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07ANKARA1172	KAYSERI BOOMING; AKP MAY BE SLIPPING [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri on May 14, we found local business leaders and politicians unperturbed by the political dramas in Ankara. Members of the business community, famed for their entrepreneurial talents and "family values," seemed more interested in e [...]	2007-05-16 12:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV TU

07ANKARA1175	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1179	IS THE PKK CEASEFIRE ABOUT TO END? [...] (S/NF) Summary: There is increasing speculation that the PKK's unilateral ceasefire, which it declared in October 2006 and has somewhat observed, may end as soon as May 18. Even after declaring the ceasefire -- on jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's instructions -- the PKK publicly warned that it [...]	2007-05-16 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1180	TURKEY: AKP CONTINUES TO PUSH DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. Unable to elect FM Abdullah Gul president through the existing parliamentary election process because of the newly enunciated quorum requirement, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has pushed through parliament a package of controversial constitutional ame [...]	2007-05-16 16:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1186	Turkish Bloggers Sound Off On Political Developments [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's blogging community, while small, mostly reflects the larger current of sentiment in the elite secular community. Through comments on newspaper websites and individual blogs, Turks are sounding off about secularist demonstrations, the upcoming elections, and Turkey's pol [...]	2007-05-17 11:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA1189	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-17 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1198	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY'S NEW STRATEGY TO ENTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-18 09:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA121	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-22 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1215	TURKEY-RUSSIA RELATIONS: INTO THE BEAR'S DEN? [...] (C) Summary: Deepening economic and political ties between Russia and Turkey bear watching, but they do not signal a fundamental shift in Ankara's foreign policy orientation. Contacts believe Russia offers Turkey a sympathetic ear as both feel buffeted by a critical west. However, on key Turk [...]	2007-05-21 07:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET TU RS
07ANKARA1219	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, March & April 2007 [...] Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) General Yasar Buyukanit gave his annual speech to the War College in Istanbul on March 16. In contrast to previous years, the speech was closed to the press, but was subsequently leaked to the media. In the speech, Buyukanit refrained from comment abou [...]	2007-05-21 10:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL FR AJ PK KS MK YI GM BU AL IT SI
07ANKARA1229	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 13:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA124	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-23 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1245	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1249	TURKEY: ANKARA EXPLOSION: POLICE CONCLUDE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 08:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC CMGT PGOV TU
07ANKARA1257	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1264	TURKEY'S PRESIDENT SEZER NOT A NEUTRAL PLAYER [...] (C) Summary and comment. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer remains in office indefinitely after Turkey's abortive presidential election, at least until a new parliament convenes after July 22 elections and attempts to elect his successor. Some give Sezer high marks as the last defense against th [...]	2007-05-24 05:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1265	TURKISH LEADERS DEPLORE BOMB ATTACK [...] (U) Summary and comment. Turkish leaders, including, notably, pro-Kurdish politicians, roundly condemned the May 22 bombing in downtown Ankara that killed six and injured over 90 persons (reftel). PM Erdogan denounced terrorism and called for solidarity, as did main opposition Republican Peo [...]	2007-05-24 05:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV TU
07ANKARA1271	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-24 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1272	IMF Board Approval Amid Local Debate [...] (SBU) Summary: The IMF Board's May 18 review of Turkey's stand-by program focused on the risk of fiscal slippage during an election, a risk also identified by many local analysts. Approval of the $1.1 billion IMF tranche also coincides with a rekindled debate about what form Turkey's future [...]	2007-05-24 13:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN TU
07ANKARA1281	TURKEY: ANKARA BOMBING, MINE INCIDENT RAISING [...] (U) Summary: The May 22 Ankara bombing combined with a PKK landmine/IED that killed six Turkish soldiers and wounded numerous others May 24 in Sirnak province, have raised the temperature on a possible cross-border operation (CBO). The PM has put the ball in the Turkish General Staff's (TGS) [...]	2007-05-25 10:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA129	TURKEY/IRAN: TURKISH MILITARY LOOKING TO IRAN FOR HELP ON PKK [...] (S/NF) The Turkish military has long been stalwart in opposing any deepening of ties between Turkey and Iran. The TGS (Turkish General Staff) sees Iran as one of its principal strategic threats and has been quite outspoken with us and with the Erdogan government in expressing concern about governme [...]	2007-01-23 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR PTER IR IZ TU
07ANKARA1295	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1302	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-29 13:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1316	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1323	TURKEY: PARLIAMENT APPROVES EXTENSION OF TURKEY'S [...] (SBU) ON MAY 29, THE TURKISH GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVED THE EXTENSION OF TURKEY'S DEPLOYMENT TO UNIFIL UNTIL AUGUST 31, 2008. THE GOVERNMENT INTRODUCED THE MOTION AT THIS TIME IN THE EXPECTATION THAT PARLIAMENT WOULD NOT BE IN SESSION FOLLOWING JULY 22 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS WHEN THE C [...]	2007-05-31 08:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR UN LE TU
07ANKARA1336	TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CHIEF JUSTICE BERATES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Responding to comments Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made on NTV May 29, Constitutional Court President Tulay Tugcu issued a forceful press statement the afternoon of May 30, asserting that the PM had insulted the court, sought to put the executive above the judiciary, [...]	2007-05-31 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1337	GOT IRAQ ENVOY SEES POSITIVE SIGNALS FROM GOI ON [...] (S/NF) Summary: GOT Special Envoy Celikkol was encouraged by his May 27-28 visit to Baghdad, he told the Ambassador May 30. PM Maliki welcomed increased Turkey-Iraq cooperation and sent positive signals on the PKK, as did other politicians (even including DPM Salih). Celikkol said he was tol [...]	2007-06-01 08:53:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER ENRG ETRD TU IZ SY
07ANKARA134	U/S BURNS' LUNCH WITH TURKISH MFA U/S APAKAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Turkish MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan exchanged views on Afghanistan, Kosovo, Cyprus, the Halki Seminary, the possibility of an Armenian genocide resolution in the US Congress, and Central Asia at a working lunch January 19 that followed a m [...]	2007-01-24 10:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA1345	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-01 11:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1348	THE U.S. AS POLITICAL FOOTBALL IN TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary and comment: As Turkey's parliamentary election campaign heats up, all players will use any hook to drag the US into the campaign. The name of the game is to embarrass, trip up or sideline PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP). The context includes an overheated polit [...]	2007-06-01 13:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU US
07ANKARA1349	DANCING ON KNIFE'S EDGE: GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Amidst the charged environment of renewed PKK violence and the current political crisis, the AKP government and military continue to publicly debate by whom and how a cross-border operation (CBO) against PKK camps in northern Iraq would be ordered. This high-stakes game -- combine [...]	2007-06-01 13:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA136	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH TURKISH FM GUL [...] (S) SUMMARY: FM Gul expressed shock during a meeting January 19 with U/S Nicholas Burns at the murder several hours earlier of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, which he feared might weaken prospects for fending off a possible Armenian "genocide" resolution in the U.S. Congress. He expr [...]	2007-01-24 12:07:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA137	TURKEY PROPOSES IRAQI RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: Turkey supports the U.S.'s strategy for Iraq but remains deeply concerned about the lack of political consensus in Baghdad or the PKK and Kirkuk issues, GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol told visiting PDAS James Jeffrey on Jan. 19. Jeffrey explained the thinking behind the Pres [...]	2007-01-24 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1372	CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON TURKEY, CODEL NELSON [...] (SBU) Summary. PM Erdogan and FM Gul met May 28 with Codel Nelson and the Congressional Study Group on Turkey. An unusually upbeat Erdogan focused on the solid footing of the US-Turkish strategic relationship and Turkey's efforts to contribute to regional peace and stability, including in Af [...]	2007-06-04 13:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MOPS TU US IZ SY AM LE
07ANKARA1379	TURKEY HOSTS BSEC SUMMIT - USG ATTENDANCE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on Secretary Rice's March message to FM Gul promising participation by a senior State Department official in the June 25 BSEC Summit in Istanbul (ref B) is an important opportunity to emphasize USG support for BSEC and our bigger objective of encouraging economic a [...]	2007-06-04 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV KCRM TU
07ANKARA1399	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 05:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA141	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 15:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1411	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 11:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1432	JUNE 6 PRESS REPORTS OF A TURKISH CROSS-BORDER [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: Turkish government officials, including PM Erdogan and FM Gul, publicly dismissed June 6 press reports that Turkish troops, backed by F-16s, conducted a cross-border operation (CBO) into northern Iraq against the PKK terrorist organization. Iraqi Kurdish officials echoed tha [...]	2007-06-07 10:46:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MOPS PTER PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1437	TURKEY: GOVERNING AKP MOVES TO CENTER, PURGES [...] (C) Summary and comment: The biggest story of Turkey's just published election lists is the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) overhaul of its roster, boosting the party's centrist bona fides and purging much of the specifically Islamist wing and those who voted "no" on March 1, 200 [...]	2007-06-07 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL TU
07ANKARA1439	TURKEY: ELECTION LISTS GIVE GLIMPSE OF OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recently published unofficial election lists signal hidden messages and give clues to opposition parties' campaign plans. Nominally center-left opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) oriented itself as a party opposed to threats to the state, with ruling Justice and Devel [...]	2007-06-07 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA144	DINK ASSASSINATION LEADS TO NATIONAL SOUL-SEARCHING [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 15:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE AM TU
07ANKARA1440	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-07 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1451	TURKEY: ONE OF THE NEW BREED OF AKP CANDIDATES - [...] (C) Mehmet Simsek is an unknown in Turkish politics. But he now has the #1 slot on the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) election list in Gaziantep, virtually ensuring him entry to parliament after the July 22 election - and his possible elevation as minister. Who is Simsek and why [...]	2007-06-08 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR TU
07ANKARA1452	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-08 13:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA147	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-25 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1470	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-11 12:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1482	TURKEY: PRESSURE MOUNTING FOR MILITARY TO ACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan called for a special security meeting today to discuss the latest PKK attacks and Turkey's response. Press reports characterize the meeting as an opportunity to get interagency consensus on the way forward to combat the PKK and pave the way for a possible decision at t [...]	2007-06-12 09:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1496	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-12 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1498	TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT RETIRES: [...] (U) Summary. Turkey's Constitutional Court President Tulay Tugcu will retire on June 12, opening the way for President Sezer to appoint a new justice to the high court. Sezer will fill the vacancy by choosing from among three nominees yet to be selected by the Council of State (Danistay). Cu [...]	2007-06-12 15:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA150	TURKEY OFERS TO HOST MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: TURKEY HAS OFFERED TO HOST A PROSPECTIVE PAGE 02 RUEHAKA0150 C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 000150 ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SUMMIT AND/OR TRILATERAL MEETING INVOLVING SECRETARY RICE SHOULD SUCH A MEETING INVOLVING PM OLMERT AND ABU MAZEN TAKE PLACE. CONTINUING PM ERDOGAN'S ELECT [...]	2007-01-25 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL TU IS
07ANKARA1505	TURKISH-GEORGIAN RELATIONS: DEEPER AND DEEPER [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turkish MFA Deputy Undersecretary Unal Cevikoz (a former Ambassador to Baku) visits Washington from June 18-20 for consultations on South Caucasus and Central Asia. Cevikoz is likely to identify the strengthening relationship between Turkey and Georgia as a major co [...]	2007-06-13 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR ECIN ETRD SMIG NATO AJ AM GG TU
07ANKARA1507	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-13 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1512	"Next Generation" Turkish Economic Reforms [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey is enjoying strong economic performance, with real GDP growth averaging over 7% per year for the past five years, government debt down, and inflation nearing single digits. Medium-sized "Anatolian Tigers" are thriving alongside traditional business conglomerates and Ista [...]	2007-06-14 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
07ANKARA1513	"Next Generation" Turkish Economic Reforms [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey is enjoying strong economic performance, with real GDP growth averaging over 7% per year for the past five years, government debt down, and inflation nearing single digits. Medium-sized "Anatolian Tigers" are thriving alongside traditional business conglomerates and Ista [...]	2007-06-14 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
07ANKARA1516	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-14 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1520	SCENESETTER FOR AMB SCHULTE'S JUNE 20 [...] (C) Turkey's officials continue to acknowledge Iran's nuclear program as a threat, but the current domestic political crisis, as well as concerns over PKK terrorism and Iraq, have kept Iran off the front burner. Your June 20 DVC with Turkish journalists will help us keep the threat posed by a [...]	2007-06-15 07:11:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PARM PINS ENRG IR TU
07ANKARA1527	TURKEY: DEPUTY DEFENSE CHIEF DISMISSES RUMORS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Chief of Staff (DCHOD) GEN Ergin Saygun claimed on June 14 that, contrary to rampant press speculation, the Turkish military is not planning to impose a security buffer zone in northern Iraqi territory along the shared border. At the same time, he emphasized there must be [...]	2007-06-15 11:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1532	ACTION REQUEST: TURKS SEEK USG HELP TO FACILITATE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 6 and 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan is inviting Iraqi PM Maliki to visit Turkey later this month to discuss bilateral issues, including security and energy, and the Turks have asked for USG support in convincing Maliki to accept the invitation. The G [...]	2007-06-15 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1536	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-15 13:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1553	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-18 14:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1560	TURKEY: PROMINENT KURDISH INTELLECTUAL URGES U.S. SUPPORT FOR TURKISH DEMOCRATIZATION, RAPPROCHEMENT WITH NORTHERN IRAQ [...] Summary: (C) In a meeting with Adana PO, prominent Kurdish author Mehmet Uzun urged the U.S. to establish a permanent military presence in Northern Iraq to protect the democratic advances of the KRG, which he believes will catalyze liberalization elsewhere in the region. He discounted the pro [...]	2007-06-19 09:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA1569	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1573	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-20 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1603	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-22 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1606	TURKEY: POLLSTERS PREDICT AKP WIN, LONG-TERM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A cross section of leading pollsters from Ankara and Istanbul agreed that public opinion in Turkey shows deep polarization, disaffection and fear about the future. Most significantly, all agree that under today's conditions and barring unforeseen interventions, the ruling Justice [...]	2007-06-22 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA161	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-26 12:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1619	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1633	TURKEY: MFA U/S APAKAN - MILD OPTIMISM ON [...] (C) Summary. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary (U/S) Apakan reviewed for Ambassador June 21 SIPDIS Turkey's dialogue with the European Union (EU) and France on accession and bilateral relations issues. Turkey views both discussions with cautious optimism. Apakan also updat [...]	2007-06-26 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU FR
07ANKARA1651	PKK VIOLENCE -- AND PRESSURE FOR CROSS-BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Ongoing PKK violence has made terrorism a top issue in campaigning for July 22 parliamentary elections. PM Erdogan faces pressure from nearly all sides to authorize a cross-border operation into northern Iraq -- and that pressure will inevitably increase in the days ahead. End s [...]	2007-06-27 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA1670	GENERAL STAFF SPEAKS OUT -- AGAIN -- ON PKK TERROR [...] (C) Summary: Senior commanders briefing journalists at a commando training area in western Turkey June 26 rejected press allegations that Turkish troops are not properly trained to fight PKK terrorists, reiterated the military's belief that a cross-border operation (CBO) into northern Iraq is [...]	2007-06-28 10:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA1672	TURKISH IMPLEMENTATION OF IRAN SANCTIONS INCHING [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials informed us that the Council of Ministers has signed the decree implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1737. The decree now is awaiting the Prime Minister's and President's signatures before coming into effect. End Summary. 2. (C) MFA Iran desk checked w [...]	2007-06-28 13:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP TU IR
07ANKARA1673	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-28 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1679	TURKEY: A TALE OF TWO (SUB-PROVINCIAL) CITIES - [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two sub-provincial capitals and several villages in Ankara province provide a window into parties' election preparations. Rival parties delivered the same angry message on US policies on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),Iraq, and Israel. The visits also gave us a glimpse int [...]	2007-06-29 09:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1685	TURKEY'S BSEC BILATERALS: ARMENIA, GREECE, GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey held 38 bilaterals on the margins of the 15th Black Sea Economic Cooperation Commission (BSEC) June 25 summit (SEPTEL) in Istanbul. Key among those were FM Gul's meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and PM Erdogan's meetings with Greek PM Karamanlis, and Georgi [...]	2007-06-29 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG GR TU
07ANKARA1687	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-02 06:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1693	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-02 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1720	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-05 12:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1727	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-06 13:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1733	TURKEY: AKP IN THE PROVINCES - TOP DOWN IS THE [...] (C) Summary and comment: A series of trips to Turkey's provinces have made it clear that PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) has turned into the top-down Erdogan machine. He picked the candidate lists, he set the priorities and the platform. If AKP returns to government, all wi [...]	2007-07-06 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1738	TURKEY WORRIED ABOUT MALIKI "CONCESSIONS" TO KURDS [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Iraq Special Envoy Oguz Celikkol is worried that PM Maliki, under siege from Sunni and other groups, is making political concessions to Kurdish politicians -- including on Kirkuk -- in order to maintain his grip on power. Celikkol's effort to work through Maliki spoke [...]	2007-07-06 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA1742	TURKEY: AKP PLATFORM: "DON'T LEAVE THE JOB [...] (C) Summary. Unveiling his party's platform, PM Erdogan stressed stability and security if voters return his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in Turkey's July 22 general election. Their focus is on accomplishments to date, with a call to voters, in their words, not to leave [...]	2007-07-09 09:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1745	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-09 12:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1755	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-10 12:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1763	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-11 13:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1771	TURKEY: OPPOSITION LEADER BAYKAL CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: In separate meetings with Ambassador and Staffdel Makovsky, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chairman Deniz Baykal and CHP vice chair Onur Oymen outlined the party's election platform and plans. In both meetings, Baykal was focused and responsive. He re [...]	2007-07-11 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PTER PREL TU US
07ANKARA1778	TURKEY: THE PRO-KURDISH DTP - ITS ELECTION AND [...] (C) Summary: The largest and most influential pro-Kurdish political party, the Democratic Society Party (DTP),running candidates as independents, seems set to take some two dozen seats in the July 22 parliamentary election. This is enough seats to form a parliamentary group and -- if DTPers s [...]	2007-07-12 08:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA1781	TURKEY: KURDS ARE NOT A MONOLITH [...] (U) This is a message from Consulate Adana. 2. (C) Summary: In the Western media, Turkey's Kurds -- about 15 percent of the total population -- are frequently described as "restive," implying that members of this minority are all disaffected and favor separating from Turkey. This misperc [...]	2007-07-12 08:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER TU
07ANKARA1783	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-12 12:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1792	TURKEY: PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT IS PEACEFUL, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a political environment lately caught up in existential questions, the normalcy of the current election environment provides a reassuring contrast. Debates are lively but treading familiar paths. While the parties are seized with election fervor, Turkey isn't getting carried [...]	2007-07-13 12:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1795	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-13 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1803	TURKEY ELECTION SCENESETTER AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) will likely come out on top July 22, winning fewer seats than in 2002, but enough to form a government. At least two other parties will surmount the 10% threshold, and parliament seems likely to be more fractious than it [...]	2007-07-16 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ECON TU
07ANKARA1804	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-16 12:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1808	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-16 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1812	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, June 2007 [...] The joint air force Anatolian Eagle Exercise-2007/2 (second exercise of the year) took place in Konya June 11-22. United States, Britain, Pakistan, Jordan and NATO attended the exercise. The first Anatolian Eagle Exercise was held in 2001. Government-Military Focus on Terrorism ------------ [...]	2007-07-17 07:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL CH RO UK KS RS GM GR TU
07ANKARA1817	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-17 13:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA182	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-29 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1822	TURKEY: ALEVI GROUPS DEEM CHP "LEAST BAD" OPTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 08:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1831	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU

07ANKARA1833	TURKEY: ESKISEHIR AMBIVALENT TOWARD AKP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two and a half hours west of Ankara, the prosperous industrial city of Eskisehir, population 750,000, is preparing for elections with mixed feelings for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The home of dwindling reserves of soft Meerschaum mineral used for carving pipes [...]	2007-07-18 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1842	TURKISH ELECTIONS: ANALYSTS ASSESS MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Experts on civil-military relations in Ankara contend the Turkish General Staff (TGS) is satisfied with the process set in motion by its April 27 warning and the Constitutional Court's subsequent decision on the presidency vote which brought Turkey to early elections. Analysts cla [...]	2007-07-19 11:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1843	TURKEY: AMBASSADOR URGES GOT ACTION ON ARTICLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-19 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1859	TURKEY AND US-TURKISH RELATIONS AFTER THE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's July 22 election will not quell, and may aggravate, the polarizing battles here over secularism, fundamentalism, nationalism, and minority (Kurdish) rights, and between the old elite and a rising new one. Ditto civil-military tensions, which will continue to express th [...]	2007-07-20 10:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL US TU
07ANKARA1860	ECONOMIC INSECURITY IN TURKISH BLACK SEA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite its reputation as a nationalist hotbed, Trabzon is a lively, cosmopolitan city, influenced by growing trade and tourist relations with the former Soviet Union. The charm and prosperity of its downtown mask significant underemployment and a growing concern about the re [...]	2007-07-20 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EIND SOCI TU
07ANKARA1861	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-20 13:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1866	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DOD GENERAL COUNSEL [...] (S) Summary: Your July 25 visit will come right after Sunday's parliamentary elections here. Allegations regarding U.S. arms in Iraq going to the Kurdish PKK terrorist organization have featured prominently during the campaign to portray the AKP government as soft on terrorism. PM Erdogan an [...]	2007-07-20 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA187	TURKEY REVITALIZES ITS PETROLEUM CODE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a long-awaited good news story for its investment environment, Turkey finally passed a new petroleum code, intended to provide more attractive incentives to encourage foreign investment in oil and gas exploration and production. The U.S. company Toreador, which will start pr [...]	2007-01-30 11:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET BEXP TU IZ
07ANKARA1876	TURKEY'S ELECTIONS: AKP EMERGES WITH MANDATE; [...] (C) Voters across Turkey handed PM Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) a resounding vote of confidence in July 22 parliamentary elections (reftel). Turks rewarded AKP for five years of effective governance, strong economic growth and relative political stability. FM Gul's de [...]	2007-07-23 10:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1877	Turkish Markets Embrace AKP Victory [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish Financial Markets soared in reaction to the AKP's strong -- but not too strong -- performance in parliamentary elections. The result, allowing AKP to form a single-party government with a comfortable majority sets the stage for continued orthodox, investor-friendly econo [...]	2007-07-23 11:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV TU
07ANKARA1879	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-23 13:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA188	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-30 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1888	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-24 13:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1890	TURKEY SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL GROVE, JULY 25-28, [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored a significant victory in Sunday's polls and appears set to form another single-party government with a mandate to pursue its economic reform policies. On Iraq, Turkey continues to be an essential partner, supporting co [...]	2007-07-24 13:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PTER ECON ENRG OREP IZ TU
07ANKARA1892	TURKEY: ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is open to the possibility of the next ministerial meeting of Iraq's expanded neighbors process taking place in the first half of September, but believes it should be held in Istanbul as agreed to by participants in the first meeting at Sharm-el-Sheikh. Turkish MFA Iraq C [...]	2007-07-25 06:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1895	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-25 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1899	TURKEY: SOUTHEAST ELECTION RESULTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-26 06:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU
07ANKARA1901	TURKEY: AKP VICTORY A "MEMORANDUM" TO THE GENERALS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. As the magnitude of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) win in the July 22 election sinks in, many credit AKP's track record, successful economic policies, and issue-based election campaign with boosting AKP to over 46 percent. AKP -- far better than its party r [...]	2007-07-26 08:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1904	TURKEY: TIMING FOR NEW PARLIAMENT, NEW GOVERNMENT, [...] (C) Summary and comment. Official results of Turkey's July 22 general election are expected July 26, starting the clock for setting up the new parliament, forming a new government and electing the next president. If all goes smoothly -- a big "if" -- parliament could complete the process by [...]	2007-07-26 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1905	TURKEY: AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Prime Minister Erdogan, chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),is a perfectionist workaholic who sincerely cares for the well-being of those around him, according to a top-level Prime Ministry insider. His boss is very "democratic," he said, but the ove [...]	2007-07-26 12:11:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PINR PBIO TU
07ANKARA192	TOP FIVE INFLUENTIAL TURKISH WOMEN [...] (U) The top five influential women in Turkey are: -- GULER SABANCI, Sabanci Holding CEO. Sabanci Center 4, Levent, 34330 Istanbul, Turkey. Tel: 90 212 281-6516/281-1091; Fax: 90 212 281-2553 -- FEYHAN KALPAKLIOGLU, Yasar Holding CEO. Sehit Fethi Bey Caddesi, No. 120, 35210 Izmir, Turkey. [...]	2007-01-31 06:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL TU
07ANKARA1922	TURKEY SCENESETTER FOR AMERICAN-TURKISH COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored a significant victory in the July 22 election and appears set to form another single-party government with a mandate to pursue its economic and political reform policies. On Iraq, Turkey continues to be an essential par [...]	2007-07-27 07:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PTER ECON ENRG OREP IZ TU
07ANKARA1926	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 12:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1928	TURKISH PM ADVISOR ON ELECTIONS, REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Turkish PM/FM foreign affairs advisor Ahmet Davutoglu said the AKP's July 22 electoral showing was a big victory that effectively puts the party in Turkey's political center. In a July 24 conversation with the Ambassador, Davutoglu expressed uncertainty about how PM Erdogan will handle th [...]	2007-07-27 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL US TU
07ANKARA1952	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-31 08:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1958	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-31 11:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1970	TURKEY: NEW AIR FORCE AND NAVY COMMANDERS TO BE [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Military Council (YAS) will meet August 1-4 and is expected to name new Turkish Air Force and Navy commanders. In all, five three-star officers will be promoted to four stars to replace officers retiring this year. Chief of Turkish General Staff (CHOD) GEN Yasar Buyu [...]	2007-08-01 11:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MARR TU
07ANKARA1974	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-01 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1975	TURKEY: A GUL PRESIDENCY: DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkish MPs are readying for the next major contest: electing a new president. So far, it is deja vu all over again, with FM Abdullah Gul still the front runner despite his failed attempt in April. Gul supporters -- and even some opposition -- contend the Justice and [...]	2007-08-01 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1977	WELCOME CONGRESSMAN SHAYS: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes as the recently elected parliament prepares to approve a new government and elect the country's next president. Terrorism and Iraq remain key issues, and the return of pro-Kurdish representatives to parliament after 14 years may offer a chance for i [...]	2007-08-01 17:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PREL PTER ECON ENRG OREP AM IZ TU
07ANKARA1981	TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHP BLAMES ELECTION RESULTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Incoming opposition deputies on the center-left shared their views with Ambassador that the July 22 election result -- a soaring win for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a piddling increase for so-called center-left Republican People's Party (CHP) -- was due to [...]	2007-08-02 07:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1986	TURKEY: PUBLICLY FUNDED ELECTIONS DELIVER SMOOTH [...] (U) Summary: Turkish election experts believe the GOT's public campaign financing system contributed to the trouble-free July 22 election. Supporters contend that providing campaign operating funds to parties that garnered 7 percent in the 2002 election allows candidates to focus on campaign [...]	2007-08-02 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1987	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA199	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-31 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1998	TURKEY-IRAQ: GOT PREPARES FOR PM MALIKI VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's primary focus during PM Maliki's August 7 Ankara visit will be on security-related issues. The GOT hopes to make progress on a bilateral security agreement, but does not expect to sign the agreement during the visit. The GOT will also devote attention to economic coopera [...]	2007-08-03 11:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON ENRG IZ TU
07ANKARA20	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-05 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2002	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-03 12:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2004	TURKEY'S NEW PARLIAMENT CONVENES TO ELECT SPEAKER [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. Turkey's newly elected MPs took their oaths without incident on August 4 and will convene again on August 9 to begin electing a Speaker and forming a government. PM Erdogan is expected to announce h [...]	2007-08-06 10:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2018	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-07 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2019	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-07 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2021	TURKEY: ANNUAL MILITARY PROMOTIONS AND DISMISSALS [...] (C) Summary: Results of the 2007 Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting, announced August 4, included the promotion of 34 generals and admirals and the extension of service for 40 general officers. As expected, General Aydogan Babaoglu was named Air Force Commander, and Admiral Muzaafer Metin [...]	2007-08-08 09:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR TU
07ANKARA2027	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-08 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2028	TURKEY/IRAQ: MALIKI VISIT FOCUSED ON SUNNI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi PM Maliki's August 7 visit to Ankara achieved the Turks' principal objective of sending a positive signal about the overall bilateral relationship. Coming at a moment of intense domestic crisis in Iraq, the Turks explicitly intended the visit to show support for Maliki and [...]	2007-08-08 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2036	TURKEY'S NEW SPEAKER TOPTAN A SOLID CHOICE; [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's parliament elected Koksal Toptan, a widely respected moderate, its new Speaker in condensed voting on August 9. Toptan, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Zonguldak deputy, is a former True Path Party (DYP) member with 30 years in government. Vi [...]	2007-08-09 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2038	TURKEY: KURDISH POLITICAL PARTY ENTERS PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU
07ANKARA2039	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2041	TURKEY: MHP SUCCESS TEMPERED BY HIGHER EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is reflecting on its shortcomings after winning only 14.4 percent of the vote in Turkey's July 22 general election. Their tally was enough to surmount the ten percent election threshold and score 71 seats in parliament (one MH [...]	2007-08-09 16:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2051	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-10 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2067	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-13 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2080	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-14 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2084	TURKEY: IT'S OFFICIAL: FM GUL ANNOUNCES HIS [...] (U) FM Abdullah Gul submitted his presidential candidacy to parliament's new Speaker on August 14, formally opening his bid for the job as the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) sole candidate. After meeting with several opposition leaders, Gul told a press conference that, as presi [...]	2007-08-14 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2085	TURKEY VIEWS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AS INEVITABLE [...] (C) We delivered REF A points to MFA Deputy Director General for the Balkans and Western Europe Hasan Asan. Asan reiterated that Turkey remains committed to resolving Kosovo's final status and acknowledged that Kosovo independence is inevitable. Furthermore, Turkey strongly supports the prin [...]	2007-08-14 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EU PGOV PREL KV YI UN
07ANKARA21	MINISTER BABACAN SEES NEW, UNCERTAIN ERA IN [...] (C) Summary: EU negotiator Ali Babacan told the Ambassador December 22 that Turkey's relations with the EU have entered a new, uncertain era, with progress depending more on political considerations than technical progress in meeting the EU acquis. Without clear targets and timelines to open [...]	2007-01-08 06:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PREL EUN
07ANKARA2110	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-15 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2118	TURKEY: GUL'S CANDIDACY MET WITH RESIGNATION AND [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Most Turks have accepted FM Abdullah's Gul's presidential candidacy (reftel) with either enthusiasm or resignation. The military is silently absorbing the blow that their earlier efforts to derail a Gul presidency crashed and burned. Leftist parties are in disarray, [...]	2007-08-16 13:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA2122	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-16 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2128	TURKEY: NEXT STEPS ON IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is looking at ways to increase engagement with PM Maliki and the GOI. It is already committed to hosting the next Expanded Neighbors group ministerial in Istanbul, and hopes to focus the GOI, USG, and others on committing to specific dates for the meeting. The Turks als [...]	2007-08-17 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2133	TURKEY'S PRESIDENT LEAVES NEW CABINET'S APPROVAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. In what many saw as a final insult and others called a gracious gesture, President Sezer told PM Erdogan to present his new cabinet to the next president for approval. Erdogan, who admitted being surprised by the move, played it as an outgoing president deferring to h [...]	2007-08-17 13:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2134	TURKEY: GOT CONCERNED ABOUT PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOT is following developments in Pakistan with concern. It is encouraging President Musharraf to compromise with his political opponents and broaden his base. Though not enamored of Musharraf, the GOT fears his departure would herald much greater instability and is looking [...]	2007-08-17 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV AF PK TU
07ANKARA2145	TURKEY: GUL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY OPENS A NEW ERA [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's long tradition of tumultuous politics has entered a new phase with FM Gul's renomination for president. The once all-powerful military, who tried to derail Gul's earlier bid with dire warnings of Islamic fundamentalism, have been knocked down a notch, and the "bedrock" p [...]	2007-08-20 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA215	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-01 15:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2166	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-21 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2168	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-21 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2185	TURKEY/IRAQ: GOT TO PRESS HASHIMI ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT is bringing GOI VP Tariq al-Hashimi to Ankara August 23 for meetings with PM Erdogan and FM Gul to press for reconciliation as Turkish officials promised PM Maliki during his August 7-8 visit here. The Turks will use the visit to urge dialogue and constructive participatio [...]	2007-08-23 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IZ TU
07ANKARA2193	TURKEY SHOCKED BY ADL REVERSAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Anti-Defamation League's reversal in describing the events of 1915 as genocide has shocked Turkey. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs blasted the ADL statement and rejected ADL National Director Foxman's concern that passage of an Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) [...]	2007-08-24 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM IS TU
07ANKARA2194	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION GOES TO DECISIVE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Turkey remains on track to election FM Abdullah Gul as its new president on Tuesday, August 28. The swearing in will take place at parliament the same evening at 6 pm local. Assuming nothing derails the presidential process, Justice and Development Party (AKP) cha [...]	2007-08-24 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2207	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2209	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2210	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2211	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA222	TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS: VOLATILE BUT RESILIENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish-Israeli relations, especially over the past 15 years are perhaps best described as one academic put it: "...(C)ompare it to a late-life love affair. Two parties who have known each other for years suddenly develop a near-passionate relationship, to the astonishment of the [...]	2007-02-02 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MARR KWBG IS TU
07ANKARA2223	TURKEY: ALL EYES ON PRESIDENT GUL [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Turkish parliament elected FM Abdullah Gul as Turkey's 11th President on August 28 with 339 votes. Gul was sworn in at 6 pm local. All but the Republican People's Party (CHP) attended the voting; CHP continued its boycott of both the vote and the swearing in. Th [...]	2007-08-28 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2234	TURKISH PRESIDENT GUL: RISKS, CHALLENGES, [...] (C) Summary: Abdullah Gul comes to office as Turkey's president already experienced on the international scene. His victory is one of personal and political tenacity; many had written him off after the military's e-memorandum derailed the attempt to elect him president in April. Looking ahead [...]	2007-08-29 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR TU
07ANKARA2235	PRESIDENT GUL APPROVES PM ERDOGAN'S GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Less than 24 hours after Abdullah Gul assumed the office of President, PM Erdogan submitted to Gul his proposed list for Turkey's 60th government. Gul approved the list, which contains 25 names, up from 23 in the previous government. It includes three Deputy Premiers/State Ministers who [...]	2007-08-29 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2240	TURKEY: POST-ELECTION ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQI KURDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the accession to the Presidency of former FM Abdullah Gul, the GOT will be looking to change the dynamic of its relationship with Iraqi Kurds and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). While the exact timing is not yet clear, GOT officials indicate Gul will first reach out [...]	2007-08-31 11:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IZ TU
07ANKARA2246	TURKEY: THUMBNAIL BIOS OF 60TH GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Thumbnail biographical sketches of the 25 ministers who comprise Turkey's 60th Government, as presented August 29, 2007 President Gul are below in para 2. Ministers are already in place and functioning; the government will seek a parliamentary vote of confidence on September 5. 2. (SBU [...]	2007-08-31 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA2266	TURKEY: "ERDOGAN II" GETS PARTY-LINE VOTE OF [...] (U) On September 5, the Turkish parliament gave PM Erdogan and his single-party Justice and Development Party (AKP) government a vote of confidence. As was the case with the presidential election (ref A),the vote split cleanly along party lines, with 337 AKPers voting for their government and [...]	2007-09-05 13:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2269	TURKEY: KURDISH MAYOR'S CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-05 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2282	TURKEY: NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAM EMPHASIZES RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The program of the 60th government, which PM Erdogan read on August 31, builds on the Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) previous four-and-a-half years in government by emphasizing rights and social welfare. The program signals the GOT's determination to pursue liberal demo [...]	2007-09-06 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2286	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2287	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2288	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2289	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2290	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2291	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2295	TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER BABACAN: BABY JOHN TAKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: With President Gul's official acceptance of the new cabinet proposed by PM Erdogan on August 29, Ali Babacan succeeded Gul as Turkey's foreign minister. The youngest of Erdogan's 25 ministers, some Turkish journalists used to call him "Baby John" because of his youthful appearanc [...]	2007-09-07 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA23	TURKEY: ERDOGAN IMPATIENT FOR U.S. ACTION AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish leaders have in recent days publicly lashed out against the slow pace of U.S. efforts to counter the PKK. Remarks by PM Erdogan and FM Gul openly critical of the level of USG and GOI cooperation to date in fighting the PKK have been touted by local commentators as presagin [...]	2007-01-08 10:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER US TU IZ
07ANKARA2304	TURKEY CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Historical ties, shared experience, and common interests in the region have forged a 60-year bond of friendship and alliance between Pakistan and Turkey that has endured political and ideological changes in the two countries. Despite an Islamic ideology that is in marked contra [...]	2007-09-10 13:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV MARR MASS IN PK TU
07ANKARA2308	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 07:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2315	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 13:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2318	IRAQ NEIGHBORS SET DATES FOR ISTANBUL MINISTERIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's neighbors have agreed on the date for the next Expanded Neighbors ministerial, to be held November 1 in Istanbul. The ministerial will be preceded by a senior officials meeting, probably on October 31, during which work on the communique will be finalized. According to Tur [...]	2007-09-11 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA2332	TURKEY: FS MILIBAND ADVOCATES BOLD EU STEPS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband utilized his first visit to Turkey to urge the GOT to take bold moves on EU accession. Regarding Cyprus, Miliband pressed for responsible Turkish engagement. FM Babacan's pitch for increased UK engagement with Syria fell flat. M [...]	2007-09-13 10:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN IR IZ PREL SY TU UK
07ANKARA2334	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-13 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2335	PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007 UNGA: [...] (U) Turkey just emerged with strengthened democratic credentials from a turbulent five-month period that tested its democracy. The result is a government with a new popular mandate, a parliament representative of 85 percent of the voters, and a new President who is likely to take an active fo [...]	2007-09-13 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2336	VISIT OF U/S BURNS TO TURKEY SEPTEMBER 18-20 [...] (C) Everything has changed since your January visit. A new electoral mandate for PM Erdogan; a new, activist President Gul; a victory for democracy; positive statements on US-Turkey relations and the imperative to push forward on EU accession-related reforms -- real opportunity for progress o [...]	2007-09-13 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ECON ENRG MARR KNNP TU
07ANKARA2347	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-14 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2348	TURKEY: SYRIAN FM'S VISIT OVERSHADOWED BY AIRSPACE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Israeli jets' September 6 violation of Syrian and Turkish airspace overshadowed Syrian FM Mouallem's previously scheduled visit. Calling on Israel to provide an explanation, FM Babacan simultaneously urged all parties to show restraint for the sake of regional stabil [...]	2007-09-14 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS LE SY TU IQ
07ANKARA2350	TURKEY'S INCONSISTENT IRAN POLICY (PART I): ENERGY [...] (U) This is the first of a two-part cable on Turkey's Iran policy. Please see part II, septel. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Through a string of recent energy deals with Turkey, Iran is demonstrating a continued capacity to conduct business in the international arena. Turkey has been all too accommo [...]	2007-09-17 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MNUC ENRG ETRD ECON IR TU
07ANKARA2351	TURKEY'S INCONSISTENT IRAN POLICY (PART II): SOME [...] (U) This is the second of a two-part cable on Turkey's Iran policy. Please see part I, septel. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Energy needs notwithstanding, deepening commercial ties, and Iranian military action against PKK-affiliated targets in northern Iraq, are further bolstering Turkish [...]	2007-09-17 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MNUC ENRG ETRD ECON IR TU
07ANKARA2355	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-17 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU

07ANKARA2364	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-18 13:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2365	TURKEY: WILL CIVIL-MILITARY TENSIONS PLAY OUT IN [...] (C) Since Abdullah Gul's elevation to the presidency on August 28, Turks have been parsing every interaction between him and the military to discern the future of military-government relations. Despite a peaceful, uneasy coexistence, military leaders are clearly alarmed by the AKP's overwhelm [...]	2007-09-18 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
07ANKARA237	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 [...]	2007-02-05 10:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2372	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-19 11:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2386	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-20 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2388	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2401	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-24 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2408	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-26 04:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2414	TURKEY: HEADSCARF BAN DOMINATES INITIAL DEBATE [...] (C) Summary and comment. The debate over the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) proposed revisions to Turkey's 25-year old constitution is turning increasingly shrill, with particular focus on whether to lift the headscarf ban for university students. The party's delay in releasing [...]	2007-09-26 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
07ANKARA2416	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-26 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2419	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-27 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2436	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-28 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2439	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-01 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2441	PKK ATTACK KILLS 12 [...] (SBU) A September 29 attack on a minibus in southeastern Turkey resulted in the deaths of 12 Turkish citizens. Two more were injured. GOT officials believe the attack was carried out by PKK terrorists. According to press reports, the bus was returning from a worksite in the Altinsu District [...]	2007-10-01 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL TU
07ANKARA2454	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 06:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA246	TURKEY: SARG FM MUALLEM'S VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 1 visit of SARG FM Muallem to Ankara was the latest in a series of high level visits in both directions in recent months. Muallem's day of high-level meetings did not break any apparent new ground but focused primarily on ways the GOT and SARG could cooperate with ot [...]	2007-02-05 16:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON IQ SY LE TU
07ANKARA2460	TURKEY PREPARING FOR IRAQ NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL [...] (S) Summary: Turkish MFA Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol met October 2 with Ambassador to outline Turkey's plans for the upcoming Iraq Neighbors Ministerial in Istanbul, November 2-3. Participants will finalize the statement during sub-ministerial planning sessions on November 1-2. MFA is c [...]	2007-10-03 12:21:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA2461	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2465	TURKEY: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan warmly received U/S Burns on September 19 and underscored areas where Turkey is working to be a regional leader, in line with U.S. efforts, including Iraq, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),and troops in Afghanistan and Lebanon. Erdogan expressed frustr [...]	2007-10-04 10:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2466	TURKEY: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GUL [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gul emphasized the GOT's wish to strengthen Turkish-U.S. ties during a September 19 meeting with U/S Burns. He wants to work closely with us on upcoming meetings of the Iraq Expanded Neighbors process and on Middle East peace. Gul noted the PKK as a major impediment to [...]	2007-10-04 10:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA2468	TURKEY: POLITICAL REFORMS STALLED AS GOT FOCUSES [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-04 12:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2470	TURKEY'S OCTOBER 21 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT [...] (C) Summary. Turks go to the polls again October 21 to vote on a constitutional amendment package primarily aimed at allowing Turkey's president to be elected directly by the people rather than parliament. The package, which parliament approved in June over former President Sezer's veto, was [...]	2007-10-04 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA2473	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-05 04:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2487	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-05 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2492	AGR: GOT SQUARELY FOCUSED ON OCTOBER 10 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senior MFA officials informed the Ambassador that they view the October 10 mark-up on the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) in the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) as critical. They are engaged at the highest levels to prevent the resolution from passing out of committee [...]	2007-10-05 15:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS AM TU
07ANKARA25	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-08 14:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA250	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-06 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2500	TURKEY: WEEKEND AMBUSH BRINGS TEMPERATURE TO [...] (C) Summary: A PKK ambush October 7 killed 13 Turkish soldiers in southeastern Sirnak province,the biggest single loss the military has incurred in years and the latest in a string of terrorist incidents. A series of high level meetings, including a PM-President-CHOD meeting, and the counter [...]	2007-10-09 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2501	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-09 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2502	TURKEY: DELEGATIONS INVESTIGATE ATTACK ON [...] (C) Summary: Following a September 29 attack on a minibus in southeastern Turkey that resulted in the deaths of 12 Turkish citizens, several delegations traveled to the site to investigate. As Turkish casualties mount in a series of attacks, mine explosions, and bombings from Sirnak to Izmir, [...]	2007-10-09 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2503	TURKEY'S COUNTER-TERRORISM COUNCIL: FULL ARRAY OF [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's counter-terrorism council met October 10 under the chairmanship of PM Erdogan. It issued a written statement which places all options - economic, political, legal and military - on the table. By taking a broad-reaching approach, the Turks are putting the Iraqis on noti [...]	2007-10-09 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2504	TURKEY PULLS BACK FROM CONFRONTATION OVER PKK [...] (c) Summary: Turkey is pulling back from a confrontation with us over PKK violence that took place here last weekend -- at least for now. This was the implicit message given by MFA U/S Apakan, who convoked Ambassador late on October 9 to discuss the PKK attacks. A similar measured and non-c [...]	2007-10-09 15:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2508	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-10 11:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2510	TURKEY: INTENSIFIED COUNTER-TERROR ACTIVITY IN [...] (S) Summary: Local press reports describe Turkish counter-terror security operations currently underway against the PKK in the Southeast as the most extensive in recent years, following attacks which killed 13 Turkish soldiers on October 7 (ref a). However, there is no evidence of a military [...]	2007-10-10 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER MOPS ASEC PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA2511	TURKEY: FRENCH FM ATTEMPTS TO MEND FENCES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On October 5, FM Kouchner became the first high-level French official to visit Turkey since the French National Assembly's approval of a bill criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide nearly a year ago. Characterizing the trip as a symbol of France's desire to improve [...]	2007-10-11 06:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR TU
07ANKARA2516	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-11 09:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2517	TURKS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT ARMENIAN [...] (U) Summary: Initial GOT reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) October 10 decision to send Resolution 106 - the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) - to the House floor reflects disappointment and anger, as well as appreciation for US Administration efforts and determination t [...]	2007-10-11 10:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC PREL PTER MOPS TU US AM
07ANKARA2523	TURKEY: IRAQ NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL PLANNING UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol met October 11 with the Ambassador to provide an update on planning for the Iraq Neighbors Ministerial in Istanbul, November 2-3. The MFA is finishing the draft statement and will provide it to us on or about October 15. Celikkol pro [...]	2007-10-12 07:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA2524	TURKEY: MANAGING PUBLIC OPINION ON ARMENIAN [...] (C) Summary: With the capital emptied out for the end-of-Ramadan holiday, PM Erdogan and others in the GOT are carefully managing public opinion on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) passage of the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) and declining to detail retaliatory measures the GOT [...]	2007-10-12 10:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC TU US AM IZ
07ANKARA253	GENERAL BUYUKANIT'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY [...] (C) Yasar Buyukanit ascended to the top of Turkey,s military just six months ago in September 2006. His actions since then have positioned him as one of the most dominant players in this political scene. He has spoken out aggressively in public fora about Turkey,s foreign policy, its domesti [...]	2007-02-06 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR IR IZ TU
07ANKARA2532	TURKEY: USD(P) EDELMAN AND A/S FRIED DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: USD(P) Edelman and EUR A/S Fried told MFA U/S Apakan and senior MFA officials October 13 that the Administration regrets House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of HR 106 and will continue to strongly oppose its passage by the House. They urged Turkish officials to avoid reactions [...]	2007-10-15 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR TU AR AF IZ
07ANKARA2533	TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: GROWING VIOLENCE THREATENS [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-15 13:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2534	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-15 13:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2538	FALL-OUT FROM HFAC PASSAGE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish government and public reaction to the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) October 10 approval of the Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) was fueled by harsh statements from opposition political party leaders and some media commentators, as well as strong remarks by the Pr [...]	2007-10-15 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC TU US AM IZ
07ANKARA2546	TURKS CLEAR THAT PARLIAMENTARY MOTION FOR CROSS [...] (SBU) On October 15, Turkish PM Erdogan's cabinet approved and forwarded to parliament a draft motion to authorize conducting cross border operations (CBO) against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq. Parliament is scheduled to debate and vote on the motion October 17. If, as expected, parliamen [...]	2007-10-16 09:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC TU US AM IZ
07ANKARA2549	TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER MOTION AUTHORIZING [...] (C) Summary. Under intense public pressure following an up-tick in terrorist killings, Turkey's parliament is scheduled to vote October 17 on a GOT proposal to authorize a cross-border operation (CBO) aimed at eliminating terrorist PKK camps in northern Iraq (reftels). The motion, submitted [...]	2007-10-16 11:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA2550	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-16 12:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2566	TURKEY: MFA EXPLAINS PARLIAMENTARY MOTION ON CROSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA convoked representatives of approximately 25 missions October 17 to explain the reasons behind the GOT's parliamentary motion to authorize a cross border operation (CBO) against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq. MFA officials emphasized that passage of the motion by parliament [...]	2007-10-17 10:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2569	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-17 12:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2573	TURKEY: PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES MOTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 17, the Turkish parliament, as expected, approved by an overwhelming margin a government-sponsored motion authorizing a cross border operation (CBO) against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists in northern Iraq. It gives the government authority for one year to [...]	2007-10-17 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US
07ANKARA2577	TURKS REQUEST HIGH-LEVEL ASSURANCES ON US MATERIEL [...] (C) Action request at para 5. 2. (C) MFA U/S Apakan convoked Ambassador October 18 to discuss continued GOT concerns about the MV Onyx and its cargo. Apakan told Ambassador he has had many conversations in recent days with the Turkish General Staff about the Onyx and that he is "sick of s [...]	2007-10-18 12:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PTER ETTC KOMC IZ MG UP CY TU
07ANKARA2579	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA258	INROADS SLOW FOR LIBERTARIAN THINK TANK IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Association for Liberal Thinking (ALT),is an Ankara-based think tank established in 1994 to promote classical liberal (i.e. libertarian) thought in Turkey. In an effort to maintain autonomy, ALT has no direct links to any political party or movement, receives minimal fundi [...]	2007-02-07 08:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM KPAO SOCI TU
07ANKARA2583	GOT LOWERS PRIMARY SURPLUS TARGET FOR 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOT submitted the 2008 budget on October 17, the statutory deadline. At an October 18 press conference, Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan announced the GOT expects a budget deficit of YTL 17.8 billion ($14.8 billion). The Minister also announced a program-defined primary su [...]	2007-10-18 15:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN TU
07ANKARA2584	TURKEY: REENGAGING ISRAEL [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's relationship with Israel has reached a new and somewhat different equilibrium. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government's occasional casual use of anti-Israeli rhetoric and rapprochement with Israel's arch enemies has caused the once warm friendship to [...]	2007-10-18 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KWBG MARR TU IS
07ANKARA2585	SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (c) Turkish Presidency/PM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu told Ambassador October 17 that Turkey worked hard during President Assad's visit to persuade Syria to participate in the Middle East Peace conference planned for Annapolis in late November if it is invited. 2. (c) Assad and FM Mua [...]	2007-10-18 15:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SY TU
07ANKARA2591	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-19 11:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2594	TURKEY: NEW PRIME MINISTRY UNDERSECRETARY OPEN ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: In DCM's October 10 introductory call on new Prime Ministry Undersecretary Efkan Ala, Ala pointed to a possible cross-border operation (CBO) as one of a number of tools the GOT needs to combat the PKK. The problem is solvable through cooperation on all sides. A pro- [...]	2007-10-19 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL TU US AM IZ
07ANKARA2595	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY SAYS CROSS-BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-19 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2597	SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF GATES MEETING WITH TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: USD/P Edelman's October 13 visit here reinforced to the Turks the Administration's intensive efforts to defeat the Armenian genocide resolution (HR 106) and our wish that the bill not derail relations. Senior officials tell us they are deeply frustrated and will be forced to resp [...]	2007-10-19 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS MASS PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA260	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-07 12:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2601	PROVOCATIVE PKK ATTACKS IN SE TURKEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PKK terrorists have carried out attacks on Turkish security and other targets over the last 36 hours, accounting for the deaths of at least 12, and possibly more, security personnel. At least 16 security personnel were injured, along with another 17 civilians in a separate attack [...]	2007-10-22 08:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV TU US IZ
07ANKARA2604	TURKEY ERUPTS OVER PKK ATTACKS; EIGHT SOLDIERS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: GOT leadership met late October 21 in a special counter terrorism "summit" to determine how to respond to the latest terrorist attacks. The public statement released by the Office of the Presidency reaffirmed the government's resolve in responding to terrorism and called for n [...]	2007-10-22 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2605	TURKEY: PUBLIC ATTACKS ON DTP OFFICES FOLLOWING [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-22 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2618	TURKEY: GOVERNMENT TRIES TO QUELL PUBLIC FURY; PKK [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the face of growing public outrage over PKK terrorism, senior government officials have urged the public to remain calm and the media to report responsibly. They also have emphasized that Turkey should not lash out in anger but rather take action that is in the nation's best in [...]	2007-10-23 11:56:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US
07ANKARA2620	TURKEY TAKES TO THE STREETS - PUBLIC FURY AT PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY. A volatile social situation is rapidly emerging here in the wake of Sunday's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks near the Iraqi border, the third in as many weeks. Spontaneous protests are mushrooming into large unscheduled demonstrations, and public displays of anger and nat [...]	2007-10-23 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2622	TURKEY: OFFICIALS EXTREMELY ALARMED, ON MESSAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. High-level officials from the ruling party and government bureaucracy are delivering the same anxious message: the Turkish people are on the verge of slipping beyond the government's control. Anger stoked by a series of vicious attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has r [...]	2007-10-24 09:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU
07ANKARA2624	TURKEY: GOVERNMENT PURSUES DIPLOMACY; CONTINUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: While FM Babacan pursued talks with senior Iraqi leaders in Baghdad October 23, the GOT continued its effort to calm domestic fury in the wake of October 21 terrorist attacks. Government officials implemented a little used law to muzzle radio and television broadcasts related to [...]	2007-10-24 10:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US
07ANKARA2627	TURKEY: EU HARMONIZATION PROCESS OVERSHADOWED BY [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 10:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA263	GOT POSTPONES FULL PRIVATIZATION OF STATE BANK [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 05:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN TU
07ANKARA2633	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2634	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2635	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2636	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2641	TURKEY: GOT CONSIDERING ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON KRG [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) recommended on October 24 that the GOT implement economic sanctions against groups supporting the PKK. The NSC's recommendation will be taken up by the cabinet in due course. Military operations in the border region of Hakkari Province [...]	2007-10-25 11:30:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US
07ANKARA2643	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-25 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2644	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-25 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2645	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-25 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2647	TURKEY: ERDOGAN TALKS PKK IN THE UK [...] (C) Turkish PM Erdogan met with UK PM Gordon Brown, opposition leader David Cameron, MPs from both Houses of Parliament, British investors, and Oxford University students during his October 22-23 trip to London. UK Ambassador to Turkey Nick Baird told us PM Erdogan spoke at length with PM Bro [...]	2007-10-25 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU UK IZ EUN
07ANKARA2656	TURKEY PURSUES DIPLOMACY, POISED FOR MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT continues to pursue diplomacy to pressure Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) officials, as well as the U.S., to take concrete steps to root out the PKK presence inside northern Iraq. However, Turkey remains poised to conduct a cross border operation (CBO) at any [...]	2007-10-26 11:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2657	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-26 11:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2658	TURKEY PURSUES DIPLOMACY, POISED FOR MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT continues to pursue diplomacy to pressure Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) officials, as well as the U.S., to take concrete steps to root out the PKK presence inside northern Iraq. However, Turkey remains poised to conduct a cross border operation (CBO) at any [...]	2007-10-26 12:01:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2660	TURKEY: LONG-TIME ADVOCATES CITE BETRAYAL AND [...] (C) Summary: Anger on the streets pales in comparison with the deep sense of betrayal long-time friends of America are expressing to us. They assert we are on the brink of a full blown rupture in relations. End summary. 2. (C) Suat Kiniklioglu is the former head of the German Marshall Fu [...]	2007-10-26 12:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU US
07ANKARA2662	TURKISH VIEW OF PKK TALKS WITH IRAQ [...] (c) Summary: Turkish MFA Apakan gave Ambassador on October 27 a disappointed account of the talks in Ankara the day before with the Iraqis regarding the PKK. He did not dismiss the ideas brought from Baghdad, but said Turkey needs actions that will have an impact now. Apakan noted that the [...]	2007-10-28 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2663	TURKS HEAR DIALOGUE, BUT NO ACTION FROM KRG [...] (c) Summary: In follow-up talks here the week of October 21, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials offered to create a propaganda campaign to counter and discredit the PKK pursuant to a written, Turkey-KRG agreement to be signed by PM Erdogan and KRG President Barzani that would effect [...]	2007-10-28 14:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2670	GOT OFFICIALS STRESS UNITY, RECORD NUMBERS MARCH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: As senior GOT officials stressed national unity on the 84th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic, Turks marched in record numbers in cities across the country to commemorate the holiday and to protest PKK terrorism. Turkish officials publicly characterized Octobe [...]	2007-10-30 11:58:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2675	TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION IN LEBANON SIDE MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-30 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER LE SY TU
07ANKARA2676	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-30 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2682	PM ERDOGAN ROLLS OUT WASHINGTON AGENDA, CABINET [...] (C) Summary: During his October 30 address to his Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group, PM Erdogan laid out his agenda for his November 5 meeting with President Bush. Erdogan identified three main messages: 1) the U.S. must take necessary steps against the PKK; 2) the U.S [...]	2007-10-31 12:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2684	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 12:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2693	TURKISH MFA OUTLINES EXPECTATIONS FOR ERDOGAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Apakan summoned Ambassador late October 31 to relay on behalf of FM Babacan Turkey's expectations for the Secretary's bilateral visit here and PM Erdogan's upcoming meeting with the President. Apakan emphasized that the PKK problem has changed qualitatively and n [...]	2007-10-31 17:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ US TU
07ANKARA2697	GOT DECIDES ON SANCTIONS, CONVEYS EXPECTATIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the Council of Ministers agreed upon an as yet undisclosed package of economic sanctions aimed at the PKK and those who help them in Northern Iraq. Civilian flights that use Turkish airspace to travel to and from Erbil appear to have been largely curtailed, though [...]	2007-11-01 12:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2698	TURKEY: DAS BRYZA REVIEWS SOUTH CAUCASUS ISSUES [...] (SBU) EUR DAS Bryza and the DCM met with Turkish MFA Deputy U/S for South Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs Unal Cevikoz on October 24 in Ankara, on the margins of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Foreign Ministers meeting. Cevikoz and Bryza exchanged views on developments in Nagorn [...]	2007-11-01 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AJ AM GG TU
07ANKARA2699	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA270	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2707	TURKEY: WELL-CONNECTED DIYARBAKIR MP TAKES A HARD [...] (C) Summary and comment: Governing party MP from Diyarbakir Ihsan Arslan's prescription for solving the current impasse Turkey faces with respect to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),northern Iraq and the US is that Turkey must take a hard look at the damaging policies it has purs [...]	2007-11-02 15:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ US
07ANKARA2708	TURKEY APPROVES ECONOMIC MEASURES AGAINST NORTHERN [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Council of Ministers approved a set of economic measures directed against the PKK and Northern Iraq on October 31, but did not announce what measures they had approved. The GOT said November 2 that it has not yet implemented any of the approved economic measures. Tu [...]	2007-11-02 15:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KFPC ECON ETRD ETTC PREL EAIR TU
07ANKARA2709	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-02 15:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2713	TURKEY: THE KURDISH DTP PARTY'S SQUANDERED [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: Despite having 20 of its representatives in parliament, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) has entirely sidelined itself during Turkey's confrontation with Iraq over the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The DTP erred [...]	2007-11-05 11:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2716	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU

07ANKARA2717	TURKEY REACTS TO HOSTAGE RELEASE [...] (SBU) All media headlined the November 4 release of the eight Turkish soldiers held hostage since October 21 by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Before boarding his plane to Washington for his November 5 meeting with President Bush, PM Erdogan thanked the U.S. and Iraqi governme [...]	2007-11-05 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2718	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2719	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2720	DAS BRYZA AND TURKISH ENERGY MINISTER GULER ON [...] (C) Summary: On October 25, EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Turkish Energy Minister Guler and reaffirmed their commitment to a shared U.S. )Turkey strategic vision to help Europe diversify its natural gas supplies away from dependence on Russia. Guler warmly welcomed positive news from Bryza on [...]	2007-11-06 09:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS TU
07ANKARA2724	ERDAL INONU: A TURKISH PATRIOT IS LAID TO REST, [...] (SBU) Erdal Inonu -- professor and physicist, reluctant politician, social democrat, former Deputy PM and FM, and son of Turkey's second President, General Ismet Inonu -- was laid to rest November 4 in Istanbul. Inonu's epitaph could well read: here lies an honest, decent human being who wante [...]	2007-11-06 15:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA2733	TURKEY'S KURDS RELIEVED BY OUTCOME OF PM ERDOGAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Our contacts in southeast Turkey have all reacted positively to PM Erdogan's Oval Office meeting, noting that the chance of a cross-border land attack by Turkish forces has diminished significantly, though many still expect air strikes against PKK targets in the Qandil mountains [...]	2007-11-07 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2734	PERES AND ABBAS TO MEET IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Turkey will host Israeli President Peres and Palestinian Authority President Abbas for concurrent visits from November 11-13. GOT officials say they have scheduled the coinciding visits to reinforce U.S. and others' efforts prior to a possible Middle East meeting. Th [...]	2007-11-07 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KWBG MARR TU IS
07ANKARA2741	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-08 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2742	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. Your first official visit to Turkey will be an opportunity to reaffirm U.S ) Turkish shared strategic vision on the development of Caspian oil and gas resources and diversification of transit routes to lessen Europe's dependence on Russia. You will need to encourage Turkey to [...]	2007-11-08 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS TU
07ANKARA2744	TURKEY REACTS POSITIVELY TO ERDOGAN-POTUS MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Reactions in Turkey to PM Erdogan's November 5 meeting with President Bush span the spectrum depending on the political and ideological views of the individual or media outlet offering comment. In public comments subsequent to his meeting with POTUS, Erdogan has made clear his ap [...]	2007-11-09 06:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER TU US IZ
07ANKARA2749	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-09 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2752	TURKISH FM BABACAN ON RELATIONS WITH YEREVAN [...] (c) Ambassador used a meeting late November 8 with Turkish FM Babacan on other subjects to update him on House Resolution 106 (the "Armenian genocide resolution"). Many with whom he spoke during consultations in Washington following PM Erdogan's White House meeting November 5 believed it ver [...]	2007-11-09 16:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM TU
07ANKARA2761	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2762	TURKEY: EU PROGRESS REPORT BRINGS NO SURPRISES [...] (C) Summary: The EU's annual progress report on Turkey, released November 6, went largely unnoticed here as the public and media remained focused on the latest PKK terrorist crisis. The GOT was pleased to see a "balanced" report, according to MFA and its EU Secretariat officials. Human righ [...]	2007-11-13 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2765	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 11:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2768	TURKEY: REPORTS OF STRIKES INTO IRAQ UNCONFIRMED [...] (S) Summary: Intensive counter-terror operations continue in the Southeast and along the Turkey-Iraq border. However, there is no evidence to confirm November 13 press reports of Turkish air strikes against PKK targets inside northern Iraq. Prime Minister Erdogan publicly denied knowledge of [...]	2007-11-14 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA277	NATIONALISM TURNING NASTY IN TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. The nationalism that has been a unifying force since the Turkish Republic's founding in 1923 is becoming dangerously divisive under the pressure of national elections, government-military tensions and the continuing focus on the PKK in Iraq. The Dink assassination offered a bri [...]	2007-02-09 10:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2775	TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL CELEBRATES [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Gul descended on Azerbaijan, November 6-8, with a delegation of over 140 businessmen, pledging to elevate the bilateral economic relationship to a level matching the two countries' strong political ties. GOT officials and media alike interpret Gul's first state visit [...]	2007-11-15 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG AJ AM TU
07ANKARA2776	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA278	TURKEY'S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION DEBATE HEATS UP [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 11:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2786	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-16 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA279	TURKEY: PAKISTANI PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF'S NEW [...] (C) Pakistani President Musharraf visited Ankara February 6, meeting wit President Sezer and Prime Minister Erdogan over the course of his one-day stay. According to MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Omer Onhon, Musharraf's meetings focused solely on what Onhon described as "Pak [...]	2007-02-09 11:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK TU
07ANKARA2790	TURKEY: UNAMI OFFICIAL SEES GREATER GOT INTEREST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Charge Michael Schulenburg sees increased GOT interest in a UN role in defusing tensions over the future status of Kirkuk. He sensed a new GOT willingness and approach. Schulenburg indicated that Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Pres [...]	2007-11-19 09:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UN IZ TU
07ANKARA2792	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 13:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2805	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2807	TURKEY: PROSECUTOR OPENS CLOSURE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's top prosecutor filed an indictment with the Constitutional Court on November 16 to close down the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) for alleged ties to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The indictment calls for a ban against DTP participat [...]	2007-11-20 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA281	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2813	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2815	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MURTHA'S VISIT TO TURKEY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of PM Erdogan's November 5 meeting with President Bush, when we promised to support effective measures to eliminate the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist threat from northern Iraq. A November 20 follow-up visit by Generals Cartwright and Pet [...]	2007-11-21 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MASS PARM IR IZ TU
07ANKARA2818	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-23 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2820	TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL TO TRAVEL TO PAKISTAN; WILL [...] (C) Turkish President Gul telephoned President Musharraf November 19 to request an opportunity to visit Pakistan, preferably in early December, according to MFA South Asia desk officer Ilhan Sener. Traditionally, Pakistan is one of the first foreign visits by a Turkish President, after north [...]	2007-11-23 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF PK TU
07ANKARA2826	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-26 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2833	TURKEY: CODEL MURTHA DISCUSSES IRAQ, ARMENIA, AND [...] (SBU) Turkish President Gul expressed great appreciation for the efforts of Rep. Murtha and other Codel members to prevent House passage of the Armenian genocide Resolution (AGR). He said the meeting between President Bush and PM Erdogan on November 5 had brought Turkey and the US to a "good [...]	2007-11-27 12:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OREP AM IZ IR TU
07ANKARA2835	JERUSALEM MEETING UNNECESSARY DISTRACTION FROM [...] (S) Summary and Comment: Despite repeated requests from the international community and the MFA to cancel the conference, Turkish authorities decided to allow the most recent "International Jerusalem Meeting" to occur as scheduled in Istanbul, November 15-17. Speakers advocated the use of vio [...]	2007-11-27 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER TU IS
07ANKARA2846	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2847	TURKEY EXTENDING A DIPLOMATIC HAND TO GEORGIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Through frequent high-level visits, the GOT has reaffirmed its strong support for Georgian independence and territorial integrity. It has sought, too, to reduce any sense of diplomatic isolation felt by Tbilisi since the deterioration of Russian-Georgian relations and, more rec [...]	2007-11-28 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ETRD ELTN SMIG NATO AJ AM GG TU ZJ
07ANKARA2850	TURKEY'S ATTITUDE CHANGE; PRESSURE FOR MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since PM Erdogan's November 5 meeting with President Bush, pressure for immediate Turkish military action against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist camps has subsided. While both government and military leaders continue to stress Turkish readiness to carry out cross-borde [...]	2007-11-29 07:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA2851	TURKEY: CODEL MURTHA'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: DCHOD GEN Ergin Saygun briefed Codel Murtha on Turkey's struggle with PKK terrorism, the PKK's involvement in narcotics smuggling and organized crime, and the inadequate response of many European allies. On Armenia, Saygun stressed Yerevan's implied territorial claims on Turkey [...]	2007-11-29 08:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OREP IZ IR AM TU
07ANKARA2856	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2862	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-30 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2863	CODEL SHAYS TALKS PKK, KURDISH ISSUE, IRAQ, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rep. Christopher Shays met with MFA Under Secretary Apakan, Turkish General Staff (TGS) Plans and SIPDIS Operations Chief Maj. Gen. Kocak, and a group of current and former parliamentarians representing southeastern Turkey in Ankara on November 26 and 27, the first two days of [...]	2007-11-30 16:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA2864	TURKEY/IRAQ: GOVERNMENT APPROVES OCTOBER 17 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Erdogan reportedly stated November 30 that the Council of Ministers and President Gul have authorized the Turkish Armed Forces to conduct a cross-border operation (CBO) against PKK terrorists operating in northern Iraq. Foreign Ministry and Turkish parliament contacts tel [...]	2007-11-30 16:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA2867	TURKISH FORCES FIRE ON PKK CAMP IN NORTHERN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Turkish artillery fired on a terrorist PKK camp in the eastern Zap region along Iraq's northern border from 10:38 til 11:05 Zulu December 1. In two announcements made following the action, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) confirmed the operation, asserting TGS forces killed 30 P [...]	2007-12-02 11:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR TU
07ANKARA2877	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-03 14:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2879	POLL OPENS DOOR INTO TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary. A clear majority of residents polled in 14 southeastern Turkish provinces said they would prefer to live in Turkey even if an independent Kurdish state were founded in northern Iraq. The Turkish polling company Metropoll claimed its November survey of 1,079 people is the first [...]	2007-12-03 15:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2886	TURKEY: GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHONS CLAIM ECUMENICAL [...] (C) Summary: Turkish government policies are slowly suffocating the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP),according to representatives of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a U.S.-based group of Greek Orthodox laymen. In November 29 meetings, the delegation told Turkish officials crawling re [...]	2007-12-04 08:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2898	TURKEY: SECDEF'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (S) Our real-time intelligence and cooperation with Turkey in attacking PKK encampments in northern Iraq has turned around a relationship that soured in September and October due to the Armenian genocide resolution and PKK attacks. You should highlight our commitment to helping Turkey combat t [...]	2007-12-05 14:11:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA2909	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 15:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2915	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-07 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2919	TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM FOCUSES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. After a clumsy start, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) efforts to push through comprehensive constitutional revisions are gaining momentum. AKP officials, at least in private, are forthrightly stating that wholesale changes are necessary to wrench contr [...]	2007-12-07 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TU
07ANKARA2922	TURKEY: POLITICAL HOT-BUTTON APPOINTMENT TESTS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. President Gul will shortly appoint a new chairman of the Higher Education Council (YOK),a body enshrined in the 1982 Constitution to oversee Turkey's university system and preserve its staunchly secularist nature. In a country perpetually challenged by perceived thr [...]	2007-12-10 05:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2926	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-10 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2928	TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL URGES PAKISTAN OPPOSITION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Turkish President Gul, during a December 2-3 visit to Islamabad, urged Pakistan's opposition leaders to put President Musharraf above the political fray and compete amongst themselves in the upcoming, January 6 elections. Pointing to the long and bumpy road Turkish [...]	2007-12-10 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF PK TU
07ANKARA2934	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 12:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2935	TURKEY: GOT FLOATS A TRIAL BALLOON ON GENERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan sent up a trial balloon December 9 on the possibility of issuing some form of amnesty to PKK members. As the GOT and military continue to work closely with us to implement the November 5 understanding, they want to keep the pressure on both the PKK in northern Iraq and [...]	2007-12-11 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ANKARA2940	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 15:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2942	TURKISH EFFORTS ON LEBANESE PRESIDENCY [...] (c) Further to reftels, Ambassador spoke December 11 with Turkish Presidency/PM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu about the Lebanese presidency state of play. Davutoglu said that he and PM Erdogan have been in touch on an almost daily basis over the past couple of weeks with key players in Bei [...]	2007-12-11 16:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY TU
07ANKARA2944	TURKEY: GUL'S APPOINTMENT TO HIGHER EDUCATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 09:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2953	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 14:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2958	TURKEY: NEW JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS LAW IRKS SECULAR [...] (C) Summary: President Gul's midnight signing of a new law governing the selection process for prosecutors and judges brought sharp criticism from a legal establishment that sees the move as a challenge to its independence by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The truth is more [...]	2007-12-14 11:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA296	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2960	TURKEY/IRAQ: TAKING THE PULSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador urged GOT Iraq Coordinator Celikkol to move forward with a GOT invitation to President Talabani to visit Ankara, noting such a step could help break the ice between the Turks and Iraqi Kurds and lead to eventual dialogue with Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) officials. [...]	2007-12-14 11:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER ETRD TU IZ
07ANKARA2963	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-14 12:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2968	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: October & November 2007 [...] In the keynote speech delivered at the opening of the Turkish War Academies on Oct. 1, CHOD GEN Yasar Buyukanit underlined the theme that no power can divide Turkey, change its secular structure, or shake the Turkish nation's confidence in its military. Emphasizing the importance of the fight [...]	2007-12-14 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL YI CI AJ IZ GR KS IT UK IS CY PL
07ANKARA2974	TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKEY CONDUCTS AIRSTRIKES AGAINST [...] (C) Turkish warplanes attacked suspected PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq between 0100 and 0400 hours local time on December 16. Turkish General Staff (TGS) officials provided approximately one hour advance notice to U.S. personnel via the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) in Ankara, [...]	2007-12-16 10:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2983	TURKEY: REACTION TO MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST PKK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reaction to Turkish military air and artillery strikes (ref A) against PKK targets in northern Iraq early December 16 dominated Turkish media on December 17. President Gul, PM Erdogan, and other government officials praised the Turkish military's ability to carry out night-tim [...]	2007-12-17 12:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA2985	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-17 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3000	TURKEY: JORDANIAN KING DISCUSSES MEPP, SYRIA WITH [...] (C) Jordanian King Abdullah's discussions with President Gul and PM Erdogan during his December 10 visit focused primarily on regional security issues, according to MFA Levant desk officer Cem Ulusoy. All three leaders expressed support for the latest round of the Middle East peace process ( [...]	2007-12-18 11:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IS JO SY
07ANKARA3004	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3006	TURKEY: REACTION TO MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST [...] (S) SUMMARY: Senior GOT and military officials continue to praise the strikes against PKK targets in northern Iraq and deny that civilian targets there were hit. However, inadequacies in interagency coordination and the sidelining of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs plague GOT efforts to addre [...]	2007-12-18 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MOPS PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA3010	TURKEY: CATHOLIC PRIEST STABBED IN IZMIR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Police detained a 19-year old Turkish man shortly after he stabbed Italian Priest Adiano Franchini inside Izmir's St. Antoine Church on Sunday, December 16. Franchini, who survived the attack and is recovering well, said he would not press charges against the attacke [...]	2007-12-19 09:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA3016	TURKEY: RULING AKP TACKLES A TABOO -- IMPROVING [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA3020	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-26 07:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3028	TURKEY: REACTIONS TO CONTINUED AIRSTRIKES AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Public reaction to repeated Turkish strikes against PKK targets in northern Iraq continues to be positive. The role the U.S. has played in sharing intelligence and deconflicting Iraqi airspace has also received a great deal of positive attention. Turkish media continue to note [...]	2007-12-26 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA3033	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 08:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3039	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3044	TURKEY PREPARING TO REVIVE EU REFORMS IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary and comment: The EU's December 19 decision to open negotiations with Turkey on two new policy chapters appears to have calmed GOT officials infuriated by French President Sarkozy's maneuvering to have the terms "accession" and "membership" removed from the GAERC's December 10 stat [...]	2007-12-28 08:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA3045	TURKEY: CODEL SKELTON DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) President Gul, PM Erdogan, DCHOD Saygun and DefMin Gonul all expressed satisfaction with U.S. support to Turkey against PKK terrorism. The Turkish people have a more positive view of the U.S. as a result. Codel Skelton stressed the common struggle against terrorism and U.S. understanding [...]	2007-12-28 11:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OREP AM IZ IR TU KV IS KPAL
07ANKARA3049	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-28 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3052	MGPKO2: TURKEY CONDEMNS BHUTTO ASSASSINATION, [...] (U) Turkey has strongly condemned the assassination of former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto and called for unity in the face of terrorism and extremism. In its December 27 statement, the MFA greeted the news of Bhutto's death with great sorrow and went on to state, "There is no doubt that thes [...]	2007-12-28 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PK TU
07ANKARA313	TURKEY: IMPACT OF THE ARMENIA BILL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: French interests in Turkey have suffered as a result of votes taken by the French National Assembly to recognize (in 2001) the events of 1915 as a "genocide," and then in October 2006 to criminalize the denial of those events. In the case of the former, French embassy officials [...]	2007-02-14 11:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MARR ETRD FR AM TU
07ANKARA316	Scenesetter for the Visit of CODEL Dicks to Turkey [...] Summary: Your visit comes at a critical period in the U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship as the government grapples with continued PKK terrorist attacks from northern Iraq, fears that Iraq's instability will spread beyond its borders, the aftermath of the Dink murder, a potential U.S. congressi [...]	2007-02-14 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER ETRD PGOV TU IZ IR
07ANKARA317	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION@SDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-14 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA335	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-15 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA339	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`ency, and international wilties and are often otherwise unreliable. 2. (U) During the January 16-31, 2007 [...]	2007-02-06 08:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA351	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-16 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA379	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, January 2007 [...] The Turkish Parliament ratified on January 24 the Bilateral Agreement on Cooperation to Facilitate the Provision of Assistance for Nonproliferation Purposes (EXBS),which was originally signed on June 14, 2005. The agreement, which was ratified despite the objection of the CHP (Republican Peop [...]	2007-02-22 10:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL LE GR UP IS AJ TU
07ANKARA383	SCENESETTER FOR CENTRAL ASIA CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (C) Introduction: The U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship is in a critical phase as the government grapples with continued PKK terrorist attacks from northern Iraq, fears that Iraq's instability will spread beyond its borders, the aftermath of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink murder, [...]	2007-02-22 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA384	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA386	IRAQI VP ABDEL MAHDI ASKS FOR TURKEY'S SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA387	TURKISH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY CLASH OVER [...] (C) Summary: A dispute between Turkey's military and government over contacts with Iraqi Kurdish leaders is threatening to scuttle an already twice-postponed meeting between FonMin Gul and KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani. The military, even more than the political opposition, will attempt to use thi [...]	2007-02-22 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA399	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA4	TURKISH CONCERNS ON IRAQ, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will continue closely to cooperate with the US on Iraq and hopes Washington will share its evolving thinking prior to any public announcements, newly promoted MFA U/S Apakan told Ambassador December 30. After repeating remarks on Iraq made December 27 to the DCM (reftel),[...]	2007-01-04 10:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA40	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-09 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA404	TURKISH PROFESSOR RECEIVES MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 17:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA41	TURKEY: ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZATION POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Confirmation that the Government has decided to postpone electricity distribution company privatizations planned to begin this month put a damper on markets at the start of the new year. The reason for the delay appears to be the political desire of the AKP Government to avoid e [...]	2007-01-10 05:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG EFIN TU
07ANKARA418	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA429	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-27 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA449	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-28 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA465	DESPITE ILL WILL, TURKEY PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary: Turkey plans to proceed with its planned outreach to the Iraqi Kurds, but what officials view as a steady stream of unhelpful rhetoric from the KRG leadership complicates this effort. Turks are dismayed by Masoud Barzani's Feb. 26 interview on Turkish television -- and annoyed by [...]	2007-03-01 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ

07ANKARA467	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-01 15:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA468	HOPE FOR OUTREACH TO ARMENIA FADES [...] (C) Summary: Even as concern over a U.S. Congressional Armenian genocide resolution mounts, Turks from across the spectrum caution that in this election year Turkey will not/cannot make a dramatic gesture to Armenia. End summary. 2. (C) The hot-button issue of a possible Armenian genocide [...]	2007-03-01 16:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM AJ
07ANKARA469	TURKEY: RACE FOR UNSC SEAT BRINGS RENEWED [...] (C) SUMMARY: As Turkey gears up its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2009-2010, the GOT is taking a renewed interest in Africa, reflected in part by PM Erdogan's recent visit to Addis Ababa for the African Union Summit. Never a key focus of Turkey's foreign pol [...]	2007-03-01 16:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON AORC UN XA TU
07ANKARA47	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-10 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA476	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-02 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA479	IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MOTTAKI'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials say they pressed Mottaki to make Iran's nuclear program more transparent and to carefully consider diplomatic offers already on the table, including the P5 1. The Turks cautioned that the international community's lack of confidence about Iran's nuclear program [...]	2007-03-02 16:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PREL TU IR
07ANKARA486	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 [...]	2007-03-05 07:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA50	TURKEY: ERDOGAN SUPPORTS SINIORA IN LEBANON, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although PM Erdogan and Lebanese PM Siniora reportedly speak often and, according to remarks in the press attributed to iniora, "have had a visible chemistry together," it seems the GOT prefers to support "stability" in Lebanon above all else. Erdogan met with most Lebanese polit [...]	2007-01-10 16:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU LE SY
07ANKARA502	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-06 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA508	TURKISH REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAQ DISCUSSES [...] (S) Summary. Turkey's Special Representative for Iraq Oguz Celikkol told Ambassador on March 6 that the Iranians have agreed to attend the March 10 Baghdad meeting and the Neighbors of Iraq plus P5, but the Saudis remain unconvinced. Celikkol plans to travel to Tehran on March 7 to lock in [...]	2007-03-06 16:36:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA517	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 15:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA519	"MODERATE ISLAMIC" SUMMIT STILL UP IN THE AIR [...] (C) Summary: Timing for a follow-on summit to the February 24 Islamabad foreign ministers meeting on Middle East Peace remains unclear, according to Turkish MFA. Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey are concerned that the effort not be perceived as an anti-Iran initiative. Saudi Arabia wa [...]	2007-03-07 16:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA521	TURKEY-IRAN JEC RESULTS IN PLAN FOR EXPANDED TRADE [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Foreign Trade (FTU) officials provided a more positive readout of the recent Turkey-Iran Joint Economic Commission meeting than their MFA colleagues (ref A). They reported that the two sides agreed to begin negotiating a preferential trade agreement and also discussed Ec [...]	2007-03-08 08:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL ENRG KNNP TU IR
07ANKARA529	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA539	Central Bank Governor Firm on Independent Policies [...] (SBU) Once again showing his readiness to speak out in implied criticism of government policies and to assert his independence in monetary policymaking -- including in an election year -- Central Bank Governor Durmus Yilmaz told a conference in Istanbul March 7 that the inflation rate was not [...]	2007-03-09 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN TU
07ANKARA558	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-12 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA559	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH PARTY HOLDS CONVENTION AMID [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-12 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA56	U/S BURNS VISIT TO TURKEY JANUARY 18-19 [...] (S) Your visit comes at the start of a pivotal year for Turkey. Presidential and parliamentary elections will intensify internal political competition and aggravate nationalism at a time when Turkey finds itself more uncertain about its future -- both domestically and externally -- than any t [...]	2007-01-11 15:14:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA560	KEY TURKISH OFFICIAL ON TURKISH-IRAQI KURD CONTACTS [...] (C) Turkish FM/PM foreign affairs advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador and EUR DAS Bryza March 8 that contacts with the Iraqi Kurdish leadership will go forward, but probably not before late-spring or summer. As the initiator of Turkey's current effort at dialogue with the Iraqi Kurds begi [...]	2007-03-12 16:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ
07ANKARA563	TURKEY: CHIEF OF STAFF BUYUKANIT TAKES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Long-standing strains between the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and the AKP -led government have escalated recently into regular confrontations over foreign policy. On France, Cyprus and Iraq, Chief of Staff (CHOD) Buyukanit has preempted or disputed government positions, leaving t [...]	2007-03-13 07:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU
07ANKARA57	TURKEY: THE GOT ON LEDRA STREET BRIDGE REMOVAL: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although GOT officials were not supportive of "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat's decision to dismantle the Ledra Street footbridge at the Green Line in Nicosia, they nonetheless stated in the end it was Talat's decision to make. While Talat had broached the subject in late Novem [...]	2007-01-11 16:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP MOPS TU CY
07ANKARA573	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-13 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA574	TENSION ESCALATING IN RUN-UP TO NEVRUZ HOLIDAY IN [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: The judicial offensive against several DTP politicians and growing militant activity by PKK supporters raise the possibility that this year's Nevruz (March 21) holiday could be particularly violent, according to many of our contacts in t [...]	2007-03-13 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA588	TURKEY: PRESSURE MOUNTING ON PM ERDOGAN BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Erdogan is the target of a growing pressure campaign from various quarters in the run-up to the filing for presidential candidacy on April 16. Recent remarks by military and opposition leaders, along with provocative media campaigns, are ratcheting up the tension in [...]	2007-03-14 15:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA592	TURKEY'S INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY; INCREASED [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-15 10:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR OSCE TU
07ANKARA596	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-15 14:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA610	Business Sees Nationalism as Bigger Risk than Elections [...] (SBU) Summary. The head of Merrill Lynch's new Istanbul branch is not overly concerned about the short-term outlook for the Turkish economy or politics. He minimizes the double election year political risk, estimating a 95% chance that PM Erdogan will seek and get the presidency and a large [...]	2007-03-17 07:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV TU
07ANKARA622	TURKS ANTICIPATE BANNER TOURISM YEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the heels of dashed expectations for tourism in 2006, Turkish officials expressed confidence that tourist arrivals for 2007 would surpass the record 21.1 million set in 2005. To attract more tourists from North and South America, the Government of Turkey (GOT) has invested [...]	2007-03-19 10:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON TU
07ANKARA624	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-19 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA629	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ONE MONTH OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the presidential election process beginning in just four weeks, political circles are bursting with theories about what the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will do. For his part, Prime Minister Erdogan has stuck to his declared intention not to signal any decision [...]	2007-03-19 16:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA636	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 15:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA64	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA641	TURK-AZERI DIASPORA TAKES AIM AT ARMENIAN DIASPORA [...] (C) Summary: A recent Turkish-Azeri diasporas forum in Baku is seeking to develop an organized counterbalance to the influence of the Armenian diaspora worldwide. Possible Turkish-Armenian rapprochement looks bleak, although MFA sources tell us FM Gul plans to approach Secretary Rice with a p [...]	2007-03-21 12:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM AJ TU
07ANKARA642	TURKISH GOVERNMENT MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR AKDAMAR [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-21 13:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA644	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-21 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA648	THE TRUTH BEHIND THE AKP'S "SECRET ISLAMIC AGENDA" [...] (C) Summary. Ever since its victory in the 2002 general elections, rumours and suspicion have swirled around the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "secret" Islamist agenda. After more than four years in power, some doubters are relieved to find an AKP that appears conservative, We [...]	2007-03-21 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON TU
07ANKARA653	TURKEY: FESTIVE NEVRUZ CELEBRATIONS PASS WITHOUT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-22 12:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA654	TURKEY: HIGH HOPES FOR PALESTINIAN NUG; MUBARAK [...] (U) Action Request in Para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials are hopeful the establishment of the new Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) represents a chance for a fresh start in establishing peace and security in the Palestinian territories as well as for dialogue between the Pa [...]	2007-03-22 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS TU
07ANKARA663	KRG MAY BE PONDERING DELAYED KIRKUK REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Kurdish leadership is weighing political modalities for a delay in a Kirkuk referendum, visiting KRG foreign policy adviser Dizayee told us March 20. KRG-GOT dialogue is continuing, even though a meeting at the political level may not occur until after Turkey's mid-May [...]	2007-03-23 12:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PREF PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA666	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-23 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA680	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-26 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA694	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 13:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA708	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-28 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA719	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-29 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA722	TURKEY: MUBARAK VISIT LONG ON RHETORIC, SHORT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish MFA and Egyptian embassy officials described the March 22-23 visit of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to Turkey as "symbolically important" and "a useful exchange between two regional powers." Despite agreement by both countries to establish a structured "strategic dialo [...]	2007-03-29 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG EG TU
07ANKARA73	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-16 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA734	TURKEY: VISIT OF PALESTINIAN NUG "OUT OF QUESTION" [...] (C) The GOT has flatly rejected press reports suggesting an imminent visit of Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) officials to Turkey. Both publicly and privately, the Turks have told us that Erdogan's March 28 meeting with Abbas (on the margins of the Arab League Summit in Riyadh) was [...]	2007-03-30 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS TU
07ANKARA735	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-30 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA749	TURKISH IRAQ COORDINATOR ON NEIGHBORS-PLUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Ambassador April 2, Turkish MFA Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol urged a prompt decision on the timing and venue of the Iraq Neighbors-plus ministerial, which Turkey hopes will be April 23-24 in Istanbul. He said that PM Maliki should have no concerns about an Ista [...]	2007-04-02 12:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA754	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-02 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA762	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-03 13:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA773	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINDOW ABOUT TO OPEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's presidential election process officially begins April 16. Despite months of tail-chasing by the political classes, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's enigmatic silence on his own candidacy has frustrated pundits and opponents alike, while serving gradually to acclima [...]	2007-04-04 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA774	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA778	DESPITE ALLEGATIONS, MEDIA TAKEOVER PROBABLY NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF) re-seized a major media group (including Sabah newspaper and ATV television) and other companies nominally belonging to businessman Turgay Ciner on April 1. The SDIF acted after it came to its attention in March that Ciner had e [...]	2007-04-05 05:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN TU
07ANKARA779	TURKEY-ARMENIA PUSH AFTER ELECTIONS; NO HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 3 meeting with Turkish MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan, Ambassador reviewed the status of the draft Armenian genocide resolution in Congress and discussed prospects for an opening in Turkish-Armenian relations, highlighting USG willingness to work with Turkey once the electio [...]	2007-04-05 08:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM KPAL
07ANKARA78	TURKEY: GOVERNMENT DEVELOPS 2007 EU ROADMAP [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-17 09:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA783	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-05 11:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA794	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-06 11:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA805	TURKEY SHOCKED BY GOI DECISION ON IRAQ EXPANDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In successive conversations April 6 with Ambassador, Turkish MFA Iraq Coordinator Celikkol and PM/FM foreign affairs advisor Davutoglu expressed "shock" and great disappointment that Egypt rather than Istanbul is being chosen to host the Iraq Neighbors-plus ministerial. Both urge [...]	2007-04-09 05:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA812	PKK VIOLENCE MAGNIFIES TURKISH ANGER AT IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: A sudden spike in Turkish casualties in operations against the PKK -- along with mounting anger at what is seen here as increasingly provocative rhetoric from KRG President Barzani -- have likely combined to put the possibility of a Turkish cross-border operation back on the table [...]	2007-04-09 10:44:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA814	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 11:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA82	TURKEY: GOT AND KRG MOVING TOWARD DIALOGUE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish Regional Government and the GOT are moving in the direction of initiating a dialogue, perhaps in early February, according to Masoud Barzani's foreign policy advisor (and former KDP Ankara rep.) Safeen Dizayee. According to Dizayee, GOT officials this week offered to [...]	2007-01-17 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PREF TU IZ
07ANKARA828	TURKEY: TROUBLED GOVERNMENT-MEDIA RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secularist contacts assert that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government pressures an important voice in society -- the media -- through a variety of means. Such charges have been leveled against previous governments, but AKP's concentrated hold on power m [...]	2007-04-10 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA83	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-17 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA830	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-10 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA832	TURKISH ANGER CONTINUES OVER SHIFT OF [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials remain persuaded that the Iraqi Kurds, then the Egyptian and Iraqi governments, essentially conspired to shift the "neighbors-plus" ministerial from Istanbul to Egypt. They have serious doubts as to whether all neighbors will attend the meeting, though Turkey wi [...]	2007-04-10 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ EG
07ANKARA833	ANKARA PUK REP OUTLINES TALABANI'S EFFORTS TO [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iraqi President Talabani will work to defuse Turkey-KRG tensions, according to the PUK representative in Ankara. Talabani will seek to create breathing room for PM Erdogan and his ruling AKP party to weather the political storm of presidential and parliamentary elections, as h [...]	2007-04-10 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA844	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-11 12:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA849	TURKEY: ERDOGAN OPPONENTS TALKING BIG BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In the final days before Turkey's presidential election process officially begins on April 16 (ref A),Prime Minister Erdogan's opponents are waging a last gasp effort to prevent his candidacy. Secularists' attempts to stir the public to action against the perceived Is [...]	2007-04-12 11:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA858	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-12 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA859	TURKISH MFA APPRECIATES EFFORTS TO AVERT GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting with Ambassador, MFA U/S (D equivalent) Ertugrul Apakan expressed appreciation for US Administration efforts to avert a congressional Armenian genocide resolution and asked about language of the Presidential proclamation that would be issued on the occasion [...]	2007-04-12 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
07ANKARA860	TURKS SEEKING ENHANCED ROLE IN ESDP PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S (D equivalent) Apakan told Ambassador April 11 that Turkey would like an enhanced role in ESDP planning. The Turks are approaching other NATO and EU members individually; PM Erdogan spoke with Javier Solana in Riyadh. As an EU accession candidate which participa [...]	2007-04-12 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL NATO EUN TU
07ANKARA861	TURKISH CHIEF OF STAFF PUTS THE MILITARY BACK IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's Chief of Staff General Yasar Buyukanit in an hour-long televised speech to assembled military brass and press at the General Staff headquarters on April 12 addressed the military's three-decade long fight against terrorism, defended the military from accusations of wron [...]	2007-04-12 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA868	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 13:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA876	MESSAGE TO PM ERDOGAN: TURKEY MUST REMAIN SECULAR [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's secularists staged a triple play to deter PM Erdogan from running for president as the election process gets underway on April 16. On April 14, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out in Ankara for a peaceful rally in support of secularism and the Republic. Th [...]	2007-04-15 11:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA889	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-16 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA906	Drowning in Tea Leaves - Turkish Press Coverage of the [...] Summary: As the Turkish Presidential election begins officially, the media's coverage leading up to the election has been obsessed with "will he or won't he," playing a guessing game rather than conducting any serious analysis of what it would mean for the country, should PM Erdogan become pr [...]	2007-04-17 10:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV KPAO TU
07ANKARA908	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-17 12:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA91	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-18 15:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA916	TURKISH OPPOSITION'S DESPERATE MANEUVERING AS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With little ammunition to force PM Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to present a consensus candidate for Turkey's next president, the opposition has resurrected its threat to boycott the first round of voting (reftel A). Relying on a specious interpret [...]	2007-04-18 11:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA917	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-18 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA926	PUSHING TURKEY TO IMPLEMENT UNSC SANCTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary. Following up on earlier demarches, Ambassador met April 19 with Foreign Ministry Middle East Director General Bozkurt Aran to keep the pressure on Turkey to implement UNSC Resolutions 1737 and 1747. Bozkurt said the process of adopting a Council of Ministers implementing decre [...]	2007-04-19 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KNNP IR TU
07ANKARA932	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-19 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA943	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA944	TURKEY'S NEXT PRESIDENT: FM ABDULLAH GUL [...] (U) The suspense is over. PM Tayyip Erdogan, at an April 24 meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),announced that FM and Deputy PM Abdullah Gul is AKP's candidate to be Turkey's 11th president. AKP has the votes to elect its candidate by the third round, all but assuring [...]	2007-04-24 10:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA953	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-24 13:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA961	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-25 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA964	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GUL CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Many in Turkey are cautiously welcoming Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul's nomination for president (ref A) as one that eases national tensions and will serve Turkey's international standing well. Those who dreaded the specter of Prime Minister Erdogan's a [...]	2007-04-25 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA969	AMBASSADOR PRESSES GOT ON ATTENDANCE AT SHARM [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is still weighing its level of attendance at the May 3-4 Sharm el-Sheikh meetings on Iraq, according to PM/FM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu. Turkey is still smarting from Iraq's decision not to hold the ministerials in Istanbul, and will press Iraqi FonMin Zebari for an [...]	2007-04-26 09:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ IR SY EG
07ANKARA978	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-26 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA979	TURKEY: QUORUM QUESTION CONTINUES TO COMPLICATE [...] (C) Turkey's parliament will convene Friday, April 27, at 3pm to begin the first round of the presidential election process. The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is standing firm on its threat to boycott. If the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) fails to muster 367 deputi [...]	2007-04-26 14:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA986	AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN-TURKEY TRILATERAL: EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey will promote constructive dialogue and seek to cool negative Karzai-Musharraf rhetoric during April 30 three-way, AF-PK-TU discussions, senior MFA officials told the Ambassador April 26. The GOT would like to achieve a Joint Statement and agrees that the Organization of the [...]	2007-04-27 12:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER ISCON AF PK TU
07ASHGABAT1014	TURKMENISTAN: A TURKISH BUSINESSMAN WORRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Businessman and Turkmenistan insider Ahmet Chalik (protect throughout) describes President Berdimuhamedov as weak because he is beholden to outside interests, principally Russian. He says Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gul are eager to promote a trilatera [...]	2007-09-24 11:35:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EPET KDEM TU AJ KZ RS TX
07ASHGABAT1398	TURKMENISTAN: CHALIK RECONCILED BUT DRAWS DOWN; [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Turkish President Gul's recent visit to Turkmenistan, President Berdimuhamedov and Turkish businessman Ahmet Chalik reconciled, and Chalik will finance and build a major mosque near Dashoguz. Chalik will maintain his energy interests in Turkmenistan but is mostly withdra [...]	2007-12-27 12:17:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON SOCI TK TX
07ASHGABAT197	A/S BOUCHER MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENTS NAZARBAYEV, [...] (C) Presidents of Kazakhstan, Georgia and Tajikistan, in separate February 14 meetings on the margins of the inauguration of Turkenistan's new President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, provided South Central Asia Assistant Secretary Boucher a uniform message on the need to go slow on SIPDIS pu [...]	2007-02-15 09:54:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KZ PGOV PINR PREL TX ZF
07ATHENS1522	TURKISH ELECTIONS: A VIEW FROM ATHENS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the re-election of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Sunday's elections, the mainstream Greek political elite breathed a sigh of relief. PM Erdogan's first term was a period of Greek-Turkish stability, offering Greeks a more secure vision of their bilateral rel [...]	2007-07-30 08:51:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU CYP CY
07ATHENS217	CODEL SMITH MEETINGS WITH GREEK POLITICAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 28-29 visit to Athens, CODEL SMITH met with Prime Minister (PM) Kostas Karamanlis, Foreign Minister (FM) Dora Bakoyiannis and prominent business leaders and parliamentarians. The PM emphasized the good cooperation between Greek and American authorities investigatin [...]	2007-02-01 15:19:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OVIP GR
07ATHENS676	DAS BRYZA VISIT TO GREECE: FOCUS ON ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his March 13 meetings with GOG officials EUR DAS Bryza underscored the importance of energy diversity for regional development and Azerbaijan's commitment to provide sufficient gas for the Turkey-Greece-Italy pipeline. Both the MFA and Development Ministry officials were co [...]	2007-04-03 10:37:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GR
07BAGHDAD1157	TALABANI WELCOMES AMBASSADOR, DISCUSSES ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari March 31 to present his credentials. They discussed Talabani's trip to Riyadh for the Arab Summit and the side meetings he held with other Arab leaders, including a discussion on Kirkuk and the P [...]	2007-04-04 09:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA IR SY IZ
07BAGHDAD1256	AMBASSADOR, TALABANI, BARZANI DISCUSS IMPROVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani April 9 discussed with the Ambassador how to improve Iraq-Turkey relations after Iraq decided to hold its next Neighbors' Conference in Egypt instead of Istanbul. During his meeting with Talabani the Ambassador also urged Talabani to act on the PKK [...]	2007-04-11 19:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS IR TU IZ

07BAGHDAD1391	ACTION REQUEST: TURKISH SPRING DEPLOYMENT INSIDE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (S/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: On April 18, the Turkish Liaison Team Chief passed a letter to Multi-National Corps -Iraq Commanding General informing him of Turkish plans to deploy military forces to five locations inside Iraq within the next [...]	2007-04-23 13:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PINR PREL TU PGOV PTER MOPS IZ
07BAGHDAD1793	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 27 MEETING WITH TURKISH IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: In a May 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Turkish MFA Iraq Envoy Oguz Celikkol said Turkey will propose that the Neighbors Conference energy working group meet June 14-15 in Istanbul. Celikkol and the Ambassador discussed ways to keep participation in the working group from becomin [...]	2007-05-29 15:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV ENRG TU SY IZ
07BAGHDAD2422	BARZANI CONDEMNS TURKISH ATTACKS INSIDE KRG, [...] (S) Summary: A highly agitated Masood Barzani told the Ambassador on the evening of July 18 that Turkish strikes earlier that day were provocative and if continued would generate an armed Kurdish response. The Ambassador responded that both the Turkish and Kurdish regional governments need [...]	2007-07-21 11:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3478	GOI SEEKS TO FORESTALL TURKISH INCURSION [...] (S) SUMMARY: At a hastily called meeting October 16, the Crisis Management Cell outlined steps to deal with the Turkish threat to attack PKK bases in Iraq. Noting that he would be speaking with PM Erdogan soon, PM Maliki emphasized the need to calm the GOT and to make sure the Kurdistan Regi [...]	2007-10-20 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3498	ZEBARI DOUBTS TURKISH MILITARY MOVE IMMINENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Zebari acknowledged the seriousness of border tensions with Turkey, but thought it unlikely that a Turkish cross-border operation (CBO) was imminent. Zebari confirmed that the GOI had authorized Iran to establish con [...]	2007-10-22 05:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3521	OCTOBER 21 MCNS: AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR GOI ACTION [...] (S) PM Maliki opened the Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS) with a call for Coalition Forces to exercise restraint in military operations to avoid civilian casualties, noting that the Council of Representatives (COR) was questioning the sovereignty and purpose of the government. [...]	2007-10-23 21:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3546	IRAQI PRESIDENT CALLS ACTION AGAINST PKK "FUTILE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told the Ambassador in a meeting October 22 that he thought fighting the PKK was futile and airstrikes against PKK camps would be ineffective, but thought strikes would cause little backlash in Baghdad. The Ambassador impressed on Talabani that the [...]	2007-10-26 09:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ TU
07BAGHDAD3563	MALIKI ON DIPLOMACY WITH TURKEY, STRATEGIC [...] (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki told the Ambassador and General Petraeus that the door remains open to dialogue with Turkey concerning the recent attacks by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) on Turkish Army units. He said it was important to include members of the Kurdish Regional Government ( [...]	2007-10-27 09:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MARR MCAP MOPS PGOV PINS PNAT PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD3597	MALIKI CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE STEPS TO DEFUSE TURKISH [...] (S) At the October 28 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),Prime Minister Maliki called for immediate and practical steps to defuse the border crisis with Turkey, asking his ministers to focus on steps leading to the return of Turkish military hostages captured by the Kurdish Worker [...]	2007-10-30 02:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3601	MALIKI CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE STEPS TO DEFUSE TURKISH [...] (S) At the October 28 Ministerial Council on National Security (MCNS),Prime Minister Maliki called for immediate and practical steps to defuse the border crisis with Turkey, asking his ministers to focus on steps leading to the return of Turkish military hostages captured by the Kurdish Worker [...]	2007-10-30 08:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PREF TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3605	GOI TO REACH OUT TO ARAB LEAGUE AND EU TO COUNTER [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a September 29 meeting with PolMil Minister Counselor Marcie Ries and A/Pol Ellen Germain, a harried Foreign Minister Zebari outlined the GOI's response to the threat of a Turkish cross border operation (CBO.) Emphasizing that the GOI considers the PKK and a CBO separate iss [...]	2007-10-30 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3608	IRAQI DFM VIEWS ON TURKEY/PKK [...] (S) SUMMARY: At an October 30 meeting with Political-Military Minister-Counselor, Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi related his concerns regarding the current PKK crisis and addressed items including Syria, Iran, and the Neighbors Process. He suspected that the Turkish military intended [...]	2007-10-31 02:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ SY
07BAGHDAD3615	KURDS IN BAGHDAD ON THE CRISIS WITH TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kurdish view in Baghdad on the conflict with Turkey over the PKK has largely been unified and concentrated on several main themes. In multiple conversations with Poloff since the October 20-21 PKK attack on Turkish soldiers, the Kurdistan Democratic Party in particular has as [...]	2007-10-31 18:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU IR IZ
07BAGHDAD3630	BARZANI'S CHIEF OF STAFF: BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE [...] (C) In an October 30 meeting with RRT officers, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani's Chief of Staff Fuad Hussein emphasized "dialogue, dialogue, dialogue" to solve the crisis over the PKK. He asserted that Turkey's refusal to negotiate with the Iraqi delegation in Ankara o [...]	2007-11-01 20:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PTER TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3638	PM MALIKI MEETING WITH CDA AND GEN PETRAEUS [...] (S) SUMMARY: MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus and CDA held their weekly meeting with Prime Minister Maliki November Â [...]	2007-11-02 16:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER BA IR IZ
07BAGHDAD3690	Letter from President Talabani to POTUS [...] (U) Post received a letter from Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on November 5, addressed to President Bush. The following is the English text. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT: The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House Washington DC. November 4, 2007 [...]	2007-11-07 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3692	AMB. SATTERFIELD PRESSES COR LEADERS ON PENDING [...] (C) Summary: In November 6 meetings, CoR Deputy Speakers Khalid al-Attiyah and Arif Tayfur and influential CoR member Humam Hamoudi told Amb. Satterfield that progress on key pending legislation remained possible during the current CoR session. Attiyah and Hamoudi agreed that, among pending [...]	2007-11-07 15:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3697	DFM ABBAWI DISCUSSES ISTANBUL, PKK, AND IRAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Pol-Mil M/C called on Deputy Foreign Minister Abbawi November 6 to discuss his impressions of the Istanbul Neighbors Ministerial, progress on dealing with the PKK, and setting up trilateral talks with Iran. Abbawi was pleased with Istanbul and praised Turkish cooperation at the m [...]	2007-11-08 11:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ SA
07BAGHDAD3773	ERBIL: KNA SPEAKER ON COR COOPERATION, PKK, AND [...] (C) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) Speaker Adnan Mufti said the KNA's recent trip to Baghdad laid the groundwork for further communication and collaboration, in a November 11 meeting with RRT Offs. He repeated the oft-heard Kurd call for a peaceful resolution to the PKK crisis. The Speake [...]	2007-11-16 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3788	KURDISH PARTIES SAY THEIR DELEGATION TO ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: In a November 17 meeting with RRT Off, Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) Secretary General Salahaddin Bahaddin indicated that the Turkish government was considering a proposal for direct Turkish-KRG discussions put forward during the November 11 visit to Ankara by a Kurdish politica [...]	2007-11-18 17:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU IZ
07BAGHDAD3834	PM AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS SPD, UNSCR, PKK, CLC, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging, hour-long meeting November 22, Ambassador Crocker and PM Nouri al-Maliki discussed progress on the Security Partnership Declaration (SPD),foreseeing its signing on Monday, November 26; moving quickly on a United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) for 2 [...]	2007-11-24 10:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ
07BAGHDAD3911	CG AND CDA DISCUSS FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND SYRIA, [...] (S) Summary: In a wide-ranging hour-long meeting Thursday, November 29, MNF-I Commanding General David Petraeus and Charge Patricia Butenis reviewed efforts with Prime Minister Maliki to stem the flow of Foreign Terrorists (FTs) from Syria and elsewhere, possible limited Turkish military acti [...]	2007-12-02 12:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ
07BAGHDAD4110	IRAQI REACTION TO DECEMBER 16 TURKISH AIRSTRIKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: While both PM Maliki and FM Zebari were measured in their remarks in reaction to the December 16 Turkish airstrikes against PKK targets in the northern Qandil mountains, they underscored that loss of civilian lives was "unacceptable." Implying U.S. involvement in the airstrikes, [...]	2007-12-18 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL PTER IZ TU
07BAGHDAD4118	MCNS ON DECEMBER 16 DISCUSSED TURKISH ATTACKS, [...] (S/REL UK AS) Summary: The Iraqi Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met December 16 to be briefed on Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I) contributions and support for the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and to clarify funding procedures for the Rusafa Rule of [...]	2007-12-18 15:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	MASS PTER PREL MOPS MARR PGOV IZ TU
07BAGHDAD440	BARZANI REMAINS STATIC ON PKK ISSUE [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's February 3-5 visit to Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani called for a two-part strategy for solving the PKK issue that combines an amnesty with military action. He warned against a purely military action from the Turks and [...]	2007-02-09 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IZ
07BAKU1357	PRESIDENT ALIYEV REVIEWS REGIONAL ISSUES WITH EUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev told A/S Fried that, although he was pleased with Azerbaijan,s overall economic and social situation, he was concerned by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the potential for religious extremism in Azerbaijan. Aliyev believes that Ukraine's paralysis and Moldova' [...]	2007-11-13 09:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
07BAKU1365	AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES N-K, DEMOCRACY WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Aliyev told A/S Fried and the Ambassador on November 3 that "there was a consensus" on the essential N-K issues, with the only remaining barriers being "phraseology" and the Lachin Corridor. Time was on Azerbaijan's side in the N-K dispute, as every year Azerbaijan gro [...]	2007-11-15 09:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ
07BAKU1397	TURKIC CONFERENCE IN BAKU PASSES WITH LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: President Ilham Aliyev, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus President Mehmet Ali Talat attended the eleventh Turkic conference in Baku on November 17-19. The conference's final statement called for enhanced cooperation -- including cre [...]	2007-11-21 10:37:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AJ
07BAKU249	DEFENSE MINISTER ABIYEV DISCUSSES IRANIAN-RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador and a State-DOD delegation headed by Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Peter Rodman, SIPDIS Azerbaijani Minister of Defense General Safar Abiyev expressed concern that Russia and Iran were increasing thei [...]	2007-03-01 04:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PTER AJ PBTS IR RU
07BAKU256	PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON TRANS-CAPSIAN AND EUROPEAN GAS [...] (C) Summary: During a February 6 meeting with the US delegation to the Economic Partnership Commission (septel),President Aliyev outlined the changing regional energy picture. Touting Azerbaijan's refusal to bow to Russian gas policies as "an example for the region" and an act that "destroy [...]	2007-03-01 15:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RU TU TX AJ
07BAKU386	BAKU HOSTS FIRST AZERBAIJANI AND TURKISH DIASPORA [...] (C) Summary. In an effort to galvanize enhanced cooperation among Azerbaijani and Turkish diaspora organizations, Azerbaijan hosted the first conference of World Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations from March 9-10. Reflecting the importance assigned to the event, President Ilham [...]	2007-04-06 13:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU AJ
07BAKU689	PRESIDENT ALIYEV REVIEWS ENERGY AND REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a May 29 meeting with visiting OVP Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs Joseph Wood and the Ambassador, President Aliyev reviewed prospects for new southern corridor energy initiatives. Urging the U.S. to support new Turkmen President Burdimuhamedov, Aliyev said Az [...]	2007-06-01 14:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG MASS PBTS KDEM IR RU AJ
07BAKU696	OVP DEPUTY ASSISTANT MEETING WITH AZERI FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Advisor Joseph Wood and Ambassador Derse met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on May 30. Mammadyarov was relaxed and expansive about his recent discussions with new Turkmenistani President Gurbangul [...]	2007-06-05 08:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG AJ TU
07BAKU98	AZERBAJAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES ECONOMIC [...] (C) This contains an action request; see paras 17 and 18. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Mammadyarov underscored to the Ambassador on January 18 GOAJ interest in a formal memorandum launching the February 7 Economic Partnership Commission (EPC),echoing Finance Minister Sharifov's reque [...]	2007-01-22 11:37:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD ENRG EPET AJ
07BEIRUT1890	LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI: WEIGHING PROS AND CONS OF [...] (C) Majority leader Saad Hariri, for lack of a better solution, is still intent on electing Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Michel Sleiman as president just two days from now. He claims to have received assurances from Sleiman on issues of key importance to the U.S. and believes he will [...]	2007-11-28 16:30:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE
07BEIRUT1936	LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI: OPPOSITION DOESN'T WANT [...] (C) Majority leader Saad Hariri believes that the opposition's continuing efforts to block the election of Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Michel Sleiman reflect Syria's desire to maintain a presidential vacuum. Still disillusioned with the French and expressing frustration with US poli [...]	2007-12-11 08:22:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE
07BEIRUT1945	LEBANON: PM SINIORA BLAMES REGIONAL ISSUES FOR [...] (C) PM Siniora believes Syria's attempt to use Lebanon as a pawn in its efforts to secure regional recognition is the primary reason for the opposition's obstacles to electing Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Michel Sleiman as president. Urging strong international support for Lebanon, h [...]	2007-12-11 15:46:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE
07BEIRUT1974	LEBANON: JUMBLATT TELL A/S WELCH MARCH 14 MORE [...] (C) NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch assured Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and other senior Druse officials of unwavering U.S. support for March 14 during his December 15-16 visit to Lebanon. Stressing the need for March 14 to remain united, he said the U.S. would support whichever course th [...]	2007-12-18 08:38:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE
07BEIRUT1981	LEBANON: WITH A/S WELCH, HARIRI STEADFAST; WANTS [...] (C) During December 15, 18, and 19 meetings with majority leader Saad Hariri, NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and DAPNSA Elliott Abrams (at the 18th and 19th meetings) reiterated U.S. support for March 14's resistance to the opposition's attempts to force concessions from the majority bef [...]	2007-12-21 14:12:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE
07BEIRUT44	LEBANON: TASHNAQ MPS DISTANCE SELVES FROM [...] (C) Ambassador Feltman and Emboff met with Tashnaq Secretary General Hovig Mukhtarian and Members of Parliament SIPDIS Hagop Pakradunian and George Kassarji in early January. Tashnaq politicians distanced their party from the rest of the opposition, emphasizing their relative neutrality, ma [...]	2007-01-08 18:06:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM SY LE
07BEIRUT814	LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI REVIEWS NEXT STEPS ON THE [...] (C) Saad Hariri thanked the Ambassador and IO A/S Silverberg in a 6/5 meeting for U.S. support in adoption of the tribunal, and he pledged to move quickly on selecting Lebanese judges. He suggested that locating the tribunal in Cyprus could handicap the ability of Turkish pressure on Syria t [...]	2007-06-07 06:14:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE
07BERLIN1067	TURKEY AND TURKISH-GERMANS [...] (C) Summary. The Turkish state has long considered Turks resident in Germany as potential allies and maintains official and unofficial means of influencing the community. For many years, Turkey had at best been ambivalent and sometimes directly hostile to integration. Turkey's stance has cha [...]	2007-05-25 12:00:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PGOV PREL TU GM
07BERLIN1943	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) EUR Assistant Secretary Dan Fried met October 23 with German National Security Adviser Christoph Heusgen. They discussed Russia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Georgia, Turkey, and the Middle East. Russia/2 2/MD/CFE: ------------------ 2. (C) Heusgen noted that the Chancellor saw Russian Pre [...]	2007-10-24 14:22:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GM KS RS
07BERLIN796	CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS NEW MUSLIM COORDINATING [...] (U) Summary. Reftel reported the planned establishment of a Muslim Coordination Council (KRM) by Germany's four largest Muslim religious organizations. The Council would serve as an umbrella organization representing German Muslims belonging to or otherwise associated with the four organizat [...]	2007-04-19 15:09:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI KISL GM
07BRUSSELS2687	PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY: GIVE US TIME ON KOSOVO, [...] (C) Portuguese Political and Security (PSC) Ambassador Pais told Charge August 23 that the EU will only address recognition and next steps on Kosovo as the December 10 report deadline moves closer. Pais floated a "hot house" Dayton-like conference as a possible way to pressure the Kosovars a [...]	2007-08-24 12:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO EUN KV RU TU
07BUENOSAIRES1438	MEDIA REACTION; IRAQ; TURKEY; UPCOMING ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories include a US military report advising troop withdrawal from Iraq begin in the summer of 2009; implications of Turkish parliamentary elections; and speculation about the outcome of upcoming Argentine presidential elections. 2. OPINION PIECES AND [...]	2007-07-25 15:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
07BUENOSAIRES2070	MEDIA REACTION; THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE; IMF-ARGENTINA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international opinion pieces are related to the Armenian genocide; the status of IMF-Argentine ties; and doubts about governance in a future government of Argentine First Lady/Senator and Presidential Candidate Cristina Kirchner. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITO [...]	2007-10-19 18:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
07CAIRO1204	EGYPT PLEASED WITH MALIKI VISIT, MUBARAK EXPRESSES [...] (C) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki is in Egypt April 22-24 to meet the Egyptian leadership and to begin the process of normalizing strained relations, overcoming mutual suspicions, discussing commercial opportunities, and preparing for upcoming international meetings on Iraq. Maliki has [...]	2007-04-23 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS ECON EFIN EG IZ
07DAMASCUS109	Syria/Turkey, Syria/Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 1 reported FM Walid Mouallem's visit to Turkey on Jan. 31 and his meetings with President Sezer and PM Erdogan to convey two messages from President Asad on the latest developments in the region. Mouallem also held talks with Turkish FM Abdullah Gul on bilatera [...]	2007-02-01 14:46:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS17	TURKEY: THE SARG'S NEW BEST FRIEND [...] (C) SUMMARY: OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, WITH A SERIES OF HIGH-LEVEL TURKISH DIPLOMATIC VISITS AND TURKEY'S MUCH-DELAYED RATIFICATION OF THE SYRIAN-TURKISH FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (FTA),THE SARG HAS PUBLICLY HAILED THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA OF COOPERATION BETWEEN SYRIA AND TURKEY. THE SARG BELIE [...]	2007-01-08 13:42:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IZ SY TU
07DAMASCUS188	Syria/Spain, OIC, Israeli Nukes, Palestinian Territories, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 25 reported that on Feb. 22 in Madrid King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain inaugurated Arab House and the Spanish Political Conference with the participation of Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem and the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Tunisia, Yemen, [...]	2007-02-27 12:42:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS2	CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bashar Al-Asad said he was optimistic about restarting peace negotiations with Israel, claimed (erroneously it appears) the seven opposition activists recently jailed had been released, expressed pessimism on reaching a political resolution in Lebanon given what he desc [...]	2007-12-31 13:35:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KDEM PGOV PHUM SY IS IZ LEB
07DAMASCUS292	Syria/Kuwait, Syria/Pakistan, Syria/Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 25 reported VP Shara's visit to Kuwait on Mar. 24 to convey a message from President Asad to the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, on bilateral coordination prior to the upcoming Arab summit in Riyadh. During the meeting Shara reviewed the [...]	2007-03-25 13:50:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS389	CODEL PELOSI MEETS SYRIA'S PRESIDENT ASAD [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-25 09:17:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS392	CODEL ISSA VISIT TO SYRIA APRIL 5: MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Darrell Issa met with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad for 40 minutes on April 5. Asad stated he had no conflict of interest with the U.S. on Iraq and was not weaker because of U.S. attempts to isolate him. Asad expressed no willingness to reopen an intelligence channe [...]	2007-04-25 09:31:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
07DAMASCUS4	CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem pleaded for the United States not to hold Syria "hostage" to events in Lebanon or to resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while insisting to Senator Arlen Specter and Representative Patrick Kennedy that Syria itself was ready for p [...]	2007-12-31 15:03:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL KDEM PHUM SY IS IZ LEB
07ISLAMABAD2107	FOREIGN SECRETARY AND TURKISH AMBASSADOR REFLECT [...] (S) Summary. Charge d'Affaires met with Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan May 7 and Turkisk Ambassador Engin Soysal SIPDIS May 8 to hear their reflections on the April 29-30 Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkey trilateral in Ankara. Both Khan and Soysal were in Ankara for the meetings -- Khan as [...]	2007-05-10 12:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PK AF
07ISTANBUL1005	TURKISH SECURITY CHALLENGES: DOMESTIC PRESSURES [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-23 08:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER TU
07ISTANBUL1011	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Istanbul follows President Bush's successful November 5 meeting with PM Erdogan in Washington and Secretary Rice's constructive Ankara meetings with Erdogan, President Gul and FM Babacan on November 2. The President and Secretary Rice greatly improved Turkish-Ameri [...]	2007-11-23 08:50:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TU
07ISTANBUL1017	IRAQI CG IN ISTANBUL ON IRAQ-TURKEY RELATIONS AND [...] (C) Summary. In a courtesy call on Consulate Istanbul CG Wiener on November 27, Iraq,s Consul General in Istanbul, Ambassador Salah Abdulsalam, said his two top priorities here are to rebuild contacts with the Iraqi community in Turkey and to strengthen economic, commercial, and political c [...]	2007-11-28 06:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON IQ TU
07ISTANBUL1029	Energy Secretary Bodman Meets with Turkish Prime Minister [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 18, Energy Secretary Bodman met with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan on the margins of the Turkish Greek Interconnector (TGI) Ceremony. Also present was Turkish Energy Minister Guler, as well as representation from the Turkish MFA. The Secretary and the Prime Minist [...]	2007-12-03 12:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AJ ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS TU
07ISTANBUL103	CALIK ON ASHGABAT LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Ahmet Calik, Turkish oligarch and longtime Ashgabat insider, shared his views on Turkmen developments February 11 in Istanbul with visiting SCA PDAS Mann. We convey them as an additional window on Turkmen issues. 2. (C) Calik has known interim President Berdimukhammedov since 1997 wh [...]	2007-02-12 14:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET PGOV TX
07ISTANBUL1049	THE AKP BRINGS WATER TO ISTANBUL [...] (U) Prime Minister Erdogan presided over the official opening of the Melen Project, a massive endeavor to provide residents of Istanbul with sufficient water. This project diverts water from the Melen River and pipes it about 150 km westward to Istanbul. The ceremony celebrated the complet [...]	2007-12-11 10:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD SENV PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL106	AHMET CALIK ON ASHGABAT LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Ahmet Calik, Turkish oligarch and longtime Ashgabat insider, shared his views on Turkmen developments February 11 in Istanbul with visiting SCA PDAS Mann. We convey them as an additional window on Turkmen issues. 2. (C) Calik has known interim President Berdimuhammedov since 1997 whe [...]	2007-02-13 07:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV TX
07ISTANBUL1073	CONSUL GENERAL'S CALL ON TURKISH-ARMENIAN ORTHODOX [...] (C) Summary. The leader of the Armenian Orthodox community in Turkey, His Beatitude Mesrob II, during the Consul General's introductory call, expressed optimism that the government will soon pass a proposed new Law on Foundations. He stressed progress for Armenia depended on reconciliation [...]	2007-12-18 16:06:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL120	HRANT DINK SUCCESSOR CONCERNED FOR FUTURE OF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Hrant Dink's widow and Armenian-Turkish weekly Agos' new editor-in-chief Etyen Mahcupyan to express condolences and discuss the state of affairs for the newspaper and the Armenian community in Turkey since Dink's January 19 assassination. Mahcupyan expressed [...]	2007-02-16 08:58:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR TU
07ISTANBUL150	REP HARMAN DISCUSSES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) met February 21 with Turkish PM Erdogan, Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II, and reform-minded NGO leaders Can Paker and Etyen Mahcupyan to hear Turkish views on the Armenian genocide resolution pending in the House. PM Erdogan highlighted Turkey,s close work [...]	2007-02-26 12:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL245	ISTANBUL TO HOST WORLD WATER FORUM 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary. Even as the country enjoyed sunshine instead of rain (reftel),Istanbul hosted a preparatory meeting for the World Water Forum 2009, an international, tri-annual meeting organized to highlight water needs and resources worldwide since 1997. Istanbul was chosen as venue for th [...]	2007-03-23 12:03:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ENRG SENV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL252	TURKISH OPINION MAKERS ON PM ERDOGAN AND THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In what was meant to be an hour and a half tour d'horizon with three of Turkey's most prominent opinion makers, Ambassador was only able to get one question in: Will PM Erdogan be a candidate for President? The heated debate that ensued was a sharp contrast to the backdrop of [...]	2007-03-26 13:38:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO TU
07ISTANBUL258	BANKERS' TAKE ON POSSIBLE ELECTION OUTCOMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul bankers and key business leaders are evenly divided on Prime Minister Erdogan's presidential aspirations with some claiming he would be a fool to take the highly respected but largely ceremonial position while others claim Erdogan's ego will not allow him to forego the [...]	2007-03-28 10:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN TU
07ISTANBUL346	FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR DAVUTOGLU'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor and Iraq Coordinator David Satterfield met with Prime Minister Erdogan,s senior foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday, April 21, 2007, to discuss U.S. and Turkish policy toward Iraq and related issues. Ambassador Oguz Celikkol, special representative [...]	2007-04-24 15:54:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IZ XF
07ISTANBUL349	CONSUL GENERAL DISCUSSES SECURITY, MINORITIES WITH [...] (C) Summary: Consul General met Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler on April 20 to express condolences and address security concerns for American citizens and minority community members in Turkey following the April 18 murders of three Christian bookstore employees in Malatya (ref A). Guler conde [...]	2007-04-25 13:20:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ASEC TU
07ISTANBUL353	A GATHERING OF GULENISTS, WITH A SPLASH OF SCOTCH [...] (C) Summary. An April 17 gathering of journalists, academicians, religious and political leaders either merely familiar with, sympathetic to or loyal followers of Fethullah Gulen painted a picture of the self-exiled, U.S.-based Turkish religious leader as a compassionate and tolerant humanit [...]	2007-04-27 14:41:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL406	ISTANBUL: A TALE OF THREE OUTLOOKS [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, an entrepreneur and founding member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP),a representative of Turkish tradesmen and craftsmen, and a Kemalist academic each commented on today's politics; the first resentful of secularist prejudice, the second aggrieved [...]	2007-05-15 12:36:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL42	SITREP 2. DINK ASSAILANT ARRESTED; HIGH LEVEL [...] (U) In the aftermath of the January 19 murder in Istanbul of Agos weekly editor and founder Hrant Dink, his suspected assailant, 17-year old Ogun Samast, was arrested by Turkish National Police Saturday evening as he stepped off a bus in Samsun en route to his home in Trabzon after his father [...]	2007-01-22 12:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL46	TURKEY'S FOREIGN MINISTER OUTLINES POLICY FOR AKP [...] (C) Summary. Several thousand Istanbul Justice and Development Party (AKP) precinct captains and party faithful jammed an auditorium January 13 to hear Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul acclaim Turkey's foreign policy achievements and goals as the party continues its campaign to energize its coh [...]	2007-01-24 09:51:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL468	ONE INSIDER'S AKP: MISTAKES, POSSIBILITIES, [...] (C) Summary. Metin Kulunk, an Istanbul-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) founding member and rival to Mehmet Muezzinoglu for AK Party's Istanbul Chairmanship, met with us May 23 to review his recent trip to the U.S. and share views of the AKP heading into parliamentary elections. He [...]	2007-06-01 09:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL475	ZEYNEL ERDEM DISCUSSES GULENIST SCHOOLS [...] (C) Zeynel Erdem, a wealthy local businessman and self-described 'advocate for America' (please protect) used a May 31 appointment with CG to raise two cases of Fetullah Gulen (FG) adherents who'd recently been barred from entering the United States. (See reftel for more detail on Gulen and t [...]	2007-06-04 12:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CVIS TU
07ISTANBUL498	MEETING WITH GENC PARTY ISTANBUL CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Soner Cokbilgin, the current Istanbul chairman of the Genc ("Young") Party, discussed Genc Party,s brief history, the July 22 parliamentary elections, and future goals with us on May 23 in Istanbul. Genc Party is a vehicle for the political aspirations of Cem Uzan, a controve [...]	2007-06-08 13:14:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL509	ANAVATAN WITHDRAWS FROM ELECTION, HOPES TO [...] (C) Summary: Motherland Party (ANAVATAN) Istanbul Branch Chairman Sinan Gedik confided his party withdrew on June 8 from upcoming parliamentary elections because it anticipates the elections will result in a three-party parliament unable to elect a president and consequently forced to dissolv [...]	2007-06-13 08:01:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL51	PM LAUNCHES TUNNEL, LAUDS ITALIAN SUPPORT [...] SUMMARY: On January 23, Prime Minister Erdogan used the official opening ceremony of a tunnel on the primary Ankara - Istanbul highway to highlight the strong commercial ties between Turkey and Italy. Erdogan argued that the commercial and business links forged by his government with Italy ha [...]	2007-01-24 16:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN EINV ENRG IT TU
07ISTANBUL53	TUSIAD ELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN; DECRIES DINK MURDER [...] Summary: During the January 25 Annual General Assembly TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association) members elected a new board of directors, naming Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag the first female chairman in the group's 37-year history. Yalcindag's election was a foregone conclus [...]	2007-01-25 15:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV TU
07ISTANBUL531	PRO-KURDISH PARTY: A FRESH APPROACH TO GAINING [...] (C) Summary. The Kurdish nationalist Democratic Society Party (DTP) is running one "independent" candidate from each of Istanbul's three electoral districts; the party claims each is likely to attract enough support to gain seats in parliament. Nationwide, 40% of the party's candidates are [...]	2007-06-22 10:41:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL541	DAS BRYZA, AMB DAVUTOGLU DISCUSS WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. During a June 15 meeting in Istanbul, EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Prime Ministry senior advisor Ahmet Davutoglu discussed ways forward on Cyprus in the run up to the December 2008 EU Commission report on Turkey's accession process. Davutoglu argued that the current government was un [...]	2007-06-26 08:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU CY EUN
07ISTANBUL555	ISTANBUL TO HOST TOP NAMES IN GLOBAL COMMERCE [...] An increasingly popular venue for international congresses and conventions, Istanbul will host the World Chambers Federation (WCF) Fifth World Chambers Congress in Istanbul on July 4-6. Istanbul competed with Monaco and Bratislava to host the event. Prime Minister Erdogan will open the even [...]	2007-06-28 06:16:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV BEXP TU
07ISTANBUL61	HRANT DINK MEMORIAL SERVICES INSPIRE TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Consulate staff joined tens of thousands of Turkish citizens of various ethnicities, along with a significant international audience at memorial and funeral services for Turkish-Armenian human rights advocate Hrant Dink, murdered January 19 in front of his Agos [...]	2007-01-26 18:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL TU AM
07ISTANBUL624	STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY/GUREVICH DISCUSS ELECTIONS, VIEW [...] (C) Summary. In separate July 7 meetings, House Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA) Senior Staff Members Alan Makovsky and Gene Gurevich discussed the July 22 parliamentary elections, the possibility of a cross-border operation (CBO) into northern Iraq, and the effects of a possible U.S. Arm [...]	2007-07-13 06:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL631	NORTHWEST TURKEY'S TEKIRDAG IN CAMPAIGN MOOD [...] (SBU) Summary. We visited Tekirdag located just up the Marmara seacoast northwest of Istanbul a few days after the press splashed claims of U.S. support to the PKK by three masked persons said to be PKK defectors across newspapers and television sets. The pleasant town, known for excellent k [...]	2007-07-16 13:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL638	YARGITAY'S RULING ON ECUMENICITY: WHAT DOES IT [...] (C) Summary. Ecumenical Patriarchate attorney Kezban Hatemi and Ecumenical Patriarch senior advisor Metropolitan Meliton, separately, gave us very different assessments of the implications of the Turkish Higher Court of Appeals' (Yargitay) recent rejection of the ecumenicity of the Greek Ort [...]	2007-07-18 11:36:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL675	TURKEY: SMALL PARTY ALLEGES RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The minuscule Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) intends to file a complaint of "gross violations" of rights against Turkey's Supreme Election Board (SEB) with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The SEB's decisions are final and may not be appealed to any body inside Turkey, [...]	2007-07-26 13:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL690	AKP MP VAHIT ERDEM ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Vahit Erdem argued that the U.S. offers the only viable strategic partnership for Turkey, but noted that U.S. Iraq policy is an enormous problem and cautioned that only concrete U.S. action against the PKK in Northern Iraq could ease the pr [...]	2007-07-31 06:19:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU
07ISTANBUL722	TURKEY SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO, AUGUST [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),which scored a significant victory in recent elections, was given the mandate to form another single-party government. AKP is expected to continue to pursue its economic and political reform policies. On Iraq, Turkey contin [...]	2007-08-09 12:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TU
07ISTANBUL779	CONSUL GENERAL'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler stressed the importance of US cooperation in combating PKK terrorism during a cordial introductory meeting with the incoming Consul General. Guler offered his continued full support to the Consulate General, including and especially with respec [...]	2007-08-29 10:57:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL791	CODEL COSTELLO: GOT URGES HOUSE NOT TO PASS AGR [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish MFA Undersecretary (D Equivalent) Apakan and a group of parliamentarians, separately, urged Codel Costello to prevent passage of an Armenian Genocide Resolution, noting it would cause serious damage to US-Turkish relations. Turkish officials also pressed the delegatio [...]	2007-09-05 07:06:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU AM IZ
07ISTANBUL869	TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY ANXIOUS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Jewish community secular leaders expressed their anxiety about the impact of potential constitutional reforms now capturing headlines during the Consul General's September 20 introductory call on Chief Rabbi Haleva. In separate meetings, community representatives had a [...]	2007-09-25 14:50:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL872	ISTANBUL BUSINESS TO U/S BURNS: NOW IS THE TIME [...] (SBU) Summary: In a broad-ranging dinner conversation with two recently-elected AKP members of parliament and four senior business leaders Undersecretary Burns discussed constitutional reform, prospects for resolving conflict with Armenia, the treatment of minorities in Turkey, Turkish press [...]	2007-09-26 12:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL873	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH [...] (SBU) Summary. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I conveyed his appreciation for continued USG support and reiterated the concerns of the Patriarchate in a meeting with U/S Burns on September 18 in Istanbul. The Patriarch shared his optimism concerning the results of recent Turkish parliamen [...]	2007-09-26 12:52:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL942	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH'S CALL ON PRESIDENT GUL [...] (C) Summary. Ecumenical Patriarch senior advisor Metropolitan Meliton recounted to us His All Holiness Bartholomew's recent calls in Ankara on President Gul and other GOT officials. Gul listened attentively but made no real response to the Patriarch's list of grievances. Government officia [...]	2007-10-23 06:12:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL TU GR
07ISTANBUL977	CONSUL GENERAL'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON ECUMENICAL [...] (C) Summary. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I recounted his most recent round of meetings in Ankara with Turkish government officials during the Consul General's November 6 introductory call. Though he had been well received, he had yet to see results on key issues such as re-opening Halk [...]	2007-11-08 10:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL987	A PROFESSOR OF GENERALS SPEAKS OF THE OBLIGATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 08:41:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ

07NICOSIA103	INTERNAL, EXTERNAL WOES THREATEN T/C "STATE U" [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Cyprus's Eastern Mediterranean University is "in dire trouble," worries Vice Rector for Student Affairs Samil Ergodan and Senior Advisor to the Rector Johann Pillai. Beset by labor strife, empty "government" funding commitments, and cronyism at home, the "TRNC's state" univ [...]	2007-02-02 15:24:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OEXC PREL KPAO CY TU
07NICOSIA140	CYPRUS: CIV-MIL RELATIONS HIT NEW LOW, TALAT [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Relations between the increasingly assertive Turkish military and the increasingly hesitant Turkish Cypriot civilian leadership have taken a definite turn for the worse in recent months. The January contest of wills between "TRNC President" Talat and the generals ove [...]	2007-02-14 13:55:00	Embassy Nicosia	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM UNFICYP MOPS TU CY
07NICOSIA21	TALAT'S SHOWDOWN WITH TURKISH ARMY OVER LEDRA [...] (C) SUMMARY. "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat's public promise to remove the controversial pedestrian bridge at the Green Line on Ledra Street has put him on a collision course with the Turkish military. The bridge, which crosses over a Turkish army patrol track along the north edge of the Bu [...]	2007-01-05 16:25:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNFICYP EUN MOPS TU CY
07NICOSIA301	NATIONALISTS AND DEEP STATE STIRRING THE "TRNC" POT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent months, nationalist elements in the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" appear to be manufacturing and/or exploiting events in order to pressure pro-solution "President" Mehmet Ali Talat and "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer to toe a harder line more consistent with polici [...]	2007-04-05 07:57:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
07NICOSIA52	ASSIMILATION, AGING THREATEN CYPRUS MARONITES [...] SUMMARY: The Maronite community -- self-described as 6,000-strong but likely half that -- enjoys "official religious group" status under Cyprus's 1960 constitution. Concentrated historically in four villages south and west of Kyrenia, the Catholic Maronites endured near-total dislocation aft [...]	2007-01-16 15:26:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UNFICYP PHUM PREF TU CY
07NICOSIA579	AKEL CONGRESS GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO CYPRUS'S FIRST COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) Summary: In a historical first, coalition partner and communist party AKEL decided at its July 8 congress to nominate its own leader, Demetris Christofias, as presidential candidate, either for the pro-government coalition parties jointly or on his own. The decision signals the end of th [...]	2007-07-10 13:41:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA610	CORRUPTION SCANDAL CRIPPLING "TRNC GOVERNMENT" [...] (C) Summary: The "parliament" of the self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" ("TRNC") officially entered its summer break on July 13, but the "government," led by "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer's Republican Turkish Party (CTP),will find the summer months to be uncomfortable. C [...]	2007-07-20 13:10:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	CY PGOV PREL TU
07NICOSIA619	TURKISH ELECTORATE GRANTS "TRNC GOVERNMENT" WISH [...] (C) Summary: The resounding win of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey was a surprise to most Turkish Cypriot contacts of the Embassy and has stabilized the wobbly CTP-OP "TRNC Government". The post-election euphoria, though, will not dispel the allegations of corruption that [...]	2007-07-27 13:50:00	Embassy Nicosia	SECRET	CY PGOV PREL
07NICOSIA651	TALAT FINALLY BLINKS; DEMINING TO RESTART IN CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Commission and UN Development Program officials July 30 signed an agreement that allows humanitarian demining activities in the Cypriot Buffer Zone to continue, hopefully to their conclusion. Financing for operations, approximately four million euro, will come from the [...]	2007-08-08 12:07:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNFICYP MOPS MASS CY TU
07NICOSIA674	"TRNC": THE MUFTI RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Beset for months by allegations he had misused his office for political gains, Turkish Cypriot Mufti Ahmet Yonluer resigned his position August 14. In actuality a mid-level "TRNC" bureaucrat who couldn't find Mecca with a map -- Yonluer's ceremonial robes, displayed prominently [...]	2007-08-17 14:14:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA696	RUMORS OF DEVELOPMENT SHAKE CYPRUS'S KARPASS [...] (U) Summary: The pristine Karpass peninsula, the long finger of land stretching northeast "like a dagger toward the heart of Anatolia," has dominated north Cyprus newscasts nightly this summer. A sleepy corner of the island known more for its turtle hatcheries and unbroken surf, Karpass has [...]	2007-08-27 11:56:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SENV CY TU
07NICOSIA729	LEADERS' MEETING BRINGS NO BREAKTHROUGHS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fourteen months after concluding a framework arrangement to restart stalled Cyprus Problem negotiations -- the July 8 or Gambari Agreement, which envisioned regular tete-a-tetes of the island's community leaders -- RoC President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot "President [...]	2007-09-06 13:59:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
07NICOSIA863	CYPRIOTS FREAK OVER UK-TURKEY AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Relations with UK Hit New Low" screamed Nicosia's English-language daily October 25. The cause? Island-related elements of the recent "Strategic Partnership Agreement" between the United Kingdom and Turkey that codified the countries' desires to help end the isolation of Turki [...]	2007-10-29 15:46:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY UK TU
07NICOSIA887	TURKISH CYPRIOT PROTEST VOTE SEEKS PARTY TO SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: New Turkish Cypriot (T/C) political parties have begun to emerge in response to growing voter frustration with traditional offerings. On the right, the Freedom and Reform Party (OP) -- which formed one year ago, allegedly with Ankara's aid -- is trying to re-brand itself as a mod [...]	2007-11-05 14:39:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY TU
07NICOSIA971	AKP AND OP: IS THE AKP GOVERNMENT IN SEARCH OF A [...] (C) Summary: Many Turkish Cypriots (T/Cs) consider Turkey's AKP the force behind the T/C Freedom and Reform Party (OP),the junior "coalition" partner to "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat's CTP. Any doubts regarding AKP's support for OP were dispelled recently by the Turkish party's high-prof [...]	2007-12-11 14:58:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TR CY
07PARIS2888	CODEL WEXLER STAFFERS DISCUSS EU-TURKEY AT MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 7 meeting with Representative Wexler's Staff Director, MFA officials offered a broad overview of French reasoning behind Sarkozy's opposition to Turkish EU membership; his proposal for an EU discussion before the end of the year on fixing the EU's final borders; his com [...]	2007-07-03 17:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN TU CY AR UNO
07PARIS2889	CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S MEETING WITH SARKOZY'S [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Wexler and Presidential Diplomatic Adviser Jean-David Levitte discussed Hizbollah and Lebanon, Darfur, Kosovo, Turkey and Iran during a July 2 meeting. Levitte emphasized that Sarkozy continued to hold to the view he espoused during the presidential campaign that Hiz [...]	2007-07-05 07:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM FR
07PARIS3080	TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON STATE OF PLAY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 11, Turkish Ambassador Koroturk told the Ambassador that Sarkozy's declared opposition to Turkish EU membership is presenting challenges for French-Turkish relations on a practical level as the French bureaucracy rushes to implement what it interprets as Sarkozy's will, [...]	2007-07-17 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN TU CY AR FR
07PARIS864	BOUCHER AND FRENCH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ARAUD TALK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 1 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Gerard Araud offered frank views on Afghanistan, counter-narcotics in Central Asia, and France-Turkey relations and offered reco [...]	2007-03-07 07:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PBTS PREL PTER SNAR NATO MOPS FR AF PK
07RIYADH636	19TH ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT: OPENING SESSION [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah used his speech to the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Riyadh on March 28 to criticize publicly U.S. policy in Iraq by referring to the "illegal foreign occupation" of that country, albeit without naming the U.S. or the Coalition Forces. The King issu [...]	2007-03-29 10:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KISL KWMN SA
07RIYADH638	19TH ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT: CLOSING SESSION [...] (C) The closing session of the 19th Arab League Summit in Riyadh on March 29 issued the "Riyadh Declaration," which calls for the implementation of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, demands the removal of weapons of mass destruction from the region, and supports the development of nuclear progra [...]	2007-03-30 11:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KISL KWMN SA
07SARAJEVO937	BOSNIA - TAKING ON RADICAL BOSNIAK MUSLIM POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We stepped up our efforts during the week of April 23 to undercut efforts, particularly of Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, to further radicalize the political situation in Bosnia. We met with the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) leadership to deliver [...]	2007-04-30 05:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PINR PREL UN KJWC BK PK
07SECTION01OF03ANKARA365	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-20 15:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07TBILISI263	SOUTH CAUCASUS SUMMIT ENERGY RESULTS DISAPPOINT [...] (C) Summary: IN a February 8 meeting with DCM Mark X. Perry, Valeri Chechelashvili, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expressed strong disappointment that the February 7 meeting of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian President Saaka [...]	2007-02-09 14:42:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL GG TU AJ
07TBILISI379	PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI SHARES HIS VIEWS ON CASPIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a February 12 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel SIPDIS Sullivan, Georgian President Saakashvili gave the Assistant Secretary a tour d'horizon of Caucasus and Caspian region SIPDIS politics. He spoke positively of Karim Mas [...]	2007-02-26 07:53:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ECON GG
07TELAVIV2233	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Turkish Elections: AKP Victory ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that former British PM Tony Blair, the Quartet's special envoy to the Middle East peace process, is scheduled to arrive in the country today for [...]	2007-07-23 12:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2592	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 09:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2880	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-01 10:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV3077	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Rabin Assassination Anniversary 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that on Tuesday a Palestinian was killed in an air force attack on a vehicle in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The newspa [...]	2007-10-24 15:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV3109	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Thursday Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip in response to continued Qassam rocket attacks. Thi [...]	2007-10-26 10:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV3120	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-29 10:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV421	ISRAEL-SYRIA: FORMER MFA DG DESCRIBES TRACK-TWO [...] (C) Summary. Former MFA Director General Alon Liel briefed DCM, PAO, and PolCouns February 5 on track two peace negotiations with Syria that lasted from January 2004 until a final meeting in July 2006 during the fighting in Lebanon. The track two discussions were initially sponsored by the T [...]	2007-02-07 16:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SY IS TU
07TELAVIV450	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 10:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV509	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will arrive in Israel on Saturday and meet with FM Tzipi Livni. The station said that on Sunday Rice will hold separate meeti [...]	2007-02-16 10:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV575	TURKISH DELEGATION POSTPONES VISIT TO MUGHRABI [...] (U) DURING PRIME MINISTER OLMERT'S FEBRUARY 14-15 VISIT TO ANKARA, ISRAELI MEDIA REPORTED THAT OLMERT RESPONDED TO CRITICISM BY TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN OF ISRAELI ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEXT TO THE MUGHRABI GATE TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT/HARAM AL SHARIF BY INVITING A TURKISH DELEGATION TO [...]	2007-02-23 06:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KPAL TU JO IS
07TELAVIV860	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 11:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TOKYO4872	TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKEY AND IRAQ [...] "Tension Mounting over Iraq" The conservative Sankei's Istanbul correspondent Murakami wrote (10/18): "Concern is mounting over the possibility of further destabilization in Iraq following the Turkish parliament's move to grant the country's army the authority to cross the border and attack PK [...]	2007-10-18 22:31:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
07TOKYO5147	TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S US [...] "From Invasion to Limited Air Strike" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun's Ankara-based correspondent wrote (11/8): "Following Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's agreement with President Bush on Monday on greater sharing of US military intelligence concerning PKK rebels, there is a growing consensus in T [...]	2007-11-08 04:26:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
07USNATO541	FRENCH PRESENT SHORT PAPER ON PROPOSALS TO [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. Please respond by OOB, October 15, 2007. 2. (C) SUMMARY: France tabled a paper on NATO-EU transparency measures in an informal NATO PermRep meeting on October 2. Allies, even Turkey, welcomed the step, and undertook to study the ideas closely. PermR [...]	2007-10-04 07:27:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL EUN FR
07USNATO601	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - NOVEMBER 7, 2007 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Balkans: The NAC discussion with Ambassador Miroslav Lajcak, High Representative and EU Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, reported separately in reftel. -- Afghanistan: The SYG reported on his November 6 phone conversation with President Kar [...]	2007-11-08 18:06:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL AF
07USNATO607	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - NOVEMBER 14, 2007 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The SYG expressed his disappointment with the Amnesty International report on detainees in Afghanistan. Deputy Chairman of the Military Committee (D/CMC) Eikenberry reported on his visit to Afghanistan, noting among other things the operat [...]	2007-11-16 10:20:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL AF
07VIENNA1119	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 02, 2007 [...] About 100,000 people attended the traditional May Day event held by the ruling Social Democrats (SPOe) on Monday in central Vienna. It was the first May Day Alfred Gusenbauer attended since he became Chancellor earlier this year. During his speech, the Chancellor emphasized that the SPOe is com [...]	2007-05-02 12:57:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA1933	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 23, 2007 [...] Independent daily "Der Standard" reports on the rekindled debate about whether Eurofighter pilots are to use military force against civilian planes that are hijacked by terrorists. Erich Speck, the trade union representative of the air force was quoted as calling it "a shame to shift this respo [...]	2007-07-23 12:15:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA2639	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 17, 2007 [...] Austria is to significantly improve its handling of asylum cases, the government has said. Funds will be released to provide more staff to process applications for asylum, according to Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer of the People's Party (OeVP). The coalition government h [...]	2007-10-17 13:45:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA2663	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 22, 2007 [...] Austrian President Heinz Fischer began a three-day official visit to Egypt at the weekend. He is accompanied by Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik and a business and cultural delegation. Topping the agenda of his meetings with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will b [...]	2007-10-22 13:41:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA2672	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 23, 2007 [...] A report issued on Monday by Doris Bures, Austria's Minister for Women's Issues (SPOe),shows that female migrants in Austria face a double disadvantage in the labor market. The report says women more often have jobs with lower incomes and recognition than those held by men. The study also reve [...]	2007-10-23 14:28:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA2757	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 06, 2007 [...] Education Minister Claudia Schmied from the Social Democrats and Science Minister Johannes Hahn from the People's Party have reached a "last-minute agreement" on the introduction of comprehensive-type "new middle schools" in Austria. The breakthrough was achieved after Schmied agreed to a so-ca [...]	2007-11-06 14:50:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA2791	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 14, 2007 [...] Members of the SPOe-OeVP coalition government and representatives from the retirees association agreed on Tuesday to raise pensions next year. Minimum pensions will be increased by 2.9 percent to 747 Euro per month. Pensions between 1,050 and 1,700 Euros will go up two percent. Those between 1, [...]	2007-11-14 15:36:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO AU
07YEREVAN1247	A DEEPLY SKEPTICAL KOCHARIAN AGREES TO HEAR OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian made clear to CDA his profound disbelief in Turkey's sincerity on rapprochement, but grudgingly agreed to hear out any Turkish proposal. Kocharian complained at length about past bad faith from Turkey, and said he considers talking with Turkey a lost cause for [...]	2007-10-16 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TK AM
07YEREVAN149	ARMENIAN REPLY TO TURKEY ON COMMISSIONS STILL IN [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief met February 8 with DFM Kirakossian to ask whether/when Armenia would respond to the GOT's latest proposal on bilateral dialogue (i.e. the "commissions" proposal). Kirakossian noted that the recent Erdogan-Saakashvili-Aliyev meeting to celebrate their deal to build [...]	2007-02-09 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM
07YEREVAN914	FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES RADIO LIBERTY, NDI, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his initial call July 16, CDA renewed our concerns about forced stoppage of Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts, but mentioned that the Prime Minister's reply had been somewhat encouraging on this. He highlighted ongoing Washington concerns about Armenia's relationship with Iran, [...]	2007-07-17 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR
08ADANA12	NEVRUZ 2008: BIG TURNOUT, ISOLATED VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) regards the large turnout as proof of its growing popularity - and sympathy for the PKK, which has been under attack from the Turkish military. Violence erupted in a number of cities where the authorities refused to grant permission for ce [...]	2008-03-26 08:42:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER TU IZ
08ADANA26	TURKEY: WIDESPREAD DROUGHT IN SOUTHEAST COMPOUNDING ECONOMIC [...] (U) The Tigris and Euphrates basins in Turkey's heavily Kurdish southeastern region are suffering from the worst drought in a generation, pushing many poor farmers to abandon their villages in desperation due to shortages of water and animal feed. The agriculture minister recently announced a [...]	2008-07-24 05:50:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON SOCI TU PGOV
08ADANA39	TURKEY: PUBLIC PROTESTS IN SOUTHEAST MULTIPLY TENSIONS OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Violent riots, organized marches, and rallies in major cities throughout southeast Turkey over the weekend of October 18 were sparked by an announcement made by Abdullah Ocalan's attorneys that the imprisoned PKK leader had been abused by Turkish soldiers. The Pro-Kurdish DTP pa [...]	2008-10-21 09:48:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PTER TU
08ADANA42	TURKEY: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SUPPLEMENTAL STRENGTHENS NGOS, [...] (U) Summary: A U.S.-sponsored grant to a women's organization in the Eastern Anatolia city of Adiyaman is providing literacy education for 200 poor women and vocational training for 70 more. The October 11 launch of the project demonstrated America's value as a force multiplier as a visit by [...]	2008-10-27 12:53:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PHUM KWMN KPAO
08ADANA43	TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN'S VISIT TO THE SOUTHEAST PROVOKES [...] (U) Summary: Thousands of Kurds turned out to oppose Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to the southeastern cities of Van and Hakkari and to protest AKP's lack of movement forward on the Kurdish issue. Suspension of municipal services such as garbage collection and public transportation accompani [...]	2008-11-04 07:35:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER TU
08ADANA47	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 12, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-26 08:53:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
08ADANA48	TURKEY: HATAY BUSINESS LEADERS SANGUINE ON INCREASING [...] (U) SUMMARY. Prominent members of Hatay's business community are hopeful about increasing trade and commerce with Syria through the province's two border gates. Syria's recent reduction of a border fuel tax augers well for improved trade conditions for Turkish transporters, although truck c [...]	2008-11-26 13:20:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL SY
08ADANA50	TURKEY: ADANA MAYOR'S RACE BREAKS WIDE OPEN AS INCUMBENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The sudden resignation of Adana's four-term mayor Aytac Durak from AKP may present an insurmountable challenge to the party's chance to retake Adana in upcoming municipal elections. Outside theories abound on reasons for Durak's renunciation of AKP membership including a spurn [...]	2008-12-02 16:08:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TU
08AMMAN1385	MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SHURA COUNCIL ELECTS HAWKISH [...] (C) After holding membership elections in March and April, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council, its highest body, met on May 2 after multiple delays and elected a hawk, Hammam Saeed, as Controller General, ousting Salim Al-Falahat, considered a dove. Saeed is the first Controller [...]	2008-05-08 06:24:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PGOV KISL KDEM JO
08ANKARA100	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-17 15:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1000	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-28 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1006	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-29 12:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1010	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-30 12:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA102	TURKEY: POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDS KARAMANLIS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Turkey and Greece's decade-long rapprochement will take a much awaited step forward with Greek PM Costas Karamanlis' January 23-25 trip to Ankara and Istanbul -- the first visit of a Greek prime minister to Turkey in 49 years. His meetings with high-level GOT official [...]	2008-01-18 13:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU GR
08ANKARA1022	SCENESETTER FOR TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER BABACAN'S [...] (C) Summary. FM Ali Babacan is projecting a business-as-usual image as Turkey's domestic political situation continues to roil over the fate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). With the Prime Ministry focused on Iraq issues and the Presidency tracking Turkey's relations with A [...]	2008-06-02 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EFIN EAID TU
08ANKARA1023	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-02 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1026	TURKEY: WHY INVESTORS ARE NERVOUS [...] Summary: Both economic and financial indicators show the honeymoon is over for the Turkish economy. Expectations are negative and Turkish assets are losing value. Our investment banking contacts see more nervousness from investors, occasionally setting Turkey apart from other emerging mark [...]	2008-06-03 09:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN TU
08ANKARA1048	TURKEY: BUGGING INCIDENT BOOMERANGS ON OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hastily condemned as Turkey's own Watergate, an alleged government bugging incident is looking increasingly like a technical blooper by the supposed "victim". Despite evidence to the contrary, opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Deniz Baykal stands by his man, Se [...]	2008-06-05 13:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU
08ANKARA105	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-18 14:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1050	THE MANY FACES OF TURKISH SECULARISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Differing interpretations of secularism in Turkey cloud public discussion of a concept central to the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the struggle to modernize Turkish society. Traditional "secular" elites focus on state authority -- over r [...]	2008-06-06 03:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1051	TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ANNULS HEADSCARF [...] (C) Summary and comment. On June 5, Turkey's Constitutional Court annulled two constitutional amendments designed to lift the headscarf ban at universities and halted their implementation. The Court ruled that the amendments are inconsistent with "immutable" Constitutional provisions protect [...]	2008-06-06 10:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU
08ANKARA1054	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-06 12:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1055	CODELS TANNER AND LEAHY MEET WITH PM ERDOGAN, [...] (SBU) Summary: In May 29 meetings with Codels Tanner and Leahy, President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan lauded improved U.S.-Turkey relations and expressed gratitude for U.S. support against PKK terrorism. Erdogan complained of Congressional resolutions introduced on Cyprus and the Aegean t [...]	2008-06-06 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR PTER ENRG ETTC IR IS TU
08ANKARA1061	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-09 13:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1064	TURKEY: UPDATED INFORMATION FOR LEADING GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) The contact information provided is keyed to reftel request. -- Country: The Republic of Turkey. -- Date of information: May 30, 2008 2. (SBU) Head of Government: Prime Minister -- Last Name: Erdogan -- First/Middle Names: Recep Tayyip -- Conventional Usage: Prime Minister Erdoga [...]	2008-06-10 06:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL TU
08ANKARA107	TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL IN DAMASCUS 1/19 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials told us President Gul plans a one-day visit to Damascus January 19 in connection with a cultural event the SARG is organizing, but will urge Asad to play a positive role in Lebanon. Visiting NEA PDAS Satterfield urged that Gul push Asad hard to allow presidenti [...]	2008-01-19 16:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU LE SY
08ANKARA1070	TURKEY: GULER UPBEAT ON GAS SUPPLY POST-NAKHCHIVAN [...] (C) Summary. PM Erdogan,s meeting with Azerbaijan President Aliyev June 4 in Naxchivan may have produced enough agreement on new Azeri gas supplies for Turkey to unblock the Nabucco and Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) gas transit negotiations, Energy Minister Guler suggested to Ambassador June 9. [...]	2008-06-10 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1074	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1081	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-11 13:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1085	BOTAS CONFIRMS SOCAR GAS OFFER [...] (C) Summary. June 4 talks between PM Erdogan and Azerbaijan President Aliev resulted in a SOCAR offer to sell 50% of the Shah Deniz phase II export volumes to Turkey (roughly 5 bcm),BOTAS Chairman Duzyol told the Ambassador on June 11. Duzyol went on at length about Turkey's need for gas; [...]	2008-06-12 10:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1091	TURKISH PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW TO INCREASE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Parliament passed a law June 11 with a provision that allows state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) to devote one of its 24-hour television channels to foreign-language broadcasting -- specifically, Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian. The bill will be sent [...]	2008-06-12 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1096	STRESS FRACTURES WITHIN TURKEY'S RULING PARTY [...] (C) Summary and comment. The closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) complicates PM Erdogan's challenge of holding together his big tent party. Under the strain of a possible closure, differences among the traditional AKP factions - National View (Milli Gorus),lib [...]	2008-06-13 11:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
08ANKARA1100	TURKEY: SPECIAL REP. OZCELIK ON TURKEY-IRAQ NEXT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkey-Iraq bilateral relations are set to gain another boost with PM Erdogan's visit to Baghdad to establish a TU-IZ senior level bilateral strategic commission o/a July 4 (please protect). GOT Special Representative for Iraq Murat Ozcelik hopes to gain Turkish National Security [...]	2008-06-13 14:09:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG TU IZ
08ANKARA1103	TURKEY: PRIME MINISTER'S ALEVI ADVISOR RESIGNS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-16 07:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
08ANKARA1121	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-18 06:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1132	TURKEY'S PARTY CLOSURE CASE BARRELS TO CONCLUSION [...] (c) Summary: It is increasingly expected in Turkey that the Constitutional Court will close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and ban a range of its leaders, especially PM Erdogan. In the wake of a ruling that could occur this autumn or possibly sooner, the AKP plans to re-form [...]	2008-06-18 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL US TU
08ANKARA1134	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-18 14:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1145	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-19 12:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1148	EU FRIENDS OF TURKEY ON AKP CLOSURE CASE REACTIONS [...] (c) A close-hold, ad hoc EU Friends of Turkey group consisting of the foreign ministers of the UK, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Finland, plus Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, met June 19 to discuss possible reactions to a Turkish Constitutional Court decision to close the ruling Justice and Dev [...]	2008-06-20 11:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU TU
08ANKARA1149	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-20 12:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1150	TURKEY: ISRAEL-SYRIA PEACE TALKS' DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: Since the media began reporting on the latest round of Israel-Syria peace talks, Turkey's regional leadership role has resonated particularly well with its domestic audience, at a time when the government could use a foreign policy success. The talks are the first major victory f [...]	2008-06-20 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS SY TU
08ANKARA1158	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-24 13:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1166	TURKEY URGING PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN DIALOGUE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish President Gul plans to call Afghan President Karzai, Pakistani President Musharraf and Pakistani PM Gillani to urge them to commit to talks in Ankara in September, per a Turkish MFA contact. The Turks believe Karzai would accept, and even welcome, Gillani's participatio [...]	2008-06-25 11:36:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV AF PK TU
08ANKARA1170	TURKEY: MILITARY MACHINATIONS ALLEGED, CRITICIZED [...] (C) Chastened by the unintended consequences of its April 2007 "e-memorandum," Turkey's military has refrained from publicly commenting on politics for well over a year. However, a series of media reports suggest the brass has been busy behind the scenes seeking to influence key institutions a [...]	2008-06-26 03:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
08ANKARA1173	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-26 11:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1175	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-26 12:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1176	FOREIGN INTEREST DOWN FOR TURKEY'S PRIVATIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Privatization receipts are a significant source of income for Turkey. The AKP-led government has pursued an aggressive privatization program since it took office in 2002. On June 12, Privatization Agency (PA) President Metin Kilci told us that although foreign investor intere [...]	2008-06-26 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG ECON TU
08ANKARA1179	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-27 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1187	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU

08ANKARA1193	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-01 12:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1196	TURKEY LESS OPTIMISTIC ON PAKISTAN FOLLOWING [...] (C) The GOT is more pessimistic about the prospect for Pakistani political unity following Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Zardari's June 27-28 visit, according to MFA Section Head Ilhan Sener. Zardari, who stopped in Turkey enroute to Socialist International meetings in Athens, explain [...]	2008-07-01 16:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF PK TU
08ANKARA12	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-03 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1202	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1212	TURKEY: ERGENEKON ARRESTS AND MILITARY SUCCESSION [...] (U) The Turkish General Staff's (TGS) official reaction to the July 1 "Ergenekon" arrests (ref a),which netted two retired army four-star generals and other former military personnel, has been limited to an official website posting clarifying that searches of military property related to the [...]	2008-07-03 11:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KCRM PREL TU
08ANKARA1215	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1217	TURKEY: COUP THWARTED OR REVENGE TAKEN? [...] (C) Summary. As the shock wanes over the July 1 detention of over 20 people, including two senior retired military officers, in connection with the year-old Ergenekon investigation (reftel),most Turks view the developments as a worrisome escalation of the struggle between Kemalist ultranatio [...]	2008-07-07 11:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1222	SCENESETTER FOR C. BOYDEN GRAY'S JULY 10-13 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Your visit coincides with political uncertainty surrounding the fate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) due to a closure case against it pending in the Constitutional Court. Recent high-profile detentions in connection with a year-long investigation into suspec [...]	2008-07-07 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1223	TURKEY -- A FINE MESS [...] (c) Summary: The next four weeks in Turkey will likely be as dramatic as any in over a decade. This time frame will probably see a ruling by the Constitutional Court on the AKP closure case, an indictment in the alleged Ergenekon plot by retired military and other Kemalists to overthrow the [...]	2008-07-07 16:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1226	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-08 13:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1227	TURKS PLAY THE WAITING GAME AS AKP CLOSURE CASE [...] (C) Summary. Following oral arguments last week, the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) enters its final phase. Once the Constitutional Court's rapporteur completes his assessment of the evidence, including a non-binding recommended ruling, the chief justice [...]	2008-07-08 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
08ANKARA1239	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-09 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1242	TURKEY: REACTIONS TO ATTACK ON ISTANBUL CONSULATE [...] (U) Following the attack in front of Consulate General Istanbul at approximately 1100 on July 9, at 15:28 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement (unofficial Embassy translation): "We strongly denounce the heinous armed attack that occurred in front of the US Consulate [...]	2008-07-09 16:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL PTER TU
08ANKARA1247	IF TURKEY'S RULING PARTY IS CLOSED, WHAT THEN? [...] (SBU) Summary. The chance Turkey's Constitutional Court will close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has Turks checking their constitutions to plan their post-closure moves. Even those betting the Court will penalize the party with something short of closure are preparing for the [...]	2008-07-10 13:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
08ANKARA1248	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-10 13:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1255	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 12:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1259	TURKEY: STILL AIMING FOR SEPTEMBER AF-PK-TU [...] (C) Turkey believes hosting a meeting between Afghan and Pakistani leaders is more important then ever, given heightened bilateral tensions, but confirming a date and Pakistani representation remains difficult, MFA Deputy U/S for Middle East, South Asia and Iran Sinirlioglu told Ambassador Ju [...]	2008-07-11 16:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF PK TU
08ANKARA126	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-23 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1260	THE CASE FOR NON-CLOSURE OF TURKEY'S RULING PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. There are signs that at least some in Turkey think that closure of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by the Constitutional Court -- deemed inevitable by many since the case was filed in March -- may not occur. Signals that AKP opponents see value in not c [...]	2008-07-11 16:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1264	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-14 14:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1265	SCENESETTER FOR NSA HADLEY'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. US-Turkish relations have been transformed in the nearly three years since your last visit in 2005. You come right after Erdogan's visit to Baghdad (July 10),Boyden Gray's visit here (July 11) and President Bush's July 11 condolence call to President Gul over the Istanbul consul [...]	2008-07-14 16:55:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON IZ SY IS IR AF PK CY TU
08ANKARA1277	DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH TURKISH [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's chief foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told visiting DAS Matt Bryza July 11 that Erdogan's July 10 Baghdad meetings were a "good start." The Turks discussed alternate sources of gas for the Nabucco pipeline with Iraqi officials, acknowledgin [...]	2008-07-16 09:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG IZ AM CY TU
08ANKARA1279	TURKEY/IRAQ ENERGY COOPERATION: GOT OPTIMISTIC, [...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S for Middle East, Iran and South Asia Sinirlioglu expressed to visiting EUR DAS Bryza July 11 the GOT's satisfaction with PM Erdogan's July 10 visit to Baghdad. The visit was the first full-fledged ceremonial reception of a visiting leader held at Baghdad airport. Sinirliog [...]	2008-07-16 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG IZ TU
08ANKARA1283	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1284	SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY URGES TURKEY TO MOVE FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray discussed regional energy issues and moving Caspian gas westward with Turkish PM Erdogan, Energy Minister Guler and others on July 11. Erdogan reiterated Turkey's strong support for Nabucco and the Turkey-Greece-Italy gas projects [...]	2008-07-16 16:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1286	CORRECTED: SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY URGES TURKEY TO MOVE [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray discussed regional energy issues and moving Caspian gas westward with Turkish PM Erdogan, Energy Minister Guler and others on July 11. Erdogan reiterated Turkey's strong support for Nabucco and the Turkey-Greece-Italy gas projects [...]	2008-07-17 09:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1288	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-17 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1293	TURKEY APPROACHES MEDITERRANEAN UNION WITH CAUTION [...] (C) Summary: Despite PM Erdogan's last minute decision to attend the Mediterranean Union Summit July 13-14, the GOT remains highly skeptical of the organization's viability, as well as French intentions. Turkey's MFA successfully negotiated a series of concessions in the final communiqu to e [...]	2008-07-18 13:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR TU IS SY
08ANKARA1296	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-18 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1301	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-21 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1303	TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY SO FAR UNHINDERED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Domestic political uncertainty arising from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) closure case and Ergenekon prosecution (reftel) has not constrained PM Erdogan from painting himself the statesman through bold foreign policy activism. Turkey's foreign and security appa [...]	2008-07-21 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1304	TURKEY: DTP'S YEAR OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) Summary and comment. The results of the 2007 parliamentary elections raised hopes that Turkey could achieve progress on the Kurdish issue. Some 20 pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) MPs, elected as independents in districts throughout the Southeast, gave the party parliamentary r [...]	2008-07-22 09:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
08ANKARA1307	TURKEY: MFA OUTLINES UPCOMING AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT [...] (C) MFA Africa Section Chief Aykut Kumbaroglu told us the GOT will host the Turkey-Africa Union Cooperation Summit in Istanbul August 18-21. President Gul extended invitations to heads-of-state from 51 African Union members (all with the exception of Western Sahara, which Turkey does not recog [...]	2008-07-22 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AF
08ANKARA1310	TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT SETS DATE FOR AKP [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Constitutional Court will begin deliberations July 28 on the closure case pending since March against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). It is expected to take several days to produce a verdict, although the Court is not required to rule by any date certain [...]	2008-07-23 11:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1314	ECONOMIC IMPACT IF COURT CLOSES AKP [...] (SBU) Summary: Investors agree that AKP,s closure is the most likely outcome of the court,s deliberations and therefore, the effect of the closure has already been largely factored into market behavior. However, two key unknowns, the fate of PM Erdogan and AKP,s current economic policies, wi [...]	2008-07-23 19:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN TU
08ANKARA1326	BAKU-TBILISI-KARS RAILWAY GROUNDBREAKING; GOAJ [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Gul traveled to the ancient Armenian capital of Ani July 23 before joining Georgian President Saakashvili and Azerbaijani President Aliyev for a groundbreaking ceremony in Kars, Turkey on the Turkish leg of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway, July 24. The bilateral m [...]	2008-07-24 12:01:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV AJ AM GG TU
08ANKARA1337	ERGENEKON INDICTMENT STILL MURKY BUT PROCESS ALONE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court decided July 25 to accept the indictment filed in the Ergenekon case and proceed to prosecution (ref A). The 2,500 page indictment has clarified little about the case. Some Turks see the indictment as a courageous step toward bringing Turkey's stat [...]	2008-07-25 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL TU
08ANKARA1342	AKP INSIDERS DISCUSS CLOSURE CASE [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of Turkish Constitutional Court deliberations in the AKP closure case that begin July 28, the outcome is impossible to predict. A senior AKP-affiliated journalist told Ambassador July 24 that he is hopeful the Turkish Constitutional Court may avoid ruling to close the [...]	2008-07-25 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
08ANKARA1348	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-28 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1352	TURKEY: SOUTHEAST LEADERS SAY AKP CLOSURE UNLIKELY TO SPUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent visits to the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) stronghold in Eastern Anatolia, contacts from diverse political persuasions told us AKP's closure would set back Turkey's democratization and send the wrong message to the international community. Citing [...]	2008-07-29 09:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV TU
08ANKARA1355	TURKEY: IRAQ ARREARS CAUSE DESPERATE ACTION BY [...] (C) Summary. Ignoring pleas from high-level GOT officials, BOTAS (state-owned oil and gas pipeline company) temporarily suspended, then resumed, operation of the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline, a major export route for Iraqi oil on July 22. BOTAS claims the inability to collect on large Iraqi d [...]	2008-07-29 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU IZ
08ANKARA1359	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-29 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA136	TURKEY-U.S. RELATIONS: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador and Turkish MFA U/S Apakan reviewed developments in bilateral relations in the wake of President Gul's January 8-9 talks in Washington. They agreed to coordinate measures for a set of high-level meetings in Washington in mid-April. END SUMMARY. STRENGTHENING U.S.- [...]	2008-01-24 08:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PARM PHUM ENRG EPET ECON TU
08ANKARA1369	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1370	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1371	LOVE FOR SALE - THE TAUDRY TALE OF TURKISH MEDIA OWNERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-30 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PHUM KDEM TU
08ANKARA1373	TURKEY'S RULING PARTY FINED BUT NOT CLOSED BY [...] (U) In a six to five vote, Turkey's Constitutional Court decided July 30 not to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),ending weeks of uncertainty and speculation about Turkey's political future. While six judges voted for closure, the constitution requires that at least seven [...]	2008-07-30 16:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM TU
08ANKARA1374	TURKEY RELIEVED AT COURT DECISION NOT TO CLOSE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turks breathed a collective sigh of relief July 30 as the Constitutional Court released its decision to fine but not close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for anti-secular activities (reftel). Announced after three days of deliberations, the ruling came [...]	2008-07-31 10:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TU
08ANKARA1377	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-31 13:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1383	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-04 08:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1402	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1403	TURKEY: MIND THE GAP: PM ERDOGAN'S SOUTHEAST [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) had new life amid renewed doubts. PM Erdogan recently announced the GOT plans to dedicate $21.5 billion to complete the project by 2012 (Ref A). An ambitious $32 billion multi-sector regional development scheme harnessing the [...]	2008-08-05 15:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
08ANKARA1405	TURKEY: GOT OUTLINES AHMADINEJAD VISIT [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. Iranian President Ahmadinejad will visit Turkey August 14, in what the GOT is describing to us as a "working visit." He will travel only to Istanbul -- not Ankara -- where he will meet with President Gul and, most likely, PM Erdogan. The visit has not been officially anno [...]	2008-08-06 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR TU
08ANKARA141	TURKEY: MFA BALKANS CHIEF DISCUSSES KOSOVO, [...] (C) Summary and Comment: GOT officials tell us that Turkey is ready to recognize Kosovo independence. Timing, however, is contingent on EU solidarity. Should a majority of EU countries, including key members, immediately recognize Kosovo, Turkey will rapidly follow suit. MFA Balkans Departm [...]	2008-01-24 10:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU KV MW
08ANKARA1424	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1440	TURKEY: MILITARY VS. OPPOSITION PART DEUX (THIS [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish military and the main opposition Republican People,s Party (CHP) recently entered into their second public clash in six months. On August 5, CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu publicly criticized the Supreme Military Council's (YAS) decision [...]	2008-08-12 10:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
08ANKARA1442	TFGG01: TURKEY PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey has provided some humanitarian assistance to Georgia already and is considering an additional request from the Government of Georgia for a field hospital in Gori. A Turkish Red Crescent team is on the ground in Tbilisi assessing the situation. The GOT has not yet evacuate [...]	2008-08-12 11:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU GG
08ANKARA1448	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1451	TURKEY: TEMPEST IN ACADEMIC TEAPOT [...] (C) Summary and comment: President Abdullah Gul's August 5 appointment of 21 university rectors brought little joy to AKP's opponents. As one of the first high-profile selection procedures following the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) narrow escape from being banned for anti-sec [...]	2008-08-13 06:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1458	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-13 11:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA146	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-24 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1465	TURKEY: AHMADINEJAD VISIT SCHEDULE STILL FLUID [...] (C) President Gul's Foreign Policy Advisor Amb. Gurcan Turkoglu characterized Iranian President Ahmedinejad's August 14-15 Istanbul trip to CDA as a "political necessity" to maintain good bilateral relations. It is impossible for Turkey to ignore Iran, he said. Given the nuclear issue's grow [...]	2008-08-13 15:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR TU
08ANKARA1472	TFGG01: GOT URGED TO DEMAND RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) CDA delivered reftel points August 14 to MFA Deputy U/S for Americas Berk and DDG for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Ozturk. Berk agreed that Russia should fulfill the commitments it made in the agreement with President Sarkozy and that OSCE observers should have immediate access to areas curren [...]	2008-08-14 16:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS NATO OSCE PHUM PREL GG RS TU UN
08ANKARA1475	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-15 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1477	ALL GAIN, NO PAIN: TURKEY'S KYOTO PROTOCOL [...] (C) MFA Department head for Environment Nursel Berberoglu said August 13 Turkey is ready to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. By delaying until now, Turkey believes it can ratify without incurring any binding obligation to reduce emissions (despite being an Annex 1 country),and still participate full [...]	2008-08-15 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENGR SENV EAGR TU
08ANKARA1478	PM ERDOGAN VISITS MOSCOW AND TBILISI; SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Erdogan received a warm reception from Russian leaders in Moscow, where he conveyed Turkey's clear support for Georgia's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. The Russians responded they have no intention of entering Tbilisi or occupying Georgia, but that Georgia was [...]	2008-08-15 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS GG RS TU ZJ
08ANKARA148	TURKEY: SUDANESE PRESIDENT'S VISITS GARNERS HARSH [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese President Bashir met with President Gul and Energy Minister Guler during his controversial January 21 trip to Ankara. President Gul urged Sudan to cooperate with the international community to find a solution to Darfur, pushing Bashir to make the United Nations-African U [...]	2008-01-24 16:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU SU
08ANKARA1494	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-18 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1498	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-19 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1504	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-20 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA151	TURKISH COURTS BLOCK ACCESS TO "YOUTUBE" WEBSITE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish courts banned access to the immensely popular "YouTube" website for five days beginning January 17, to block a picture with swear words imposed over Turkey's founding father, Ataturk, and the Turkish flag. The GOT maintains the courts are properly implementing a new In [...]	2008-01-25 11:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1512	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-21 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1513	TFGG01: TURKEY'S CAUCASUS STABILITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOT continues to roll out its "Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform" concept, with PM Erdogan visiting Baku August 20. Based on contacts with MFA officials, the concept, stemming from a 2000 proposal from then-President Demirel, is still being refined. MFA contacts h [...]	2008-08-21 15:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM AJ GG RU TU
08ANKARA152	TURKEY: CODEL DAVIS STRESSES COOPERATION IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During their January 10 - 12 visit to Ankara, CODEL Davis met with Turkish Members of Parliament (MPs),officials from the Central Bank, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Treasury, and representatives from the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges (TOBB),Turkey's [...]	2008-01-25 13:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN TU IZ
08ANKARA1532	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-25 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1541	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-26 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1550	TURKEY-AU SUMMIT OVERSHADOWED BY BASHIR'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOT-hosted Turkey-African Union (AU) Cooperation Summit, August 18-21, rendered no surprises. During the sessions, the GOT focused on developing good will, expanding trade ties, and lobbying for African support of Turkey's UNSC bid. Overall, the GOT was pleased with both atte [...]	2008-08-27 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV XA TU
08ANKARA1552	TURKEY: THIRD NATIONAL PROGRAM AIMED AT [...] (C) Summary: The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) recently rolled out a "Third National Program" to define the government's priorities and reinvigorate EU-related reforms over the next four years. Senior AKP contacts admit reaching consensus on the plan will be difficult, given the [...]	2008-08-27 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1559	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-28 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA156	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-25 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1560	TURKEY: SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES GEORGIA AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 26, Senator Lugar and delegation discussed the situation in Georgia, Caspian energy issues including Nabucco, Turkey's EU accession and other issues with President Gul, Foreign Minister Babacan and Energy Minister Guler. The Senator also hosted a dinner for represen [...]	2008-08-28 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET IZ PREL TU
08ANKARA1563	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-29 10:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1564	TURKEY: AHMET TURK RAISES THE PROFILE OF DTP'S [...] (C) Summary and comment: Recent statements by pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Turk have raised the profile of DTP's more moderate wing. Turk, re-elected as party co-chairman at DTP's July convention, called for peaceful resolution through dialogue of Turkey's intractab [...]	2008-08-29 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1565	VICE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Your planned September 6 meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan offers an opportunity to consult on five sets of issues: Georgia and the Caucasus, energy, Iran, Iraq, and the need for renewed Turkish reform. Erdogan is in confident form following relative victory in the closure case against th [...]	2008-08-29 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1566	VICE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Your planned September 6 meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan offers an opportunity to consult on five sets of issues: Georgia and the Caucasus, energy, Iran, Iraq, and the need for renewed Turkish reform. Erdogan is in confident form following relative victory in the closure case against th [...]	2008-08-29 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1567	VICE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) Your planned September 6 meeting with Turkish PM Erdogan offers an opportunity to consult on five sets of issues: Georgia and the Caucasus, energy, Iran, Iraq, and the need for renewed Turkish reform. Erdogan is in confident form following relative victory in the closure case against th [...]	2008-08-29 15:05:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1575	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 11:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1576	TURKEY: GEORGIAN FM URGES GLOBAL SOLUTIONS IN [...] (C) Georgian DCM Irakli Koplatadze on September 1 gave DCM a readout of the August 31 meeting between Turkish FM Babacan and Georgian FM Tkeshelashvili in Istanbul. Babacan, said Koplatadze, began the meeting by expressing "deep concern" for Russian actions and strong Turkish support for the [...]	2008-09-02 12:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RU TU
08ANKARA1584	TURKISH MFA ON LAVROV TALKS, BURNS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Apakan briefed Ambassador September 2 regarding FM Babacan's talks with Russian FM Lavrov the same day in Istanbul. Babacan reportedly emphasized that Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia contradicts international law; associated Turkey with the st [...]	2008-09-03 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU TU
08ANKARA1586	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-03 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1595	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-04 10:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1596	TURKEY: NEW MILITARY CHIEF'S FIRST POLICY SPEECH [...] (C) Summary: During new Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief Ikler Basbug,s nationally televised speech at his August 28 change of command ceremony, Basbug: -- Highlighted the importance of US-Turkey bilateral relations and preserving the "perfect level of cooperation" against the PKK; -- Vo [...]	2008-09-04 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
08ANKARA1599	TURKEY: ALEVIS PROTEST GOT'S POLICY ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara and Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: Several Alevi groups organized an August 24 rally in Istanbul's Taksim square to protest the GOT's policy of requiring primary and secondary public school students to take a religious educa [...]	2008-09-05 10:43:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1600	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-05 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1602	BABACAN/LAVROV IN ISTANBUL: "FRIENDS CAN DISAGREE" [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey underscored its support for Georgia's territorial integrity during FM Babacan's September 2 meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Istanbul, MFA DDG for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Murat Burhan told us September 4. However, Lavrov called the decision to recognize Abkh [...]	2008-09-05 13:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU TU
08ANKARA1604	TURKEY: STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY IN ANKARA, SEPT. 1-2 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 1-2 September a House Foreign Relations Committee Staff delegation led by Alan Makovsky discussed the situation in Georgia, energy issues, and the ongoing Israel-Syria talks with senior Turkish government officials at the Presidency, Prime Ministry, and Ministry of Foreign Af [...]	2008-09-05 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1607	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-08 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1613	TURKEY: MUNICIPAL POLICE BEAT ANKARA SHOPOWNER FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: A security camera captured two municipal policemen beating a shop owner with wooden sticks in the conservative Ankara district of Kecioren August 14 for allegedly violating the ban on alcohol sales after 11 p.m. Opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ankara MP Yilm [...]	2008-09-09 10:38:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1625	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-10 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1626	TURKEY: RULING AKP AIMING HIGH IN MARCH 2009 [...] (C) Summary and comment: Showing signs of the political prowess that led to its political dominance, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is astutely gearing up for March 2009 local elections well before its opponents. AKP hopes to demonstrate it is "the party of all Turkey" by [...]	2008-09-10 15:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU

08ANKARA1633	CJCS VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (S) The timing of your visit to Turkey is ideal. The President's commitment in November to provide enhanced intelligence against the PKK immensely strengthened US engagement here. But we are now at some pivot points: -- in Turkey, a new CHOD and DCHOD, both critical people for our work on [...]	2008-09-11 10:47:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR GG IZ TU
08ANKARA1634	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-11 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1635	TURKISH CAUCASIANS' INFLUENCE ON REGIONAL POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The conflict in Georgia has mobilized a large portion of Turkey's ethnic Caucasian community to lobby Ankara to join Moscow in recognizing Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. As during the Chechen wars of the 1990s, ethnic Caucasian groups will force the GOT to w [...]	2008-09-11 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU TU
08ANKARA164	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-28 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1640	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-12 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1642	GUL IN BAKU AND YEREVAN; GEORGIAN PM IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) MFA South Caucasus Section Head Firat Sunel briefed us September 11 on President Gul's September 10 visit to Baku. Despite criticism in the Azerbaijani media and some Turkish outlets of Gul's September 6 trip to Yerevan, President Aliyev gave Gul and the visiting Turkish side the impression [...]	2008-09-12 15:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM AJ GG TU
08ANKARA1643	TURKEY: CHARITY FUND SCANDAL PROMPTS PM ERDOGAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. A very public and ugly battle has erupted between Prime Minister Erdogan and the Dogan Group. The conflict dominated the news this week after Erdogan lashed out at business and media mogul Aydin Dogan for reporting on allegations in a German court that the German-based Deniz Feneri Cha [...]	2008-09-15 04:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL TU
08ANKARA165	TURKEY: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION CONFRONT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey's ban against headscarves at universities may soon be lifted if negotiations succeed between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and opposition Nationalist Action Party (MHP) on proposed constitutional amendments. PM Erdogan reignited the highly sensitive issue [...]	2008-01-28 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
08ANKARA1651	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary: On the ropes in its Constitutional Court closure case, pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) is staging "awareness-raising" walks, and reaching out to any who will listen to garner much-needed support. In his September 16 oral defense on behalf of the party, DTP Chairman Ah [...]	2008-09-15 13:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1652	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-15 13:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1657	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-16 11:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA166	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: January 2008 [...] Turkey launched air strikes against PKK terrorist positions in northern Iraq on December 16, 17, 22 and 26. Several of the air strikes were supported by artillery fire. During the same period, counterterrorism operations within Southeast Turkey and against PKK terrorists in several cities con [...]	2008-01-29 10:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL CH KZ GR TU
08ANKARA1660	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-17 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1664	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-18 10:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1667	TURKEY: OPPONENTS SEE CHINKS IN AKP'S ARMOR AMID [...] (C) Summary and comment: Critics of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) point to a recent SONAR company poll showing a decline in AKP's popularity to 32 percent as a sign voters are souring on the party. Opposition politicians, journalists, and analysts believe a struggling econom [...]	2008-09-18 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1669	SCENESETTER FOR USG-GOT UNGA MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials will be highly visible in New York for this year,s UN General Assembly as their years-long effort to secure election to a UN Security Council seat representing the Western European and Others group comes to a climax. U.S. officials will want to engage the Turks o [...]	2008-09-18 15:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU
08ANKARA1675	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-19 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1686	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-22 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1687	TURKEY: EMBASSY SUPPORT OF GE REQUEST FOR NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary. General Electric (GE) Turkey Managing Director Kursat Ozkan informed us September 4 that GE sent a formal request to GOT to postpone the deadline for bids for Turkey's first civilian nuclear power plant from September 24, 2008 to March 1, 2009 due to lack of project risk infor [...]	2008-09-22 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINT ENIV ENRG TU
08ANKARA169	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-29 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1693	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-23 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA170	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-30 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1700	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-24 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1701	TURKEY: MORE ARRESTED IN ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION; [...] (C) Summary: As many as 17 more suspects were detained on September 23 in the latest round of police action in the investigation of the alleged anti-government Ergenekon organization. Detainees included a former Istanbul district mayor, a former senior police official, a prominent journalis [...]	2008-09-24 15:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM TU
08ANKARA171	HEADSCARF LEGISLATION MOVING AT WARP SPEED THROUGH [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's parliament is expected to vote next week on changes designed to lift the ban on headscarves in universities. After intense negotiations (reftel),ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) leaders submitted a pack [...]	2008-01-30 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
08ANKARA1710	NEAR-TERM IRAQI GAS TO TURKEY? [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador discussed the near-term possibility of importing Iraqi gas to Turkey and Europe with the Chairman of Turkerler Group, Kazim Turker, on September 23. Turker said his Iraqi partner, Dana Gas, is committed to use early gas to supply Iraqi domestic needs but gas for expo [...]	2008-09-25 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET IZ TU
08ANKARA1711	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-25 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1719	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-26 13:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1722	TURKEY SHARES CONCERNS ON KHANAQIN STABILITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey is as concerned as the United States about stability in Iraq in light of events in recent weeks in the Khanaqin area of Diyala Province and the stand-off between Peshmerga and the IAF, according to MFA Iraq Desk Officer Can Oguz. The GOT has no intention of taking actions [...]	2008-09-26 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08ANKARA1723	TURKEY: CORRUPTION DEBATE FORESHADOWS A TENSE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Following a week of fast-flying accusations during which opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) whip Kemal Kilicdaroglu accused ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman Dengir Mir Firat of being a "drug baron" and Firat called Kilicdaroglu a "sland [...]	2008-09-26 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1724	RUSSIANS ARE THE SOLE BIDDER ON TURKEY'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. Ignoring delay requests from a majority of potential bidders, the GOT stuck to the September 24 bid submission deadline for the nuclear power tender and received only one bid, from AtomStroyExport of Russia. The bid will be subjected to an approval process, but GOT officials se [...]	2008-09-26 16:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENIV ENRG RS TU
08ANKARA173	TURKEY: KARAMANLIS VISIT PAVES WAY FOR IMPROVED [...] (C) Summary: Greek Prime Minister Karamanlis' January 23-25 trip to Turkey symbolizes the improved state of Turkish-Greek relations. During his meeting with PM Erdogan, the two Prime Ministers focused on how to overcome the three most contentious bilateral issues -- Cyprus, the Aegean, and mi [...]	2008-01-30 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU GR
08ANKARA1738	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-06 14:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1744	ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS SOUND, SO FAR [...] Summary and comment: The effects of the global financial crisis on Turkey's economy have not been significant, thus far. The stock market, known for volatility, has lost value and the lira has depreciated slightly. Structural reforms implemented by the GOT, especially in the banking sector, [...]	2008-10-08 05:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
08ANKARA1760	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-09 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1762	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 04:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1766	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1767	TURKEY: PARLIAMENT PLAUGED BY POLARIZATION AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: A climate of polarization fueled by allegations of corruption against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is expected to distract Parliament during the fall term that officially began October 1. The situation will likely be inflamed further by wrangling ove [...]	2008-10-10 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1779	TURKEY: GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S [...] (C) Summary: A consensus appears to be emerging on the elements needed to defeat the PKK and the GOT and Turkish military are collaborating closely, according to several well-placed sources. These elements include: denying PKK safe havens in northern Iraq; granting security forces additional [...]	2008-10-14 13:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ
08ANKARA1781	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-14 14:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1786	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-15 13:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA180	TURKEY: ERDOGAN'S CRITICISM OF ISRAEL SPARKS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish/Israeli relations became tenser following Prime Minister Erdogan's January 23 comments criticizing the GOI for its siege of Gaza. In remarks to his party's parliamentary caucus, Erdogan called the Gaza Strip an "open air prison" and blamed Israel for this "humanitarian tr [...]	2008-01-31 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IS
08ANKARA1801	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-16 14:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1806	TURKEY: PKK ATTACK PUTS MILITARY UNDER A MICROSCOPE [...] (C) Since the October 3-4 PKK attack on the Aktutun military outpost, Turkey's military has come under unprecedented press criticism. This included calls for the resignation of the Deputy Chief of Staff (for failing to prevent the attack) and of the Chief of Turkey's Air Force (for being caug [...]	2008-10-17 04:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1809	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-17 11:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1818	TURKEY: EUROPE MUST COUNT TURKEY AS PART OF ITS [...] (C) Summary: DCM and EconCouns met with Energy U/S Selahattin Cimen on October 16 to present copies of President Bush's letters to PM Erdogan and President Gul (reftel a) and to discuss Ministry of Energy (MOE) views on Turkey's energy supply policy. Cimen said Turkey appreciates the sincerity [...]	2008-10-18 09:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ENRG TU
08ANKARA1819	TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN: ELECTIONS, AFGHAN SPEAKER [...] (C) Turkey views upcoming Afghan elections as an important opportunity to strengthen Afghan national identity, MFA South Asia Section Head Emre Karagol told us October 17. President Gul and PM Erodgan underscored this point with Afghan National Assembly Speaker Kanuni during Kanuni's October [...]	2008-10-20 05:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV AF PK TU
08ANKARA182	TURKEY'S OUTREACH TO THE KURDS OF THE SOUTHEAST: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish military operations in northern Iraq have opened new space in Turkey's political discourse. In sharp contrast to the situation throughout most of 2007, topics such as a focused economic development plan for southeastern Turkey, expanded Kurdish language broadcasting and e [...]	2008-01-31 16:23:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
08ANKARA1824	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-20 13:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1828	TURKEY: TRABZON UP FOR GRABS IN NATIONWIDE LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Politics are personal and party affiliation counts for little in Turkey's Black Sea port of Trabzon. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is hoping to win Trabzon -- one of the very few large municipalities outside of its control -- in the March 2009 local [...]	2008-10-20 16:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ETRD EIND SOCI TU
08ANKARA1831	TURKEY: AKP EYES SECULAR STRONGHOLD OF IZMIR IN [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Aegean jewel of Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, is at the heart of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) quest to dominate March 2009 local elections by besting its July 2007 parliamentary election performance, when it captured 47 percent of the [...]	2008-10-21 07:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1839	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-21 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1846	SCENESETTER FOR DOE DEP SEC KUPFER'S OCT 30-31 [...] (SBU) Turkey remains the vital link in our strategy to bring gas from the Caspian Basin and Central Asia to Europe through a Southern Corridor. Turkish leaders with whom you will meet believe Turkey is facing acute electricity shortages as early as 2009 and natural gas shortages of up to 16 [...]	2008-10-23 10:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1850	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-23 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1854	TURKEY: A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 21 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a three-hour meeting October 21 with EUR A/S Fried, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan said that Turkey: -- hopes to wrap up an agreement with Armenia before the end of the year; -- wants both the U.S. and EU to join the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform in its se [...]	2008-10-24 07:29:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	TU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1855	TURKEY: IMF MISSION SEES NEED FOR NEW FUND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wilson hosted IMF Mission Head Lorenzo Giorgiani, new IMF Turkey Desk Director Rachel Van Elkan, IMF Turkey Mission Chief Hossein Samei and Deputy Mission Chief Davide Lombardo for a breakfast with G-7 ambassadors on October 23. Giorgiani said the GOT has not yet ask [...]	2008-10-24 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON TU
08ANKARA1857	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-24 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1871	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-27 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1872	TURKEY: PRIME MINISTER REJECTS IMF AND BUSINESS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan lashed out October 26 at the IMF and business groups pressuring the GOT to sign a new IMF agreement, saying "during a crisis, we will not bury the future in darkness by bowing to the de [...]	2008-10-28 05:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
08ANKARA1879	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-28 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1881	TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ISSUES DETAILED [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following closely on the heels of its October 22 verdict in the headscarf case (ref A),Turkey's Constitutional Court October 24 issued its detailed verdict fleshing out its July 30 ruling not to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for alleged anti-se [...]	2008-10-28 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1882	PERSONNEL SHUFFLES ROCK STATE MEDIA GIANT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 05:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PHUM PGOV OSCE EU OIIP TU
08ANKARA189	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-01 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1897	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-31 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1898	TURKEY: RESPONSE TO INFORMATION GATHERING REQUEST: [...] (C) The GOT has not yet publicly offered any ideas on reform of Bretton Woods institutions. GOT contacts say that they are awaiting the Summit agenda before meeting to discuss Turkey,s position on the specific agenda items. The Prime Minister and Treasury Minister have publicly said that T [...]	2008-11-03 05:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON TU
08ANKARA19	TURKEY: 2007 - INTOLERANCE AND VIOLENCE TOWARD [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara-Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary: Intolerance and violence against Turkey's dwindling religious minority communities spiked in 2007. The January assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the brutal killing of three Christian [...]	2008-01-04 12:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1904	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-03 15:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1905	TURKEY: UNPRECEDENTED MILITARY BRIEFING TO COUNCIL [...] (SBU) At the military's request, the Chief of Turkish General Staff (TGS) Ilker Basbug briefed the Council of Ministers on Monday, October 27 on the military's counterterrorism efforts. This reportedly marked the first time the head of the Turkish military briefed the Council of Ministers and [...]	2008-11-03 15:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS TU
08ANKARA1911	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-04 14:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1916	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY PARTY [...] (C) Summary and comment: The symbolism of victory in the March 2009 local elections is helping fuel the rapidly rising tension and violence in Turkey's Southeast (reftel). PM Erdogan's repeated visits to the region in recent weeks are part of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) [...]	2008-11-05 09:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1917	FM BABACAN IN AFGHANISTAN; GILLANI, KARZAI IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Babacan stressed Turkey's commitment to Afghanistan during his October 26-27 visit to Kabul, Wardak and northern Afghanistan. The Turks are pressing forward on infrastructure and education projects, but face obstacles from local and national authorities in Kabul. Turkey has [...]	2008-11-05 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PTER MARR EAID EINV AF PK TU
08ANKARA1918	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-05 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1922	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-06 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1927	TURKEY: GOT REQUESTS MEETINGS ON MULTILATERAL [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3 below. 2. (C) During a November 6 meeting with DCM and Economic Counselor, Turkish G-20 Summit Sherpa Selim Kuneralp asked about a proposed meeting between PM Erdogan and the Vice President on the margins of the G-20 Financial Summit, as a follow [...]	2008-11-07 05:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ENRG TU
08ANKARA1930	TURKEY: PREPARATIONS AND OUTLOOK FOR G-20 [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Economic Counselor met November 6 with Turkish Summit Sherpa Selim Kuneralp and MFA Department Head for Multilateral Economic Affairs Serap Ozcuksun to discuss Turkish preparations for the G-20 Summit. Kuneralp said the Prime Minister has not yet decided who will sit with [...]	2008-11-07 12:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KSUM PREL TU
08ANKARA1935	TURKEY: PKK SUCCEEDING IN DRIVING WEDGE BETWEEN [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: During one week of meetings in southeastern Turkey, PolOff met with political figures, writers and NGOs to discuss the Kurdish issue, growing regional tension, and upcoming local elections. Contacts said the PKK is using the pro-Kurdish [...]	2008-11-07 16:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1936	GOT AND PIEBALGS AGREE ON CASPIAN DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary. Ankara EU Commission Economic Counselor Ulrike Hauer described EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs' November 6 visit to Ankara as very successful. Piebalgs met with President Gul, Prime Minister Erdogan, Treasury Minister Simsek and Energy Undersecretary Cimen. Gul told Piebalgs he [...]	2008-11-07 17:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA1937	TURKEY: EU PROGRESS REPORT CITES LACK OF REFORMS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The EU's annual progress report on Turkey released November 5 met with mixed reaction here. Referring to the assessment as "balanced," GOT officials publicly highlighted its positive aspects, including Turkey's contributions to regional and energy security and progress [...]	2008-11-07 17:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1938	HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: TURKEY'S NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bureaucratic turf battles and finger pointing continue to frame Ankara's recent announcement of a new civilian structure to manage GoT efforts against the PKK in southeastern Turkey. That announcement came after extensive discussion on a new counterterrorism approach, amid mount [...]	2008-11-07 17:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINR TU
08ANKARA1939	HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: TURKEY'S NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bureaucratic turf battles and finger pointing continue to frame Ankara's recent announcement of a new civilian structure to manage GoT efforts against the PKK in southeastern Turkey. That announcement came after extensive discussion on a new counterterrorism approach, amid mount [...]	2008-11-10 05:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINR TU
08ANKARA1943	TURKEY: RESIGNATION OF POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHT [...] (C) Summary and comment: The November 7 resignation of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman and party co-founder Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat surprised Ankara's political establishment and engendered immediate waves of speculation. Political circles dismissed Firat's stated re [...]	2008-11-10 12:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1950	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-10 15:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1957	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-12 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA196	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-04 15:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1965	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 12:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1972	FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN: TURKEY TO FOCUS ON [...] (C) We conveyed ref A points on the "Friends of Pakistan" meeting in Abu Dhabi to MFA South Asia Section Head Emre Karagol November 13. Karagol, who will accompany MFA DG for South Asia and Iran Huseyin Dirioz to the November 17 meeting, told us Turkey plans to concentrate on the security and [...]	2008-11-14 08:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON EAID AF PK TU
08ANKARA198	TRENDS FOR TURKISH ECONOMY IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary: 2008 will be a challenging year for the Turkish economy and the government's economic policies. Turkey already has felt effects from the global credit crisis and investor risk re-assessment and it remains vulnerable because of its external financing needs. Economic growth is s [...]	2008-02-04 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EFIN TU
08ANKARA1980	TURKEY/AZERBAIJAN: GUL PROPOSES TRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S for Eastern Europe and South Caucasus Unal Cevikoz and PM Foreign Policy Advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador separately that President Gul proposed a trilateral Turkey-Armenia-Azerbaijan summit, perhaps in late January or early February, to President Aliyev, during Aliye [...]	2008-11-14 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM AJ TU
08ANKARA1982	TURKEY NEEDS AN IMF DEAL AND EXTERNAL FINANCING [...] (C) Summary: Reftel A describes multiple pressures on the real sector in Turkey. Key among them is financing. Banking fundamentals in Turkey remain sound, but banks are becoming skittish and limiting or cutting off credit to all but their best customers. The GOT is getting pressure to make [...]	2008-11-14 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON TU
08ANKARA1985	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-14 15:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1991	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-17 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1992	TURKEY/IRAN: TURKEY EAGER FOR CHANGE IN IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials and Think-tankers in Ankara told Department of State Iranian Affairs Office Director Todd Schwartz during November 13 meetings that the U.S. should initiate direct talks with Iran and signal a willingness to "extend a hand of friendship" early in the Obama Admini [...]	2008-11-17 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG IR TU
08ANKARA1993	TURKEY: AKP FLIRTS WITH ALEVI INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Alevi leaders greeted with skepticism Turkish press accounts that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) plans to create an office within the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to fund Alevi prayer houses (cemevis) and broaden Alevi rights. They believe AKP is c [...]	2008-11-17 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1994	TURKEY: MINISTER GULER IN TEHRAN TO TRY TO CLOSE [...] (C) On November 15, a delegation led by Turkish Energy Minister Guler went to Tehran to try to conclude negotiations begun in July 2007 to develop natural gas in Iran's large South Pars field and to construct a dedicated pipeline to bring Iranian gas to Turkey (reftel). The delegation also i [...]	2008-11-17 17:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET IR TU
08ANKARA1996	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-18 13:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2004	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2012	TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN'S PASSAGE TO INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Eight years after the last visit to New Delhi by a Turkish Government leader, Prime Minister Erdogan departs November 20 for a four-day trip to India. Both the MFA and Indian Embassy in Ankara describe the visit as "overdue," but emphasize that it reflects a healthy bilateral r [...]	2008-11-20 13:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV PREL TU IN AF PK
08ANKARA2013	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-20 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2016	TURKEY: MFA DEPUTY U/S SINIRLIOGLU ON IRAQ, [...] (S) Summary: MFA Deputy Undersecretary for the Middle East and South Asia Feridun Sinirlioglu provided CDA with an overview of pressing regional issues November 19. He reported that President Gul intends to visit cities outside Baghdad in addition to the capital during his upcoming Iraq visit [...]	2008-11-20 15:01:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS PINS PGOV TU IZ IR
08ANKARA2017	ILL-TIMED RATE REDUCTIONS IN TURKEY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. In a move analysts called "shocking, premature, futile, and destructive," the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) on November 19 cut its overnight borrowing rate to 16.25% (down from 16.75%) and its [...]	2008-11-20 15:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON TU

08ANKARA2024	PM MALIKI SENDS ENVOY TO REASSURE NEIGHBORS ON SOFA [...] (C) PM Maliki sent an envoy, State Minister for National Dialogue Akram al-Hakim, to deliver a personal message to PM Erdogan, and other regional leaders, regarding the Iraq-U.S. SOFA, according to MFA Department Head for Iraq Aydin Acikel. Al-Hakim, who arrived in Ankara early November 20 fro [...]	2008-11-21 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ TU
08ANKARA2025	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 16:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA203	TURKEY: POSITIVE SHIFTS IN PUBLIC OPINION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The overwhelmingly positive reaction of political leaders to US-Turkey cooperation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is now also being reflected in public opinion. Recent polls indicate that the US has reversed the downward trend in public opinion that had U [...]	2008-02-05 09:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA2038	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2041	TURKEY: POLICE LIFT CURTAIN ON ERGENEKON PROBE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish National Police on November 21 gave the Embassy an extensive briefing on their investigation into Ergenekon, the shadowy group alleged to have plotted an overthrow of the AKP government. The briefing presented a seamless informational overview, underscoring that Ergeneko [...]	2008-11-24 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV TU
08ANKARA2045	TURKEY WELCOMES U.S. CT DIALOGUE PROPOSAL, URGES [...] (S) Summary. S/CT Dell Dailey urged Turkey November 14 to agree to an annual high-level counterterrorism (CT) dialogue, pressed it to use its influence with Syria to halt the transit of foreign terrorists and asked it to positively respond to earlier U.S. information-sharing proposals. Inter [...]	2008-11-25 12:12:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV IZ SY EU TU
08ANKARA2049	TURKEY: PKK LEADER OCALAN MAY GET COMPANY [...] (U) This is an AmConsulate Adana message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Acting on a year-old rebuke from the Council of Europe's Committee (COE) for the Prevention of Torture (CPT),the GOT has announced potential plans to modify the conditions of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in solitary c [...]	2008-11-25 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2051	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-25 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2052	TURKEY'S RULING AKP: LET THE ELECTION GAMES BEGIN [...] (C) Summary and comment: Facing its first nationwide electoral test since its landslide victory in the July 2007 parliamentary elections, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is sparing no expense in taking organizational steps to help secure victory. AKP Deputy Chairman for Electo [...]	2008-11-25 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
08ANKARA2056	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-26 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA206	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-05 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2063	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-28 12:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2069	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-01 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2070	TURKEY: PREMIER THINK TANK ASAM CLOSES ITS DOORS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: One of Turkey's premier think tanks the Eurasian Strategic Research Center (ASAM) unexpectedly closed in November after losing its main corporate sponsor. The Ulker Group pulled its funding on short notice. While neither ASAM nor Ulker have publicly addressed the re [...]	2008-12-01 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU
08ANKARA2077	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-03 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2078	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-03 13:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2086	TURKEY: ERDOGAN SHIFTS INTO NATIONALIST GEAR [...] (C) Summary: Islamist columnist Fehmi Koru's November 6 comment that Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2002 as an "Obama-like personality but came to resemble President Bush" drew an aggressive reaction from Erdogan and generated a groundswell of commentary. Many who had once supported [...]	2008-12-04 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2088	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY [...] (C) MFA Under Secretary Apakan's December 8-9 visit will be the fifth iteration of the "Shared Vision and Structured Dialogue" agreed upon by Secretary Rice and then-FM Gul in July 2006. Knowing it will take some time for the new administration to have its new team in place, U/S Apakan presse [...]	2008-12-04 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL TU
08ANKARA209	TURKEY: AMBASSADOR MANN DISCUSSES GAS TRANSIT WITH [...] (C) Summary. During a 14-hour stopover in Istanbul on January 28, U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Ambassador Steve Mann discussed a range of energy issues with BOTAS (state oil and gas pipeline company) General Manager Saltuk Duzyol, British Petroleum Turkey Director Tahir Uysal [...]	2008-02-05 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG EPET IZ TU TX
08ANKARA21	TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR BOMBING KILLS FIVE, INJURES [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate Adana - Embassy Ankara cable. 2. (U) On January 3 at approximately 1650 hours local, an explosion in Diyarbakir's busy Yenisehir district rocked an area adjacent to the upscale Dedeman Hotel, a shopping mall, and military barracks, shattering windows in neighbo [...]	2008-01-04 13:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV TU
08ANKARA2109	TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR MAYOR ENVISIONS 2009 PROGRESS [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Diyarbakir mayor Osman Baydemir voiced hope that the incoming Obama administration will address Turkey's Kurdish issue by mediating a dialogue that would result in an end to violence by the PKK and an expansion of Kurdish political righ [...]	2008-12-12 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA212	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-06 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2128	AS CALLS FOR REFORM INCREASE, TURKISH PATENT LAW [...] (C) Summary. On November 20, Turkey's International Investor Association (YASED) released a report on the status of intellectual property rights in Turkey and the economic importance of improving those rights. The report, which YASED presented directly to Prime Minister Erdogan, estimates th [...]	2008-12-17 13:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR ECON USTR EINV TU
08ANKARA2147	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2148	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2157	TURKEY: IRAQI VP HASHIMI SEEKS GOT SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Iraqi VP Tariq Al-Hashimi visited Turkey December 20-21 for meetings with President Gul and PM Erdogan. According to MFA Iraq Department Head Aydin Acikel, Hashimi complained about PM Maliki's administration to GOT officials and reported on discussions Iraqi Sunni, Kurdish, and some Shia p [...]	2008-12-22 17:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IZ
08ANKARA2172	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-24 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2174	TURKEY/ISRAEL/SYRIA: OLMERT REMAINS POSITIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Israeli PM Olmert visited Ankara December 22 in what was billed a "farewell" call, meeting privately with PM Erdogan (we believe PM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu translated) and, with delegations, President Gul. Syria and Gaza dominated the agenda. According to Israeli Embass [...]	2008-12-24 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV PTER IS SY TU
08ANKARA2177	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-29 12:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2181	TURKEY/GEORGIAN SEPARATIST REGIONS: ANKARA CANNOT [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points to MFA Deputy U/S for Eastern Europe and South Caucasus Unal Cevikoz December 29, underscoring the importance of collective support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Cevikoz promised to analyze the U.S. strategy on Georgia's separatist [...]	2008-12-30 10:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS TU
08ANKARA2187	TURKEY URGES IRAQI PM MALIKI TO PRESS AHEAD WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both PM Erdogan and President Gul encouraged PM Maliki, during his December 24 visit to Ankara, to enact political reforms that will encourage Sunni participation in government, according to an MFA readout. Maliki reportedly understood the political challenges he faces. The Turk [...]	2008-12-30 16:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TU
08ANKARA2190	TURKEY CONDEMNS GAZA ATTACKS [...] (U) Turkey has reacted strongly to Israeli attacks in Gaza. PM Erdogan has called the attacks a "crime against humanity," a "blow to world peace," and complained they showed a "lack of respect" for Turkey, which has been exerting great efforts to restore peace in the region. President Gul wa [...]	2008-12-30 17:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS PGOV PTER IS TU
08ANKARA2192	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-31 06:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2195	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-31 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2197	TURKEY PUSHING FOR "END OF HOSTILITIES" IN GAZA [...] (S) The Ambassador on December 31 discussed PM Erdogan's diplomatic efforts to end the military conflict in Gaza with Turkish PM Foreign Policy Adviser Ahmet Davutoglu and separately with MFA U/S Apakan. Davutoglu was preparing to depart with PM Erdogan for Amman and Damascus, followed by co [...]	2008-12-31 16:32:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV IS TU
08ANKARA22	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-04 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA224	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-07 15:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA24	TURKEY'S ULTRANATIONALIST "VALLEY OF THE WOLVES" [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's popular television drama "Valley of the Wolves" is back on the air and setting new records in its fourth season. "Show TV" temporarily canceled the program in February 2007 due to government pressure and viewer complaints over the show's violence. Television [...]	2008-01-04 16:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA242	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-11 07:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA244	WHAT'S TIED UP IN TURKEY'S HEADSCARF DEBATE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the second, final round of voting February 9, Turkey's parliament approved two constitutional amendments aimed at lifting the headscarf ban at universities. The amendments, addressing equality under the law and right to education, lay the groundwork for lifting the ban, though [...]	2008-02-11 10:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
08ANKARA248	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-11 13:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA264	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-12 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA266	TURKEY: SE KURDS SKEPTICAL OF ANKARA'S NEWFOUND [...] (U) This is an AmConsul Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary. Despite increasing hints in Ankara that the GOT is considering proposals to start addressing the root causes of the Kurdish issue, leaders in southeastern Turkey are skeptical the GOT is committed to the reforms needed for a lasting solut [...]	2008-02-13 07:48:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ
08ANKARA273	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-13 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA289	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 13:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA290	TURKEY PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVAR INDEPENDENCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT will recognize an independent Kosovo soon after the Quint and the U.S. GOT officials remain uncertain whether Kosovars will declare independence over the weekend, or merely announce a date on which they will proclaim their independence. Regardless, they are expecting an [...]	2008-02-15 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU RU GG YI AA
08ANKARA30	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-07 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA307	MGKV01: TURKEY SWIFTLY RECOGNIZES KOSOVO [...] (U) At approximately 19:30 local time, February 18, the GOT formally recognized Kosovo's independence. FM Babacan's statement (see paragraph 4) emphasized the importance Turkey attaches to peace and stability in the Balkans. The statement also noted Turkey's historical and cultural ties to [...]	2008-02-19 12:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU YI ZL
08ANKARA309	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-19 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA31	TURKEY: GOT ON NON-MILITARY SOLUTIONS TO PKK [...] (C) Summary and comment. The GOT is taking preliminary steps to address the political and economic demands of its Kurdish population, in conjunction with recent military attacks against terrorist PKK targets in northern Iraq. Both PM Erdogan's government and the Turkish General Staff (TGS) u [...]	2008-01-08 06:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV IZ TU
08ANKARA315	TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR EXPANDED [...] (C) Summary and comment. PM Erdogan and officials from the state-controlled "TRT" broadcasting network announced plans February 17 for TRT to dedicate a channel to broadcast an array of Kurdish language programs. The PM set no rollout date, but his statement provides the most specifics to dat [...]	2008-02-19 16:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA319	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-20 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA320	TURKEY: HEADSCARF DEBATE REVEALS FISSURES [...] (C) Turkey again finds itself in a state of domestic tension and polarization. Among politicians, the debate over the headscarf (whether or not to allow girls who cover their heads into universities) has degenerated into a series of sophomoric arguments. They're not battling it out on the st [...]	2008-02-20 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
08ANKARA321	EU NABUCCO COORDINATOR SAYS TURKEY MUST ACT NOW ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, EU Coordinator for Nabucco Jozias van Aartsen told us he would deliver a firm message to his Turkish interloctuers (which included Prime Minister Erdogan) that Turkey must act now to save the Nabucco pipeline. He said he has a six-month time horizon for progress [...]	2008-02-21 07:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA326	TURKISH PARLIAMENT PASSES FOUNDATIONS LAW [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara - Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's parliament passed the long-delayed Foundations Law to expand non-Muslim religious property rights February 20, despite vocal condemnation from opposition parties and subdued criticis [...]	2008-02-21 13:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PREL PGOV OSCE TU
08ANKARA328	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-21 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA331	TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 1: TURKEY LAUNCHES GROUND [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) has publicly announced that Turkish forces have launched a ground operation into northern Iraq, which began at 1700 hours Zulu on February 21. Predator imagery has identified two columns of approximately 800 dismounted infantry six kilometers in [...]	2008-02-22 10:24:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA335	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-22 15:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA338	GOT PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY CYPRIOT ELECTION FIRST [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials expressed pleasant surprise at the unexpected outcome of the first round of Cyprus' presidential election. Regardless of the final outcome, Turkey remains prepared to press for resumption of final settlement negotiations as soon as possible. The Turks are hopeful t [...]	2008-02-22 16:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
08ANKARA34	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-08 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA340	TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 2: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES, [...] (C) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue. According to press reporting, the Turkish ground units involved are two brigades from the Second Army based in Malatya. U.S. military logistics personnel at the Habur Gate crossing between Turkey and Iraq reported traffic flowing [...]	2008-02-22 17:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA345	PM ERDOGAN TELLS CODEL BIDEN TURKEY CAN DO MORE IN [...] (C) Summary. Turkish PM Erdogan briefed visiting Senators Biden, Kerry and Hagel February 22 on GOT efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, the fight against terrorism and Turkey's relations with Armenia. Noting the senators' previous stop in Afghanistan, Erdogan said Turkey can do more in Afghanistan [...]	2008-02-25 07:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PTER PGOV AF IZ TU
08ANKARA35	DESPITE IRANIAN GAS CUTS, TURKEY KEEPS THE LIGHTS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. In the midst of cold winter weather and snow, Turkey is suffering from reduced gas imports from Iran and Russia. The GOT is taking several measures to assure that power is kept on. In a worse case scenario of bad weather forcing Russia to cut gas supplies to Turkey via the West [...]	2008-01-08 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET IR TU
08ANKARA356	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-25 14:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA358	EU NABUCCO COORDINATOR SAYS TURKEY MUST ACT NOW ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, EU Coordinator for Nabucco Jozias van Aartsen told us he would deliver a firm message to his Turkish interloctuers (which included Prime Minister Erdogan) that Turkey must act now to save the Nabucco pipeline. He said he has a six-month time horizon for progress [...]	2008-02-25 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET TU
08ANKARA366	TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 5: GROUND OPERATIONS CONTINUE, [...] (C) Turkish ground forces continue to engage PKK terrorists in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, supported by air and artillery strikes. Deteriorating weather conditions in the objective area will likely hamper operations over the next 24 hours. Normal logistics and customs operations [...]	2008-02-26 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA369	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-26 15:13:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA377	TURKEY PRIORITIZES PAKISTAN STABILITY; COURTS INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey favors a grand governing coalition in Pakistan, to continue to include President Musharraf, MFA South Asia DDG Hizlan told us February 26. Rather than internal politicking, Pakistan's politicians should be focused on curtailing violence and extremism. Turkey is not dir [...]	2008-02-27 12:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF IN PK TU
08ANKARA378	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-27 12:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA389	TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 7: DAY 6 OF GROUND OPERATIONS [...] (C) Turkish forces continued to engage PKK in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, backed by close air support and artillery. Operations at the Habur Gate crossing remained normal. 2. (U) A Turkish General Staff (TGS) statement on February 27 reported 77 terrorists and 5 Turkish soldier [...]	2008-02-28 09:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA392	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-28 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA398	TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 8: DAY 7 OF GROUND OPERATIONS [...] (S//REL TO USA, GBR) Although we have received no formal TGS notification, elements of the Turkish forces involved in the cross-border operation in northern Iraq appear to have begun withdrawing from their forward operating bases. Turkish air force and artillery units conducted cross-border C [...]	2008-02-29 11:46:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA405	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 15:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA41	TURKEY'S PM DISCUSSES TERRORISM, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] (C) Summary. In a January 7 meeting with Codel Martinez, Prime Minister Erdogan said he hopes for continued, vigorous bilateral cooperation against terrorism and stressed Turkey wants to contribute positively to Iraq's welfare. He said the House's Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.R.106) had [...]	2008-01-09 13:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV AM IZ TU
08ANKARA416	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA417	TURKEY: MEDIA COVERAGE OF MILITARY OPERATION IN [...] (U) Summary: Civilian and military officials have had to respond to criticism from the opposition, reflected both in the mainstream and opposition press, that Turkey bowed to U.S. pressure to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq. The withdrawal occurred the day after Defense Secretary Gates' [...]	2008-03-03 14:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA423	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-04 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA43	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-09 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA430	TURKEY: MILITARY LASHES OUT AT OPPOSITION IN [...] (C) Summary: In an ironic twist, controversy over the Turkish military's pull-out from Iraq has pitted the Turkish General Staff (TGS) against its erstwhile political allies, the Republican People's Party (CHP),and has driven the TGS closer to PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) [...]	2008-03-05 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS TU IZ
08ANKARA431	AFTERMATH OF TURKEY'S REDEPLOYMENT FROM IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: As reported in reftel, the military and government have come under public criticism here for having withdrawn Turkish troops from northern Iraq "in response to US pressure" that was conveyed in remarks Secretary Gates and the President made on February 28. One senior officer com [...]	2008-03-05 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS IZ US TU
08ANKARA435	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA436	TURKEY: KURDISH REACTIONS TO THE CROSS-BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 05:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU IZ
08ANKARA442	SCENESETTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Since your 2002 visit, US-Turkey relations have been buffeted by differences over Iraq, combatting the PKK, and the House Armenian genocide resolution. We are pulling out of that tailspin, largely due to recently expanded cooperation against the PKK. Anti-Americanism is easing and we are [...]	2008-03-06 11:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV PTER ECON IZ TU
08ANKARA452	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA453	TURKEY/NABUCCO: DAS BRYZA URGES COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Nabucco pipeline is economically feasible as Russia can supply the gas for South Stream only from Turkmenistan, with Nabucco enjoying a forty percent advantage over South Stream in terms of the cost of shipping Caspian gas to Austria, DAS Matt Bryza told FM Babacan March 3. [...]	2008-03-07 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET AJ IQ RU TX TU
08ANKARA461	TALABANI GOES TO ANKARA: A BREAKTHROUGH VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's March 7-8 visit to Ankara, hailed by President Gul as the first ever by a democratically-elected Iraqi head of state to Turkey, should help to repair bilateral relations. It is remarkable for having occurred only one week after the return of Turkis [...]	2008-03-10 09:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA464	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-10 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA465	TURKEY ADVOCATES DIALOGUE, UNDERSTANDING IN MIDST [...] (C) Summary: In the months following Annapolis, Turkey has adopted an increasingly responsible and constructive tone in its engagement with Israel and Palestine. The Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led government has reduced its casual use of anti-Israel rhetoric and added a more conciliat [...]	2008-03-10 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IS
08ANKARA471	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-11 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA473	TURKEY: FINANCING GAP LOOMS [...] (C) Summary: There is a growing likelihood that Turkey will face a financing gap this year, which would pressure the exchange rate and make private sector borrowing much more difficult. Most of Turkey's financial indicators are deteriorating, and recent GOT announcements that indicate substan [...]	2008-03-11 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN TU
08ANKARA475	TURKEY: MILITARY ROW WITH POLITICAL OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The war of words between the Turkish General Staff (TGS) and Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over the latter's allegation that the army pulled out of northern Iraq prematurely due to U.S. pressure continues unabated. CHP vice chair Mustafa Ozyurek state [...]	2008-03-11 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC MOPS IZ TU
08ANKARA481	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-12 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA482	TURKEY AND TALAT ON THE SAME PAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: "TRNC President" Talat's March 6 visit to Ankara underscored the congruity of Turkish views and those of their Turkish Cypriot counterparts on the way forward toward resuming comprehensive settlement talks. The GOT position remains unchanged: it wants to push forward on comprehen [...]	2008-03-12 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY TU
08ANKARA497	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-13 15:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA502	TURKEY'S TOP COURTS IN THE THICK OF POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the power struggle continues between forces of change and the status quo, Turkey's top courts are playing an increasingly prominent role as de facto opposition. This prominence is in part a predictable outgrowth of the cases brought before them -- and underscores GOT determin [...]	2008-03-14 10:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA503	TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS CREEPS FORWARD [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish academics and civil society activists are voicing frustration at the slow pace of EU membership-related reforms. They charge the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is putting its "pet projects," such as lifting the headscarf ban at universities, ahead [...]	2008-03-14 11:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA508	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-14 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA513	THE STATE STRIKES BACK: CLOSURE CASE FILED AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and comment: The closure case filed March 14 against PM Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is a body blow to Turkey's political and economic stability. Turkey's entrenched secular establishment establishment has chosen to try to fight the AKP where the inept pol [...]	2008-03-17 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
08ANKARA514	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-17 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA518	TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/18) [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Forceful reactions to the closure case against ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) continue. Politicians and media are connecting the closure case with the government's crackdown on the Ergenekon gang (a band of retired military and others charged with assassi [...]	2008-03-18 10:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON TU

08ANKARA522	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-18 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU

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