilOff met with MFA officials June 14 and 15 to follow up on PM Erdogan's comments in the U.S. the week of June 5 that Turkey wants to do more to ensure the stability of Afghanistan after it relinquishes command of ISAF VII in August. Both MFA Deputy Director General for [...]	2005-06-15 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF TU NATO
05ANKARA3416	SCENESETTER FOR DAS CARPENTER'S VISIT TO ISTANBUL; [...] (C) Summary: The June 21-22 meeting in Istanbul focusing on the participation of women in public life, the first substantial Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) event, is an opportunity to underscore U.S. support for the initiative shown by co-sponsors Turkey, Italy and Yemen. The Turkish MF [...]	2005-06-16 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU KDEM
05ANKARA3456	NON-KINETIC ACTION AGAINST THE PKK [...] (S/NF) As I prepare to depart Ankara, I am leaving behind one serious piece of unfinished business: the PKK's continued and apparently unmolested and unchallenged presence in northern Iraq. This problem is especially irksome because in recent months the PKK has resumed its active terror campai [...]	2005-06-17 10:08:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL MOPS PREF TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA3473	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-17 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA348	CODEL KYL 10 JANUARY MEETINGS WITH TGNA SPEAKER [...] (C) Summary. On 10 January, a CODEL led by Senator Jon Kyl, including Senator Murkowski, Senator Martinez and Representative Adam Smith, met separately with Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) Speaker Bulent Arinc and DPM/FM Abdullah Gul. Speaker Arinc noted Turkey's recent EU-oriented re [...]	2005-01-19 12:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA3490	TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, June 1-15, [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by The Messenger, Georgia's Englis [...]	2005-06-20 06:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA3495	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-20 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA358	CENTCOM COMMANDER DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. General Abizaid held a wide-ranging discussion with Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan on areas of mutual concern in SIPDIS the Middle East and Central Asia as well as Turkey's challenges in Cyprus. Both shared the view that, despite perio [...]	2005-01-22 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	OVIP PTER TU
05ANKARA3637	TURKEY'S EU EFFORT PLAGUED BY LOW MORALE, [...] (C) Summary: Top GOT leaders insist publicly that the rejection of the EU Constitution in France and the Netherlands will not affect Turkey's EU candidacy, though our MFA contacts concede that recent events in Europe have sapped morale. The GOT's recently-appointed lead EU negotiator must org [...]	2005-06-27 15:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN TU EU
05ANKARA371	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-24 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3839	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-01 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3857	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-05 13:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3877	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-06 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA388	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-25 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3889	FM GUL EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In Charge's introductory call with FM Gul, both agreed on the importance of frank private bilateral dialogue and conveying to our publics the priority we place on our partnership. Gul acknowledged Iran's presidential election was "not perfect" but blamed reformists' failure to [...]	2005-07-06 16:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IR SY
05ANKARA3892	CHARGE D'AFFAIRES UNDERSCORES USG PRIORITIES WITH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In her introductory call on Turkey's NSC Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) SIPDIS urged Turkey to get in lockstep with the US on Syria and Iran, noted continuing USG efforts to recognize northern Cyprus' April 2004 vote in support of the Annan Plan and [...]	2005-07-07 05:01:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ SY IR TU
05ANKARA3962	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-07 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3965	TURKEY REQUESTS COUNTER-IED TRAINING AND [...] (C) Summary: Since the June 6-8 visit of the Deputy Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS DCHOD) General Ilker Basbug to Washington, TGS has raised on three separate occasions a request for USG information-sharing and technology support to counter the increasing number of Improvised Explosive [...]	2005-07-08 04:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA3990	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-08 12:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4031	GOT DISCOURAGES VISIT TO SOUTHEAST BY GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: GOT officials tried to discourage a German Protestant Church delegation from visiting southeastern Turkey as part of a fact-finding mission on refugee issues. The Turkish press reported that the MFA and national intelligence organization (MIT) sent a letter warning governors not t [...]	2005-07-11 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA4035	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-11 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4036	TURKEY'S LEADERS, PRESS REACT TO LONDON ATTACKS [...] Senior Turkish officials were quick to condemn last week's terrorist bombings in London. Most press commentators also condemned the attack, though many blamed the US-led war in Iraq for accelerating the spread of terrorism. Some journalists also pointed to an alleged double standard by Weste [...]	2005-07-11 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PTER TU
05ANKARA4042	TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's three main left-of-center parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The left-of-center parties share similar ideologies and compete for the same minor segment of the Turkish electorate but are unable to cooperate and are plagued by poli [...]	2005-07-12 08:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA4079	ASAD VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered reftel points July 13 to MFA U/S Tuygan who, without providing details, defended as "private" the upcoming Asad visit to Turkey and the AKP government,s policy of engaging Asad. We received a similar response from AKP Vice Chairman for Political and Legal Affai [...]	2005-07-14 08:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY TU
05ANKARA4094	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-14 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA411	TURKEY: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY, [...] In response to reftel, the following is Mission's contribution to the 2004-5 edition of "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: the U.S. Record." 2. Turkey is a constitutional republic with a multiparty parliamentary system and a president with limited powers elected by the single-chamber p [...]	2005-01-26 12:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA4125	TURKEY, UK PRESIDENCY AGREE ON ANKARA AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: According to the UK Embassy. the GOT and the UK Presidency agreed July 15 on the modality by which Turkey will sign the Ankara Agreement extension protocol. The UK will announce the agreement on modality at the July 18 GAERC and expects the signing process to begin shortly there [...]	2005-07-15 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY TU
05ANKARA4126	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, JUNE 2005 [...] A new National Security Policy document outlining the government's priorities with regard to threats to Turkey's internal and external security, and based on input from all Council member agencies, was expected to be finalized at the June 21 National Security Council meeting. The new draft do [...]	2005-07-15 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL TU
05ANKARA4127	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-15 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4163	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-18 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4182	TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: UPDATE ON PRO-PKK POLITICAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-19 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA4186	TURKEY AND THE PKK: RAISING THE HEAT [...] (S/NF) Both the Turkish Deputy CHOD and MFA spokesman publicly confirmed July 19 that Turkey reserves the right to conduct cross-border operations against the PKK in northern Iraq. Additionally, the D/CHOD, GEN Ilker Basbug, reported that the U.S. has ordered the arrest (or capture) of key PKK [...]	2005-07-19 17:54:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ EUN PKK
05ANKARA4188	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-20 05:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4190	TURKEY/LEBANON [...] (S) Summary: In the wake of PM Erdogan's June visit to Lebanon, the first by a Turkish PM in 50 years, Turkish MFA and Lebanese embassy spin relations as excellent. MFA and embassy contacts claim Erdogan pressed democratization and implementation of UNSCR 1559 during the visit, and urged le [...]	2005-07-20 06:08:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL TU LE SY
05ANKARA4215	TURKISH MILITARY ON PKK: CALM DOWN PUBLIC [...] (S) Summary: In an extended one-on-one meeting July 20 with Turkish D/CHOD Basbug, Charge cautioned against an accelerating public dispute between Turkey and the US over PKK countermeasures, including &hot pursuit8 into Iraq. Basbug agreed on the importance of calming down public rhetoric [...]	2005-07-20 17:12:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ EUN PKK
05ANKARA4227	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-21 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA424	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-26 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4245	EUR/SE DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S VISIT TO ADANA: KURDISH [...] (C) Summary:Incoming EUR/SE Dep. Director Baxter Hunt visited Adana on July 19, meeting with local AK Party officials, attorneys and human rights advocates, and 39th Wing officials. AK party officials expressed confidence about the continuing appeal of the party and cited the lack of U.S. act [...]	2005-07-22 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM TU PKK
05ANKARA4252	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-22 15:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4258	THE TURKISH PRESS DEBATES THE PKK ISSUE [...] (U) The increase in PKK violence in Turkey, culminating in the July 16 bus bombing in the Turkish resort of Kusadasi, has accelerated the public debate over how best to deal with the PKK. The dominant view continues to blame the violence on the perceived US failure to fulfill its commitment t [...]	2005-07-22 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PTER PREL TU PKK
05ANKARA426	SCENESETTER FOR JAN.31-FEB.1 VISIT OF UNDER [...] (S) Summary: Your visit will extend a series of January visits by Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones and Commander of Central Command General Abizaid, and will provide an opportunity to echo their pledge that the US will fight all forms of terroris [...]	2005-01-26 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	OVIP PREL MARR TU
05ANKARA4260	SYRIAN DFM VISITS ANKARA, FM GUL REPORTEDLY FEELS "USED" [...] (C) Summary: Syrian DFM al-Muallim met with FM Gul in Ankara July 22 to discuss Iraq, the Israel Palestine peace process, and a possible upcoming "unofficial" visit to Turkey by Bashar Asad (reftel). One MFA official told us privately that the discussions were difficult and inconclusive; ano [...]	2005-07-22 16:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU SY SYRIA
05ANKARA427	TURKISH MFA ON CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA Northeastern Mediterranean Affairs acting DDG Bilman is confident Turkey will sign the Ankara Agreement extension protocol this summer, but in the face of domestic criticism about the lack of measures to help Turkish Cypriots, the MFA is not inclined to propose unila [...]	2005-01-26 16:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY
05ANKARA4276	TRABZON: A CITY PASSED BY [...] (C) Summary: Trabzon on the Black Sea has the potential to be a beautiful city. It falls short of that potential, however. As with the rest of Turkey, the city suffers from economic under-development and high real unemployment. The city has a reputation for being strongly nationalistic. H [...]	2005-07-25 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA4278	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-25 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4288	TURKEY'S ELECTRICITY EXPORTS TO IRAQ - REGULATORY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S., Turkish, and Iraqi Governments share the goal of increasing exports from Turkey to Iraq. Turkey's Kartet Company currently exports 200 MW and seeks to increase in two steps: 1) to 350 MW, generally using existing capacity, and 2) to 1200 MW, asserting that it has the s [...]	2005-07-26 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ETRD IZ TU

05ANKARA4290	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-26 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4296	TURKEY-EU: STEP BY STEP TOWARD TURKISH SIGNING OF [...] (C) Summary: The UK Embassy hopes UK lobbying will have steered the Turkish government to sign the additional protocol to the Ankara Agreement shortly after the July 27 Blair-Erdogan meeting in London. At the same time, the UK has been pressing Turkish authorities to issue Turkey's expected r [...]	2005-07-26 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY EUN EU
05ANKARA4363	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-27 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4364	CHARGE DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH SENIOR MFA OFFICIALS, [...] (C) Summary: GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Koruturk told Charge July 25 that Turkey hopes the Sunni Arabs will return soon to constitutional negotiations. He rebutted Kurdish criticism of Turkish outreach efforts, expressed concern that the Kurds may be agitating for Turkish troops to leave nort [...]	2005-07-27 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS TU IZ SY
05ANKARA44	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-04 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4405	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-29 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4456	TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: ALEVI COMMUNITIES SEEK HIGHER [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: Alevis in southeastern Turkey of varying ethnic backgrounds recently have offered useful insight into the ongoing Anatolia-wide debate about the future shape of their faith and how they feel that the EU accession process might impact on [...]	2005-08-02 08:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PHUM TU
05ANKARA4490	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-02 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4497	TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's two main right-of-center opposition parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The two parties share very similar ideologies and compete for the same voters, but they are unable to unite under a common banner. As with the parties on the [...]	2005-08-03 08:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA4513	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-03 13:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4517	TURKEY REQUESTS EXIM FACILITY EXTENSION TO SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish Treasury on July 26 submitted a letter of request to EXIM Bank for the extension of an existing $1.366B facility to finance Turkey's purchase of a second batch of Sikorsky Seahawk Helicopters. Sale of the helos is conditional on extension of the EXIM facility. Turke [...]	2005-08-03 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL EFIN TU EXIM
05ANKARA4553	HIGH-LEVEL U.S. PARTICIPATION FOR TURKISH-IRAQI [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-04 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD BEXP TU IZ
05ANKARA4555	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-04 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4556	DAS BRYZA PRESSES TURKISH MFA FOR CLOSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a series of introductory meetings and a lunch with Turkish MFA officials on August 1, EUR DAS Matt Bryza welcomed the recent positive turn in bilateral relations and pressed for a structured approach to rebuilding US-Turkey partnership through agreement on a shared strategic [...]	2005-08-04 13:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR PINS TU IZ AF CY
05ANKARA4563	TURKEY'S SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL MEETING PRODUCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) announced on August 4 the decisions made by the Supreme Military Council (Yuksek Askeri Surasi - YAS) at its August 1-4 meeting, during which the promotion, retirement and re-assignment of Turkey's senior military officers, as well as the dismissal [...]	2005-08-05 04:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PINR TU
05ANKARA4598	MINISTER BABACAN ON EU, IMF [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Charge, Minister of Economy--and now EU negotiator--Babacan painted a typically rosy picture of the GOT's role, claiming the IMF program was really the Government's, and asserting the program was effectively on track despite the delays in key reform l [...]	2005-08-05 09:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN PGOV PREL EINV EU TU
05ANKARA4607	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-05 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4619	RESIGNATION OF TURKEY'S SECGEN FOR EU AFFAIRS [...] (C) Summary: The resignation of Turkey's Secretary General for EU Affairs, a senior career diplomat highly regarded by his EU interlocutors, reflects a drift in ruling AKP's EU policies. The resignation also foreshadows a fundamental political struggle between the secular State and Islamist-o [...]	2005-08-08 10:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU EUN
05ANKARA4636	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-09 05:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4658	TURKISH PM ON CYPRUS AND U.S. ACTION AGAINST PKK [...] (S) Summary: In an August 8 introductory call on Prime Minister Erdogan, Charge reviewed the goals Turkey and the U.S. share regarding a comprehensive Cyprus settlement and Turkey's EU accession bid. Erdogan expressed frustration with the lack of concrete U.S. actions against the PKK in nort [...]	2005-08-09 14:58:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER TU PKK
05ANKARA4660	CHARGE RAISES MOTOROLA DISPUTE WITH PM [...] (SBU) During her August 8 introductory call on Prime Minister Erdogan (see septel),the Charge raised Motorola's more than $2 billion claim on the failed Turkish mobile phone company TELSIM. She urged that SDIF, the GOT bank guarantee fund that has taken control of TELSIM, reach an amicable [...]	2005-08-09 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EINV TU
05ANKARA4716	REACTION TO TURKISH DECLARATION OF NON-RECOGNITION [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's July 29 declaration that is does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus (ROC) (ref A) has raised little controversy among EU diplomats in Ankara: it is what most expected, and not as extreme as some feared. Turkish media cautiously welcomed the protocol and non-recogniti [...]	2005-08-11 12:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY EU
05ANKARA4732	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, JULY 2005 [...] Throughout the month, government and military officials publicly accused each other, Turkey's neighbors, the EU and the US of inaction to respond to the PKK terrorist threat. However, they were unified in emphasizing that Turkey reserved the right to pursue the PKK into Iraq if necessary. Turk [...]	2005-08-11 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA4733	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-11 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4734	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-11 15:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4735	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-11 16:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4742	SCENESETTER FOR THE SEPT. 2-3 VISIT OF SENATOR TED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when our bilateral relations are on the mend from a difficult period when events in Iraq and Turkey's focus on getting a date from the EU to start accession negotiations overshadowed our traditionally close cooperation. With a growing economy, a sched [...]	2005-08-12 10:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OREP TU
05ANKARA4751	TURCO-RUSSIAN RAPPROCHEMENT: SEVEN HOURS OF [...] (C) Summary: In the context of booming trade with Russia (heavily in the latter's favor) and growing emotional understanding between Turks and Russians, PM Erdogan continues to feel that he is building a partnership of equals with Putin. What is lacking in Turkey is any rational analysis of R [...]	2005-08-12 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS ECON TU RS
05ANKARA4777	TURKEY-EU: FURTHER CONCERNS OF EU DIPLOMATS IN [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-15 08:59:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS TU EUN EU
05ANKARA4790	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-15 15:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4791	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-15 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4827	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-17 05:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4840	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-17 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4842	TURKISH PM'S KURDISH INITIATIVE: SEARCHING FOR [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan is portraying his public extension of a hand to Turkey's Kurds as the democratic alternative to resolving what he calls "the Kurdish problem". However, the ad hoc, undefined nature of his approach and rhetoric have left him vulnerable to charges that he has no real pl [...]	2005-08-17 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
05ANKARA4858	OFFICIAL TURKISH REACTION TO HELIOS AIRLINE CRASH [...] (U) On August 15, in response to a question, Turkish MFA spokesman Tan said Turkey is "deeply saddened for many Southern Cypriots and Greeks" who lost their lives in the August 14 Helios crash. Tan noted that PM Erdogan and FM Gul sent written condolences to Greek PM Karamanlis and FM Molyvi [...]	2005-08-18 13:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY GR
05ANKARA4861	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-18 15:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4882	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-19 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4888	THE USE AND ABUSE OF TURKISH POLLS [...] Summary. Turkish polls have had a tendency inaccurately to forecast the outcome of Turkish national elections because the majority of Turkish survey firms do not follow the basic requirements for conducting a scientific poll. Nevertheless, Turkish elites --- including leaders in the governing [...]	2005-08-22 08:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA4905	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-22 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4911	A SNAPSHOT OF TURKEY,S SAADET PARTY: LEFT-WING [...] (C) Summary. Saadet Party is the latest incarnation of Islamist parties formed by political Islam leader Necmettin Erbakan. The party,s members are hardcore Islamists (while not averse to material wealth),but their rhetoric often combines elements of Islamism with a leftwing inspired critic [...]	2005-08-23 06:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA4914	THE REAL STRENGTH OF THE AK PARTY: ITS WOMEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: AK Party's women provide the energy that fuels AKP's mighty grassroots machine. The women feel valued by the Party's leaders and they are particularly enamored with PM Erdogan. That they are being used by the men in the party is almost irrelevant--the woman derive substantial [...]	2005-08-23 06:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA4955	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] Roj TV: Broadcasts in Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish from Brussels and follows the PKK line. It broadcasts for 12 hours starting at 1000 GMT. Roj TV, known as `PKK television,' airs news, political discussions, music, and children's programs. 2. Mesopotamia TV (Me-TV): Close to the PKK ca [...]	2005-08-24 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA496	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-28 14:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5035	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-26 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5109	GOT WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY FOLLOWING THROUGH ON [...] (C) Summary: Political observers widely credit PM Erdogan with breaking new rhetorical ground on the Kurdish issue in the context of his recent visit to Diyarbakir. But contacts say they doubt the GOT is prepared to follow through on the initiative. Members of the (PKK-related) Democratic Peo [...]	2005-09-01 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA5114	STATE OF PLAY ON TURKEY-PKK [...] (S/NF) Summary: The PKK issue remains at the top of the political agenda in Turkey. Ethnic tensions--along with the death toll--are on the rise, while crowds at funerals of soldiers killed in PKK attacks have added "Damn the USA" to their traditional chant, "Damn the PKK." The Turks apprecia [...]	2005-09-01 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV MOPS TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA5115	PKK FUNERAL CLASH INDICATES RISING TENSION IN [...] (C) Summary: One demonstrator was found dead following an August 28 clash in Batman between police and a group of PKK sympathizers trying to claim the bodies of six PKK fighters killed by Turkish military forces. Relatives of the victim say he was shot to death by police; the Batman police chi [...]	2005-09-01 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE PKK
05ANKARA5133	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-02 08:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5140	TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, AUGUST 16- 31, 2005 [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Tempo Magazine in its August 1 [...]	2005-09-02 13:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
05ANKARA5157	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-02 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5163	GOT HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL RESIGNS, OFFICE MAY BE [...] (C) Summary: Vahit Bicak, head of the GOT's Human Rights Presidency, told us he will resign this month, out of frustration over the lack of support for the office from PM Erdogan and other GOT leaders. He said Erdogan informed him that he will not back a plan to create a new, independent huma [...]	2005-09-02 14:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA5164	TURKEY PROVIDES THE STAGE FOR HISTORIC [...] (C) Summary: Istanbul was the scene of historic August 31 - September 1 meetings between Israel FM Shalom and Pakistani FM Kasuri. The Pakistanis contacted Turkish PM Erdogan for help in setting up the meeting; the Turks had no role in its political substance. The GOI appreciates Turkey's [...]	2005-09-02 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IS PK
05ANKARA5166	ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UN: TURKEY HAS INVITATION [...] (C) A/DCM and PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Oguz Celikkol on September 2. Celikkol, who was already aware of the points based on USUN's demarche to the Turkish Mission to the UN, acknowledged that PM Erdogan had, indeed, received an invitation [...]	2005-09-03 03:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY TU UNGA SYRIA
05ANKARA5182	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-06 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5183	THE POST-GYMNICH VIEW FROM ANKARA: TURKS MAY [...] (C) Summary: GOT officials express differing degrees of displeasure with the draft text of an EU counter-declaration to the July 29 Turkish declaration of non-recognition of the Republic of Cyprus (ROC). In the end, the Turks will probably accept it if the text does not vary from the current [...]	2005-09-06 16:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY EU
05ANKARA5190	RULING AKP'S GRASSROOTS DIFFICULTIES IN ANKARA'S [...] (C) Summary. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) faces challenges in trying to maintain momentum in meeting its extremely ambitious goals for grassroots party building. AKP is running into difficulty filling party slots with clean, competent people; corrupt politicians, businessme [...]	2005-09-07 11:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA5196	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-07 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5208	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-07 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5209	TURKS AND TALAFAR: CONTINUING CONCERN, MOUNTING [...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 4. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT continues to express deep concern about the situation in Talafar, a predominantly Turkmen city in northwest Ninewah province. MFA officials have peppered us with questions about the latest situation there and have [...]	2005-09-07 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EAID TU IZ
05ANKARA5210	TFUS01: TURKS RESPOND WITH COMPASSION AND [...] Summary: The GOT and Turkish citizens responded generously and compassionately in the aftermath of Katrina, both by publicly expressing condolences and by offering assistance to the affected region. Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan rebutted some of the commentary in the Islamist-oriented press by [...]	2005-09-07 16:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID PREL TU
05ANKARA5220	TURKEY NUCLEAR QUEST AND U.S. TECHNOLOGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Turkish officials prefer U.S. technology to implement its decision to develop a civilian nuclear power capability, Westinghouse and GE reps, both with previous bad experiences in Turkey, are skeptical about Turkey's will, capacity, and commitment to a transparent, non-pol [...]	2005-09-08 08:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV BEXP TU
05ANKARA5223	DAS BRYZA'S AUGUST 25-26 VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: DAS Bryza attended a series of positive meetings with Turkish officials to promote a renewed strategic partnership between the US and Turkey. While noting that the U.S.-Turkish relationship is broad and multidimensional, Turkish interlocutors repeatedly stressed the importance of [...]	2005-09-08 10:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	TU PGOV PINS PREL
05ANKARA5236	TURKS PREPARED TO ACCEPT EXISTING FRAMEWORK [...] (C) Summary: In separate September 7 meetings with MFA Deputy U/S Bozkir and U/S Tuygan, Charge learned that the Turks are prepared to stomach some fairly tough language in the Negotiating Framework, especially if they can get slightly modified language in the Counter-Declaration, linking Cy [...]	2005-09-08 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV EU TU
05ANKARA5244	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-08 15:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5270	KING ABDULLAH VISITS TURKEY, SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) Jordan's King Abdullah visited Ankara September 5 at his initiative and met briefly with Turkish President Sezer, PM Erdogan and FonMin Gul. Focusing on Iraq, Abdullah reportedly expressed two major concerns: first, that Iraq's Sunnis are becoming alienated from the constitutional proce [...]	2005-09-09 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS IR IZ TU
05ANKARA5281	PM, MINISTER CRITICIZE STATE OF ISLAMIC WORLD [...] (U) Summary: PM Erdogan and State Minister Aydin recently made public statements criticizing the state of the Islamic world and calling on Muslims to uphold the values of their faith. Using strikingly similar language, the GOT leaders said the Islamic world lags behind the West in terms of so [...]	2005-09-09 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA5282	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 15:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5308	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-12 15:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5346	EUCOM/CENTCOM OFFER TURKS HELP WITH PKK; ASK FOR [...] (S/rel UK and AUS) Summary: At talks with EUCOM Commander Gen James Jones and CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt.Gen. Lance Smith on Sept. 8-9, TGS Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok indicated that Turkish cross border operations targeting the PKK in northern Iraq were not imminent, but that Turkish patience was [...]	2005-09-14 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER MARR PREL TU IZ PKK
05ANKARA5350	TURKEY'S NSC SECGEN LOOKING FOR WASHINGTON [...] (U) During an August 26 meeting with EUR DAS Bryza, Turkish National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan raised the possibility of a visit to Washington this fall to meet his NSC counterparts. Alpogan first mentioned his interest in such a visit during the Charge's initial [...]	2005-09-14 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA5351	GOT DENIES IT PLANS TO CLOSE HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE [...] (U) The Prime Ministry issued a written statement September 8 denying press reports indicating that the GOT had decided against the creation of an independent human rights institution and was considering closing the existing Human Rights Presidency (reftel). According to the statement, the GO [...]	2005-09-14 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA5354	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-14 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5355	TFUS01: TURKS REMEMBER GENEROUS EARTHQUAKE [...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 6. 2. Summary: The GOT has formally offered an assistance package totaling USD 2.5 million for Hurricane Katrina, including a USD 1.5 million cash donation to the American Red Cross (already sent),and USD 1 million of in-kind assistance. GOT Emergen [...]	2005-09-14 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID PREL KPAO TU
05ANKARA5393	CONTACTS FORESEE CONTINUED CONFLICT IN SOUTHEAST [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-15 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINS TU
05ANKARA5396	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-15 15:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5421	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-16 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5444	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-20 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5451	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-20 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5483	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-21 15:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5499	NSA HADLEY VISIT TO TURKEY: ANCHORING THE [...] (C) Your arrival in Ankara comes at an extraordinarily difficult moment between Turkey and the EU. Your presence and the message of solidarity that you convey will provide much-needed solace to the Turkish government and to the broader population -- both of whom are feeling abused and humilia [...]	2005-09-22 12:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MNUC TU US IZ SY IR EU
05ANKARA5501	VISIT TO TURKEY OF UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR [...] SUMMARY: Your visit to Turkey comes at a time when bilateral relations are gradually but perceptibly improving. While the Turks highly value U.S. support for Turkey,s EU membership and our active work on behalf of a Cyprus settlement, the perceptions that we have done nothing to counter the [...]	2005-09-22 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP PGOV PREL KPAO TU
05ANKARA5502	BABACAN SCENESETTER: TURKISH ECONOMY AT A WATERSHED [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister Babacan comes to Washington at what may be a watershed moment for the Turkish economy. If Turkey officially becomes an EU accession country October 3, and recent privatization and FDI deals are consummated, Turkey will have taken another important step away from its bo [...]	2005-09-22 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV BEXP TU
05ANKARA5540	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-24 01:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA561	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: You arrive in Turkey as we begin to recalibrate bilateral relations emphasizing renewed dialogue on areas of mutual concern to maximize achievable cooperation. We are working with a different democratizing Turkey as elites rotate and under the impact of widespread, and disaffect [...]	2005-02-01 11:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON TU IZ
05ANKARA5627	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, August 2005 [...] (SBU) Discussion of a new National Security Policy document (outlining the government's priorities with regard to threats to Turkey's internal and external security),which was postponed to August from the June NSC meeting, was not discussed in the NSC bi-monthly meeting of August 23. No offic [...]	2005-09-27 11:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA5634	TURKISH MEDIA COVERAGE - VISIT OF APNSA HADLEY [...] Turkish media coverage of APNSA Hadley's September 23-25 visit to Ankara has generally been straightforward, accurate, and positive. Not surprisingly, most papers focused on Hadley's public remarks on the the need for the United States to do more to address Turkey's concerns about PKK terrori [...]	2005-09-27 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5636	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-27 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5677	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-28 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA57	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-05 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5727	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-29 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA577	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-01 15:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5825	APNSA HADLEY'S MEETING WITH TURKISH PM ERDOGAN: [...] (C) Summary: In a 90-minute meeting with APNSA Hadley on September 23, Turkish PM Erdogan spoke of the challenges in the Middle East and the need for concrete steps to promote democracy. In that context, he stressed his theme of building personal relations with leaders of Turkey's neighbors, [...]	2005-09-30 13:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MNUC TU US EU IR IZ SY IS KPAL CY
05ANKARA5932	TURKS BITTER, RESIGNED AS EU DELIBERATES - "IT'S [...] (U) Summary: Turkish leaders across the political spectrum displayed wounded pride and bitter resignation on the eve of the planned October 3 start of EU accession talks. Turkey has done its part, PM Erdogan and FM Gul stressed; the decision now rests with the EU. The public mood has turned [...]	2005-10-03 09:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EU TU
05ANKARA5949	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5953	WHAT IS BEHIND TURKEY'S BLACK SEA POLICY? [...] (C) Summary: Turkey makes a strong distinction between Black Sea maritime security and broader security challenges in the larger region (such as frozen conflicts). We see Turkish pride of place as a main driver of their approach to the former, though a genuine desire to draw Russia into cooperation [...]	2005-10-04 09:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS TU RO BU GG UP RS
05ANKARA5978	TURKEY, THE MORNING AFTER [...] (C) Summary: The morning after Turkish FM Gul made his late-evening, oft-postponed flight to Luxembourg to officially open Turkey's EU accession negotiations, Turkish officials and media alike are hailing the step as an historic accomplishment. Last minute changes to the negotiating framewo [...]	2005-10-04 12:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU TU
05ANKARA5984	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-04 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5985	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-04 15:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6012	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-05 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA606	TURKEY IMF AGREEMENT IN TROUBLE OVER INVESTMENT LAW [...] (C) Summary. According to the local IMF representative, a Turkish government decision to move ahead with a regional investment incentives law is imperiling the Fund's December agreement on the terms of a new three-year stand-by program. Minister Babacan was apparently powerless to prevent Co [...]	2005-02-02 15:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN TU

05ANKARA6062	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-06 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA608	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-02 15:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6101	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6106	COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Summary. Turkey has a reputation for being a moderate, secular, and democratic country with a Muslim population. The reality of Islam in Turkey, however, is more complicated. The State actively represses unofficial expressions of Islam. Violent Turkish Islamic extremism does exist. Mi [...]	2005-10-11 06:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL PTER TU
05ANKARA6181	LAUNCHING A STRUCTURED STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) With the October 3 EU decision on Turkey's accession negotiations behind us, it is time to turn toward consolidation of recent gains made in our bilateral relationship and to expand regional cooperation with Ankara. One way to do this is to establish a more structured policy dialogue that [...]	2005-10-12 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU US
05ANKARA6182	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-12 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6183	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-13 04:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6229	REHN OFFERS TURKEY FRESH START, URGES CONTINUED [...] (U) Summary: During his October 5-8 visit to Turkey, EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn offered a fresh start in Turkey's EU bid and called on the GOT to continue the reform process that enabled Turkey to open accession negotiations. Rehn pressed PM Erdogan, FM Gul and other GOT leaders to make [...]	2005-10-13 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE EU
05ANKARA6251	ANKARA AGREEMENT EXTENSION PROTOCOL FACES FIGHT IN [...] (C) Summary: Although EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn recently urged Turkey to ratify the Ankara Agreement extension protcol as soon as possible (ref A),the GOT still has made no decision on when to send the protocol to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA). The GOT, initially intent [...]	2005-10-14 12:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY
05ANKARA6259	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-14 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6293	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-17 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA63	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S JAN. 3 MEETING WITH SPEAKER OF [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Secretary emphasized the importance of strong U.S.-Turkish consultations on a wide range of issues. In response to Speaker Arinc's emotional criticism of "100,000 deaths" in Iraq and the Fallujah operation, the Deputy Secretary pointed to the misuse of mosques by insur [...]	2005-01-05 16:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA6300	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT DISCUSSES JUDICIAL [...] (U) Summary: Tulay Tugcu, newly elected president of Turkey's Constitutional Court, told Charge during an October 7 meeting that she is proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow individual citizens to apply directly to the Court. Tugcu defended the headscarf ban in universities as [...]	2005-10-18 07:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE
05ANKARA6302	AFYON: PROSPERITY AND INEQUALITY IN AN ANATOLIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Afyon, a clean and prosperous town located three hours southwest of Ankara, is better off than many Turkish cities, yet visiting PolOffs heard complaints about the economy. We met with a variety of citizens in Afyon, including businessmen, farmers, academics and government off [...]	2005-10-18 08:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
05ANKARA6310	TURKEY-ISRAEL: NORTH-SOUTH ENERGY AND WATER LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey and Israel announced ambitious plans for energy and water links, building on earlier announcements from both countries with Russia. This North- South energy corridor is intended to complement, not compete with, the East-West Energy Corridor. For Turkey, it is important [...]	2005-10-18 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV TU IS RU
05ANKARA6312	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-18 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6313	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-18 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6316	TURKEY: EDUCATION COUNCIL PRESIDENT SUPPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Erdogan Tezic, president of Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK),told Charge during an October 17 meeting that he supports the reopening of the Halki seminary, and believes a solution can be found if Greece and Turkey discuss their respective religious minorities. He said Halk [...]	2005-10-19 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
05ANKARA6326	AFYON: PROSPERITY AND INEQUALITY IN AN ANATOLIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Afyon, a prosperous town located three hours southwest of Ankara, is better off than many Turkish cities, yet visiting PolOffs heard complaints about the economy. We met with a variety of citizens in Afyon, including businessmen, farmers, academics and government officials. A [...]	2005-10-20 06:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS ECON EFIN EAGR TU
05ANKARA6352	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-20 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6353	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-20 15:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6426	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-25 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6445	TURKEY/IRAQ: ALLAWI IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. Former Iraqi PM Allawi visited Ankara the week of October 17 and met with FM Gul in the latter's capacity as acting PM. Allawi told the Turks he sought to build a broad, moderate coalition across sectarian lines with an Iraqi nationalist agenda. While impressed with Allawi, th [...]	2005-10-26 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ TU
05ANKARA6446	TURKISH MFA ON AZERBAIJAN ELECTIONS: QUIET [...] (C) Turkey's MFA says it has approached the GOAJ at all levels to express its desire for a free, fair, and transparent elections on November 6, but prefers not to do so publicly. The GOT expects Aliyev to win comfortably even without cheating. Turkey is sending a sizable contingent of offi [...]	2005-10-26 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM TU AZ
05ANKARA6447	TURKEY CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] (SBU) The ongoing suffering in Pakistan struck a deep chord in Turkey, leading to a broad outpouring of public interest and support for contributing to the earthquake relief effort, epitomized by Prime Minister Erdogan's October 20 visit to the affected area, during which he pledged $150 mill [...]	2005-10-26 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREL PK
05ANKARA6479	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-27 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6480	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-27 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6498	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-28 12:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR
05ANKARA6518	TURKISH MFA'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN [...] (SBU) On 31 October 2005, POLCOUNS and POLOFF delivered to Turkish MFA Acting Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Ambassador Aydin Evirgen reftel demarches. Evirgen responded by saying, "we share the same views on Ahmadi-Nejad's statement" and that it was "completely unacceptable." H [...]	2005-10-31 16:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PHUM IR TU
05ANKARA6535	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-01 16:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6536	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-01 16:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6543	AT THREE, TURKEY'S AKP GOVERNMENT SHOWING ITS AGE [...] (C) After three years in power, Turkish PM Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) government remain atop Turkey's political heap in popularity, and in control of the Turkish parliament and Turkey's municipalities. Yet the AKP government is beginning to show its age: it has reced [...]	2005-11-02 09:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EU TU CY
05ANKARA6546	TURKEY: FM GUL DODGES ISSUE OF IRANIAN EXTREMISM [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarches to the MFA on October 31, emphasizing the need for the GOT to make clear its rejection of Ahmadi-Nejad's violent and irresponsible rhetoric. Acting Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Ambassador Aydin Evirgen promised us that Gul would deliver a stro [...]	2005-11-02 10:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
05ANKARA6547	TURKEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS: NOVEMBER 1 FM GUL PRESS [...] Summary. In a wide-ranging November 1 press conference, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul acknowledged a "new phase" in U.S. - Turkish cooperation against (PKK) terrorism and addressed developments with a number of Turkey's problematic neighbors. His remarks on Iran in the wake of Irani [...]	2005-11-02 10:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV TU
05ANKARA6558	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Your visit to Turkey marks the first High Level Defense Group (HLDG) meeting to be held in two years. In the absence of this high level bilateral dialogue, our political military communication with Turkey since 2003 has been dominated by the war in Iraq and its impact on the PKK, [...]	2005-11-02 12:34:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS MARR PARM TU IZ AF
05ANKARA6585	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-08 05:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6586	TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's three main left-of-center parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The left-of-center parties share similar ideologies and compete for the same minor segment of the Turkish electorate but are unable to cooperate and are plagued by poli [...]	2005-11-08 07:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
05ANKARA6606	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-08 17:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6607	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-09 07:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6637	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-09 15:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6670	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-11 06:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6710	TURKEY LIKELY TO GO AHEAD WITH CYPRUS EXERCISES [...] (C) Summary: Turkish forces are planning to participate in "Toros" exercises on Cyprus in response to Greek Cypriot "Nikiforos" exercises in October. Although some in the Turkish MFA and TGS are counseling restraint, Cyprus hardliners are depicting failure to participate in "Toros" as anoth [...]	2005-11-15 10:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS TU CY
05ANKARA6749	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-15 16:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6750	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-15 16:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6772	JANDARMA INVOLVEMENT IN BOMBING ROCKS TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Turkey has been rocked by alleged jandarma involvement in a November 9 bombing in the town of Semdinli, in the ethnically-Kurdish southeastern province of Hakkari. After the blast, bystanders caught and severely beat three suspects. Police released two of the three, including a [...]	2005-11-17 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ANKARA6824	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-18 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA683	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-04 15:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA686	TURKISH TREASURY WORRY ON IMF STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Showing considerable frustration and concern about Turkey's relations with the IMF, Treasury Undersecretary Ibrahim Canakci explained the GOT's thinking in its recent decision to expand the investment incentives law despite the strong opposition of top IMF management. With the Pr [...]	2005-02-04 16:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN TU
05ANKARA6878	THE PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS OF EARLY ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's ruling and pro-Islam Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is resisting opposition calls for early elections. Presidential politics are a major factor: parliament will elect Turkey,s next President in May 2007, and the term of the current parliament, dominated [...]	2005-11-22 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
05ANKARA688	SUBJECT: Turkey unveils adopted a nnew [...] (U) Summary: Using new, updated inflation baskets for the first time, the State Institute of Statistics (SIS) announced February 3 that ptionswith base year 2003, and the new inflation data based Forthe January , theConsumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.55 percent and the Producers Price Ind [...]	2005-02-05 11:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON TU
05ANKARA6897	BABACAN: NO PLANS TO SEND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Economy and EU negotiator Ali Babacan explained that the GOT had deliberately not created a new structure to handle the EU process so as to keep all ministries engaged. The GOT has no plans yet to submit the Ankara Protocol Extension to parliament. Babacan reiterated [...]	2005-11-22 16:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PREL PGOV EU TU
05ANKARA6900	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-22 17:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6901	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-22 17:07:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6930	TURKEY FACES OBSTACLES ON PATH TO EU MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Now that Turkey has begun EU accession talks, it faces the difficult prospect of meeting EU requirements regarding Cyprus, minority rights, religious freedom, civil-military relations, and freedom of expression. This will require Turkey to open debate on sensitive topics and chan [...]	2005-11-23 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU TU
05ANKARA6954	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-25 15:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA6955	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-25 15:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7013	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-29 16:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7014	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-29 16:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7016	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-30 05:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7068	UPDATED SCENESETTER FOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF [...] (U) Embassy Ankara looks forward to welcoming you to Turkey. This will be the first high-level FBI visit to Turkey since Director Freeh came in 1998, prior to the opening of the Legat office in Ankara in October 1999. Turkish government and press interest in your visit will be very high. Yo [...]	2005-12-01 16:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PGOV KTFN TU
05ANKARA7069	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-01 16:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7070	BAYKAL USES NATIONALISM TO CEMENT CONTROL OF [...] (C) Summary. Party Chairman and former Foreign Minister Deniz Baykal was re-elected chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on November 19, solidifying his dictatorial control over the party. The convention also showcased the continued evolution of CHP from a progressi [...]	2005-12-01 16:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA7078	TURKEY-RUSSIA-ITALY: BLUE STREAM FANFARE AND ADO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite Turkey's hopes to spin the official opening of the Blue Stream natural gas pipeline (under the Black Sea from Russia; constructed by Italian firm ENI) into tangible support for other energy corridor/hub dreams, the leaders departed Turkey without further concrete commit [...]	2005-12-02 08:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EWWT SENV TU IT RU
05ANKARA7098	IRANIAN FM MOTTAKI'S VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (C) Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki visited Ankara November 30 to December 1 and met President Sezer, PM Erdogan, FM Gul and key opposition party leaders. Press coverage was low-key and largely positive. Turkish leaders reportedly gave Mottaki a "clear message," warning that Iran,s nuclear [...]	2005-12-02 16:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ENRG PHUM ETRD IR TU
05ANKARA7099	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-04 06:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA711	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-07 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7158	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-06 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7186	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-07 15:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7191	SCENESETTER FOR 10-16 DEC COUNTERPART VISIT OF [...] (S) Summary: This Counterpart Visit (CPV) by the Commander of the Turkish Land Forces, GEN Yasar Buyukanit, will be the most significant event in US-Turkish Army to Army relations in over half a decade. The already slowing post-Cold War US-Turkish mil to mil relationship was derailed in 2003 [...]	2005-12-08 09:14:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS TU IZ AF
05ANKARA7215	NO SPLITS IN TURKEY'S GOVERNING AKP PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: Despite media reports and opposition rumors of splits among PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party's (AKP) 357 parliamentarians, the group remains intact )- for now. Among AKP MPs, there are distinctive pious, pragmatic and nationalist currents, with crosscutting personal l [...]	2005-12-08 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ANKARA7216	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-08 16:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7241	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-12 05:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7242	TURKEY UNDER FIRE FOR HIGH-PROFILE SPEECH CASES [...] (C) Summary: Turkish prosecutors have recently opened a number of speech-related cases against high-profile writers and intellectuals, drawing sharp criticism from EU Enlargement Commissioner Rehn and others. The number of such cases has actually dropped in recent years. However, political a [...]	2005-12-12 07:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
05ANKARA7278	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-12 15:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7303	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-13 15:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7342	TURKEY FUMBLES BOTAS GAS CONTRACT TRANSFER [...] (SBU) Summary: In a complicated tale of intrigue and ineptitude, an apparent effort by the Turkish state-owned pipelines company BOTAS to demonstrate that the 2001 law requiring transfer of import contracts to the private sector was unworkable blew up in the company's face as the press level [...]	2005-12-15 08:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV EPET TU
05ANKARA7397	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-16 15:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7398	TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN UPDATE: KARZAI TO VISIT, ITALY [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. 6. Summary ------- 2. (C) President Karzai will visit Turkey Jan. 5-6. Italy is joining Turkey and France's proposed co-command of ISAF's Capital Region Command; Turkey felt it could not refuse Italy's offer. Turkey may/may be prepared [...]	2005-12-16 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EAID SNAR KPKO TU AF
05ANKARA7423	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH TURKISH FM [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-19 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL ETRD ECON PTER TU US IZ IR SY EU CY
05ANKARA7426	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON TURKISH PM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador used his December 15 introductory call on Turkish PM Erdogan to lay out USG priorities for bilateral relations. He reiterated U.S. commitment on the PKK issue but cautioned that expectations need to remain realistic. Erdogan echoed the Ambassador's views on the import [...]	2005-12-19 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ CY ECON
05ANKARA7437	HYPE VERSUS REALITY OVER TURKEY'S ALCOHOL "BAN" [...] (C) Summary: Reports of alcohol "bans" by Turkey's ruling pro-Islam Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the headlines are largely exaggerated and misleading. The reality is that control over liquor sales and licensing, once held by provincial governors, has been turned over to municipali [...]	2005-12-19 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI TU
05ANKARA7443	TURKEY: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Combating terrorism has long been a priority for the Government of Turkey (GOT). In 2005, Turkey continued its strong support of the coalition in the global war against terror in Afghanistan by commanding the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from February to August 2005. T [...]	2005-12-20 09:33:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO
05ANKARA7453	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-20 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA748	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-08 15:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7498	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-21 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7513	THE CHANGING FACE OF POVERTY IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: While the incidence of extreme poverty is very low, nearly 25 percent of Turks live below the World Bank's international poverty line, with poor people increasingly concentrated in large cities. Despite an improving economy, regional disparities in income, together with intern [...]	2005-12-22 10:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PHUM KWMN TU
05ANKARA7534	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-22 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7558	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-23 10:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7602	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-28 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7630	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-29 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7676	AMBASSADOR RAISES SPEECH CONCERNS WITH MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador used his initial call on Turkish Justice Minister Cicek December 30 to warn that the recent series of speech-related prosecutions has damaged Turkey's image in the U.S. He said that traditional supporters of Turkey in Washington may not be helpful in the future if the [...]	2005-12-30 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA776	HUMAN RIGHTS BOARD CHAIRMAN RESIGNS AMID FEUD OVER [...] (C) Summary: The chairman and vice chairmen of a GOT human rights board resigned from the body in protest Feb. 7, asserting that the Prime Ministry dismissed them one year before their terms were up. The resignations followed a bitter dispute over the board's taboo-breaking October report on [...]	2005-02-09 16:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA783	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-10 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA799	GREEK CYPRIOT PARTY LEADER ANASTASSIADES MEETS [...] (C) Summary: In the first visit by a Greek Cypriot politician to Turkey since 1963, Democratic Rally (DISY) Party leader Nicos Anastassiades met with Turkish FM and Deputy Prime Minister Gul in Ankara on February 10. We understand that (1) Anastassiades raised changes to the Annan Plan that [...]	2005-02-11 12:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
05ANKARA812	TURKEY-IMF: IS IT ANY DIFFERENT THIS TIME? [...] (C) Summary: Although the IMF has gone public with its serious concerns about a new regional investment incentives law, markets are betting that the IMF and Turkish government will find a way to paper over their differences and work things out, as they have several times over the past three [...]	2005-02-11 16:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN TU
05ANKARA814	GOT'S NEW APPROACH TO PROTESTANTS SPARKS BACKLASH [...] (U) Summary: Protestants in Turkey say the GOT has made tentative steps toward a more flexible approach to churches and missionaries, partly due to the influence of the EU process. For example, during Christmas authorities in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir for the first time gave permission for m [...]	2005-02-11 16:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ANKARA837	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-14 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA861	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-15 10:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA865	AFGHANISTAN: TURKS RELAXED ABOUT MAZAR REJECTION [...] (C) The subject of Turkey's interest in replacing the UK at its PRT in Mazar-e Sharif (refs A and B) came up during a meeting on another subject between MFA DDG for South Asia Aydin Evirgen and polmilcouns. Evirgen understood that London was no longer interested in Turkey taking over the Maza [...]	2005-02-15 13:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV TU AF UK
05ANKARA866	GREEK CYPRIOT PARTY LEADER ANASTASSIADES MEETS [...] (C) Summary: Two days after meeting with Turkish FM Gul (reftel) Greek Cypriot Democratic Rally Party (DISY) leader Nicos Anastassiades met for about an hour with PM Erdogan in Istanbul February 12. Anastassiades again raised possible changes to the Annan Plan, although with more specificity [...]	2005-02-15 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY

05ANKARA88	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-06 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA896	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-16 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA911	RESIGNATION FROM TURKISH CABINET: WHEN AND HOW [...] (C) Summary: Culture and Tourism Minister Mumcu's resignation from the AKP cabinet and the party will not split AKP. Nor is Mumcu or anyone else outside AKP with aspirations to form a credible political alternative able to challenge AKP's dominance in the near term. But Mumcu's move highligh [...]	2005-02-17 11:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA942	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-18 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA967	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-22 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA97	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S JANUARY 11-12 [...] (C) Summary: Our bilateral relationship with Turkey has become quite bumpy over the last years. The comfort of our NATO Alliance has been tested by Turkish perceptions of our operations in Iraq, developments on the domestic scene, and the movement toward the EU. Turkey shares our overall poli [...]	2005-01-06 16:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS TU IZ AF
05ANKARA98	TURKEY URGES OIC MEMBERS TO ASSIST TSUNAMI RELIEF, [...] We delivered reftel points January 5 to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle East Affairs Department Head Botsali, who is in charge of OIC-related issues. Botsali noted that OIC SecGen Ihsanoglu issued an appeal on January 1 for assistance to all OIC countries and Turkish FM Gul [...]	2005-01-06 16:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID PGOV TU
05ANKARA987	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-23 15:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
05ATHENS1598	MOLYVIATIS ON TURKEY/CYPRUS [...] (C) At a June 9 lunch, FM Molyviatis and Ambassador discussed Cyprus and Turkey issues in light of Turkish PM Erdogan's visit to Washington and Under Secretary General Prendergast's recent trip to the region. Molyviatis commented that the idea of a report to the SYG on "the failures of 2004" [...]	2005-06-10 08:32:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	CY GR PREL TU TURKEY
05ATHENS236	AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH GREEK MOD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In their introductory meeting on January 19, Greek Defense Minister Spiliotopoulos told the Ambassador that Greece was prepared to increase its presence in Afghanistan by deploying a Role 2 Medical Unit to Herat. Greece was not yet able to lift its caveat to allow Greek staff off [...]	2005-01-21 10:40:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	GR MARR PREL AMB
05ATHENS2759	VIEW FROM ATHENS: MOVING FORWARD ON MINORITY [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Athens welcomes the ideas presented in ref A, and the possibility of progress on minority rights issues between Greece and Turkey. From our side, Ambassador pitched the Halki-Athens mosque connection in July (ref B),to no avail. Unfortunately, the Greeks see this (with som [...]	2005-10-21 15:25:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCI HRIGHTS
05ATHENS617	MOLYVIATIS ON CYPRUS/TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek FM Molyviatis told Ambassador he was working on a meeting between PM Karamanlis and Turkish PM Erdogan (on the margins of the March 22 EU Summit in Brussels and just before Molyviatis's visit to Washington),and his own trip to Turkey in April for discussions of Greek-Turki [...]	2005-03-03 14:42:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	GR PREL TU AMB
05DUBLIN1023	IRELAND SUPPORTS TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) In previous demarche discussions on Turkey, Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has expressed support for the start of Turkey's accession negotiations (ref B). This position is consistent with public positions taken by GOI officials during Ireland's EU presidency in 2004. In a [...]	2005-08-18 16:35:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL
05DUBLIN884	IRISH RESPONSE TO PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: On July 14, Post delivered reftel demarche to Gerard Keown, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Foreign Correspondent. According to Keown, the GOI was optimistic that EU accession talks for Turkey would begin October 3. He noted that Ireland would favor referring any Iranian [...]	2005-07-15 14:27:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL UN
05ISLAMABAD15862	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: KARZAI TO MAKE CONDOLENCE [...] (C) On October 21, the Afghan Embassy confirmed to post that AfghQsident Karzai plans to make a short condolence visit to Pakistan on Monday, October 24. According to Afghan Ambassador Tarzi, President Karzai will call on President Musharraff and PM Aziz, followed by a press event. The Paki [...]	2005-10-22 18:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK PGOV AF
05ISTANBUL1	TURKEY GETS A DATE FROM THE EU, ISTANBUL REACTS [...] (u) Summary: The December 17 EU decision to begin membership negotiations with Turkey in October 2005 was greeted in Istanbul with a mixture of relieved satisfaction and lingering skepticism. Following the initial euphoria after the decision was announced, some Turks in academic circles alrea [...]	2005-01-03 10:03:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EU TU
05ISTANBUL1080	DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE DIALOGUE COMES TO LIFE IN [...] (U) Summary: A June 20-21 Istanbul symposium within the framework of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) focused on "Empowering Women in Public Life and Democratic Development in the BMENA Region." At this first issue-focused DAD activity, nearly 100 NGO and government representatives e [...]	2005-06-23 16:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL TU XD XF XI
05ISTANBUL1164	AK'S BUSINESS BASE GOES CALLING IN ANKARA [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Independent Businessmens' Association (MUSIAD) returned on June 30 from a three-day lobbying junket to Ankara, where they pressed for government action to assist small and medium-sized enterprises, arguing that it is time to "rehabilitate the real sector a [...]	2005-07-07 14:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
05ISTANBUL1421	TURKEY: EURASIA SENIOR ADVISOR MANN'S JULY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 20 meeting in Istanbul with Raphel Moissis, the CEO of the Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA),Senior Advisor for Eurasia Ambassador Steven R. Mann discussed the Greek-Turkey gas interconnector, prospects for Italian-Greek cooperation on the Greece-Otranta line, pr [...]	2005-08-19 05:37:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ENRG GR SENV TU
05ISTANBUL1506	DAS BRYZA'S ISTANBUL MEETINGS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Istanbul Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva on August 24, visiting EUR DAS Matthew Bryza strongly reaffirmed USG support for religious freedom and pluralism in Turkey and stressed that the subject will remain front and center in o [...]	2005-08-31 12:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1628	ISTANBUL VATICAN REPRESENTATIVE SANGUINE ABOUT GOT [...] (C) In the Consul General's September 21 introductory call on Istanbul Apostolic Vicar Monsignor Georges Marovitch, Marovitch indicated that the Vatican is satisfied with the GOT's invitation to Pope Benedict XVI to visit Turkey in 2006. (Note: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I had invited [...]	2005-09-22 13:53:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1655	ISTANBUL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT BLOCKS "ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) This is an action message, see para 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a controversial decision unveiled just hours before the start of the "Alternative Armenian Conference," at which independent-minded speakers planned to challenge Turkish orthodoxy about the massacre of Armenians in 1915, an [...]	2005-09-23 18:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
05ISTANBUL1680	"ALTERNATIVE ARMENIAN CONFERENCE" GOES FORWARD [...] (U) Summary: The "Alternative Armenian Conference" (on Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire) unfolded without incident on September 24 and 25 at a campus of its third organizer, Bilgi University, less than 48 hours after an Istanbul court had attempted to block it. Foreign Minister Gul, who, [...]	2005-09-27 16:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
05ISTANBUL1716	PLAYING POLITICS WITH PRIVATIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A political and media furore has swirled in recent days around the controversial 49-year lease for Istanbul's Galata port on a prime stretch of waterfront overlooking the old city. Critics point out that the winning bid, announced at USD 4.3 billion, actually has a real present [...]	2005-10-04 13:58:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV TU
05ISTANBUL1825	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE: METROPOLITAN DOWNBEAT ON [...] (C) Summary: Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, a senior advisor at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, expressed his skepticism October 13 to visiting EUR/SE Director Doug Silliman about the GOT's ability and willingness to move the Halki seminary issue forward. Silliman underlined USG support [...]	2005-10-20 11:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1844	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH PUBLICLY HIGHLIGHTS CONCERNS [...] (U) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew raised publicly October 20 his inability to use his ecumenical title in Turkey and the continued lack of dialogue with the Turkish government on such key issues as reopening Halki Seminary. Turkish press gave wide coverage to the remarks, which wer [...]	2005-10-24 09:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1888	ISTANBUL MEZZES: SLICES OF LIFE FROM TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is the second in a series of cables offering a sampling of political, economic and human rights topics circulating in Istanbul; herewith, a special "Ramazan" edition. Istanbul Iftars --------------- 2. (U) "Iftar," or the traditional breaking of the Ramadan ("Ramazan," in Tur [...]	2005-10-31 15:19:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1916	DUBAI OR NOT DUBAI: THAT IS ISTANBUL'S QUESTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul Municipality and Dubai Holding inked an agreement October 7 heralding Dubai International Properties' (DIP) intent to invest USD 5 billion in Turkey in the coming years. Istanbul will chip in USD 1 billion in property for a 20 percent share of the joint venture. A U [...]	2005-11-08 16:03:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV TU
05ISTANBUL1941	INVESTMENT CONFERENCE PRAISES TURKEY'S PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: A November 8-9 investment conference organized by Turkey's Foreign Investors' Association (YASED) offered GOT policymakers a chance to highlight progress registered in recent years and to underline their readiness to accept foreign investment, whatever its source. Business part [...]	2005-11-14 13:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON EFIN TU
05ISTANBUL1957	CDA ADDRESSES ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE/APPEAL OF [...] (U) Summary: he Ecumenical Patriarchate and Rabbi Arthur Schnier's Appeal of Conscience Foundation hosted a cnference in Istanbul November 7-9, bringing togethr religious and other leaders from the Balkans, Cntrl sia nd th Cacasus, as well as Greece' Mnste o Edcaion and Religious Affairs, [...]	2005-11-15 15:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
05ISTANBUL2053	ISTANBUL POLITICS: TAYYIP BEY STILL IN CHARGE? [...] (C) Summary: Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas captured the city's attention last month when he fired Istanbul Deputy Mayor Idris Gulluce, following intense media speculation that Gulluce was the real power behind the throne. The move allowed Topbas to regain "face," but privately contacts have to [...]	2005-12-06 09:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2059	IRAQI SUNNI ARAB TEAM PRESENTS OLD GRIEVANCES TO [...] (C) Summary: At a December 4 meeting in Istanbul organized by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, a delegation of Iraqi Sunni Arab political figures told Ambassador Khalilzad that the "insurgents" want the political process in Iraq to succeed, but seek more credibility in the process. They demand [...]	2005-12-06 16:11:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
05ISTANBUL2071	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S DECEMBER 4 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a very cordial hour-long lunch sandwiched between U.S. meetings with a team of Iraqi Sunnis -- conducted in Istanbul and orchestrated and observed by the GOT -- Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad that Turkey had counseled t [...]	2005-12-07 14:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IZ TU SYRIA
05ISTANBUL2152	ISTANBUL JOURNALISTS DEBATE TURKISH POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador exchanged views with senior Turkish journalists n Istanbul on key foreign policy issues, includig Iraq, Iran, Syria, Cyprus, EU accession and doestic developments in Turkey. In this off-the-recrd discussion, debate was most spirited among thejournalists regarding t [...]	2005-12-22 12:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2171	AMBASSADOR'S FIRST VISIT TO ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) In his first visit to Istanbul December 18-20, Ambassador met with a range of business, government and other leaders, including Mustafa Koc, head of Turkey's largest holding company, Aydin Dogan, the country's leading media baron, the Turkish-American Business Council (TAIK),the Americ [...]	2005-12-26 23:29:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2177	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON ECUMENICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a cordial introductory call on December 20, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I outlined for the Ambassador the history of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey and underscored three major factors threatening it: the lack of a seminary for the training of priests; the lack of [...]	2005-12-28 08:20:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM TU AA OSCE
05ISTANBUL2186	ISTANBUL MEZZES: SLICES OF LIFE FROM TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables offering a sampling of political, economic and human rights topics circulating in Istanbul. Vatican II ) Muslim Style? -------------------------- 2. (SBU) We recently attended a Koran reading and sermon at Sehzadebasi Mosque in the Eminonu-Fat [...]	2005-12-29 14:28:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL267	IZMIR VIEWS ON APP CLOSURE, OVACIK MINE RESTART, [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings in Izmir February 2-4, Izmir liaison officer informed municipal, business and academic officials of the Congressional decision to close the Izmir American Presence Post and the U.S. plan to reopen a consular agency. Regarding U.S. efforts to reopen the Ovacik Gold [...]	2005-02-17 13:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU PHUM EINV
05ISTANBUL346	SUZER PLAZA CONTROVERSY CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul's controversial Suzer Plaza skyscraper, which houses the Ritz Carlton Hotel and was partially financed by OPIC, has returned to the headlines in recent weeks. In early January, two restaurants at the building's base were targeted for partial demolition by city official [...]	2005-03-02 07:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV TU OPIC
05ISTANBUL692	INVESTMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL PRAISES TURKEY'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's second annual Investment Advisory Council Meeting on April 29 in Istanbul brought recognition of the economic and political strides Turkey has made over the past year, including most notably macroeconomic stability and a date for beginning of accession negotiations with [...]	2005-05-06 15:41:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON EFIN TU
05KUWAIT4649	ERDOGAN PROMOTES ECONOMIC TIES DURING VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-31 08:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON TU KU
05MUSCAT717	MEDIA REACTION: PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SECURING THE [...] On April 26, the government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" carried an editorial entitled "Peace in the Middle East": "As a powerful country, the United States has a moral and legal responsibility to seek the best possible solutions for regional political problems and pressures. When people are su [...]	2005-05-03 02:47:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
05PARIS4019	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - ERDOGAN IN WASHINGTON -RUN-UP [...] ERDOGAN IN WASHINGTON 2. RUN-UP TO THE G8 3. A/S FRIED IN PARIS 4. NATO AND DARFUR (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: PRIME MINISTER DE VILLEPIN'S SPEECH YESTERDAY ON STRATEGIES TO BOOST EMPLOYMENT IN FRANCE DOMINATE HEADLINES. RIGHT-WING ORIENTED DAILIES LABEL DE VILLEPIN'S SPEECH AS "NOT BAD" [...]	2005-06-09 11:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6033	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH EUROPEAN DIRECTOR BRIATTA [...] (C) Summary: French MFA A/S equivalent Briatta told A/S Fried September 2 that he was "reasonably optimistic" that the EU could work out a declaration on Turkey that would allow accession negotiations to begin as scheduled on October 3, so long as the Greeks and Cypriots did not insist on new [...]	2005-09-07 07:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR TU EUN NATO
05PARIS6807	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - European Issues - Turkey [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-04 10:34:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7787	MFA EUROPEAN DIRECTOR NOT OPTIMISTIC ON EU BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: MFA EU Affairs A/S-equivalent Briatta told us November 15 that he was not optimistic the EU would reach a budget deal by year's end, in part because of Blair's weakened domestic standing, and notwithstanding the UK's fears of increasing isolation within the EU and growing unhapp [...]	2005-11-16 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD FR ECON PGOV EUN
05ROME2874	ITALY SAYS TURKEY WILL LIKELY DOMINATE SEPTEMBER [...] (C) Summary. On August 24, Poloff met separately with Sergio Mercuri of the MFA's EU office and Stefano Ravagnan of the MFA's Southern Europe office to discuss ref A demarche. Poloff also met with Raimondo De Cardona from the MFA's Balkans office on August 29. Mercuri and Ravagnan stated t [...]	2005-08-29 14:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL TU IT EUN
05ROME3763	IRAQ: TALABANI IN ROME URGES NO HASTY TROOP MOVES [...] (C) Summary. During his November 7-13 visit to Italy, Iraqi President Talabani discussed current developments in Iraq and Iraqi relations with Syrian, Iran and Turkey with Embassy officials. Talabani received assurances from Italian center-left leaders that they would not withdraw Italian tr [...]	2005-11-15 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM NATO
05TELAVIV2441	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-19 15:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2719	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syrian-Lebanese Track 3. Visit of Turkish PM Erdogan to Israel, May 1-2 ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that an IDF soldier was killed and another was wounded in an operation near Tulkarm, in which a [...]	2005-05-02 09:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5091	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-17 11:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5641	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the disorder in the PA and along the Philadelphi route. While some media, like Jerusalem Post (banner: "Egypt, PA Vow to Stop Gaza Infiltrator [...]	2005-09-14 09:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5672	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muslims in European Society 3. UN Reform ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media highlighted the meeting between President Bush and PM Sharon at the UN on Wednesday, following the President's address to the UN Gen [...]	2005-09-15 10:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV631	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met this morning with PM Sharon, who updated him on current security contacts with the Palestinians and the upcoming Sh [...]	2005-02-02 11:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV87	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq 3. Israel-Turkey Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv and Yediot highlighted issues related to the opposition to the disengagement plan. Maariv bannered a call by PM Sharon on IDF soldiers to resist pro [...]	2005-01-06 11:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05THEHAGUE2463	NETHERLANDS/EU/TURKEY: DUTCH LOSING PATIENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior Dutch MFA official (Pieter de Gooijer),the Dutch support starting EU accession talks with Turkey on October 3, but are losing patience with all sides. The MFA assumes there will be a September 26 GAERC and is planning accordingly. PM Balkenende is facing [...]	2005-09-09 15:34:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU NL EUN
05YEREVAN149	PUBLIC BANTER ON KARS AGREEMENT PUTS OSKANIAN ON [...] (C) An exchange in the press between Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has captured what we believe is the most public acknowledgment by the GOAM's MFA (under the administration of President Robert Kocharian) of the validity Soviet-era border agreements. Res [...]	2005-01-31 11:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN1494	LATEST MEETING WITH TURKISH COUNTERPART [...] (C) On August 16, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian told the Ambassador that his recent meeting in Vienna with Turkish Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu was less productive than the GOAM had hoped. According to Kirakossian, the two sides still cannot agree on the structure or scope o [...]	2005-08-18 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN1940	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER SARGSIAN [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried described for Defense Minister Sargsian a sense in Washington that history in Armenia's neighborhood is accelerating, for better or worse. U.S.-Armenian relations, he said, have "unrealized potential." The United States wants to work with all its friends in the r [...]	2005-11-02 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN2209	TOUCHING BASE ON A TOUGH 2005 FOR ARMENIA-TURKEY [...] (C) MFA Middle East Department Chief Artem Aznaurian and MFA Turkey Desk Officer Sahak Sargsyan told us December 22 that 2005 had not produced much progress in the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement process, but said the GOAM would continue to engage in working-level meetings with Turkish diplomats [...]	2005-12-22 12:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU RS AM
05YEREVAN439	ARMENIA REFUSES TO SEND "GENOCIDE" BACK TO THE [...] (C) In a March 10 interview, Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian said that the question of the 1915 "genocide" is no longer an issue for historians and now must be decided in the political sphere. This statement was in response to Turkish PM Erdogan's proposal for a new joint historical study of the [...]	2005-03-11 13:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM TU
05YEREVAN707	KOCHARIAN RESPONSE TO ERDOGAN LETTER [...] (C) On April 20, FM Oskanian told us that President Kocharian had drafted a response to PM Erdogan's letter and the letter would be transmitted on April 21. Oskanian described the letter as agreeing to some of the substance in PM Erdogan's letter, but proposed -- instead of creating a joint [...]	2005-04-21 07:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS TU AM
05YEREVAN769	GOAM RELEASES TEXT OF KOCHARIAN-ERDOGAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) While the final text of the letter from President Kocharian to his Turkish counterpart Prime Minister Erdogan stuck broadly to the outline that Foreign Minister Oskanian gave us April 21 (refte [...]	2005-04-28 09:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM TU
05YEREVAN847	MARKARYAN'S STATEMENT ON ARMENIA-TURKEY BORDER [...] (C) A loosely translated May 12 statement by Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan regarding the possible opening of the Armenia-Turkey border by the end of the year sparked speculation in Yerevan about potential developments in the bilateral relationship. The statement, which appears to [...]	2005-05-13 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN997	FM OSKANIAN ON ARMENIA'S CURRENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) On June 2, FM Oskanian briefed Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions resident in Yerevan. He characterized the May 17 Warsaw meeting of Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev as "positive," with a critical step forward, but rejected Azerbaijan's assertion that Armenia had agreed to return all "occupied [...]	2005-06-07 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV PHUM
06ADANA101	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 05, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 08:54:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA102	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 08, 2006 [...] One of the attorneys told the daily that the pressure on the court could be intensified in the coming days, since the court did not release the defendants. EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM: The dailies criticized PM Erdogan for saying nothing about resolving the Kurdish issue during his visi [...]	2006-05-09 05:24:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA105	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 09, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-10 05:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA110	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 17, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-17 11:16:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA112	TURKEY: FORMER PRESIDENT SULEYMAN DEMIRAL STUMPS IN ADANA [...] (SBU) In a May 16 keynote speech to kick off his stump around the region, center-right octogenarian former President Suleyman Demirel sung the praises of the Turkish secular state. Speaking for over one hour at Cukurova University before an audience of more than 500 people (approximately 25 pe [...]	2006-05-18 09:14:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM CASC PREL TU
06ADANA114	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 22, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-23 06:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA118	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 23, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-24 06:34:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA125	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FORMAY 25, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 11:31:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA131	TURKEY: SOUTHEAST TURKEY POLITICAL FIGURE BIOGRAPHIES [...] (U) EFKAN ALA, DIYARBAKIR GOVERNOR Efkan Ala was born in Erzurum in 1965, graduated from the Political Science Faculty of Istanbul University, and did his bachelor's degree in Economics. Ala lived in England in order to develop his language skills and carry out studies on Governing Systems. [...]	2006-06-05 13:49:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU
06ADANA132	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 5 JUNE 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-06 05:11:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA135	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 07, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-08 10:31:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA145	TURKEY: OPPOSITION IN ADANA HOPING FOR EARLY ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In Adana, Turkey's fourth largest city, local opposition leaders are pushing for an early national election to prevent the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-controlled parliament from choosing the next Turkish President. To do so, they hope to stoke fears of an "Islamic threa [...]	2006-06-19 10:54:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU
06ADANA146	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 15, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 12:07:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA156	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 3, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-05 05:02:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA157	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 06, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-06 12:55:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA16	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 20, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 07:09:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA160	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 10, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-10 13:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA161	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 11, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 09:07:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA163	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 13, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 11:02:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA164	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 14, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-14 13:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA167	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 17, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-18 08:48:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA169	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 17, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-18 12:10:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA171	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 18, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-19 09:29:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA176	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 03, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-07 09:38:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA177	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 7, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-08 10:03:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA179	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 9, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 06:38:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA180	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 09, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 09:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA187	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 20, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-21 09:42:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA191	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 29, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-05 11:14:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA192	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 01, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-05 11:23:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA202	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 09:50:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA203	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 17, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-18 09:02:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA206	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-25 05:46:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA211	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 02, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-02 13:14:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA226	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 17, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-18 06:31:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU

06ADANA228	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 18, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 05:20:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA229	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 19, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-20 06:16:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA233	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 01, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-01 14:35:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA236	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEBMER 01, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-02 06:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA238	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 07, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 08:25:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA239	SE TURKEY FLOODING PUTS PM ERDOGAN IN HOT WATER [...] (SBU) Summary: The worst flooding in Turkey since 1937 has caused serious damage in the underdeveloped Southeast, killing at least 40 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. While the GOT has mobilized local military assets and promised assistance to the victims, PM Erdogan's hands-off [...]	2006-11-08 08:36:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON TU
06ADANA240	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 08, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 10:35:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA245	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 20, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 06:43:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA255	TURKEY'S "HOUSTON"?: ADANA WANTS BTC PIPELINE TO ATTRACT [...] (U) With the BTC terminal as an anchor, the Turkish government wants its eastern Mediterranean coast-line to develop into an energy-based hub that will include ship-building, petro-chemicals and oil refining. While hype about Ceyhan becoming Turkey's "Houston" or "Rotterdam" is overblown, if [...]	2006-12-08 07:05:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG TU
06ADANA259	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 12, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-13 06:23:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA267	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 26, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-27 11:52:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA3	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 28, 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 08:18:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA34	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 10, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 06:18:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA35	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 06:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA36	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FOR FEBRUARY 13, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 07:56:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA37	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 15, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-16 12:05:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA38	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 16, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-22 10:09:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA4	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 29, 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 08:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA44	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 28- MARCH 1, [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 12:37:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA5	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 30, 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 08:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA50	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 15, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-20 09:58:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA53	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 17, 2006 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for March 17, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. ZAMAN: A bomb [...]	2006-03-21 07:50:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA54	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 21, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-22 11:08:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA63	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 29 MARCH, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-30 09:43:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA73	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 3, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 08:56:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA74	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 4, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 08:56:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA75	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 7, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-10 09:35:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA78	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 10, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 06:36:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA79	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 11, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 07:07:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA81	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 12, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 06:41:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA84	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 13, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-20 10:24:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA86	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 17, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-20 10:47:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA87	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 24, 2006 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for April 24, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. BOLGE / OZGUR G [...]	2006-04-25 06:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA88	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 20, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-26 05:05:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA96	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 28, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 13:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA97	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 01, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-03 06:59:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA98	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 03, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-04 05:55:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA99	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 4, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-05 05:45:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ALGIERS935	IMMINENT CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) A Counselor to the Prime Minister phoned our senior political FSN May 21 and informed her that President Bouteflika had decided not to wait until August to reshuffle ministerial portfolios. (Note: August marks the end of the period under National Peace and Reconciliation during which te [...]	2006-05-23 19:00:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AG
06AMMAN1253	MEDIA REACTION ON AFTERMATH OF PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-21 12:02:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR JO
06ANKARA104	Turkey Avian Influenza Update - January 6 [...] Summary. As of mid-day January 6 there are three confirmed deaths resulting from bird flu. The third death has not confirmed as H5N1, however the three positive cases yesterday have now been confirmed as H5N1. European Union and WHO teams arrived in Turkey January 5 and travelled to the affe [...]	2006-01-06 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED EAID CASC SENV EAGR KPAO TU
06ANKARA1066	TURKEY/IRAQ: PM JAFARI VISIT TO ANKARA AND [...] (C) Turkey's Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol reviewed his visit to Baghdad (ref a),described PM Jafari's meetings in Ankara, and discussed Muqtada al-Sadr's probably visit here with Ambassador on March 1. Turmoil surrounding the Samarra bombing dominated both sets of talks, although the two [...]	2006-03-02 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR TU
06ANKARA1075	TURKEY/IRAQ: GETTING TURKEY TO DO MORE [...] (C) Three years after the crisis of March 2003 and long-standing doubts about the Iraq war, Turkey now seems convinced that Coalition success in Iraq is essential to this country's security. Turkey's contribution to coalition efforts in Iraq is multifaceted. The GOT has expressed a willing [...]	2006-03-03 07:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR KDEM ECON IZ TU
06ANKARA1100	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-03 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1105	THE ALLEGED OVERVALUATION OF THE TURKISH LIRA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-03 16:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD TU
06ANKARA1115	TURKISH PM TAKES CRITICS TO COURT [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan has opened numerous legal cases against writers, politicians, cartoonists, and others whose criticism he found personally offensive. Contacts say Erdogan's aggressive response to criticism reflects a combative nature honed during his childhood in an impoverished distri [...]	2006-03-06 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE PINR TU
06ANKARA1121	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1137	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-07 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1153	TURKEY: LAWSUIT AGAINST ARMY COMMANDER RAISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Land Forces (TLFC) Commander GEN Yasar Buyukanit (slated to take the top job in TGS this Aug.) is again at the center of public controversy. On Mar. 5, the Van Public Prosecutor filed a complaint against Buyukanit for allegedly trying to influence the trial of Jandarma off [...]	2006-03-08 11:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV TU
06ANKARA116	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-06 16:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1160	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA118	Turkey Avian Influenza Update - January 7 [...] Summary. As of mid-day January 7 there are no new deaths or additional confirmations of human cases. Nine or ten sub- provinces are under animal quarantine. Though there are multiple reports of dead birds in other regions, none have been confirmed as AI, with the possible exception of two wi [...]	2006-01-09 09:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED EAID CASC SENV EAGR KPAO TU
06ANKARA1227	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1250	TURKEY/ARMENIA: NEW TURKISH PROPOSAL? [...] (C) MFA Caucasus DDG Karslioglu told us March 8 that Turkey would present a new "paper" to Armenia on March 10, but would not elaborate on its content or method of delivery. He stated "significant progress" must be made on both Nagorno-Karabakh as well as on bilateral issues (genocide and a [...]	2006-03-10 12:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE AR AJ TU
06ANKARA1253	SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S MARCH 16-17 VISIT TO [...] (C) We look forward to your visit to Ankara, which is very timely in view of events in the Caucasus. The Turkish government has heard conflicting accounts of the Rambouillet talks, is disappointed at the apparent lack of progress, and is anxious to hear your and Steve Mann's views on the way [...]	2006-03-10 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR SY IS KWBG AR AJ TU
06ANKARA1254	TURKEY'S MILITARY AND RULING AKP GOVERNMENT: [...] (C) Summary: Since being elected in 2002, Turkey's pro-Islam Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has coexisted uneasily with the staunchly secular military. Direct communication between the Prime Ministry and military has dropped off demonstrably compared to previous eras; the AKP [...]	2006-03-10 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ANKARA1330	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-13 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1332	ERDOGAN'S RISKY ECONOMIC DECISIONS COINCIDE WITH [...] (SBU) Under pressure from exporters, the GOT announced a Value-Added Tax rate cut for the textile sector without consulting the IMF and in violation of its agreement with the Fund. At the same time, the GOT has decided not to renew the mandate of the respected Central Bank Governor. These two [...]	2006-03-13 15:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN TU
06ANKARA137	TURKISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER ON AVIAN FLU [...] Summary. Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Eker, in a meeting with Ambassador January 13, reported on the progress made in responding to the recent outbreak of Avian Influenza in Turkey and agreed to a proposed US assessment team visit the week of January 16. He appealed for U [...]	2006-01-14 16:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED EAID CASC SENV EAGR KPAO TU
06ANKARA1378	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-15 12:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1400	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, February 2006 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its first meeting of 2006 on February 23. Turkey-Iran relations, February 4 IAEA decision on Iran's nuclear program, and Turkey's foreign assistance policy topped the agenda. Turkish media coverage of the meeting was wider than other months. The [...]	2006-03-16 09:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA1402	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-16 12:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA141	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, DECEMBER 2005 [...] (U) Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) - convened under PM Tayyip Erdogan on December 1 - assessed war readiness of the TAF (Turkish Armed Forces) and major modernization projects, discussed recent developments in the Middle East, assessed fight against separatism, reactionism and separat [...]	2006-01-16 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PREL PGOV TU
06ANKARA1410	SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 22-23 VISIT OF CODEL WARNER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your March 22-23 visit comes at a time when Turkey is attempting to balance its commitments to the West against its desire to maintain harmonious relations with its neighbors and to play a constructive role with other Muslim countries. Turkey remains a significant contributor to [...]	2006-03-16 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ AF IR IS
06ANKARA1442	INDICTMENT OF TURKISH LAND FORCES COMMANDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) has reviewed the indictment issued against TLFC Commander GEN Buyukanit (ref a) and determined that there is no reason to approve a trial, while the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Justice Minister has launched an investigation into the p [...]	2006-03-20 12:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU
06ANKARA1460	TURKEY'S LOWER 2006 TOURISM NUMBERS COULD [...] (U) SUMMARY. ON THE HEELS OF 2005'S RECORD TOURISM NUMBERS, A "SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS" - THE AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK, THE CARTOON CONTROVERSY, AND RUMORS OF AN ALCOHOL BAN - HAS LED TO A SHARP DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF 2006 BOOKINGS FOR FOREIGN VISITORS IN TURKEY. WHILE THE ANTALYA'S M [...]	2006-03-20 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON TU
06ANKARA1468	SCENESETTER FOR THE 23-26 MARCH VISIT OF CHAIRMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your March 23-26 visit comes at a time when progress has been made in improving the character of US-Turkish relations that frayed badly in 2003-2005. Senior level dialogue, including on the military-to-military side, has resumed; Turkey has downplayed its whining about the PDD and [...]	2006-03-21 08:27:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA1485	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-21 12:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1511	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-22 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1513	DECLINE IN TURKISH-AMERICAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense industrial cooperation, historically the strongest area of US-Turkish bilateral relationship, has deteriorated in recent years. No US firm has won a direct commercial sale (DCS) since 2002 and post-contract negotiations hamper the few US direct sale and FMS projects that [...]	2006-03-22 17:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS TU
06ANKARA1528	DISARRAY OVER CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR SYMPTOMATIC OF [...] (C) Summary: The process of selecting a new Central Bank Governor moved from comedy to farce as President Sezer and Prime Minister Erdogan traded confusing statements about the state of play. The disarray over selection of a new Central Bank Governor reflects Erdogan,s pro-Islam ruling Jus [...]	2006-03-23 12:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV TU
06ANKARA1529	TURKISH TREASURY TAKES LEAD ON IRAQ DEBT ISSUE [...] (SBU) A Turkish official confirmed that Turkish Treasury has now taken the interagency lead on the stalled Iraq debt issue. With Turkish officials receiving Iraq's debt advisors next week, Turkish officials are reviewing bilateral claims on Iraq and may report a higher figure than the $1.6 bill [...]	2006-03-23 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN TU IZ
06ANKARA1530	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-23 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1570	PM ERDOGAN TO ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT, DELIVER [...] (SBU) MFA Under Secretary Uzumcu told Ambassador that PM Erdogan will be visiting Khartoum March 28-29 for the Arab League summit. PM Advisor Ali Yakital, (who just returned 3 months ago as Turkish ambassador in Khartoum),confirmed Erdogan was invited as a guest of the Arab League in his ca [...]	2006-03-24 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KAWC PHUM PREF SU TU
06ANKARA1575	SCENESETTER FOR THE MARCH 31-APRIL 1 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when Turkey is trying to balance its role as regional good neighbor with its responsibilities as a NATO member and EU candidate. The Government of Turkey (GOT) counsels engagement over isolation in dealing with countries like Iran and has presented itsel [...]	2006-03-24 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ IR
06ANKARA1579	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-24 15:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1605	2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is Mission Turkey's contribution to the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. We follow reftel's format. General Assessment ------------------- 2. (U) A. Turkey has NATO's second-largest military after the United States. It has taken on an [...]	2006-03-27 08:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PREL NATO US TU
06ANKARA1628	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-27 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1629	IMF CRITICISM OF TURKEY COINCIDES WITH PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-27 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PBIO TU
06ANKARA1652	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-28 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1656	TURKEY: CODEL WARNER WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator John Warner led a six-member Senate Armed Services Committee delegation to Turkey on Feb. 23 for meetings with the Parliament (reftel) and Prime Minister Erdogan. (Note: Complete delegation list provided at para. 8) The delegation emphasized the importance of the bila [...]	2006-03-29 05:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PREL OREP TU IZ
06ANKARA1657	CJCS AND CHOD OZKOK STRESS IMPORTANCE OF [...] (S) Summary: CJCS Gen Pace and TGS Chief Ozkok reaffirmed the importance of the US-Turkey military relationship. Ozkok underscored Turkey's record of cooperation on Iraq, acknowledged recent progress there, stressed the importance of Kirkuk, and warned that sectarian strife could draw neighbo [...]	2006-03-29 06:04:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR PTER OVIP PACE PETER TU IZ IR SY
06ANKARA1659	CJCS GEN PACE'S MARCH 23 MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkey continues to support the Iraqi people and coalition efforts, but the PKK, ethnic and religious strife, and Kirkuk remain difficult issues for the GOT, Prime Minister Erdogan told CJCS Gen Pace March 23. Erdogan praised the U.S.-Turkey strategic partnership and hoped the re [...]	2006-03-29 07:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PACE PETER PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU US
06ANKARA1676	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-29 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA168	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-17 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1771	ANKARA MEDIA EACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-03 13:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1789	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 14:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1813	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 12:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1821	TURKEY, PKK TERRORISM, AND NEXT STEPS BY THE USG [...] (S) SUMMARY: PKK terrorism in Turkey is on the upswing. Violent protests in the southeast and bomb attacks in Istanbul have resulted in over 15 deaths in under a week. On April 3, the Kurdish Freedom Falcons issued a warning to foreign tourists to avoid Turkey and called on Kurdish youth to j [...]	2006-04-06 04:34:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ
06ANKARA188	IRAN/TURKEY - DISCUSSION WITH ACTING TURKISH FM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and British Ambassador Westmacott used a meeting on Cyprus with Acting Turkish FM Tuygan January 18 to register US concerns on Iran and urge stronger Turkish support of diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear program and cooperate with the internatio [...]	2006-01-18 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC TU IR
06ANKARA1882	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-07 11:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA189	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-18 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1897	TURKEY: PKK VIOLENCE CONTINUES, CASUALTIES RISE, [...] (U) SUMMARY: PKK-related attacks continue both inside and outside of Turkey. The Turkish Freedom Falcons (TAK) have taken credit for several Istanbul attacks and warned of further violence against the government. In the face of escalating casualites, the government has publicly stated its re [...]	2006-04-07 13:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ
06ANKARA1899	TURKEY: PKK VIOLENCE AND KURDISH VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: In discussing the recent unrest in southeastern Turkey (reftels A-E),Kurdish contacts describe a growing sense of rage and frustration in the region. They say many Kurds oppose violence by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),but have lost hope that the GOT will address the region [...]	2006-04-07 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ANKARA191	TURKEY/CYPRUS/EU - MEETING WITH TURKISH ACTING FM [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador and UK Ambassador Westmacott were convoked January 18 by Turkish Acting FM Tuygan to discuss Cyprus and related EU accession issues. Tuygan described in familiar terms the elaboration of FM Gul,s proposals to deal [...]	2006-01-18 16:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU EU CY
06ANKARA1957	TURKEY/SUDAN: PM ERDOGAN TO ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT AND [...] (C) In a first for Turkey, PM Erdogan was invited to address the March 28-29 Arab League Summit in Khartoum on the Alliance of Civilizations. The GOT sees greater cooperation with the AL as a useful tool for helping to mediate regional disputes and increasing trade. Erdogan discussed increase [...]	2006-04-11 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF EAID BMENA SU XA XW TU
06ANKARA1963	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-11 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2004	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2027	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 13:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2045	TURKISH-IRANIAN RELATIONS, BY THE NUMBERS [...] (SBU) As the constroversy over the Iranian nuclear program continues and many in Turkey become increasingly anxious about next steps, we thought it useful to review the basic elements of Turkey's relations with this troublesome neighbor. What follows is a snapshot overview of Turkey's interac [...]	2006-04-14 12:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU

06ANKARA2046	PRESIDENT ABBAS'S UPCOMING VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish MFA depicts the upcoming April 23-24 visit of Palestinian President Abbas as a way for the GOT to help solidify Abbas's position in a crucial period. The GOT plans to continue aid to Palestinians through Abbas, not the HAMAS government. End Summary. An Attempt to [...]	2006-04-14 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL TU IS
06ANKARA2047	CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S APRIL 10 VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Robert Wexler met April 10 with PM Erdogan, FM Gul, Economy Minister and lead EU negotiator Babacan, D/CHOD Kosaner, PM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu, and Turkish Union of Chambers President Hisarciklioglu. Wexler's message was that although the HAMAS visit [...]	2006-04-14 12:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER ECON TU IZ
06ANKARA2048	DAS BRYZA AND AMBASSADOR MEET WITH PM'S FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza met with PM Erdogan's senior foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu April 5. On Iraq, Davutoglu urged more ethnic diversity on the Iraqi NSC and worried about what he sees as growing Iranian-backed Shia power. He averred that Turkey does not want a nuclear-armed I [...]	2006-04-14 12:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR IS CY GR TU
06ANKARA2049	THIRD TIME'S A CHARM ON SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM? [...] (SBU) Summary: After two earlier aborted attempts, the Turkish Government seems to be on the verge of passing social security reform legislation. Under an expedited procedure to prevent opposition party delaying tactics, a bill merging the three social security institutions passed on April 13. [...]	2006-04-14 12:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV TU
06ANKARA2053	GOT RESPONDS TO EU CRITICS BY ANNOUNCING REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Gul announced April 12 a package of political reforms Turkey plans to adopt to advance its EU candidacy. GOT contacts say the announcement was a response to unfair criticism from the EU that Turkey's reform process has stalled. They argue that the criticism reflects EU [...]	2006-04-14 12:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL EU TU
06ANKARA208	TOPICS FOR TURKISH NSC SECGEN'S MAIDEN VOYAGE TO [...] (C) Kenan Ipek, Special Advisor to National Security Council Secretary-General Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, advised us on Jan. 17 that the SecGen is pleased with the meetings scheduled for his Jan. 23-27 visit to Washington and looks forward to this opportunity to discuss issues of mutual interes [...]	2006-01-20 08:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ IR SY
06ANKARA2114	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-18 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2154	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-19 14:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2176	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-20 11:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2199	SCENESETTER: YOUR APRIL VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (S) Thank you for coming to Turkey. The Mission and I look forward to seeing you here. Your visit can help us achieve three things. -- First, we need to restore lost confidence --on both sides -- about intent and capacity for genuine collaboration. Announcing the start of a strategic dialo [...]	2006-04-21 09:12:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU VISIT
06ANKARA2242	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-24 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2269	PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT ABBAS TO TURKEY: ECONOMIC [...] (C) A downbeat Palestinian President Abbas told FM Gul that the economic situation in Palestine is dire, especially for Fatah members, and that he sees little chance that Hamas will change, according to MFA Middle East DG Bozkurt Aran. Abbas told Gul he will try to reorganize the Fatah movement [...]	2006-04-25 11:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN KPAL IS TU
06ANKARA2310	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-26 13:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2381	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-01 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2411	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-02 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2416	SCENESETTER FOR MAY 7-8 VISIT OF CODEL PENCE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit follows a successful visit by Secretary Rice which paved the way for a new "strategic SIPDIS dialogue" with Turkey on issues of mutual import. Turkey is a strong ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of critical supplies and fuel [...]	2006-05-02 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP TU
06ANKARA2444	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-03 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2446	TURKEY/ARMENIA: JOINT COMMISSIONS, ARMENIAN [...] (S) The Foreign Ministry continues to analyze the Armenian response to Turkey's March 10 proposal on joint commissions. We are encouraging a positive Turkish response and early re-engagement with Yerevan. The MFA is also considering how to respond to the Canadian Prime Minister's statement on [...]	2006-05-03 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PHUM AM CA FR TU
06ANKARA2472	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-04 14:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2488	TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKEY PREPARED TO ENGAGE NEW IRAQI [...] (C) Turkish Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol told Ambassador May 4 that Turkey has invited Iraqi PM al-Maliki to visit, will invite other ministers once named, and is prepared to send FM Gul to Baghdad as well. Turkey is prepared to offer Iraq additional border gates, USD 2 million in military [...]	2006-05-05 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EAID IZ TU
06ANKARA249	KARZAI RECEIVES WARM RECEPTION IN TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Afghan President Karzai in his January 4-7 visit to Turkey expressed concern over waning international attention and asked for continued support, both moral and financial, from Turkey. In addition to a substantial hike in reconstruction aid, he signed agreements with the GOT, [...]	2006-01-23 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AF
06ANKARA2502	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-05 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2529	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2586	TIP IN TURKEY: FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR OUTLINES RESEARCH, [...] (U) Ambassador hosted Fulbright scholar Dr. Cindy J. Smith May 5 for a lecture and discussion on trafficking in persons (TIP),attended by more than 60 government officials, international and domestic organization representatives, academics and others. Smith, from the University of Baltimore, [...]	2006-05-09 13:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
06ANKARA2587	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2595	TURKEY/IRAN: FM GUL'S MEETING WITH ALI LARIJANI [...] (C) MFA Deputy Undersecretary for Security Affairs Akgunay Larijani provided Ambassador an initial readout of Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani's May 8 meeting with FM Gul. (Larijani's meeting with Turkish NSC SecGen Alpogan is described septel.) Akgunay reporte [...]	2006-05-09 14:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNUC PTER IR TU
06ANKARA2596	ACCUSATIONS OF GOT MEDDLING IN JUDICIARY RING [...] (U) Summary: Judicial officials and opposition politicians often accuse Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of stocking the judiciary with judges and prosecutors who share the party's Islam-oriented views. Most contacts, however, say the accusations are alarmist. They note tha [...]	2006-05-09 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
06ANKARA2597	TURKISH U/S ALI TUYGAN ON GREEK ISSUES AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Ali Tuygan debriefed Ambassador May 5 on PM Erdogan's May 4 meeting in Thessaloniki with Greek PM Karamanlis and distanced Turkey from FM Gul's reported hard line on the Halki Seminary. Tuygan reviewed follow up on Secretary Rice's recent visit. Discussion also t [...]	2006-05-09 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER GR IR IZ TU
06ANKARA2598	TURKISH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER BRIEFS CODEL [...] (C/REL GBR) Turkish National Security Council Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan told CODEL Pence May 8 that SIPDIS he and other leaders delivered a tough message to his Iranian counterpart, Ali Larijani, during his visit to Ankara the same day. Alpogan said he told Larijani that Iran's attemp [...]	2006-05-09 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL UN IR TU
06ANKARA262	COURT DROPS PAMUK CASE [...] (U) Summary/Comment: An Istanbul court has dropped the case against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. The court did so on a technicality after Justice Minister Cicek declined to either grant or deny permission to proceed with the trial. While this is good news, attorney contacts believe the decis [...]	2006-01-23 16:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
06ANKARA2624	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-10 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2640	TURKEY CALLS ON IRAN TO STOP URANIUM ENRICHMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA characterized Turkey's May 8 talks with visiting Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani as direct. Larijani took a hard line SIPDIS on Iran's right to nuclear energy and Turkey responded that the onus is on Iran to overcome international suspic [...]	2006-05-11 10:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNUC PARM PREL UN IR TU
06ANKARA2644	TURKEY: SPECIAL BUSINESS REP MERMOUD DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following closely on the heels of the Secretary's visit to Turkey, which broached an enhanced SIPDIS bilateral strategic vision and dialogue on economic - as well as political and security issues, EB/CBA Special Representative Frank Mermoud conducted a series of meetings in [...]	2006-05-11 12:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV BEXP TU ZK
06ANKARA2646	PM ERDOGAN VISITS DIYARBAKIR: MORE MODERATE [...] (U) This is an AmConsul Adana message. 2. (SBU) PM Erdogan returned to Diyarbakir on May 7, for the first time since the March street unrest and since his August 2005 speech in which he declared that Turkey had "a Kurdish problem." He was in the city to attend the Diyarbakir provincial Jus [...]	2006-05-11 12:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ANKARA2662	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2666	TURKEY/IRAN: PM ERDOGAN'S MESSAGE TO LARIJANI [...] (C) Summary. Prime Ministry advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador May 10 that PM Erdogan delivered a strong message to Iranian National Security Secretary Ali Larijani during the latter's May 8 visit to Ankara, warning Iran that it must regain the international community's trust by behaving [...]	2006-05-11 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNUC PARM PREL UN IR TU
06ANKARA2671	DEMARCHE: MAY 9-13 D-8 SUMMIT IN BALI [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 10:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS IS IR TU
06ANKARA2677	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 12:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2741	RUSSIA-TURKEY RELATIONS: KEEPING THE EAST-WEST [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has worked to improve relations with Moscow, a process fueled by booming trade centered on energy, tourism, and construction. The GOT sees engagement of Russia as part of a wider policy of seeking good relat [...]	2006-05-15 11:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET TU RU
06ANKARA2746	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-15 13:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2791	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN AND FM GUL ON VISITS TO THE U.S. [...] (c) Summary: Turkish PM Erdogan informed Ambassador May 15 that he now wants to proceed with plans to visit the US and meet President Bush in early June. FM Gul,s travel plans are unclear. Erdogan and Gul said the Turkish government will approach us on specifics shortly. End Summary. 2 [...]	2006-05-16 12:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP OTRA AMGT ASEC PREL PGOV TU
06ANKARA28	AMBASSADOR URGES TURKISH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER [...] (C) Ambassador used his Jan. 2 introductory call on National Security Council Secretary-General Alpogan to urge Turkey to define what new role it is ready to play in the diplomatic effort to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions. Alpogan assured the Ambassador that Iran's nuclear program is a rea [...]	2006-01-03 16:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP TU IZ IR SY US
06ANKARA2800	TURKEY/CANADA/FRANCE: TENSIONS OVER ARMENIAN [...] (C) Turkey has reacted to Canadian PM Harper's recognition of the Armenian genocide by pulling out of a joint military exercise and officials have hinted further measures may be taken against Ottawa. At the same time, French draft legislation that would penalize denial of the genocide has com [...]	2006-05-17 09:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CA AR FR TU
06ANKARA2804	TURKEY'S AKP GOVERNMENT ON THE DEFENSIVE [...] (C) Summary: A confluence of events has Turkey,s ruling pro-Islam Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on the defensive. AKP,s reaction to secularists, criticism, launched by President Sezer, has revealed cracks within the party. At the same time, the failed March indictment of La [...]	2006-05-17 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
06ANKARA2808	TURKEY: FOLLOW-UP ON DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT [...] (C) We met MFA Africa Department Head Raif Karaca on May 17 regarding support to the Darfur Peace Agreement, including NATO support to peacekeeping operations and humanitarian assistance (ref A). He welcomed the UNSC resolution passed May 16 and said the GOT is keen to support a United Nation [...]	2006-05-17 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL SOCI SU TU
06ANKARA2812	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-17 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2828	ATTACK AT TURKISH COUNCIL OF STATE ROILS [...] (C) Summary: The May 17 attack by a gunman on Turkey's staunchly secularist Council of State killed one judge and left four wounded, greatly heightening tensions between Turkey's secularists and Islamists. The gunman attacked the Council of State's second banc, the same court that issued a F [...]	2006-05-18 08:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ANKARA284	TURKEY/JAPAN: PM KOIZUMI'S MAKES LONG-AWAITED [...] (C) Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi paid a four-day official visit to Ankara and Istanbul January 9-12, the first by a Japanese head of government since 1990. While the visit was largely symbolic, the two sides discussed common approaches to the Iran nuclear issue, Iraq reconstruction, and t [...]	2006-01-26 12:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON JA TU
06ANKARA2869	TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKEY REQUESTING HELO SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Turkish government Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol contacted Ambassador May 18 to request urgently U.S. support for a trip he plans to make to Baghdad immediately after the new Iraqi government is announced. Celikkol said he had been advised by his embassy in Baghdad to limit his visit to t [...]	2006-05-18 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IZ TU
06ANKARA287	ERDOGAN GIVES SHAKY PERFORMANCE BEFORE EU [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan, recovering from the flu, gave what contacts described to us as a "rambling" and "nearly incomprehensible" performance at a January 20 lunch meeting with EU ambassadors in Ankara. After a positive though unremarkable opening speech, he made a weak statement on Iran, de [...]	2006-01-26 13:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE PINR TU EU
06ANKARA2870	A DEVELOPMENT TALE OF TWO SOUTHEASTERN CITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Adiyaman and Sanliurfa provinces, located in Turkey's southeastern region, are home to some of the country's most notable tourist attractions, yet both provinces suffer from poverty and underdevelopment. Seasonal migration, gender inequality, and a lack of economic opportunity [...]	2006-05-18 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PHUM KWMN TU
06ANKARA2897	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-22 14:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2899	CURRENT PLANNING FOR BTC OPENING CEREMONY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish government and BP are set on July 13 as the date for the official ceremony marking completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. The Turks are focusing on high level participation, including from the United States, but have not yet delivered invitations [...]	2006-05-22 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EINV TU
06ANKARA2901	ANKARA: THE SECULARISTS DEMONSTRATE, THE [...] (C) Summary: The May 18 funeral of slain Council of State Judge Ozbilgin transformed into a political show of force by the Ankara secular establishment. The elites - President Sezer, military brass, party leaders - turned out, it appeared, less to honor Ozbilgin and more to take a stand agai [...]	2006-05-23 05:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ANKARA297	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-26 16:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2970	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-24 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2981	TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: A POLITICAL PRIMER [...] (U) This message is from Consulate Adana. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey's southeast encompasses 23 provinces stretching from Gaziantep in the west to Kars in the north and Hakkari in the far southeast. This region includes most of Turkey's Iranian and Syrian borders and its entire Iraqi border [...]	2006-05-25 06:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER TU
06ANKARA3004	SCENESETTER FOR MAY 30 VISIT OF CODEL BLUNT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ankara warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Blunt on May 30. Turkey is a strong ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of critical supplies and fuel to the coalition in Iraq and supporting the NATO Training Mission (NTM-I) there; publicly [...]	2006-05-25 11:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP TU
06ANKARA3005	TURKEY: POLITICS REINFORCES MARKET TENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish markets have sold off sharply over the past two weeks in line with most global financial markets. Turkey has been among the harder hit emerging markets because of its current account deficit, but also because the global sell-off coincided with rising domestic political [...]	2006-05-25 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV TU
06ANKARA3006	TURKEY-GERMANY CONSULTATIONS ON IRAN, CAUCASUS AND [...] (C) Turkish officials reportedly told visiting German PolDir Schaefer that PM Erdogan had given Iranian President Ahmadinejad the undiluted U.S./EU-3 message during their recent meetings in Baku and Bali. The GOT is convinced Iran seeks to develop a nuclear weapon and this is a threat to Turk [...]	2006-05-25 13:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AR YI AJ TU
06ANKARA3021	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-25 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3033	TURKEY: POLITICS REINFORCES MARKET TENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish markets have sold off sharply over the past two weeks in line with most global financial markets. Turkey has been among the harder hit emerging markets because of its current account deficit, but also because the global sell-off coincided with rising domestic political [...]	2006-05-26 04:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV TU
06ANKARA3075	ISLAMIST CHARITY REACHES 350,000 OF TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary: In its short history, Deniz Feneri, a non-governmental charity based out of Istanbul, has provided assistance to nearly 350,000 needy families, making it one of the country,s largest aid organizations. It is run like a well-oiled machine, with an extensive volunteer network, auto [...]	2006-05-26 10:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN SOCI TU
06ANKARA3098	TURKEY: FINNISH PM URGES PROGRESS ON CYPRUS, REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Ankara in the run-up to Finland's EU term presidency, Finnish PM Vanhanen told PM Erdogan May 17 that the EU is united on the need for Turkey to open its ports to Greek Cypriot shipping. Vanhanen said Finland will continue its policy of supporting the accession of all EU [...]	2006-05-26 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE EU FI TU
06ANKARA3099	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-26 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3104	TOUGH TIMES AT TURKEY'S CENTRAL BANK [...] (C) Summary. Experts agree that the challenge of bringing Turkey's inflation rate down from last year's 8% to normal OECD levels will be far harder than the success over the last four years reducing it from 70% to 8%. Thus, longtime central banker Dormus Yilmaz took the helm of Turkey's Ce [...]	2006-05-26 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN PGOV TU
06ANKARA3164	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA317	TURKEY/JORDAN: JORDANIAN PM BAKHIT FINDS BROAD [...] (C) Jordanian Prime Minister Bakhit, accompanied by Foreign Minister Khatib, came to Ankara January 16 to review regional issues prior to King Abdullah's planned visit to Washington, according to Foreign Ministry and Jordanian embassy sources. Bilateral trade issues were discussed as well. [...]	2006-01-27 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR TU JO IZ IR SY XF
06ANKARA319	TURKEY NATURAL GAS CRISIS WITH IRAN [...] (SBU) On January 21, Iran cut its daily natural gas shipment to Turkey from almost 30 million cubic meters to 5- 10 million cm (some daily fluctuation). Coming on the heels of the Russian-Ukraine gas face-off, the current gas crisis in Georgia, and cold weather and concerns in Europe, the cut [...]	2006-01-27 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ETRD TU RU
06ANKARA3200	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-01 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3203	SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 4 VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (S) Your visit to Turkey comes at an important moment. Foremost on our immediate agenda is ensuring Turkey's sustained support for Secretary Rice's May 31 announcement that we will join EU-3 talks if Iran suspends enrichment and reprocessing. Turkish officials will be interested in hearing U. [...]	2006-06-02 08:41:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA3235	ISRAELI FM LIVNI DISCUSSES IRAN AND MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Iran and Middle East peace were the main topics of Israeli FM Livni's first visit to Turkey on May 29. Livni met with PM Erdogan FM Gul, President Sezer and NSC SecGen Alpogan. Although Turkish media emphasized the differences between Turkish and Israeli views on Middle East p [...]	2006-06-02 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS TU IR
06ANKARA3256	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-05 12:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3293	TURKEY: SCHEDULING VISITS AND SIDESTEPPING POLITICS [...] (C) Prime Minister Erdogan and Foreign Minister Gul have expressed their strong interest in visiting Washington in the coming months. The lack of coordination between their requests may well indicate behind the scenes friction. The two are partners, but also rivals. The PM's staff highlight [...]	2006-06-06 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA331	SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT GENERAL HAGEE [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA3339	TURKEY/RUSSIA: LAVROV VISIT LESS THAN SATISFYING [...] (C) Foreign Ministry DDG Murat Burhan and Russian embassy PolCouns Vyacheslav Kunekov provided us read-outs of Foreign Minister Lavrov's May 31-June 1 visit to Ankara and Istanbul. While the Russians and Turks were in general agreement on regional issues, the Turkish side was disappointed with [...]	2006-06-07 14:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD ENRG KPAL XF IZ IR IS AM
06ANKARA3344	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-07 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3351	CODEL BLUNT MEETS PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary. A May 30 meeting between Codel Blunt and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stretched well over an hour, despte the thirty minutes Erdogan's staff had alltted during an especially busy day. The PM energetically laid out Turkey's views on Congressional consideration of [...]	2006-06-08 06:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP TU
06ANKARA3352	SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 14 VISIT OF GENERAL SCHWARTZ TO TURKEY [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-08 06:52:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PREL PARM TU IZ IR AJ AF
06ANKARA3368	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-08 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3371	CENTRAL ASIA CONSULTATIONS IN ANKARA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ankara warmly welcomes the visit of Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher and SCA Ambassadors to Ankara for meetings with Foreign Minister Gul, Energy Minister Guler, and Senior MFA officials following the USTDA Regional Energy Conference in Istanbul. In addition to helpi [...]	2006-06-09 05:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG TU ZK
06ANKARA345	TURKEY/ISRAEL/PALESTINE: TURKEY RECOMMENDS WAIT [...] (C) Summary. The GOT prefers to look hopefully at Hamas's victory in Palestinian elections; the next task is to help Hamas transform, according to the Foreign Ministry. The GOT believes Hamas is well aware of the Palestinian people's dependence on its relationship with Israel and economic [...]	2006-01-30 16:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL IS TU
06ANKARA347	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 16:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3474	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-13 11:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA348	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-31 05:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3505	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO SOUTHEAST [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-14 11:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER KPAO ADANA PKK
06ANKARA3544	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-15 12:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3574	TURKEY'S IRAQ COORDINATOR ON TURKISH-IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Turkey's Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol on June 15 to discuss Turkey-Iraq cooperation. Meetings by Turkish PM Erdogan, FM Gul and other ministers with Iraqi DPM Salih and his delegation on the margins of the Turkey-Arab Economic Forum in Istanbul last week [...]	2006-06-16 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IZ TU
06ANKARA3576	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-16 13:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3641	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-20 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3772	TURKEY'S MILITARY AND AKP GOVERNMENT: FURTHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March indictment of Turkish Land Forces Command (TLFC) Commander GEN Buyukanit on charges of interfering in the trial of a Jandarma officer accused in the Semdinli book store bomb attack (ref d) furthered a public decline in the already-cool relationship between Turkish Genera [...]	2006-06-27 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR TU
06ANKARA3896	MANAGING TURKISH MARKETS AND MEETING WITH TREASURY [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-05 05:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN TU
06ANKARA3899	TURKEY: WORRISOME TRENDS IN KURDISH POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Despite some small steps forward, cynicism and suspicion dominate the mood among Turkey,s Southeast Kurds. The Democractic Society Party (DTP),which has pushed to allow the PKK to be a legitimate interlocutor with Ankara, remains the leading political party in the region, and a [...]	2006-07-05 08:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER PREL TU
06ANKARA3905	TURKEY/IRAQ/BLACK SEA/AEGEAN: D/NSA CROUCH'S [...] (C) On his way to the Black Sea Forum in Bucharest, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor Dr. J.D. Crouch discussed Iran, Iraq, Black Sea, energy and Greek-Turkish relations with Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, MFA Undersecretary Ali Tuygan, and [...]	2006-07-05 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG IZ TU
06ANKARA391	TURKEY'S JANUARY 24 CYPRUS PROPOSAL UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: Ankara's EU diplomats view positively FM Gul's January 24 proposal for mutual opening of Turkish and northern Cypriot ports and airports but see little likelihood the proposal will solve the issue of Turkey's Customs Union obligations. The GOT is indicating it will not open its [...]	2006-02-01 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY
06ANKARA3942	PARTICIPANTS POSITIVE ABOUT TURKEY'S POTENTIAL AT [...] Summary: At the third annual meeting of Turkey's Investment Advisory Council, participants were generally optimistic about Turkey's current investment climate and its future potential. Turkish PM Erdogan emphasized the GOT's commitment to making Turkey an attractive center for global investm [...]	2006-07-06 15:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON TU
06ANKARA40	WILL THE ALAN GREENSPAN OF TURKEY BE REPLACED? [...] (SBU) Summary: Many observers have worried that the AKP Government may replace Central Bank Governor Sureyya Serdengecti when his term expires in March. Our view -- supported by Serdengecti himself -- is that even if PM Erdogan decides not to reappoint the founding father of Turkey's indepe [...]	2006-01-04 11:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PBIO TU
06ANKARA407	TURKEY'S RULING AK PARTY AND CORRUPTION: AK'S [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in 2002 based in large part on its image as a clean party, but for the past two years, questions about corruption within AKP have hung in the air (refs A and B). AKP has done little to enact promised anti-corrupt [...]	2006-02-02 11:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR TU
06ANKARA4077	TURKS POSITIVE ON GAMBARI BREAKTHROUGH; STILL [...] (C) Summary: The Turks have welcomed the weekend breakthrough by D/SYG Gambari, and they have taken on board, gradually, the need to use the weekend agreement as a springboard for further actions. The GOT stressed with Ambassador and visiting EUR DAS Bryza the need for some measure to reduce [...]	2006-07-12 13:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY UN
06ANKARA4085	IRAQ/TURKEY: ZEBARI VISIT SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) Summary: GOT sources and the Iraqi Embassy here characterized Iraqi FonMin Zebari's July 3-5 visit as very positive. The Turkish MFA told us Zebari said Iraq will get tough on the PKK, and that Turkey and Iraq had agreed in principle on a deal to open two additional border gates. While so [...]	2006-07-12 15:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD TU IZ

06ANKARA4102	TURKEY: GOVERNING AKP BACKSLIDING ON INTRAPARTY [...] (C) Summary. PM Erdogan's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) claims to support democratic pluralism and is generally considered to be more internally democratic than other Turkish political parties. AKP,s senior leadership, though, routinely interferes in provincial conventions an [...]	2006-07-13 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
06ANKARA4129	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, June 2006 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on June 22. National and international security issues and the fight against terrorism topped the agenda of the meeting. Palestinian governance, the Israeli general election, the EU accession process and the Single European S [...]	2006-07-14 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU AS PK AL CG AJ KZ IT
06ANKARA4133	ERDOGAN IN CYPRUS: DO NO HARM [...] (C) Ambassador raised the issue of Turkish PM Erdogan's visit to Turkish Cyprus July 20 in separate conversations July 14 with PM Foreign Affairs Advisor Davutoglu, MFA U/S Tuygen, Deputy U/S and lead Cyprus negotiator Apakan, and FM Gul. Ambassador said that we regard Gambari's progress ear [...]	2006-07-14 16:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
06ANKARA414	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-02 15:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4162	TFLE01: TURKISH REACTION TO MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: [...] (C) Summary: In an overcharged environment where PKK killings of 16 security forces in the last few days has dovetailed with popular outcry over Israel's actions against Hizballah, Turkish press and public reaction to Middle East developments has been overwhelmingly negative. Media commentar [...]	2006-07-18 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE TU
06ANKARA4197	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-19 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4199	TURKISH ISLAMIC ORDERS, THOUGH BANNED, MAINTAIN [...] (C/NF) Summary: Turkey is home to many brands of Islam. In addition to the official Sunni overlay and the many Alevis (heterodox Muslims),many Turks, including social and political leaders, continue to associate with Islamic orders known as "tarikats" and "cemaats." These have been officiall [...]	2006-07-19 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KIRF TU
06ANKARA4236	TFLE01: TURKEY: ISRAELI ACTIONS TRANSLATE INTO [...] (C) Summary. The combination of Israel,s actions in Lebanon, USG support for Israeli,s right to self defense, increased PKK-related violence in Turkey, and USG opposition to a Turkish cross-border action (CBO) against the PKK in northern Iraq has created a public opinion pressure cooker in Tur [...]	2006-07-20 16:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	IS IZ PGOV PREL PTER TU
06ANKARA4237	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-21 04:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4249	BREATHING LIFE INTO THE U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC [...] (SBU) Secretary Rice and Turkish FM Gul have put their imprimatur on the Structured Strategic Dialogue. We must now implement it. Over the next six months, we should focus on some of the most pressing bilateral and regional issues through continued high-level dialogue, consultations and ste [...]	2006-07-21 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL US TU
06ANKARA4251	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-21 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4266	COUNCIL OF STATE CANCELS FREEZING OF AL KADI ASSETS [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-24 09:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PTER PREL TU
06ANKARA4329	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S TRIP TO NORTHERN CYPRUS: [...] (C) Turkish PM Erdogan trekked to the "TRNC" July 19 with a heavyweight delegation (six ministers and 20 parliamentarians) for a three-day visit to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Turks' 1974 intervention. This first visit of a Turkish PM to the island in eight years was intended, per Turkis [...]	2006-07-27 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY EU
06ANKARA4331	TFLE01: TURKISH DEBATE INCREASINGLY CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Reactions in Turkey to the conflict in the Middle East continue to focus on humanitarian needs and the requirement for an immediate ceasefire, with commentary, both in the media and from our contacts, increasingly critical of both Israel and the U.S. Many have linked Secretary Ric [...]	2006-07-27 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PROV PREL PTER TU IS LE
06ANKARA4355	SCENESETTER FOR PKK TRILATERAL MEETINGS: THE [...] (S/NF) Recent pledges by Presidents Bush and Talabani have assured the Turks that we and Iraq take the PKK seriously, and may have averted -- temporarily -- a Turkish cross-border operation. Should the Iraqis follow through on their commitments, this will begin to satisfy long-standing Turkish [...]	2006-07-28 16:18:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS TU IZ IR
06ANKARA4367	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-31 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4373	TFLE01: TURKISH PRESS AND PUBLIC CONDEMN QANA [...] (C) Summary: Continued large-scale attacks causing civilian deaths such as the Qana bombing in Lebanon are fueling increased anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment among the public and the press. Protests in Istanbul and Ankara against the U.S. and Israel occurred on July 28 and 29, and may [...]	2006-07-31 15:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU IS LE
06ANKARA4381	TURKEY/IRAQ: DEMANDS FOR ACTION ON PKK ACCELERATE [...] (C) The public mood throughout Turkey is increasingly agitated as PKK terrorism continues to claim lives and Israeli operations in Lebanon spark public claims of double standards and hypocrisy. In a July 31 address to the nation, Prime Minister Erdogan said Turkey's patience on the PKK issue [...]	2006-08-01 10:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS IZ TU
06ANKARA4405	TURKEY SYMPATHETIC BUT NEEDS EVIDENCE TO REQUIRE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 6. 2. (S) SUMMARY: MFA Aviation Department Head Olcay welcomed information on possible Syrian and Iranian use of passenger flights to transfer weapons. He raised the possible abuse of VIP flights from Syria and Iran, noting that one such flig [...]	2006-08-01 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR ETTC SA SY IR TU
06ANKARA4407	TURKEY SYMPATHETIC BUT NEEDS EVIDENCE TO REQUIRE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 6. 2. (S) SUMMARY: MFA Aviation Department Head Olcay welcomed information on possible Syrian and Iranian use of passenger flights to transfer weapons. He raised the possible abuse of VIP flights from Syria and Iran, noting that one such flig [...]	2006-08-01 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR ETTC SA SY IR TU
06ANKARA443	TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER COMPLAINS TO IRAN; [...] (s) Ambassador was convoked February 3 by FM U/S Tuygan to be briefed on a call FM Gul made to Iranian FM Mottaki the day before to urge Iran to turn away from confrontation with the IAEA. Reading from the foreign ministry,s memcon, Tuygan said that Gul: -- Referred to earlier conversations [...]	2006-02-03 12:52:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MNUC KPAL IR IS TU
06ANKARA4448	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-02 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4462	TURKEY DETERMINED TO BUILD CONTROVERSIAL ILISU DAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ilisu dam project on the Tigris River has been one of the most widely criticized hydropower dam projects of the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP). Despite the continued controversy, Turkey remains doggedly committed to building the dam. The Turkish press announced recently t [...]	2006-08-03 11:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENGR SENV EAGR TU IZ SY
06ANKARA4473	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-03 13:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4474	TFLE01: TURKEY: ANGRY CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE [...] (C) Summary: The mood in Turkey regarding events in Lebanon - particularly the failure to achieve an early, UN-brokered ceasefire - has turned angry. Growing protests on the streets have been matched by official statements in Kuala Lumpur (PM Erdogan at the OIC ministerial) and Washington (F [...]	2006-08-03 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER TU IS LE
06ANKARA451	TURKEY'S IRAQ REVENGE MOVIE OPENS TO POPULAR [...] (SBU) Summary: A much-hyped film, "Valley of the Wolves ) Iraq," which depicts Americans in Iraq as heartless killers, opened in cinemas across Turkey this week. In scenes reminiscent of "Rambo," the main character takes revenge for the Suleymaniye incident, in which US forces hooded Turkis [...]	2006-02-03 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
06ANKARA4525	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-07 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4526	US-TURKEY SECURITY RELATIONS: INCREASINGLY [...] (S/NF) After the March 1, 2003 parliamentary vote vetoing a northern front for the Iraq War and the July 4, 2003 arrest (including hooding) of Turkish special forces personnel in Suleymania (an event widely seen in Turkey as a national insult),our security relations were at their lowest point [...]	2006-08-07 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL MOPS PGOV TU
06ANKARA4528	TURKEY'S NEW CHOD -- DIFFERENT STYLE, SAME STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The July 31 announcement of Turkish Land Forces (TLFC) Commander General Buyukanit's appointment as the next Chief of the General Staff (CHOD) five days earlier than expected (ref a) caused few ripples in the press. Buyukanit's appointment was preordained by military tradition and [...]	2006-08-08 05:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU
06ANKARA454	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-03 16:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4623	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4626	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4647	THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF TURKISH-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Turkey's relationship with Iran is long, complex, and multifaceted. The two are historical and regional rivals; mutual trust is a rare commodity. Nonetheless, Turkey and Iran have enjoyed improved political relations since the late 1990s --- when Iran stopped su [...]	2006-08-11 11:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
06ANKARA468	PROPHET MOHAMMED CARTOONS PROMPT CONSTRUCTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish public reaction to European publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has so far consisted of generally peaceful protests and media condemnation, mostly in the pro-Islamist media. Government reaction has been moderate and constructive, with officials condemning the [...]	2006-02-06 13:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC KISL TU
06ANKARA4687	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-11 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4688	TURKEY'S FOREIGN POLICY SPLIT - THE PM'S CIRCLE TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-11 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL TU
06ANKARA4711	URGENT DEMARCHE ON US SECURITY COUNCIL'S [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Ambassador spoke August 12 with Turkish MFA U/S Tuygan to convey reftel demarche regarding UNSCR 1701. In addition to the points provided, Ambassador urged Turkey to express strong support for the resolution. He expected that work will [...]	2006-08-12 12:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE TU
06ANKARA4753	TURKEY CONSIDERING HUMANITARIAN AID BATTALION AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with MFA Deputy U/S Uzumcu on August 14 for a read-out of PM Erdogan's earlier meeting with senior military and MFA officials on Lebanon. Uzumcu reported that the PM's meeting discussed offering the Mersin Port and Adana airport as a military and humanitarian a [...]	2006-08-15 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU SY LE
06ANKARA4754	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-15 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4768	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 14:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA478	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-06 15:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4796	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, July 2006 [...] Over 10,000 individuals from Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Moldova, Germany, Canada, USA, Australia, Lebanon, France and other countries were evacuated from Lebanon via Turkey. Close to 1,700 US Citizens were flown to the US on contract aircraft out of Incirlik Air Base. The evacuation o [...]	2006-08-17 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU PK AU IS SU GR
06ANKARA4803	TURKEY'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GAINING SUPPORT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA Africa Department Head Raif Karaca on August 17. We emphasized PM Erdogan's March trip to Darfur and Turkey's humanitarian assistance and asked that they exert whatever influence they can on President Bashir. 2. (C) Karaca said that when Sudanese gover [...]	2006-08-17 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN SU TU
06ANKARA4804	TURKEY TO DECIDE ON UNIFIL PARTICIPATION AFTER [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will move toward a government decision to approve a Lebanon deployment during the week of August 21, following FM Gul's consultations in Israel on Sunday, according to MFA DG for the Middle East Bozkurt Aran. However, Aran told Ambassador on August 17 that this decision [...]	2006-08-17 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS TU LE
06ANKARA4822	TURKEY'S IRAQ COORDINATOR ON IRAQ FUEL AND IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey's MFA Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol updated Ambassador on recent Iraq-related developments, including visits to Istanbul by Iraqi VP Hashimi and seven Iraqi Turkmen parliamentarians, the latter of which was designed to promote unity and common purpose among Turkmen across [...]	2006-08-18 13:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EPET ENRG ETRD XF TU IZ
06ANKARA4833	SAUDI KING ABDULLAH'S VISIT TO TURKEY INCREASES [...] (C) Summary: Saudi King Abdullah visited Ankara and Istanbul from August 8-11 in the first visit of a Saudi King since 1966. Turkish MFA Middle East desk officer Barbaros Dicle characterized the visit August 18 as a "turning point" in bilateral relations. The two countries signed six agreeme [...]	2006-08-18 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON SA TU
06ANKARA4875	TURKEY CONTINUES DELIBERATIONS OVER A UNIFIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel request, Ambassador met with MFA Deputy U/S Uzumcu on August 22 to urge Turkey to make a substantial contribution to a robust UNIFIL. Uzumcu said Turkey is taking steps to formalize its offer of ports and is willing to contribute to DPKO staff for Lebanon planning. The [...]	2006-08-22 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL TU LE
06ANKARA4878	TURKISH FM GUL'S VISIT TO ISRAEL - ISRAELI [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 07:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IS LE TU
06ANKARA4894	TURKEY'S SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL PUTS A STRONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: The early announcement of Turkish Land Forces Commander (TLFC) GEN Buyukanit's appointment as the next Chief of the Turkish General Staff (ref a) was not the only surprise to come out of the annual Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting. After just one year as Deputy Chief of the [...]	2006-08-23 15:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR TU
06ANKARA4905	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-24 13:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4933	REGIONAL DYNAMISM SPURRING HOPE IN TURKEY'S KURDS [...] (U) This is an AmCon Adana message. 2. (C) Summary: Turkey's Kurdish political and business leaders believe that progress in Northern Iraq could produce positive ripple effects in Turkey's troubled southeast: economic benefits have already affected local businesses and they hope the shared [...]	2006-08-25 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM TU
06ANKARA4937	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-25 13:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA4978	TURKISH COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SUPPORTS [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Council of Ministers announced its support of Turkish participation in UNIFIL on August 28; it plans to seek parliamentary approval within the next week or two. A united front by PM Erdogan, FM Gul and Speaker Arinc, along with the ruling Justice and Development Party' [...]	2006-08-29 11:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV USUN LE TU
06ANKARA4992	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-29 13:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5000	TURKEY: DUELING REFINERIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At least three separate refinery projects in Turkey have recently been announced, emblematic of Turkey's energy hub vision and growing regional importance, as well as the progress if has made in its investment environment and economic growth. It is not clear if GOT will use st [...]	2006-08-29 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV EPET BEXP TU RU
06ANKARA5001	TERRORISM FINANCE: TURKISH MFA DOWNPLAYS IMPACT OF [...] (C) Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Huseyin Bicakli told us August 29 that the Foreign Ministry and the Finance Ministry would appeal the Danistay (Council of State) July 20 ruling (ref a) that vacated the Council of Ministers decree freezing al-Qadi's assets in Turkey [...]	2006-08-29 16:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PTER TU
06ANKARA5016	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-31 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5020	SEPTEMBER 5 PARLIAMENTARY VOTE ON TURKISH UNIFIL [...] (C) Summary. The Turkish government will ask the speaker of parliament to convene a special session on September 5 to vote on deploying troops to Lebanon. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group will meet late September 4 with PM Erdogan to persuade waverers and pr [...]	2006-08-31 16:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GPGOV USUN LE TU
06ANKARA5090	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-01 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5098	TURKEY'S GOVERNMENT PREPARED FOR PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary. After a lengthy meeting of party MPs on September 4, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has its ducks in a row for today's parliamentary vote to approve deploying Turkish troops to Lebanon. PM Erdogan was not able to eliminate all dissent, but Embassy contacts report [...]	2006-09-05 10:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV USUN LE TU
06ANKARA5109	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-05 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5124	PKK IN EUROPE: TURKISH MFA LINKS RECENT ARRESTS TO [...] (C) In an August 29 meeting MFA Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Huseyin Bicakli commented favorably on recent arrests of PKK activists in Europe on criminal charges. Praising the recent arrests of PKK members Muzaffer Ayata and Riza Erdogan in Germany (ref C) and of Nedim Seven [...]	2006-09-05 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN TU
06ANKARA5149	TURKISH PARLIAMENT VOTES TO DEPLOY TROOPS TO [...] (C) Summary. The Turkish parliament approved the government's motion to contribute troops to UNIFIL in a September 5 extraordinary assembly session. PM Erdogan exerted control over his Justice and Development Party (AKP) with a well-orchestrated outreach campaign that dissolved or muted mos [...]	2006-09-06 14:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV USUN LE TU
06ANKARA5175	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA522	TURKISH YOUTH ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF CATHOLIC [...] (U) Summary: Turkish police have arrested a 16-year-old suspected in the murder of a Catholic priest in Trabzon. Politicians and pundits have speculated about the motive behind the killing, but as yet there are no hard facts. Some Christians in Turkey believe the killing is related to worldwi [...]	2006-02-07 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PREL PHUM OSCE TU
06ANKARA5247	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-12 12:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5248	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-12 12:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5249	GENERAL (RET) BASER SELECTED AS TURKEY'S PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: General (ret) Edip Baser was appointed on September 8 as Turkey's Coordinator for Countering the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) terrorist organization. A respected, retired military officer who has good relations with both the government and the military and has fought the PKK in [...]	2006-09-12 12:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ
06ANKARA5259	OPPOSITION DEPUTIES SLAM U.S., ISRAEL DURING [...] (C) Opposition deputies launched virulent attacks against the US and Israel during the September 5 Turkish parliamentary debate on Turkey's troop deployment to Lebanon. The motion passed (reftel A) and the GOT is readying Turkish troops to join the UNIFIL mission, but the force and tenor of s [...]	2006-09-13 12:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE TU
06ANKARA5264	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5268	PARLIAMENT TO TAKE UP EU LEGISLATION AT SEPTEMBER [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Parliament will meet in a special session on September 19 at the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) request to consider legislation related to Turkey's European Union accession process. The government will attempt to pass the so-called Ninth Reform package [...]	2006-09-13 15:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL EU TU
06ANKARA527	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-07 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5329	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5332	TURKISH ENERGY MINISTER PROMISES ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 10 meeting, DAS Matt Bryza and Energy Minister Hilmi Guler agreed to the following action steps to advance the southern gas corridor across Turkey to Europe: - Guler committed to quickly seek a bilateral meeting with Azeri Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov to di [...]	2006-09-14 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU GR AZ IR RU
06ANKARA5333	AVOIDING A TURKEY-EU TRAIN WRECK: CONSULTING IN [...] (U) This is a joint message from Embassies Ankara, Athens and Nicosia. 2. (C) Summary: We are seeing increasing signs that Turkey may indeed be headed for a train wreck in its relations with the EU late this fall. Derailment would endanger Turkey's EU accession bid, which the US has suppo [...]	2006-09-14 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU EU CY US
06ANKARA5369	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5398	TURKEY: PKK VIOLENCE REPORT, 11 CIVILIANS KILLED [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey (ref a). Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these sources are more reliable than most Turkish pre [...]	2006-09-15 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL TU IZ
06ANKARA5401	REMOVING TURKEY'S GSP BENEFITS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE [...] (SBU) Progress has been made and is still being made in opening Turkish markets to U.S. exports and resolving long standing problems like inadequate intellectual property protection. Reducing Turkey's access to GSP benefits would deprive us of one of the few instruments we have to work with [...]	2006-09-18 07:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON TU
06ANKARA5440	PRIME MINISTER OVERRULES BUREAUCRACY IN SUPPORT OF [...] (C) A distraught MFA Director General for Security Affairs Hayati Guven (please protect) told us he understood that Turkish press reports were true that the Prime Ministry had applied -- on PM Erdogan's personal instructions -- to withdraw its earlier appeal of the July 20 Danistay (Council [...]	2006-09-18 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PTER EFIN ETTC TU
06ANKARA5442	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-19 05:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5455	TURKEY ENERGY SECTOR - MAKE NO SMALL PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: On the heels of completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler announced ambitious plans for $130 billion in new energy projects in Turkey, calling on the private sector to take up these new opportunities. Turkey is committed to developin [...]	2006-09-19 10:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG BEXP EINV EXIM OPIC TU
06ANKARA547	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-08 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5488	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-19 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5512	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-20 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5537	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-21 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5562	TURKEY/ARMENIA: JOINT COMMISSIONS NON-PAPER [...] (C) Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Caucasus and Central Asia Huseyin Avni Karslioglu called us in September 21 to give us, in confidence, a copy of Turkey's response to Yerevan's April 19 non-paper on joint commissions (reftels). The Turkish non-paper proposes an "ad-hoc" committee con [...]	2006-09-22 12:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
06ANKARA5569	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-22 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5606	HONOR KILLINGS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Summary: Since the July release of a government circular aimed at preventing honor killings and domestic violence, public awareness and media coverage of violence against women has significantly increased in Turkey, according to our contacts. Experts note that the incidence of domestic vi [...]	2006-09-26 09:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
06ANKARA562	FRENCH FM DOUSTE-BLAZY IN ANKARA: PLAYING TO TWO [...] (C) Summary: During a February 1-2 trip to Ankara, French FM Douste-Blazy reminded GOT leaders that France had supported the opening of EU accession talks with Turkey, despite opposition from the French public. The French FM recommended that the French and Turkish governments work together to [...]	2006-02-09 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON FR TU EU
06ANKARA5625	CARGILL'S SWEETENER PLANT CONTINUES TO SOUR IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Cargill representatives will meet with Turkish PM Erdogan on September 30 in New York to once again ask for his intervention in continuing legal troubles regarding Cargill's sweetener plant near the city of Bursa in northwestern Turkey. In addition to the meeting with Erdogan, we underst [...]	2006-09-26 15:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EINV BEXP TU
06ANKARA5634	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-27 11:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA567	TURKEY/IRAQ: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MFA IRAQ [...] (C) Turkish Foreign Ministry Special Representative for Iraq Oguz Celikkol told Ambassador February 7 that maintaining Iraq's unity is essential not only for Turkey but for the balance of power in the entire Middle East. Turkey is concerned an independent Sunni statelet would be a magnet fo [...]	2006-02-09 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR TU
06ANKARA5671	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-28 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA568	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-09 13:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5710	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-02 05:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5711	TURKISH GOVERNMENT FACING MOUNTING PRESSURE TO [...] (C) Summary. Pressure from the US, the EU, the Turkish press and several recent high profile cases is forcing the GOT to consider reform of controversial Penal Code Article 301, which restricts free expression. The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) had hoped to avoid addressing the [...]	2006-10-02 09:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
06ANKARA5723	PRESIDENT SEZER TO PARLIAMENT: SECULARISM IS BASIS [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's President stressed secularism and democracy as antidotes to increasing fundamentalism in his October 1 speech at parliament's official opening. Coming as it did on the day before PM Erdogan's meeting with President Bush in Washington and a much anticipated address on Oct [...]	2006-10-02 11:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU
06ANKARA5733	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-02 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5735	TURKISH MILITARY LAYS DOWN A MARKER AGAINST [...] (C) Senior Turkish military eaders have made clear, in a recent series of public speeches, that the military is concerned about the twin threats of Islamic fundamentalism and separatism which threaten the secular and unitary nature of the Turkish republic founded by Ataturk. In an October 2 a [...]	2006-10-02 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PTER TU
06ANKARA5738	PKK DECLARES CEASEFIRE: NOW WHAT? [...] (C) The PKK leadership in Iraq declared a ceasefire as of Oct. 1, following Ocalan's Sept. 27 call from his Turkish jail cell. PM Erdogan took a measured stand, repeating the GOT position (and ours, as outlined by Gen. Ralston in his Sept. 27 press conference) that as a terrorist organization [...]	2006-10-02 15:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ

06ANKARA5746	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-03 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5774	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-04 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5793	183 NON-MUSLIM LEADERS ISSUE STATEMENT PROTESTING [...] (C) Summary: On September 25, 183 non-Muslim minority Turkish citizens, including many intellectuals and writers, issued a first-ever joint statement protesting the government's treatment of minorities. The statement came in the wake of contentious parliamentary committee debate over EU harmo [...]	2006-10-05 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
06ANKARA5802	SE TURKEY LEADERS WANT POSITIVE RESPONSE TO PKK [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana Cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Kurdish and regional GOT leaders in SE Turkey are hopeful the PKK cease-fire will de-escalate the violence, but worried that Ankara will not capitalize on the opportunity, which they believe offers an opening for serious, long [...]	2006-10-05 10:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA5830	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-05 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5839	TURKISH CONTRIBUTION TO LEBANON RECONSTRUCTION [...] (SBU) Turkish MFA Lebanon Assistance Coordinator Koray Targay explained October 5 that Turkey planned to provide its $10 million Stockholm pledge in the form of 50 pre-fabricated schools that would be set-up in southern Lebanon. He coordinated this with Council for Development and Reconstru [...]	2006-10-06 09:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID LE TU
06ANKARA5846	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-06 13:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5849	TURKISH PRESIDENT'S STATISM SHOWS [...] (C) Summary: In addition to venting inflammatory rhetoric on social and political issues (refs),Turkish President Sezer used his October 1 opening speech to Parliament to reiterate the statist economic philosophy he shares with Turkey's opposition parties and other elements of the "deep sta [...]	2006-10-06 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PINR TU
06ANKARA5851	RAMADAN IN ANKARA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The holy month of Ramadan, or Ramazan as it is known in Turkey, is welcomed in Ankara with a wide variety of degrees of observance of prayer and fasting. Acts of compassion and donations to the poor increase, while family bonds are affirmed over the break-fast table. Compared [...]	2006-10-10 05:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS PHUM TU
06ANKARA5862	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-10 13:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5883	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-11 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5884	EUROPEAN LEADERS PRESS TURKEY TO IMPLEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-11 14:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
06ANKARA5891	TURKISH BACKLASH AGAINST FRANCE GAINS MOMENTUM [...] (C) Summary: In Turkey, anti-French reaction to the October 12 French Assembly approval of a bill that criminalizes denial of the Armenian "genocide" is running high. The GOT had earlier warned French government officials that passage of the bill would severely harm bilateral relations, part [...]	2006-10-12 12:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
06ANKARA5922	TALK TOUGH FROM TURKEY'S GENERALS: READING BETWEEN [...] (C) In a carefully crafted series of public messages, Turkey's senior military and President Sezer have warned of imminent danger to the nation's secular order, clearly pointing at the pro-Islam government of PM Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP). The generals' strident warnin [...]	2006-10-13 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PTER TU
06ANKARA5952	TERRORISM FINANCE: COURT REJECTS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) On October 12, the Administrative Chamber of the Danistay (Council of State) rejected the Government's application to withdraw its appeal of the al-Qadi case. As explained reftel, the Government (Prime Ministry and MFA) had filed appeals of the Danistay's July 20 ruling that invalidated [...]	2006-10-16 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN PTER EFIN ETTC TU
06ANKARA5972	ENCOURAGING TURKEY ON DARFUR [...] (C) Ambassador followed up the President's lengthy exchange on Darfur with Turkish President Erdogan earlier this month in meetings October 13 and 16 with MFA U/S Tuygan and PM/FM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu, respectively. Ambassador reviewed the state of play with respect to rehatting t [...]	2006-10-17 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU TU US
06ANKARA5976	TURKS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET TO "YES" ON FINNS' [...] (C) Summary. The GOT understands that it must put its best foot forward with respect to the Finnish package proposal on Cyprus, MFA D/US Apakan told Ambassador and EUR/SE director Silliman October 12. The Turks are asking for more precision on questions such as what constitutes direct trade [...]	2006-10-17 13:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY EU
06ANKARA5990	PRESERVING LEBANESE PM SINIORA'S GOVERNMENT [...] (S/NF) Ambassador reviewed U.S. concerns about Syrian plans to undermine the Siniora government with Turkish PM/FM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu on October 17. He reminded Davutoglu of the exchange about Syria and Lebanon during PM Erdogan's meeting with the President on October 2. The tw [...]	2006-10-17 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS TU LE SY
06ANKARA5992	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-17 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5993	WILL TURKEY REALLY BOYCOTT FRENCH COMPANIES IN THE WAKE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The lower house of the French parliament's October 12 decision to make denial of the Armenian "genocide" illegal elicited strong reactions from Turkey's business leaders and politicians (ref A). Although most politicians, including PM Erdogan, urged public caution until the Fre [...]	2006-10-17 14:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD TU
06ANKARA6014	TURKISH POLITICIANS USE PKK AMNESTY REMARKS TO [...] (C) Summary. Turkish political leaders are using True Path Party (DYP) leader Mehmet Agar's recent calls for PKK militants to abandon violence and engage in politics to curry favor with undecided voters who will play a crucial role in Turkey's 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections. A [...]	2006-10-18 08:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU
06ANKARA6020	TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL AND ELECTION LAW CHANGES [...] (SBU) Turkey's president approved a constitutional amendment on October 17 lowering the age for parliamentary candidates from 30 to 25. The move opens the door for thousands of potential new political contenders in the general elections scheduled for November 4, 2007. Parliament also revise [...]	2006-10-18 10:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA6037	ON A KNIFE'S EDGE: TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: The next two months are critical for Turkey's EU accession. The obstacles remain formidable. Should the EU and Turkey fail to arrive at a modus vivendi over Cypru, the result could well be a de facto suspension of negotiations. With the Turks in a nationalist, "it's us against [...]	2006-10-19 05:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU EU CY
06ANKARA6043	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 09:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6053	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6073	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-20 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6080	TURKISH DEFMIN GONUL'S OCT. 30 VISIT AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leadership changes at the Turkish General Staff (TGS),increased PKK terrorism, and growing dissatisfaction with the EU accession process have raised the military's proile in all security areas, including procurement. The US defense industry may reap benefits, with Sikorksy, Lock [...]	2006-10-23 13:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
06ANKARA6118	Mission Turkey Public Diplomacy Strategy for FY-07 [...] (U) Summary: Public Diplomacy is a critically important component of our diplomatic efforts in Turkey. In this cable, I describe our current public diplomacy environment, offer our strategy for FY-2007, and provide a list of top program priorities under this strategy for enhanced support and [...]	2006-10-26 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO OIIP OEXC SCUL TU
06ANKARA6121	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-26 14:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6143	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-27 12:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6160	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-30 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6163	SCENESETTER FOR NOVEMBER 7-8 VISIT OF EUCOM DCDR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey continues to demonstrate its commitment to GWOT in Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Balkans, but is feeling the pinch of resources stretched both internationally and in the southeast, where it is battling a significant up-tick in PKK terrorist activity. The appointment of Ge [...]	2006-10-30 16:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU
06ANKARA6164	S/CT URBANCIC TRIP TO EUROPE AND TURKEY [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: We are delighted that Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Urbancic will lead an interagency team to key western European capitals and Ankara. As an important part of the larger effort against PKK terrorism, this trip holds the potential to move trilateral (Europe [...]	2006-10-31 06:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN TU
06ANKARA6165	S/CT URBANCIC TRIP TO EUROPE AND TURKEY [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: We are delighted that Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Urbancic will lead an interagency team to key western European capitals and Ankara. As an important part of the larger effort against PKK terrorism, this trip holds the potential to move trilateral (Euro [...]	2006-10-31 06:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN TU
06ANKARA619	TURKEY: QUELLING VIOLENT REACTIONS TO OFFENSIVE [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche to Turkish MFA Americas Deputy Director Murat Esenli February 9. We discussed GoT reactions which have, to date, urged calm and made clear that violence, even if in response to the offensive cartoons, is unacceptable (ref b). Esenli stated that the GoT would [...]	2006-02-10 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KPAO TU
06ANKARA6213	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-31 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6219	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-01 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA622	TURKEY/IRAN -- NOT UPSETTING THE NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Summary. While the Turkish government publicly declares that a nuclear-armed Iran is not in Turkey,s interest, it will not get out front on the issue for fear of irritating a neighbor with which Turkey has a delicate political and growing economic relationship: -- Turkey does not wish [...]	2006-02-10 16:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
06ANKARA6276	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 16:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6294	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-06 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6300	PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of unclassified, periodic reports on the PKK issue in Turkey. Our primary sources for casualty statistics are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkis [...]	2006-11-06 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
06ANKARA6364	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-07 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6370	FORMER TURKISH PM ECEVIT'S FUNERAL: BURYING THE [...] (C) Summary: Former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, who died Sunday at the age of 81, was a man of symbols, personal and public. Much of what he symbolized dies with him. His state funeral this Saturday will be a set-piece on Turkey's ongoing transformation: the so-called secularist [...]	2006-11-08 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ANKARA6374	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6387	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6393	IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE: EU REPORT DELAYS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 17:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
06ANKARA6394	SCENESETTER FOR NOVEMBER 11-19 VISIT TO TURKEY OF [...] (U) This is a joint ConGen Istanbul-Embassy Ankara message. 2. (SBU) Introduction: Mission Turkey welcomes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to Turkey. We have arranged meetings for the delegation in both Ankara and Istanbul with Government officials, religious [...]	2006-11-09 17:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TU
06ANKARA6396	TURKEY READY FOR 3-WAY MEETING ON AZERI GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Energy Minister Guler agreed with Ambassador that Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia should meet as soon as possible to begin working out short term solutions to ensure natural gas supplies for this winter in the face of strong Russian pressure on all of them. Guler stressed [...]	2006-11-13 09:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU GG AJ RS IZ
06ANKARA6403	TURKEY ELECTION YEAR ENERGY PRICE CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The prices Turkish consumers pay for electricity and natural gas has become a hot political issue in the run-up to 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections. With state-owned oil and gas pipeline company BOTAS reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy and cold weather approac [...]	2006-11-13 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PGOV EFIN TU
06ANKARA6410	IN A POLITICAL YEAR, TURKEY STICKS WITH IMF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Turkish Government has re-committed to the IMF program despite having to swallow a fifth straight dose of fiscal austerity in advance of next year's elections. Before recommending that its Executive Board approve a new $928 million disbursement -- hopefully before the cru [...]	2006-11-14 09:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV TU IZ
06ANKARA6415	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-14 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6419	ONE MONTH AFTER PKK DECLARES CEASE-FIRE, RELATIVE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara/Consulate Adana message. 2. (C) Summary: PKK violence has largely -- but not entirely -- subsided since the terrorist organization's unilateral cease-fire started Oct. 1. Many here hope the lower level of violence will give the GOT room to address the root [...]	2006-11-15 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ
06ANKARA6421	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-15 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6427	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The coming year will bring presidential elections in the spring and parliamentary elections in the fall in Turkey. The presidency is an office elected by parliament, and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has enough seats to ensure their candidate becomes president. T [...]	2006-11-16 11:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA6433	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-16 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6442	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6446	TURKEY SUSPENDS MILITARY RELATIONS WITH FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Land Forces Commander General Ilker Basbug told journalists November 15 that Turkey has frozen military relations with France because of the French National Assembly's October 12 vote on the Armenian genocide issue. The announcement caused surprise at the French Embassy in [...]	2006-11-17 16:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL FR TU
06ANKARA6447	DIYANET SEES POPE'S VISIT TO TURKEY AS OPPORTUNITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
06ANKARA6448	PM MALIKI IN TURKEY: PLEDGES OF SUPPORT, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi PM Maliki accepted Turkish offers to increase the level of training for ISF, especially police, and to work on expanding Turkish trade and investment beyond northern Iraq during his Nov. 16-17 visit to Ankara. The GOT was generally pleased with Maliki's public statements on [...]	2006-11-17 16:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV ECON TU IZ IR SY
06ANKARA6451	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, October 2006 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on October 31. Internal and external developments affecting Turkey's national security topped the agenda of the meeting. Negotiations on Iran's nuclear program after the UN Security Council resolution of July 31 were discusse [...]	2006-11-20 09:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL UY CH GR AM AF LE TU
06ANKARA6460	AKP PARTY CONGRESS: AIMING AT THE 2007 ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The second ordinary congress of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) saw Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-elected as party chairman without contest and conveyed an image of the five-year old party as a mature, sophisticated organization with a domestic focus [...]	2006-11-20 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA647	SCENESETTER FOR THE FEB 15- 17 VISIT OF AMB [...] (S) Summary: Your visit to Ankara provides a welcome opportunity to accomplish two things in our Iran diplomacy: brief the Turks on what we know about Iran's nuclear weapons development efforts and consult with them on the way forward. Turkey is at best a reluctant supporter of the internatio [...]	2006-02-14 06:01:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	AORC EUN IR KNNP PARM PREL TU
06ANKARA6472	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6488	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-22 15:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6490	LEBANON/TURKEY: GOT CONDEMNS GEMAYEL [...] (U) The Turkish MFA immediately and strongly condemned the Nov. 21 assassination of Lebanese Industry Minister Gemayel (full text in para. 3). Media reporting was straightforward and tended to place the blame on Syria. 2. (C) The Lebanese Ambassador to Turkey recently told Ambassador that [...]	2006-11-22 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KDEM MOPS TU LE SY
06ANKARA6493	FORMER IRANIAN PRESIDENT KHATAMI AVOIDS NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami concentrated almost entirely on his dialogue of civilizations project and Turkish-Iranian bilateral relations during his November 13-15 visit to Turkey. Strikingly, Khatami apparently barely addressed the nuclear issue. End Summary. [...]	2006-11-22 16:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP MNUC IR TU
06ANKARA6498	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-24 12:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6508	PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...]	2006-11-27 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
06ANKARA6510	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-27 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6519	TURKISH ATTITUDES TOWARD IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: Official Turkish views about Iran's nuclear development program have shifted over the past year. Senior GOT officials question the bona fides of the Iranian nuclear program and believe that a nuclear armed Iran would pose a military threat. They are more concerned, however, abo [...]	2006-11-28 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL IR TU KNNP MNUC
06ANKARA6523	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-28 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6546	TURKEY SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT STABILITY OF SINIORA [...] (S) DCM discussed reftel demarche Nov. 30 with Deputy Undersecretary Uzumcu, who undertook to raise the issue at the higher levels of the ministry. We also double-tracked with MFA Middle East Department Head Sedat Onal. Onal thanked us for sharing our concerns and noted that Turkey has also [...]	2006-11-30 16:28:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE SY TU
06ANKARA6560	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-01 13:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6563	TURKS CONVEY USG CONCERNS TO SARG, BUT STILL [...] (S) SUMMARY: We further discussed U.S. concerns related to Syrian efforts to destabilize Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora's government December 1 with MFA officials and received a read-out of Deputy PM Sener's November 29 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According to MFA, Sener [...]	2006-12-01 16:11:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE SY TU
06ANKARA6565	TURKEY/IRAQ: WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? [...] (C) Summary: Turkey -- despite serious ongoing concerns about violence and what it views as overreaching Kurdish aspirations, as well as anger over the PKK issue -- has been steadily engaging the new Iraq. Increasing this engagement would require demonstrating to the GOT that Iraqi disintegra [...]	2006-12-04 07:41:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV EAID ECON ENRG TU IZ IR SY
06ANKARA6567	TURKEY: REDEFINING NATIONALISM FOR SHORT-TERM [...] (C) Summary. Domestic and regional threats and transformations -- including EU membership reforms, PKK violence, Cyprus and conflict in Lebanon -- have created a backlash of nationalism that Turkey's political factions are manipulating as elections approach. The pace of reform at all levels [...]	2006-12-04 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA6568	SENIOR TURKS GIVE UPDATE ON EU TALKS [...] (c) Summary: Turkey may be considering additional steps on the Cyprus/ports issue in its negotiations with the European Union, FM Gul, Deputy U/S Apakan and PM/FM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu told Ambassador in separate conversations December 2 and 4. The Turks complained about the Euro [...]	2006-12-04 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN TU
06ANKARA6569	TURKEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN 3-WAY MEETING ON AZERI [...] (SBU) The Turkish MFA confirms that Energy Minister Hilmi Guler has agreed to participate in an Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey meeting on natural gas in Tbilisi on December 8 (refs). 2. (SBU) On November 22, Undersecretary Sami Demirbilek reiterated to us Turkey's willingness to help Georgia w [...]	2006-12-04 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET PREL TU GG AJ
06ANKARA657	TURKEY/PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY - RUMORED HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) Amid rumors of an impending Hamas visit to Turkey, Israeli DCM Emmanuel Nahshon informed us February 14 that Israeli FM Livni had spoken at lngth to Turkish FM Gul the evening of Februar 13. In what Nahshon described as a long and positive conversation, Livni presented Israeli views on [...]	2006-02-14 10:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS TU
06ANKARA6571	OIC BRINGS FOCUS TO ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) held a conference November 20-21 in Istanbul on the role of women in OIC societies, following through on a commitment made last year by OIC Foreign Ministers to focus attention on the need for legislative reforms and new initiatives [...]	2006-12-04 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN KISL SCUL SOCI PREL ISCON TU
06ANKARA6573	EU AMBASSADORS ON TURKEY ACCESSION [...] (c) Summary: Ambassadors of Finland, Germany and the US, plus the UK DCM, met December 4 to review Turkey's efforts with the EU and compare notes on recent talks with the Turks. All agreed that the key next step is an apparent proposal or package being readied by the GOT. Among ideal element [...]	2006-12-04 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN TU
06ANKARA6574	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S VISIT TO TEHRAN -- INITIAL [...] (S) Summary: Turkish PM Erdogan emphasized Lebanon and the implications for Iran of widening Shia/Sunni conflict during his December 3 visit to Tehran, according to FM Gul and PM/FM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu. Other topics included Iraq and Iranian gas transit for the Nabucco pipeline [...]	2006-12-04 16:40:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL IR IZ LE SY TU
06ANKARA6580	TACKLING TURKEY'S PROBLEMATIC SQUATTER HOUSING [...] (U) Summary: For decades squatter settlements have marred Turkey's urban landscapes in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, and Adana. Prior attempts to solve the issue lacked the creativity and political will to stem the tide of illegal constructions. As Turkey looks to integrate further into the global [...]	2006-12-05 13:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU
06ANKARA6581	TURKEY: HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE GROUP MEETING AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Relations with Turkey are trending positive but Iraq and PKK terrorism cast a long shadow; a Congressional Armenian Genocide resolution would do further damage. Continued clashes between the military and the PKK, despite the terrorist group's October 1 cease-fire declaration, hav [...]	2006-12-05 13:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PTER TU
06ANKARA6590	PKK Issue: Update on Violence and Political Developments [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary sources for these reports are mainstream Turkish press services, such as the Anatolian News Agency, and international wire services. While these are more reliable than most Turkish press sources, they [...]	2006-12-06 06:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
06ANKARA6599	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA66	TURKEY/IRAQ: URGING TURKEY TO DO MORE FOR IRAQ [...] (C) In a meeting with MFA Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol, Charge encouraged Turkey to support the new Iraqi government and legitimize it early on through reciprocal high-level visits. She stressed to Celikkol that Turkey should consider concrete measures it can take to support Iraq in the po [...]	2006-01-05 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
06ANKARA660	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 12:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6600	SWEDISH FM BILDT IN TURKEY: EU ACCESSION TALKS [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 16:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU EUN SW
06ANKARA6610	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-07 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6616	TURKEY: POPE WINS HEARTS AND MINDS BUT DOES NOT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 11:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
06ANKARA6617	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary: Lebanon was the main focus on Turkish PM Erdogan's visit to Damascus, PM/FM foreign affairs advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador December 8. Erdogan urged President Asad to make Syria a force for stability in a polarizing region, and to do so by using its influence to dissuad [...]	2006-12-08 13:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IZ TU
06ANKARA6621	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6626	TURKEY: ANAVATAN PARTY HEAD MUMCU IN A MUDDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his second visit with Motherland (Anavatan) party leader Erkan Mumcu, on November 24, Ambassador Wilson heard the party's perspective on the coming election year, the Kurdish question, and foreign relations. Mumcu heads one of only two opposition parties with "group" status i [...]	2006-12-11 07:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU AM
06ANKARA6631	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-11 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6640	TURKEY REACTS TO GAERC DECISION MORE IN SORROW [...] (SBU) Turkish officials are reacting with grudging acceptance to the December 11 GAERC decision by EU Foreign Ministers to suspend eight of the 34 remaining chapters in Turkey's EU accession negotiations, as the European Commission had recommended. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul referred to a [...]	2006-12-12 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON TU EUN
06ANKARA6642	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-12 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6648	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-13 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6651	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-14 11:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6665	TURKEY,S KURDS' EXPECTATIONS SINKING AS ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish leaders in Turkey's southeast have concluded that serious discussion of the Kurdish issue will be trumped by nationalistic posturing until after next year's elections. Continuation of the PKK ceasefire, which is universally welcomed in the region, is threatened by ongoin [...]	2006-12-15 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU

06ANKARA6666	TURKEY: REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY: DR. BAYKAL AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an unexpected charm offensive, Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal hosted the Ambassador for almost two hours on December 6, offering his views on the coming election year, the EU, and Cyprus. He agreed that CHP and the Embassy should have more open channels o [...]	2006-12-15 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU EUN CY
06ANKARA6670	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 15:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6674	FM GUL ASKS TO MEET SECRETARY RICE IN WASHINGTON [...] (S) Turkish FM Gul,s personal assistant, Ambassador Altay Cengizer, contacted Ambassador December 15 to advise that FM Gul would like to visit Washington in February to meet with Secretary Rice, other Administration officials, members of Congress and others. He said that Gul mentioned the po [...]	2006-12-16 08:32:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL EUN TU
06ANKARA6687	U/S LEVEY SEEKS TURKISH COOPERATION AGAINST IRANIAN TERRORISM FINANCE AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION [...] (C) Summary: In his meetings with the Turkish Foreign and Finance Ministries, Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey explained U.S. interest in working with allies, within and outside of the UNSC process, to financially isolate Iran for its support for terrorism and nuclear weapons program dev [...]	2006-12-18 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP KTFN TU IR EIND PREL
06ANKARA6688	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-18 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6696	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-19 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6697	TURKISH COMPANIES AND SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkey has a lopsided trade relationship with Iran, with two-way trade consisting mostly of Turkish oil and gas imports. This situation leads Turkish officials to continue to push for more exports to Iran. Turkish Government officials show no signs of linking the issue of the Iran [...]	2006-12-19 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ETTC ETRD EINV TU IR
06ANKARA6700	TURKEY - HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE GROUP IDENTIFIES WAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the 20th meeting of the bilateral High Level Defense Group (HLDG),the US and Turkey reaffirmed our shared regional vision of a stable, unified and democratic Iraq; a region without Iranian nuclear weapons; security and stability in Lebanon and Afghanistan; and an economically [...]	2006-12-19 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
06ANKARA6703	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, November 2006 [...] The second annual meeting of Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) convened under PM Tayyip Erdogan on November 30 to assess external threats, recent developments in the region, the ongoing fight against the PKK terrorist organization, military policies and modernization needs of the military [...]	2006-12-20 13:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL FR GR IS RS FI PL GG RO BU PK TU
06ANKARA6705	TURKEY - HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE GROUP IDENTIFIES WAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the 20th meeting of the bilateral High Level Defense Group (HLDG),the US and Turkey reaffirmed our shared regional vision of a stable, unified and democratic Iraq; a region without Iranian nuclear weapons; security and stability in Lebanon and Afghanistan; and an economically [...]	2006-12-20 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
06ANKARA6709	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-20 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6712	TURKEY GRUDGINGLY ACCEPTS PARTIAL SUSPENSION OF EU [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 07:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
06ANKARA6716	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 13:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6722	TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN TO VISIT LEBANON IN THE NEXT [...] (C) MFA Middle East Head of Department Sedat Onal told us December 21 Prime Minister Erdogan does intend to travel to Lebanon during the upcoming Muslim Sacrifice holiday, which this year begins December 30 and ends January 3. GOT officials had indicated to us earlier (reftels) Erdogan's inte [...]	2006-12-21 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY TU
06ANKARA6723	TURKEY'S OPPOSITION MULLS EARLY ELECTION OPTIONS [...] (C) Summary. In an end-of-year push, Turkey's opposition parties and staunchly secular president are calling for early elections as the latest maneuver in Turkey's presidential sweepstakes. Their options to block PM Erdogan or his candidate from seizing the presidency next May are limited, g [...]	2006-12-21 16:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA6730	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-22 12:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6733	NIYAZOV DEATH: TURKISH MFA ON TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) PM Erdogan, FM Gul and Energy Minister Guler will lead a delegation of approximately 200 to attend Niyazov's funeral on Sunday in what Turkish MFA DDG for Central Asia Huseyin Avni Karslioglu characterized as a culturally necessary show of brotherly solidarity with their Turkmen brethren. [...]	2006-12-22 14:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TX TU
06ANKARA6735	TURKISH OFFICIALS SHARE CONCERNS ON IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Rodman discussed Iraq, Iran, and the Middle East with Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul and MFA Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay on the margins of December 12-13 High Level Defense Group talks in Ankara. Rodman described his discussions [...]	2006-12-22 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS IZ IR SY LE XF TU
06ANKARA6736	TURKEY AND NEXT STEPS ON GEORGIA AND SHAH DENIZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 22 meeting with Ambassador, Energy Minister Guler reiterated Turkey's willingness to help Georgia meet its natural gas needs this winter, which was apparently discussed during President Saakishvili's meeting with PM Erdogan. However, Guler said Georgia was pressurin [...]	2006-12-22 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU GG AJ RS
06ANKARA6747	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 15:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6762	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-28 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA6771	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 11:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA68	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-05 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA69	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-05 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA693	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, January 2006 [...] The Turkish government's Defense Industry Executive Committee, consisting of PM Tayyip Erdogan, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) GEN Hilmi Ozkok and Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, will convene on February 17 to evaluate the procurement of air defense systems to prepare against a possib [...]	2006-02-15 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL TU
06ANKARA703	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA722	HAMAS -- TURKS DESCRIBE PLANNED MEETINGS IN ANKARA [...] (c) Summary: Turkey will host probably two meetings with Hamas on February 16, according to two senior government officials. One will be at the Deputy Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs level and will take place over lunch at a government guesthouse. A second meeting is likely follow betwee [...]	2006-02-16 10:29:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER XF TU
06ANKARA765	TURKEY'S MESSAGE TO HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. According to the MFA, the Hamas delegation in Turkey held two separate meetings on February 16: an official meeting with MFA reps and an unofficial meeting with FM Gul in his capacity as an AK party member. In both meetings, the Turks claimed to deliver a blunt message: recogni [...]	2006-02-17 09:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS TU
06ANKARA783	TURKEY: VALLEY OF THE WOLVES AND ANTI-AMERICANISM [...] (C) Summary: The openly anti-American film "Valley of the Wolves - Iraq" continues to play to packed theaters across Turkey and appears certain to smash the Turkish box office record. The film has tapped into a deep well of anger and humiliation resulting from a 2003 incident in which U.S. tr [...]	2006-02-17 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
06ANKARA784	TURKEY: REACTION TO HAMAS VISIT LARGELY NEGATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Although Turkey's ruling AK party spinmeisters are trying to put a positive veneer on the February 16 HAMAS visit to Ankara, they concede the visit produced no concrete result. Opposition leaders and even some AKP MPs have expressed great dismay over the visit. Mainstream Turki [...]	2006-02-17 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER TU IS
06ANKARA786	TURKISH PROFESSORS STAND TRIAL FOR REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary: Trial proceedings began February 15 in the case against two Turkish professors accused of inciting hatred and denigrating "Turkish identity" in a 2004 report on minorities. The report states that non-Muslims in Turkey have second-class status and calls on the state to recognize t [...]	2006-02-17 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
06ANKARA803	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-21 07:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA856	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-22 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA873	TURKEY/IRAQ: MFA HEARS OUR VIEWS ON MUQTADA [...] (C) Summary. We have made USG views on a possible visit to Turkey by Muqtada al-Sadr (ref a) known to Foreign Minister Gul as well as working level MFA officials. The MFA understands our views and it remains inclined to receive Sadr, although the timing is unclear. We have urged MFA offic [...]	2006-02-23 08:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ IR TU
06ANKARA904	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-23 15:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA934	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-24 11:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA960	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 15:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA972	BRIEFING TURKEY ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: UNVIE Ambassador Greg Schulte led a three member team to brief and consult with the Turkish government February 15-17 on the Iranian nuclear program and related diplomacy. MFA, Turkish General Staff and Turkish Intelligence officials were clearly already convinced of Iran's inten [...]	2006-02-28 10:23:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL TU IR
06ANKARA989	TURKEY: SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 1 of 3 (septel). Embassy point of contact is Linda Fenton, telephone number 90-312-455-5555 X 2513, fax number 90-312-468-4775. Fenton (FS-04) spent a [...]	2006-02-28 13:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF TU
06ANKARA999	TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, February 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Wednesday, February [...]	2006-02-28 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
06ASHGABAT1303	DEATH OF NIYAZOV SITREP 004: 12/26/2006 [...] (C) Interim President Berdimuhammedov, for all intents and purposes, was elected president at the December 26 session of the People's Council. The actual election is February 11, but his competition of five low-level unknown bureaucrats is a joke, and Berdimuhammedov had to "fight back" the [...]	2006-12-26 15:04:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TX US
06ATHENS1293	EUR/SE DEPUTY VISIT TO ATHENS: EXCELLENT BILATERAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-19 11:11:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR TU CY GR
06ATHENS1299	GREECE'S MUSLIM MINORITY IN THRACE: POTENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece's large Muslim minority in Thrace could be the source of reciprocal CBMs between Greece and Turkey that lessen tension and assist Turkey's EU accession, a strategic GoG objective. Unfortunately, that is not the case at present: Greece views this minority as purely a dom [...]	2006-05-19 13:12:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU GR
06ATHENS1304	GREECE'S MUSLIM MINORITY IN THRACE: POTENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece's large Muslim minority in Thrace could be the source of reciprocal CBMs between Greece and Turkey that lessen tension and assist Turkey's EU accession, a strategic GoG objective. Unfortunately, that is not the case at present: Greece views this minority as purely a dom [...]	2006-05-22 07:06:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU GR
06ATHENS1450	FM BAKOYANNIS DISCUSSES TURKEY-EU-CYPRUS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Bakoyannis told Ambassador June 5 that she would sound out Turkish FM Gul, at a meeting later this week in Istanbul, on opening up the Turkish Cypriot port of Famagusta for direct trade in return for the nearby area of Varosha being given back to its Greek Cypriot owners. Aw [...]	2006-06-05 14:42:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY TU GR
06ATHENS1475	GREECE-TURKEY AEGEAN DISPUTES: A SHORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the May 23 midair collision between Greek and Turkish fighters, statements by former President Stephanopoulos to refer all Greek-Turkish Aegean disputes to the ICJ caused a mini uproar here (ref B),but actually represent nothing new. Over the years, Greek gover [...]	2006-06-08 13:00:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU GR
06ATHENS1779	GREEK FM GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a day of meetings between the GoG and Greek Cypriot President Papadopoulos, Greek FM Bakoyannis told Ambassador she is guardedly optimistic about the agreement signed by Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders on July 8. While the key will be getting the respective [...]	2006-07-11 13:31:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN UNFICYP TU CY GR
06ATHENS1913	DEVELOPMENT MINISTER FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. [...] (C) Summary. The Greek Government is committed to enhancing European energy security through promoting the Turkey-Greece-Italy natural gas interconnector as a conduit for Caspian gas. This was the message conveyed July 14 to EUR DAS Bryza by Minister of Development Sioufas, who said he wan [...]	2006-07-21 13:44:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG GR
06ATHENS373	AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH GREEK FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the face of an ongoing phone-tapping scandal (Ref A) of high-level Greek Government officials (in which the U.S. has been fingered in the media as the culprit),Greek FM Molyviatis used a one-on-one lunch February 8 with Ambassador in a central Athens restauarant to emphasize [...]	2006-02-09 12:59:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	GR PGOV PREL CY TU RS YI VE GT EU AMB
06BAGHDAD2768	IRAQI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS REPORT SOME MOVEMENT ON RESOLVING PKK ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate conversations on July 30 and 31, President Talabani and Foreign Minister Zebari assured Charge d'Affaires that the Iraqi Government (GOI) remained committed to resolving the PKK issue and resuming the trilateral meetings. Talabani reported that the GOI had taken steps to cl [...]	2006-08-02 11:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ
06BAGHDAD2844	TALABANI DISCUSSES PKK, BAGHDAD SECURITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting on August 6, President Talabani and the Ambassador focused on the PKK and improving Baghdad security. The Ambassador stressed the importance of not allowing the PKK to put the Kurds, achievements in Iraq at risk. Talabani assured the Ambassador that he, Kurdistan Re [...]	2006-08-07 17:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV IR IZ
06BAGHDAD2933	PM MALIKI REQUESTS USG HELP FACILITATING FUEL [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Prime Minister Maliki requested the USG approach Iraq's neighbors - Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait in particular - to request these countries increase or facilitate fuel exports to Iraq in light of the country's continuing fuel shortage. Gasoline and LPG (coo [...]	2006-08-13 19:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG PGOV PREL IZ
06BAGHDAD2965	GOI SHORT AND MEDIUM TERM PLANS TO ADDRESS THE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh jointly chaired a meeting August 12 to identify issues and concrete steps Iraq can take to address the immediate fuel crisis. National Security Advisor (NSA) Mowafuq Rubaie said a security operation similar to the Baghdad Secu [...]	2006-08-15 07:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG MOPS MARR PGOV PREL IZ
06BAGHDAD3073	TALABANI SAYS IRAQ READY FOR US SPECIAL ENVOY, [...] (C) In a meeting on August 23 with the Charge d'Affaires, President Talabani reported that he had received a letter from the leaders of the PKK in which they expressed their gratitude for U.S. engagement on Kurdish issues and indicated their readiness to call for a ceasefire without conditions. [...]	2006-08-24 08:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ
06BAGHDAD3255	TALABANI ACCUSES TURKISH MILITARY OF UNDERMINING [...] (C) In separate meetings on August 30 and September 2, President Talabani updated the Charge d'Affaires on steps taken by the Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to push the PKK toward a ceasefire. Charge began the meeting on August 30 by raising the spate of [...]	2006-09-05 03:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ
06BAGHDAD3543	TURKISH AMBASSADOR TELLS CHARGE: IRAQ MUST DO MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 20 meeting with the Turkish Ambassador to Iraq Unal Cevikoz, Charge gave Cevikoz a readout of U.S. Special Envoy for Countering the PKK General (Ret.) Joseph Ralston's September 14-15 meetings in Iraq to prepare for the upcoming visit to Washington by Turkish Prime [...]	2006-09-22 12:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
06BAGHDAD4351	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF OIL [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador met evening of November 22 with Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani to discuss the outlook for the November 23 GoI Energy Committee discussion of the Hydrocarbon Law. Shahristani expressed optimism that a breakthrough with the Kurds can be reached if the U.S. makes i [...]	2006-11-26 08:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ PREL SY TU
06BAGHDAD4450	AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 4 MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (S) Summary: In a December 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Iraqi Minister of State for National Security Shirwan Wa'ili discussed a draft law to make the Ministry of State for National Security (MSNS) a regular Ministry; Wa'ili envisions one cabinet level official would coordinate and channel [...]	2006-12-05 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINS TU SY IZ IR
06BAGHDAD4473	AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 3 MEETING WITH TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: In a December 3 meeting with the Ambassador, outgoing Turkish Ambassador Cevikoz relayed the GOT's contacts with Sunni Hewar party leader Mutlaq (reftel). The Ambassador told Cevikoz the U.S. opposes any extra-constitutional effort to change the GOI and suggested the GOT urge Mut [...]	2006-12-07 08:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
06BAKU1247	CHAIRMAN LUGAR AND ENERGY EXECUTIVES DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chairman Lugar held a breakfast roundtable with international energy executives August 21 to discuss Azerbaijan's growing role as an international energy provider, the challenges facing the country as oil revenues increase and the GOAJ grapples with sustainable development. The ex [...]	2006-08-22 12:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET ENRG AJ IR RU KZ
06BAKU1315	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIYEV REQUESTS ADDITIONAL [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadayarov told the Ambassador on September 7 that it would be an "honor and a privilege" for Azerbaijan to participate in the roundtable with President Bush on Natural Resources and Social Developm [...]	2006-09-07 12:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SENV UNGA AJ
06BAKU704	ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION SUMMIT IN BAKU [...] (C) Summary: Leaders from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan descended on Baku for the Ninth Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit on May 5. Iranian President Ahmadinejad's participation in the summit attracted much a [...]	2006-05-12 09:40:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EFIN EPET ENRG EAID IR AJ
06BAKU858	EUR DAS BRYZA AND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) SUMMARY. EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev June 6 to discuss Azerbaijan's growing role as energy supplier, its regional relations and Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliyev expressed strong and unambiguous support for the U.S. "Southern Corridor" Strategy to help Europe di [...]	2006-06-12 12:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR AJ AM
06BERLIN455	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETINGS IN GERMANY [...] (C) Summary: Senior German officials responded positively to USG efforts to show solidarity with Denmark and agreed with the basic principle of using the incident to stress the importance of building democracy in the BMENA region. The Germans agreed with the USG assessment that the caricature [...]	2006-02-17 10:35:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PHUM PTER GM
06BRUSSELS429	EU OFFICIALS AGREE ON NEED TO BUILD MOMENTUM ON [...] (C) European Commission and Parliament officials agreed with visiting DAS Bryza February 6-7 on the need to build on the momentum created by Turkish FM Gul's recent proposal on opening Turkish and Northern Cypriot ports. The EU officials noted that Turkey could not open its ports to Cypriot v [...]	2006-02-08 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID CY GR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BUCHAREST278	ROMANIA SEEKS "POSITIVE POLITICAL SIGNAL" FROM [...] U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragrap 11. 2. (C) Last summer, Romania proposed a "Back Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership Summi" as a launching pad for a process of dialogue ad partnership among Black Sea states, the U.S. an the E.U. (Refs) The proposed forum focuses on "o [...]	2006-02-16 16:00:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD ENRG SENV PTER EPET TU
06CAIRO2021	ARAB LEAGUE'S KHARTOUM SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan played host March 28-29 to the 18th regular summit of Arab League (AL) leaders, a meeting notable for poor attendance by heads of state and deep divisions over Iraq, Lebanon, and Hamas. AL leaders approved dozens of resolutions, covering the range of priorities for all 2 [...]	2006-04-03 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID KPAL MEPN EG SU
06CAIRO3268	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 21 MEETING WITH TURKISH [...] (U) Classified by: Economic and Political Counselor John Desrocher, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) May 21, 2006; 9:30AM; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary NEA DAS Scott Carpenter D Executive Assistant Mike Matera D Senior Advisor Rich Mills [...]	2006-05-30 13:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON MOPS TU SU IR IZ EG
06CAIRO3271	EGYPT: WEF IN SHARM EL SHEIKH PUTS EGYPT IN A [...] (C) Summary. Egypt managed to successfully host its first regional World Economic Forum (WEF) from May 20-22 in the shiny new Sharm el Sheikh International Congress Center without significant public glitches. The most newsworthy events were the meeting between Palestinian President Abu Maze [...]	2006-05-30 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EG
06COPENHAGEN1555	DANES WANT TO AVOID "TRAIN WRECK" ON TURKISH EU [...] (C) Summary: Denmark agrees that the current row over Turkish relations with Cyprus should not be allowed to result in Turkey's exclusion from the EU accession process, Danish MFA Director for EU Enlargement Lars Bo Moller declared to us November 22, even as the Danish government maintains that [...]	2006-11-22 11:38:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN TU CY DA
06DAMASCUS148	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Saudi Arabia, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported President Asad's summit meetings in Jeddah with King Abdullah and in Sharm al-Sheikh with President Mubarak. The goal of Asad's surprise trips to Saudi Arabia and Egypt was apparently to seek support from Arab leaders as he faces a U.N. probe into alleged Syri [...]	2006-01-09 14:43:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3453	Damascus Media Reaction: South Lebanon, Syria/Iran, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported the deteriorating situation in south Lebanon in the wake of the Hizbollah capture of two Israeli soldiers. Headlines featured President Asad's consultations on the situation in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories with President Mubarak, UN SecGen Kofi Annan, [...]	2006-07-13 12:41:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3573	Damascus Media Reaction: Israeli Operation in Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers continued to focus on the Israeli military action in Lebanon. Headlines featured President Asad's phone call with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan, which dealt with "the continuing Israeli aggression against Lebanon and Palestine." Papers also reported that t [...]	2006-07-20 12:52:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3577	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 05 FOR THURSDAY, JULY [...] (S) Summary: On July 20, Syria's President Bashar al-Asad met with Russian Middle East envoy Saltanov and, separately, called Turkish PM Erdogan to discuss the Israel-Hizballah conflict, according to media reports. The Ba'ath party's most important policy-making body met for the third conse [...]	2006-07-20 13:48:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV SY LE
06DAMASCUS5368	Damascus Media Reaction: Golan Prisoners, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 6 reported that on Dec. 5 the Syrian Foreign Ministry addressed formal messages to UN SecGen Kofi Annan, the Chairman of the Security Council, the High Commission for Human Rights, and the Human Rights Council, informing them about the poor health of Sitan Nmr A [...]	2006-12-06 13:51:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5377	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Turkey, Shara, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 7 reported that President Asad received Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Dec. 6 The two leaders reviewed the situations in Iraq, the occupied territories, and Lebanon, and mutual cooperation, reiterating the importance of achieving security and s [...]	2006-12-07 15:06:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5424	Syria/UAE, Syria/Russia, Syria/Iraq, Lebanon (12/19) [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 19 reported President Asad's arrival in Moscow starting a two-day working visit to the Russian Federation during which he will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the situation in the Middle East and ways to strengthen bilateral relations. Paper [...]	2006-12-21 07:43:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06ISLAMABAD9088	AT D-8 SUMMIT, PAKISTAN AND TURKEY TELL IRAN TO [...] (S) Prior to his departure to the D-8 Summit in Bali last week, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told the Ambassador that he and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan would be meeting with Iranian President Ahmedinejad and asked if we had any advice. As conveyed to SCA and NEA Ambassador told Aziz that w [...]	2006-05-18 11:22:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PGOV PK PREL IR TK
06ISLAMABAD9499	PM AZIZ TO TALK SENSE TO IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-23 13:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	IR PGOV PK PREL
06ISTANBUL124	MICROSOFT TARGETS TURKEY [...] (U) Summary: In his third trip to Turkey in a little over a year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met in Istanbul with senior Turkish government and business leaders and announced a range of new initiatives aimed at increasing internet penetrationin Turkey. These included a new Turkey web portal [...]	2006-02-02 10:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV ECPS TU
06ISTANBUL1296	JULY 12 PRESIDENT ALIYEV - ENERGY DEPSEC SELL [...] (U) This is a joint ConGn Istanbul-Embassy Baku message. 2. (C) SUMMARY Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told Deput Secretary of Energy Clay Sell on July 12 that Aerbaijan and US goals and strategies with respect o developing Azerbaijani gas for world markets cincide, and Azerbaijan i [...]	2006-07-18 14:31:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TU
06ISTANBUL130	TURKISH PM ENCOURAGES WOMEN POLS AT ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan pushed forcefully for an increased role for women in public life in Turkey at the January 28 opening of a conference organized within the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. He acknowledged that social mores and traditions have inhibited such participa [...]	2006-02-02 14:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1302	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE - EUR DAS BRYZA JULY 12 [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza discussed a potential way to resolve the long-standing Halki issue with the Ecumenical Patriarch during a July 12 meeting. The Patriarch also raised property issues, noting that the Government of Turkey (GOT) had begun selling seized Ecumenical Patriarchate prope [...]	2006-07-19 07:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1358	THE AKP AND THE STRUGGLE FOR TURKEY'S FUTURE: [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with Istanbul intellectuals interested in the political and social aspects of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) reflect a vigorous ongoing debate regarding the ideology of the AKP and how it could shape Turkey in coming decades. These observers were e [...]	2006-08-01 12:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1475	COMPETITION FOR EXCELLENCE IN ISTANBUL MUNICIPAL [...] (C) Summary. Turkey,s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) continues to challenge politics as usual through a successful mixture of energetic, grass roots-based politicking and a problem-solving approach to local issues. AKP came to power riding a crest of anger and dissatisfaction at [...]	2006-08-17 13:18:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1504	SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 25-26 VISIT OF CODEL MCCAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission Turkey warmly welcomes the visit of Codel McCain to Turkey. Turkey is an ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of supplies and fuel to the coalition in Iraq and supporting the NATO Training Mission (NTM-I) there; publicly calling on Ir [...]	2006-08-22 08:32:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AFIN AMGT ASEC DA GG IT MW OREP TU
06ISTANBUL1625	TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary. At their request, PM Erdogan met with Istanbul's Jewish Community in the wake of last month's events in Lebanon and perceived growing animosity towards the community here. While initially skeptical, the PM offered a sympathetic hearing and gave assurances he would take steps to [...]	2006-09-08 14:38:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1669	TURKISH IMAM MURDERED; COMMUNITY ADMINISTERS [...] (U) Summary. An Imam reportedly in line to succeed the current head of the Nakshibendi tarikat (mystical Sufi organization) in Turkey was stabbed to death in his mosque following morning prayers. His attacker was immediately killed by the Imam's fellow worshippers. The incident continues t [...]	2006-09-14 10:07:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1711	PM ERDOGAN ADDRESS TO WESTERN THRACE TURKS [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan, speaking to Western Thrace Turk minority members at a conference in Istanbul, urged EU member Greece to respect the rights of his "brothers and sisters" in Western Thrace. He stated publicly that efforts by the Government of Greece (GOG) to resolve problems facing th [...]	2006-09-21 07:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU GR
06ISTANBUL1717	ELIF SAFAK ACQUITTED WHILE ARTICLE 301 REMAINS ON [...] (C) Summary: The long anticipated trial of Elif Safak began and ended today with a prosecutor reluctantly recommending and a judge agreeing to acquit the renowned author of charges stemming from Turkey's controversial Article 301. Protesters remained out of view with extreme security measure [...]	2006-09-21 16:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1749	FAITH, REASON AND ANOTHER WORLD: TURKISH REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Though Pope Benedict XVI's speech delivered at the University of Regensburg on September 12 is fading from Turkey's headlines, the response from Turks is universally negative and the speech continues to be a topic of conversation. A popular view regards the speech as a call fo [...]	2006-09-25 13:02:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL1750	FAITH, REASON AND ANOTHER WORLD: TURKISH REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Though Pope Benedict XVI's speech delivered at the University of Regensburg on September 12 is fading from Turkey's headlines, the response from Turks is universally negative and the speech continues to be a topic of conversation. A popular view regards the speech as a call fo [...]	2006-09-25 13:02:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL1818	TURKEY'S CHIEF RABBI ASSESSES COMMUNITY'S SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Chief Rabbi, Rav Isak Haleva, underlined concerns in the Jewish community over a growing "negativity" in the minds of average Turks toward Jews as demonstrated in the press and daily interchanges between neighbors. Describing Turks as characteristically and traditional [...]	2006-10-05 07:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL184	GALATAPORT PRIVATIZATION FOUNDERS [...] (SBU) Summary: The politically troubled privatization of Istanbul's Galataport (ref b) came to an ignominious close in late January as the GOT formally cancelled the tender granting a 49-year lease on the site to a consortium including Israel's Ofer Group. The coup de grace was delivered by [...]	2006-02-13 12:20:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV TU
06ISTANBUL1845	FORMER ISTANBUL MAYOR GURTUNA PLANS TO RE-ENTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 5, we met former Istanbul mayor Ali Mufit Gurtuna at his request to discuss his planned return to political life and founding of an as yet unnamed new political party. Gurtuna, a former member of AKP precursor parties Refah and Fazilet, claimed to know Prime Ministe [...]	2006-10-06 13:57:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV
06ISTANBUL2013	ISTANBUL'S KURDISH INTELLECTUALS: THE TIME IS NOW [...] (S) Summary. Istanbul's Kurdish intellectuals opine the evolving political situation in Turkey and the region sets a favorable stage for agreement to end the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. According to these intellectuals, Turkey's Kurds -- accepted as equals during Turkey's war of independenc [...]	2006-11-02 13:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PTER TU
06ISTANBUL2015	ISTANBUL'S ECUMENICAL RAMAZAN: BOREK, BARDAKOGLU [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's lively diversity and internal contradictions are no more apparent than in Istanbul during the month of Ramazan. While nearly 70% of Turks as a whole are reported to fast during this period, the evenings' numerous iftars are often more social and political than they are s [...]	2006-11-02 14:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2084	ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS NOT CLASH OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Alliance of Civilizations High-Level Group presented its final report on November 13 in Istanbul to UNSYG Annan as well as the Turkish and Spanish Prime Ministers. The report focuses on political developments, rather than religious or cultural differences, as a primar [...]	2006-11-16 12:29:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN TU VT
06ISTANBUL2091	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH DISAPPOINTED BY NEW [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew used his November 15 meeting with visiting representatives from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to raise a number of problems facing the Patriarchate, in particular the challenges associated with being denie [...]	2006-11-20 11:04:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU GR
06ISTANBUL210	AKP: THE RIFTS WITHIN (A BREATH OF SCANDAL IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Cuneyd Zapsu, independent businessman, senior advisor to PM Erdogan and founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party),is no stranger to controversy. This time, however, his wife Beyza made the front pages, photographed praying in an Istanbul mosque Jan [...]	2006-02-16 11:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM TU

06ISTANBUL2111	SAADET PARTY PROTESTS POPE'S VISIT [...] Summary: On November 26, the Islamist Saadet (Felicity) Party organized a rally in the Sisli district of Istanbul to protest the Pope's upcoming visit to Turkey. Despite claims of hundreds of thousands of attendees on the party's website press estimates on participation varied from 20,000 to [...]	2006-11-28 06:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC CASC TU
06ISTANBUL2154	AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS ENGAGES WITH [...] Begin Summary: A visiting American Council of Young Political Leaders (AYCPL) delegation engaged over dinner December 4 at the Consul General's Residence with a group of Turkish political party leaders, academics, business executives, and senior press columnists and editors. The lively excha [...]	2006-12-12 09:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL CVIS TU
06ISTANBUL2169	MUSTAFA SARIGUL: ISTANBUL'S ENTERPRISING SISLI [...] (C) Summary. Sisli Mayor Mustafa Sarigul, one of a handful of Republican People's Party (CHP) mayors in all of Turkey, confidently predicts that AKP will dominate the next election, CHP leader Baykal thereafter will be ousted as party leader, and he, Sarigul, will then emerge to contest and [...]	2006-12-19 14:00:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL2174	CHP - DRIVE TO PREVENT ERDOGAN PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Summary. People's Republican Party (CHP) Istanbul Chairman Sinasi Oktem told us December 20 that Prime Minister Erdogan could not "in good conscience" take the prescribed presidential oath of office and vowed CHP would do everything possible to prevent that from happening -- unless "you (i [...]	2006-12-22 07:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL372	ISTANBUL CONFERENCE TACKLES TURKEY'S "KURDISH [...] (C) Summary. A March 11-12 Istanbul conference on "Turkey's Kurdish Problem" brought together a range of leading figures from Turkey's Kurdish community with the ambitious goal of hammering out an alternative to the leadership of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organizers argued that [...]	2006-03-15 05:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL419	ISTANBUL'S AKP AND CHP - A STUDY IN CONTRASTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent calls on their Istanbul political party headquarters highlighted stark contrasts between Turkey's pedigreed social-democratic Republican People's Party (CHP) and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The AKP's brightly decorated, modular headquarters hummed wi [...]	2006-03-21 15:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL476	BUSINESS CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT INTENSIFIES [...] (U) Summary: Business criticism of recent Turkish Government missteps on the economy has intensified in recent days, as business leaders have grown increasingly concerned about the potential impact of protracted uncertainty surrounding the leadership of the Turkish Central Bank. Former Chai [...]	2006-03-30 13:32:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV TU
06ISTANBUL578	AMBASSADOR WILSON'S ISTANBUL APRIL 2-4 VISIT [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilson visited Istanbul on April 2-4, 2006. He attended and addressed the openings of two significant conferences and met with business, religious, and community leaders. Concerns in Istanbul focused on U.S. actions regarding the PKK, U.S. intentions in Iran, and the [...]	2006-04-18 07:14:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV EINV TU
06ISTANBUL596	AMBASSADOR WILSON'S ISTANBUL APRIL 2-4 VISIT - [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilson visited Istanbul on April 2-4, 2006. He attended and addressed the openings of two significant conferences and met with business, religious, and community leaders. Concerns in Istanbul focused on U.S. actions regarding the PKK, U.S. intentions in Iran, and the [...]	2006-04-20 07:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV EINV TU
06ISTANBUL625	FORMER GOT MINISTER ERDAL INONU PREDICTS AN [...] (C) Summary. Erdal Inonu, son of Turkey's second President and himself a former deputy prime minister, predicts Turkey will continue the project of westernization begun under Ataturk. Despite the current Islamic-oriented governing party, he predicts Turks will continue toward a progressive [...]	2006-04-26 09:51:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06KUALALUMPUR1458	MALAYSIA HOSTS OIC CONFERENCE ON LEBANON AND [...] (C) Summary: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi on August 3 hosted dignitaries from 17 other countries belonging to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to discuss and plan a course of action in the Lebanon and Palestine conflicts. Predictably, Abdullah called for an immedi [...]	2006-08-03 23:19:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NACB IS LE MY
06NICOSIA1099	ERDOGAN IN CYPRUS: FIRST, DO NO HARM [...] (C) Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's planned July 20 visit to the "TRNC" comes at a potentially awkward moment, given the just-concluded Gambari agreement (ref a) and the looming likelihood of a Cyprus-related crisis between the EU and Turkey over accession this fall. The official purpose of t [...]	2006-07-12 13:03:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNFICYP EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA121	NORTH AND SOUTH: CYPRUS DESK OFFICER MELLINGER'S [...] (C) Summary. Cyprus Desk Officer Elise Mellinger visited Nicosia January 11-13 and met with political leaders, businessmen, and academics on both sides of the Green Line to discuss the Cyprus issue, possible confidence building measures including the Ledra Street crossing, efforts to promot [...]	2006-01-31 12:00:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CY
06NICOSIA1543	"TRNC GOVERNMENT" CALLS IT QUITS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ruling coalition in the "TRNC" resigned on September 11 following months of internal wrangling in the wake of June parliamentary bi-elections. Talat ally "PM" Soyer, from the ruling CTP, announced his resignation and said he would seek "new formulations," ditching "DPM" and [...]	2006-09-12 09:49:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA1607	TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS: AMBITIOUS LEFTISTS, [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-21 12:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR TU CY
06NICOSIA1691	TURKISH CYPRIOT CABINET UNVEILED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish Cypriot "PM" Soyer has unveiled his new cabinet, a coalition with the newly-formed Freedom and Reform Party (OP),which has replaced the DP of former "FM" Serdar Denktash as the center-left CTP's junior governing partner. The new cabinet contains some new faces -- most n [...]	2006-09-29 13:10:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID PINR TU CY
06NICOSIA2034	TURKISH CYPRIOT OPPOSITION ELECTS HARD-LINE NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Unity Party (UBP) has selected Nicosia "MP" and former "TRNC Foreign Minister" Tahsin Ertugruloglu (see bio below) to lead the party, which is the north's second largest political formation and the main Turkish Cypriot opposition group. The comparatively charismatic [...]	2006-12-18 13:11:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU CY
06NICOSIA455	PAPADOPOULOS CONFIDENT THAT UN PROCESS, TURKISH EU [...] (C) Summary: In one-on-one Sunday lunch, Ambassador Schlicher and President Papadopoulos discussed prospects for moving forward with "technical talks" between representatives of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, as well as Turkey's EU accession process and domestic political [...]	2006-03-28 15:46:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN CY
06NICOSIA47	WHO'S REALLY IN CHARGE HERE? TURKEY AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The relationship between Turkey and the "TRNC" is less of a clear-cut, master-servant arrangement than Greek Cypriot rhetoric about the "military occupation regime" would suggest. The north's lack of outside political recognition, the large local Turkish garrison, and a heavy dep [...]	2006-01-17 11:18:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
06NICOSIA522	SMOOTHING TURKEY'S EU PATH -- DG ENLARGEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 6, visiting EC Director General for Enlargement Michael Leigh (accompanied by Georg Ziegler and Andrea Battista from the Commission's Cyprus team) briefed Ambassador Schlicher on implementation plans for the European Union's assistance package to the Turkish Cypriot commu [...]	2006-04-06 13:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA716	TURKISH CYPRIOT PROPERTY COMMISSION BEGINS HEARING [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Cypriot Property Commission has begun processing claims from Greek Cypriots displaced from their properties in the north since the 1974 war -- and sources close to the body say it may start "closing cases" by returning land or paying compensation in the coming months. [...]	2006-05-17 10:32:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA816	AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 1 LUNCH WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a private lunch on June 1, Ambassador Schlicher and President Papadopoulos' Diplomatic Advisor Tasos Tzionis discussed the current state-of-play in the UN-led technical talks, as well as Turkey's EU accession prospects, and the possibility of a visit by DAS Bryza to Cyprus in [...]	2006-06-02 13:41:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
06PARIS1468	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran UN Reform [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 11:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6943	MEDIA WRAP-UP: DPRK SANCTIONS, IRAQ AND FRENCH-TURKISH [...] (SBU) This week's commentary led with items on potential sanctions following North Korea's nuclear test and the difficulty of finding a balance between a firm stance and China's concerns over the "disintegration" of North Korea (DPRK),with a number of media linking the DPRK and Iran. Iraq sta [...]	2006-10-20 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO OPRC FR
06PARIS6946	MFA A/S-EQUIVALENT PESSIMISTIC ON TURKEY-EU TRAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S-equivalent for European Union affairs Gilles Briatta told us October 20 that Turkey understood that the French National Assembly's passage of legislation criminalizing denial of the Armenian "genocide" was only a first parliamentary step, and that Turkey had managed the [...]	2006-10-23 06:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EU TU CY PGOV RS ENRG ETRD
06PARIS7636	MEDIA WRAP-UP: NATO SUMMIT AND AFGHANISTAN; TURKEY--THE [...] (SBU) The NATO Summit in Riga and President Bush's support for a Global Partnership Initiative elicited commentary highlighting divergent French and American views, while discussion on Afghanistan illustrated the "urgent need to help NATO reverse the growing impression it was losing its grip." [...]	2006-12-01 14:40:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PREL KPAO FR
06PARIS7666	U/S OF DEFENSE FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decision to do more in Afghanistan by ensuring that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and [...]	2006-12-05 08:47:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MARR ECPS NATO AF FR
06PARIS7684	DOD U/S EDELMAN'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH CHIRAC'S [...] (S) Summary: In a December 1 meeting with DoD U/S Edelman devoted primarily to Syria/Lebanon, French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) assessed that Syria was the weakest link in the Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis and wondered whether Israel could apply more pressure on Syria, a questi [...]	2006-12-06 13:08:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR IS KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
06PARIS7699	DOD U/S FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS: [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made on Afghanistan at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decisions to ensure that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and OEF through [...]	2006-12-07 11:54:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MARR ECPS NATO MNUC AF FR
06PARIS7755	A/S FRIED AND FRENCH NSA-EQUIVALENT [...] (S) SUMMARY: EUR A/S Dan Fried's December 7 meeting with presidential diplomatic advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) focused largely on Russia, with France in a defensive posture. MGM raised the aborted Putin-Chirac dinner on the margins of the NATO Riga Summit, saying it had been instigated b [...]	2006-12-12 13:05:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL FR EUN NATO RS UNO SR YI TU CY
06PARIS7770	A/S FRIED AND MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON KOSOVO, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried and MFA Political Director Araud on December 6 discussed whether Russia would wield a veto at the UNSC to thwart Kosovar independence. Araud called for a resolution that would facilitate a Russian abstention. A/S Fried agreed, but insisted there must be a common diplomat [...]	2006-12-12 17:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM RU TU SR FR
06PRISTINA491	KOSOVO: PM CEKU ALREADY AT WORK ON CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a June 8 meeting with Contact Group (CG) heads of mission in Pristina, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku received the 13 points of priorities for standards implementation as something that will help the Kosovo government focus its current efforts, not as criticism of its e [...]	2006-06-08 16:59:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06RABAT484	MOROCCO-TURKEY RELATIONS: A ROBUST AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: During a recent two-hour lunch with Polcouns, Turkish Embassy First Secretary Turker Ari painted a diverse portrait of Morocco-Turkish relations, touching on a series of planned and already executed high-level visits, extensive relations between the two countries' Islamist parti [...]	2006-03-17 16:13:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KISL MAS MO PGOV PREL
06RABAT557	SPANISH AMBASSADOR ON WESTERN SAHARA, MIGRATION, [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch March 20, Spanish Ambassador Planas Puchades told Ambassador Riley that Spain continued to encourage Morocco to produce a credible autonomy plan for the Western Sahara. He dismissed alleged splits within the Polisario, suggesting the recently emerged faction "Line of Martyrs [...]	2006-03-29 14:46:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PREL SNAR
06TELAVIV2072	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Hizbullah-IDF Clashes 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv and Israel Radio reported that last night, for the first time since the disengagement, the IDF made an incursion into the Beit Lahiya area of the northern Gaza Stri [...]	2006-05-30 11:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2714	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. North Korea ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli diplomatic officials expressed concern Thursday that the world's reaction to the IDF incursion into northern Gaza, considered relatively mil [...]	2006-07-07 13:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV678	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 11:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV700	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muhammad Cartoon Controversy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is expected to present to Acting PM Ehud Olmert today recommendations formulated by the defense establishment [...]	2006-02-17 11:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV751	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Muhammad Cartoon Controversy 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Israel's representative to the UN Danny Gillerman as warning at the UN Security Council Tuesday that an Iran-Syria-Hamas "terror ax [...]	2006-02-22 11:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV785	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Secretary Rice's "Transformational Diplomacy" Plan 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that A/S David Welch will visit Israel during the weekend and meet with Acting PM Ehud Olme [...]	2006-02-24 14:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06USUNNEWYORK1622	UNIFIL FORCE GENERATION UPDATE: A/S HILLEN PRESSES [...] (C) Summary. During separate meetings with UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown and Department of SIPDIS Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi on August 24, PM A/S Hillen emphasized the importance of ensuring that the international community helps [...]	2006-08-25 18:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO IS LE
06USUNNEWYORK1856	A/S FRIED'S 9/20 MEETING WITH TURKISH PM CHIEF [...] (U) EUR A/S Daniel Fried and NSC Director Judy Ansley met with Ambassador/Chief Advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu September 21 for 90 minutes on the margins of the UNGA general debate in New York. Following recounts the meeting's substance by theme. PKK ------ 2. (C) [...]	2006-09-25 17:43:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	GR PREL PTER TU UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2289	ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS REPORT DISCUSSED IN UNGA [...] Summary: On December 18, the General Assembly (GA) held an "informal" discussion on the Alliance of Civilization High-Level Group Report. Speaking at the GA were PM of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, PM of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, UN Secretary General (SYG) Kofi Annan, President of t [...]	2006-12-26 17:10:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNGA
06VATICAN249	VATICAN: ENCOURAGEMENT, BUT NO CHANGE ON TURKEY/EU POLICY [...] (C) Despite media reports to the contrary, the Vatican remains officially neutral on the subject of Turkey's EU bid. It maintains its position that it sees "no obstacle" to Turkey's entry if the GoT fulfills the Copenhagen criteria on religious freedom. Holy See officials were quick to speak out an [...]	2006-12-01 17:24:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI TU VT
06VATICAN256	TURKEY: VATICAN BACKS INTEGRATION [...] (C) While not officially endorsing Turkey's entry into the EU (ref a),the Holy See continues to support the dialogue and reform process connected to the issue. Top officials, including the pope, have spoken positively in public and private about European integration. Although they are critical of [...]	2006-12-07 17:58:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM TU VT
06VILNIUS573	LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT: EU INCOMPLETE WITHOUT TURKEY [...] (SBU) President Adamkus argued for the eventual accession of Turkey to the European Union in a June 17 interview with Turkish newspaper Miliyet, according to the Lithuanian press. Adamkus plans to make an official visit to Turkey later this week, where he will meet President Sezer, PM Erdogan, [...]	2006-06-19 13:48:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL LH TU
06YEREVAN1586	FM OSKANIAN BLASTS GUL FOR MOSCOW COMMENTS ON [...] (C) FM Oskanian responded November 4 to Turkish FM Gul's remarks to RFE/RL on Turkish-Armenian relations. Oskanian's statement rebuked Turkey for ignoring President Kocharian's April 2005 response to PM Erdogan's historical commission proposal, and for Turkey's renewed insistence on the histo [...]	2006-11-08 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
06YEREVAN858	ARMENIAN PRESS BLASTS TURKISH RECEPTION OF [...] Armenian cultural and political leaders blasted the GOT in the press following an incident during which a group of about 50 protesters reportedly egged cars carrying Armenian religious dignitaries on their way to meet the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Istanbul airport. Accordi [...]	2006-06-26 10:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM
07ADANA11	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 16, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-17 07:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA19	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 13, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 13, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. GUNDEM: Municipality Assembly member [...]	2007-02-14 10:37:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA24	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 20, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 20, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. EVRENSEL / GUNDEM / ZAMAN: Prep [...]	2007-02-21 10:10:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA25	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 21, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 21, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. BOLGE: Eric Green, U.S. Consul to A [...]	2007-02-22 07:17:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA30	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 6 MARCH, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 06:39:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA31	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 7 MARCH 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 10:42:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA32	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 7, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for March 7, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. EKSPRES / SABAH (GUNEY) / BOLGE / EVREN [...]	2007-03-08 10:43:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA37	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 12, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-13 13:51:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA4	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 09, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 13:23:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA40	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 12, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for March 12, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. YASAMDA GUNDEM: Gundem daily reappeared [...]	2007-03-14 10:39:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA49	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 04, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-06 05:29:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA58	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 19, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for April 19, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. ZAMAN / EVRENSEL / SABAH / HURRIYET / [...]	2007-04-20 06:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA59	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 19, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 09:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA7	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 1, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-16 06:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA83	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 15, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 15, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. EKSPRES ONLINE/ HABERLER.COM / HABER3. [...]	2007-06-18 10:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA84	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 20, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 20, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / EKSPRES: MHP Adana part [...]	2007-06-20 14:07:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA85	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 21, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 21, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. EVRENSEL: ADSIAD (Adana Industri [...]	2007-06-21 12:55:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA88	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 26, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 26, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. SABAH (GUNEY) / BOLGE: Kursat Tuzmen, [...]	2007-06-27 11:40:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA89	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 26, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 26, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. SABAH (GUNEY) / BOLGE: Kursat Tuzmen, [...]	2007-06-27 12:24:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA90	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 27, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Hakkari Jandar [...]	2007-06-27 14:11:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA91	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 28, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Hakkari Jandar [...]	2007-06-28 09:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA99	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 21-27, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for July 21-27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. CUMHURIYET/EVRENSEL/HURRIYET/YENI S [...]	2007-07-27 12:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ANKARA10	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-04 13:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1002	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-27 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1003	TURKEY'S PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: OPPOSITION DEMANDS [...] (U) Turkey's Constitutional Court will now decide the course of the country's presidential election. A total of 361 MPs voted in the April 27 first round, with 357 votes going to ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate Abdullah Gul. The total number of votes cast fell six short [...]	2007-04-27 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1004	TURKISH MFA COMMENTS ON LARIJANI-SOLANA MEETING [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy U/S Rafet Akgunay told Ambassador on April 27 that EU Foreign Policy Chief Solana told the Turks that the gap between the EU and Iranian positions was very wide. Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Larijani complained to FM Gul that the EU was not SIP [...]	2007-04-27 16:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TU IR
07ANKARA1006	TURKEY: TGS STATEMENT SUPPORTS SECULARISTS; GOT [...] (SBU) Summary: At approximately 11:30 pm on April 27, the Turkish General Staff issued a strongly worded statement, warning of the dangers of "fundamentalism", identifying as enemies of the State those who do not ascribe to Ataturk's statement, "How happy is he who can say he is a Turk," and d [...]	2007-04-28 13:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR ECON TU
07ANKARA1014	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-30 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1024	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-01 14:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1027	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1035	TURKISH POLITICAL STAND-OFF TRIGGERS MIXED [...] (C) Summary. Turks across the spectrum agree that early parliamentary elections are the only way out of the current stand-off. That, and PM Erdogan's miscalculation in nominating FM Gul, may be the only things on which they do agree. Many see the May 1 Constitutional Court decision as posit [...]	2007-05-02 17:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA1039	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-03 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1053	TURKISH POLITICAL TURMOIL: VIEWS FROM THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 16:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1054	TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO REPEAT PRESIDENTIAL VOTE ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has scheduled a repeat of the first round of voting for their presidential candidate, FM Abdullah Gul, for May 6. If they are unable to muster a 367 member quorum, as required by a May 1 Constitutional Court decision [...]	2007-05-04 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1056	TURKISH PARLIAMENT STALLED ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. On May 6, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was unable to muster the 367 quorum required for parliament to repeat the first round of voting on FM Gul's controversial presidential candidacy. While Gul announced before the session began that he would w [...]	2007-05-06 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1066	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-07 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1070	PERSPECTIVES ON THE TURKISH MILITARY'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The effects of the Turkish General Staff's (TGS) April 27 "midnight memo" continue to be debated in Ankara. Universally regarded as a stern warning targeting an Abdullah Gul presidency, the military's message was justified in the view of our secular establishment contacts who do n [...]	2007-05-07 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS TU
07ANKARA1081	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-08 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1083	TURKISH PARLIAMENT HOLDS RAUCOUS DEBATE OVER [...] (U) After contentious debate on May 7, parliament held the first round of voting on a controversial constitutional amendment package to move toward direct presidential elections, with 361 MPs voting in favor. A required second vote is scheduled for May 10. The ruling Justice and Development [...]	2007-05-08 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1091	TURKEY: FM GUL AS THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES MASTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 11:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1096	TURKISH REACTIONS TO POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with two advisors to PM Erdogan, two former leaders on the left, an influential Ankara business figure, and three key journalists portray a range of views regarding Turkey's ongoing political turmoil and where it may lead. -- The ruling Justice and Development Par [...]	2007-05-10 05:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU US
07ANKARA11	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CONTROVERSY GATHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition's effort to prevent Prime Minister Erdogan from becoming Turkey's next president in May is underway; following the January 1-3 national holiday, skirmishes look set to intensify. Attempts to find a constitutional basis for calling early elections (reftel A) or neut [...]	2007-01-04 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA110	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-19 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1107	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1108	TURKEY'S GOVERNING BIG TENT PARTY -- SPLITS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The political crisis sparked by Foreign Minister Gul's failed bid for the presidency has exacerbated pre-existing divisions within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). While AKP has always been a "big tent" coalition of the devout, the moderate, the nationalists and t [...]	2007-05-10 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1112	TURKEY: COURT PRESIDENT ISSUES WARNING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The President of the Council of State (Danistay, Turkey's highest administrative court),Sumru Cortoglu, used her remarks on the court's anniversary to issue a thinly veiled warning to the government. She held PM Erdogan's government accountable for the 2006 attack th [...]	2007-05-10 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1114	TURKISH PARLIAMENT PUSHES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) Turkey's parliament approved two constitutional amendment packages on May 10, before adjourning until May 15. 2. (U) By a vote of 429 to 12, MPs approved an amendment to list independent candidates on the main ballot instead of separate slips, as in previous elections. The measure is w [...]	2007-05-10 16:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
07ANKARA112	TURKEY: ACROSS THE BOARD, OFFICIALS CHARACTERIZE [...] (SBU) GOT officials and Turkish politicians across the political spectrum moved quickly to condemn the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink (reftel). PM Erdogan conducted a live press conference within 90 minutes of the attack, while President Seze [...]	2007-01-19 16:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV TU
07ANKARA1136	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-11 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1139	HOW TURKISH POLITICS REACHED ITS CURRENT IMPASSE - [...] (SBU) The following is a somewhat speculative appraisal of how Turkey -- its ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),the opposition and the military -- reached its current level of political turmoil. 2. (C) Power centers across the board made wrong-headed, if typically Turkish, decisi [...]	2007-05-11 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1147	TURKEY: IZMIR "REPUBLIC RALLY" ECLIPSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sunday's enormous demonstration in Izmir caps a series of "Republic Rallies," in which pro-secular Turks turned out to demonstrate against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The massive crowds and stunning visuals of red Turkish flags against the blue Aegean Sea ec [...]	2007-05-14 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA115	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-22 10:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU

07ANKARA116	TURKISH DEFMIN GONUL'S VISIT: SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Defense Gonul's January 25-26 visit, preceding the February visits of Foreign Minister Gul and Chief of the General Staff GEN Buyukanit, provides an opportunity to reaffirm the US commitment on Iraq; urge a measured Turkish response to a possible Congressional Armenian [...]	2007-01-22 11:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AR

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