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06DAMASCUS4876	THE SARG OVERSTATES THE POWER OF A TURKISH-SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will begin supplying Syria with approximately 200 megawatts of electricity per year through an electrical grid connection with Turkey's Birecik power plant. After having remained static for three years, the implementation of this agreement will still only provide 3.3% of Sy [...]	2006-10-11 16:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD PREL SY

06DAMASCUS5327	TURKISH-SYRIAN FTA: THE VIEW FROM DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary. After over a year of no movement, Syrians generally view Turkey,s recent announcement that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries was ratified, and will enter into effect on January 1, 2007 as a sign of Turkish political support for the SARG as it works to emerge [...]	2006-11-22 16:40:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL SY TU
06DAMASCUS5343	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Cyprus, Med-Euro [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Nov. 28 reported President Asad's meeting on Monday with Dimitris Hristofyas, Speaker of the Cypriot Parliament, focusing on the situation in the region and bilateral cooperation. Papers also reported Syrian FM Mouallem's participation in the Med-Euro Ministerial [...]	2006-11-29 07:49:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5368	Damascus Media Reaction: Golan Prisoners, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 6 reported that on Dec. 5 the Syrian Foreign Ministry addressed formal messages to UN SecGen Kofi Annan, the Chairman of the Security Council, the High Commission for Human Rights, and the Human Rights Council, informing them about the poor health of Sitan Nmr A [...]	2006-12-06 13:51:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5379	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/China, Baker/Hamilton [...] Summary: Syrian papers today reported that Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem met on Dec. 9 with Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Chi Jion and an accompanying delegation. Talks focused on developments in the region, particularly in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, and on bilateral relations [...]	2006-12-10 13:14:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5424	Syria/UAE, Syria/Russia, Syria/Iraq, Lebanon (12/19) [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 19 reported President Asad's arrival in Moscow starting a two-day working visit to the Russian Federation during which he will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the situation in the Middle East and ways to strengthen bilateral relations. Paper [...]	2006-12-21 07:43:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS641	SARG PROCLAIMS 2005 TO BE YEAR OF INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: Though Syrian officials and the government-controlled press have dubbed 2005 the &year of investment in Syria,8 SARG investment figures are generally highly exaggerated and the profit-making potential of approved projects remain largely unrealized. Recent investment in Syria fa [...]	2006-02-15 12:08:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD SY
06DOHA793	AL JAZEERA ACCORDING TO WADAH KHANFAR [...] Summary: (U) On May 21, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) delegation met with Wadah Khanfar, Director-General of the Al Jazeera Network (AJN) and Managing Director of the Arabic Al Jazeera TV channel. Khanfar told the delegation that Al Jazeera, reflecting regional developments, has ent [...]	2006-05-24 12:58:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO QA ALJAZEERA
06DUBAI1692	DUBAI AND NORTHERN EMIRATES CONTINUE IPR EFFORTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-20 13:34:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON PGOV ETRD AE
06DUBAI2598	UNODC OFFICIAL DISCUSSES DRUGS, POLITICS IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 13:59:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR IR SOCI
06DUBAI4047	IRANIAN OFFICIAL STATEMENTS ON THE NUCLEAR ISSUE [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-28 16:38:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR ZP PGOV PREL KNNP
06DUSHANBE1354	TAJIKISTAN: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES UNDER SCRUTINY [...] (U) Tajik media reported that Murodullo Davlatov, Chairman of the State Committee for Religious Affairs (SCRA),in a press conference July 13, singled out the Jehovah's Witnesses and said that the group's proselytizing activities "arouse public indignation." Valery Dudaev, Tajikistan's Jehov [...]	2006-07-19 09:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE239	THE CIS NEEDS A CNN RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE SERVICE [...] (C) This message is Central Asia specific, but it is relevant to the other countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, as the other U.S. ambassadors to CIS countries agreed during a January 4 meeting in the Department with U/S Burns. 2. (C) Russia is increasingly flexing its p [...]	2006-02-06 04:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROP KDEM KPAO RS ZK
06DUSHANBE402	TAJIKISTAN: AGA KHAN SERENA HOTEL PROBABLY DOWN THE TUBES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prince Amyn Aga Khan visited Dushanbe February 24 to break ground for the long-awaited Dushanbe Serena Hotel. Instead, President Rahmonov and Dushanbe Mayor Obaidulloyev, improbable allies for once, probably broke the project for good, on camera. Although this appears to be high [...]	2006-03-01 09:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV TI
06DUSHANBE698	TAJIKISTAN'S TRANSPORTATION SECTOR: BY PLANE, TRAIN, OR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Improving Tajikistan's air, rail, and road transportation network supports Secretary Rice's Infrastructure Integration Initiative for Greater Central Asia. Creating a cohesive transportation network passable throughout the year decreases transportation costs and promotes trade th [...]	2006-04-13 10:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV EAID ELTN ETRD AF PK TI
06HELSINKI1003	FINLAND: DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH FM TUOMIOJA AND [...] (C) Summary: In Helsinki Sept. 27, DAS Bryza encouraged the Finnish Presidency to implement its plan for helping the EU and Turkey move forward on Cyprus, and stressed that all US efforts on this issue aim to support the Finnish EU Presidency's own initiative. Finnish FM Tuomioja welcomed the [...]	2006-10-02 11:25:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN FI CY GR TU
06HELSINKI505	FINLAND'S EU PRESIDENCY PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) During its EU Presidency, Finland will generally be a cooperative partner for the US, keen to facilitate US-EU cooperation and improve overall trans-Atlantic relations. We should expect no GOF-generated surprises; the Finns view their Presidency as a continuation of ongoing processes an [...]	2006-06-02 12:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG EAID EU FI
06IRANRPODUBAI15	IRGC: AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWERHOUSE (C-NE6-00566) [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 18:09:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PTER ECON EPAT MCAP IR
06ISTANBUL1143	FROM THE VISA LINE: SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL ISSUE [...] (SBU) Summary: From the Visa Line is a reporting vehicle encompassing vignettes, anecdotes and observations from Istanbul Consular officers' daily interactions with applicants. In this issue, we focus on the Summer Work and Travel (SWT) program. Istanbul's Consular Section processed more tha [...]	2006-06-26 13:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CASC KFRD SOCI PREL TU
06ISTANBUL124	MICROSOFT TARGETS TURKEY [...] (U) Summary: In his third trip to Turkey in a little over a year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met in Istanbul with senior Turkish government and business leaders and announced a range of new initiatives aimed at increasing internet penetrationin Turkey. These included a new Turkey web portal [...]	2006-02-02 10:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV ECPS TU
06ISTANBUL1296	JULY 12 PRESIDENT ALIYEV - ENERGY DEPSEC SELL [...] (U) This is a joint ConGn Istanbul-Embassy Baku message. 2. (C) SUMMARY Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told Deput Secretary of Energy Clay Sell on July 12 that Aerbaijan and US goals and strategies with respect o developing Azerbaijani gas for world markets cincide, and Azerbaijan i [...]	2006-07-18 14:31:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TU
06ISTANBUL130	TURKISH PM ENCOURAGES WOMEN POLS AT ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan pushed forcefully for an increased role for women in public life in Turkey at the January 28 opening of a conference organized within the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. He acknowledged that social mores and traditions have inhibited such participa [...]	2006-02-02 14:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1302	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE - EUR DAS BRYZA JULY 12 [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza discussed a potential way to resolve the long-standing Halki issue with the Ecumenical Patriarch during a July 12 meeting. The Patriarch also raised property issues, noting that the Government of Turkey (GOT) had begun selling seized Ecumenical Patriarchate prope [...]	2006-07-19 07:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1313	CHECHEN "BIG HERO" MOURNED IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Approximately 4,000 mourners congregated at the Fatih mosque in Istanbul on 14 July for an "in-absentia" funeral in honor of Chechen rebel leader, Shamil Basayev. Aside from raucous anti-Russia, anti-U.S. and anti-Israel chanting, the event proceeded in a relatively benign and or [...]	2006-07-21 11:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER RS TU
06ISTANBUL1358	THE AKP AND THE STRUGGLE FOR TURKEY'S FUTURE: [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with Istanbul intellectuals interested in the political and social aspects of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) reflect a vigorous ongoing debate regarding the ideology of the AKP and how it could shape Turkey in coming decades. These observers were e [...]	2006-08-01 12:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1387	OECD/OSCE CONFERENCE ON INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] Summary: OECD and OSCE jointly sponsored, and the Government of Turkey hosted, a meeting July 11-12 to assess interest of the countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus in an investment and development initiative similar to regional initiatives that OECD has undertaken with USG support in South [...]	2006-08-08 13:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN TU
06ISTANBUL1445	TURKEY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST MUSIC PIRACY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent discussion with MUYAP, the primary local anti-music-piracy organization, we explored the nature of music piracy in Turkey and MUYAP's efforts to combat piracy in the country. According to MUYAP, Internet-based pirated music poses a significant problem for Turkey, esp [...]	2006-08-15 15:46:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR USTR TU
06ISTANBUL1449	MOVIE PIRACY IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: We recently met with AMPEC, the Motion Picture Association,s subsidiary in Turkey, to discuss movie piracy in Turkey and the state of anti-piracy efforts. AMPEC views current Turkish legislation as sufficient and feels that its training seminars have helped highlight the problem [...]	2006-08-16 13:16:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR USTR TU
06ISTANBUL1504	SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 25-26 VISIT OF CODEL MCCAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission Turkey warmly welcomes the visit of Codel McCain to Turkey. Turkey is an ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of supplies and fuel to the coalition in Iraq and supporting the NATO Training Mission (NTM-I) there; publicly calling on Ir [...]	2006-08-22 08:32:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AFIN AMGT ASEC DA GG IT MW OREP TU
06ISTANBUL1511	ISTANBUL'S CHP KADIKOY MAYOR: SAFE, SATISFIED, [...] (SBU) Summary. Republican People,s Party (CHP) mayor of Istanbul's Kadikoy district, Selami Ozturk, represents a wealthy constituency on the Asian side of Istanbul. Political activism is not the byword for this area where secular verities of the Turkish Republic remain more important to vote [...]	2006-08-23 13:43:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1575	FORMULA ONE: CYPRUS INGREDIENT INVITES CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: For the second year in a row, Istanbul played host to Formula One Grand Prix, the world's biggest motorsports organization with a reported fan base of approximately two billion people. Brazil's Felipe Massa edged out Spain's Fernando Alonso and race favorite Michael Schumacher t [...]	2006-08-31 14:54:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TU
06ISTANBUL1618	OECD/OSCE CONFERENCE ON INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] Summary: OECD and OSCE jointly sponsored, and the Government of Turkey hosted, a meeting July 11-12 to assess interest of the countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus in an investment and development initiative similar to regional initiatives that OECD has undertaken with USG support in South [...]	2006-09-08 08:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN TU
06ISTANBUL1625	TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary. At their request, PM Erdogan met with Istanbul's Jewish Community in the wake of last month's events in Lebanon and perceived growing animosity towards the community here. While initially skeptical, the PM offered a sympathetic hearing and gave assurances he would take steps to [...]	2006-09-08 14:38:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1669	TURKISH IMAM MURDERED; COMMUNITY ADMINISTERS [...] (U) Summary. An Imam reportedly in line to succeed the current head of the Nakshibendi tarikat (mystical Sufi organization) in Turkey was stabbed to death in his mosque following morning prayers. His attacker was immediately killed by the Imam's fellow worshippers. The incident continues t [...]	2006-09-14 10:07:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1711	PM ERDOGAN ADDRESS TO WESTERN THRACE TURKS [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan, speaking to Western Thrace Turk minority members at a conference in Istanbul, urged EU member Greece to respect the rights of his "brothers and sisters" in Western Thrace. He stated publicly that efforts by the Government of Greece (GOG) to resolve problems facing th [...]	2006-09-21 07:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU GR
06ISTANBUL1717	ELIF SAFAK ACQUITTED WHILE ARTICLE 301 REMAINS ON [...] (C) Summary: The long anticipated trial of Elif Safak began and ended today with a prosecutor reluctantly recommending and a judge agreeing to acquit the renowned author of charges stemming from Turkey's controversial Article 301. Protesters remained out of view with extreme security measure [...]	2006-09-21 16:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1749	FAITH, REASON AND ANOTHER WORLD: TURKISH REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Though Pope Benedict XVI's speech delivered at the University of Regensburg on September 12 is fading from Turkey's headlines, the response from Turks is universally negative and the speech continues to be a topic of conversation. A popular view regards the speech as a call fo [...]	2006-09-25 13:02:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL1750	FAITH, REASON AND ANOTHER WORLD: TURKISH REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Though Pope Benedict XVI's speech delivered at the University of Regensburg on September 12 is fading from Turkey's headlines, the response from Turks is universally negative and the speech continues to be a topic of conversation. A popular view regards the speech as a call fo [...]	2006-09-25 13:02:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL180	SHADOW BOXING: TURKEY'S UNREGISTERED ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's economic success over the last four years has prompted renewed discussion about the need to move on to tackle other deep-rooted structural problems in the Turkish economy. Chief among these issues is Turkey's shadow (or unregistered) economy, which experts estimate rep [...]	2006-02-10 14:14:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
06ISTANBUL1818	TURKEY'S CHIEF RABBI ASSESSES COMMUNITY'S SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Chief Rabbi, Rav Isak Haleva, underlined concerns in the Jewish community over a growing "negativity" in the minds of average Turks toward Jews as demonstrated in the press and daily interchanges between neighbors. Describing Turks as characteristically and traditional [...]	2006-10-05 07:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1846	ISTANBUL BANKERS PRAISE AKP ECONOMIC REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary. We met three Istanbul-based bankers with visiting Turkey desk officer to discuss economic performance, trends and political risk. All three thought that the AKP government had done a good job implementing IMF-backed reforms, but felt that the AKP economic team lacked depth a [...]	2006-10-10 07:21:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN TU
06ISTANBUL1865	LOCAL OFFICIALS, PUBLIC STAY ON MESSAGE IN EDIRNE [...] (SBU) Summary. Local officials, reporters and academics in Edirne sent a clear and consistent message during the Consul General's regional familiarization trip: concern about the PKK threat and U.S. cooperation in combating it is not reserved for Ankara and southeastern Turkey but extends to [...]	2006-10-11 11:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON GR KPAO PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1910	BSEC MINISTERIAL: VIEW FROM ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary: BSEC Secretariat officials and members of key delegations recommend that the USG discuss reftel project on environmental enforcement for economic development in general terms at the November 1 Council of Ministers meeting. Seeking to place discussion of reftel project on the ag [...]	2006-10-18 06:08:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV KCRM TU RS SR
06ISTANBUL192	TURKISH ACADEMICS, STUDENTS COMMENT ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (SBU) Summary. Media savvy academics and students involved in democracy building expressed mixed views to a visiting counter-terrorism team about America and its foreign policy in meetings earlier this month. One academic fretted over Turks, generally more negative opinion of the U.S. and [...]	2006-02-14 06:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO TU
06ISTANBUL2013	ISTANBUL'S KURDISH INTELLECTUALS: THE TIME IS NOW [...] (S) Summary. Istanbul's Kurdish intellectuals opine the evolving political situation in Turkey and the region sets a favorable stage for agreement to end the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. According to these intellectuals, Turkey's Kurds -- accepted as equals during Turkey's war of independenc [...]	2006-11-02 13:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PTER TU
06ISTANBUL2015	ISTANBUL'S ECUMENICAL RAMAZAN: BOREK, BARDAKOGLU [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's lively diversity and internal contradictions are no more apparent than in Istanbul during the month of Ramazan. While nearly 70% of Turks as a whole are reported to fast during this period, the evenings' numerous iftars are often more social and political than they are s [...]	2006-11-02 14:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2068	SWT STUDENTS SHOW THE WRITE STUFF [...] (U) Summary: In preparing for the 2007 Summer Work and Travel (SWT) season, we invited representatives of the educational companies here that recruit and help prepare the students' applications to a kick-off meeting at the Consulate on November 3. To pique interest in the SWT program, Post had [...]	2006-11-13 15:08:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI CVIS PREL SCUL KPAO TU
06ISTANBUL2081	PRESS ACCREDITATION FOR POPE'S VISIT TO ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) The Turkish press today carried a story accusing the Ecumenical Patriarchate of trying to usurp the government's role by issuing press credentials to reporters covering the Pope's visit later this month. According to the story, members of the press must receive accreditation both from [...]	2006-11-15 14:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINS PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL2084	ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS NOT CLASH OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Alliance of Civilizations High-Level Group presented its final report on November 13 in Istanbul to UNSYG Annan as well as the Turkish and Spanish Prime Ministers. The report focuses on political developments, rather than religious or cultural differences, as a primar [...]	2006-11-16 12:29:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN TU VT
06ISTANBUL2091	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH DISAPPOINTED BY NEW [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew used his November 15 meeting with visiting representatives from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to raise a number of problems facing the Patriarchate, in particular the challenges associated with being denie [...]	2006-11-20 11:04:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU GR
06ISTANBUL2095	STABILITY VS. THE CANCER OF INFORMALITY [...] Summary: On November 6, at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Global Forum on Investment, an OECD Country Roundtable examined Turkey's recent experience with strategies to enhance the investment environment and the dramatic improvement in foreign investment in Tu [...]	2006-11-20 13:31:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV BEXP ECON ECIN OECD TU
06ISTANBUL210	AKP: THE RIFTS WITHIN (A BREATH OF SCANDAL IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Cuneyd Zapsu, independent businessman, senior advisor to PM Erdogan and founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party),is no stranger to controversy. This time, however, his wife Beyza made the front pages, photographed praying in an Istanbul mosque Jan [...]	2006-02-16 11:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2100	ISTANBUL CONFERENCE SEES NEW U.S. POLICY TREND IN [...] Summary. A largely academic audience responded positively to visiting scholar Dr. Ian Lesser of the Woodrow Wilson Center and former Foreign Minister Ilter Turkmen's discussion of the "Future of Turkish-American Relations." Lesser and Turkmen inaugurated Sabanci University's Istanbul Policy [...]	2006-11-21 14:49:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL2104	FOUNDATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS AND EU ACCESSION: [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) completed its nine-day fact finding mission in Turkey with a generally positive view of religious freedom here. Delegation members clearly recognized the significant challenges facing religious minority co [...]	2006-11-24 12:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2105	URBANCIC AND BASER DISCUSS EFFORTS TO COMBAT PKK [...] (C) Summary. S/CT Deputy Coordinator Urbancic met Gen. (ret) Baser, the GOT's counter-PKK envoy, in Istanbul on November 11. After expressing appreciation for Urbancic's efforts to curb PKK criminal support in Europe, which was the subject of Urbancic's Ankara meetings, Baser took the opport [...]	2006-11-24 12:57:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN PREL TU IZ
06ISTANBUL2109	TESEV STUDY ON RELIGION AND POLITICS [...] Summary. On November 21, TESEV, a leading Turkish NGO, released the results of a recent survey on Islam and Politics. Some of the results were surprising, most notably the indication that the number of women wearing headscarves is declining despite a general belief to the contrary. A major [...]	2006-11-27 11:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI TU
06ISTANBUL2111	SAADET PARTY PROTESTS POPE'S VISIT [...] Summary: On November 26, the Islamist Saadet (Felicity) Party organized a rally in the Sisli district of Istanbul to protest the Pope's upcoming visit to Turkey. Despite claims of hundreds of thousands of attendees on the party's website press estimates on participation varied from 20,000 to [...]	2006-11-28 06:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC CASC TU
06ISTANBUL2115	ISTANBUL POLICE CLOSE PATRIARCHATE PRESS CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 27, Istanbul police briefly shut down a press center organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate at a local hotel. Press arrangements for the Papal visit to the Patriarchate had been the subject of some dispute earlier in November (reftel) but both Patriarchate staff [...]	2006-11-28 12:43:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2141	HALKI SEMINARY READY FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: We visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Halki Seminary with a delegation of Greek Orthodox American citizens during their annual Feast of St. Andrew pilgrimage to Istanbul, coinciding this year with Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Turkey. The seminary is the subject of a long-stan [...]	2006-12-08 09:17:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2144	ISTANBUL BUSINESS COMMUNITY DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 28, CODEL Shays met members of the Istanbul business community to discuss their views on Iraq's future and U.S. - Turkey relations. The business community sees both risks and opportunities in Iraq, but companies with on-going Iraq operations see potential profit op [...]	2006-12-08 14:29:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENIV ENRG OREP PREL PTER TU
06ISTANBUL2149	ISTANBUL'S TESEV TOUCHES ANOTHER TABOO [...] (C) Summary. TESEV, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, convened an international academic conference that discussed internal displacement, with a particular focus on the plight of Turkey's Kurdish population. Discussion of social issues and Kurdish identity would have been [...]	2006-12-11 11:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2150	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE ON THE POPE'S VISIT AND [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarchate senior advisor Metropolitan Meliton shared with us his deep satisfaction over the success of Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to Turkey but predicted improved Muslim-Christian relations would not influence the Government of Turkey (GOT) to resolve issues [...]	2006-12-11 12:49:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU
06ISTANBUL2154	AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS ENGAGES WITH [...] Begin Summary: A visiting American Council of Young Political Leaders (AYCPL) delegation engaged over dinner December 4 at the Consul General's Residence with a group of Turkish political party leaders, academics, business executives, and senior press columnists and editors. The lively excha [...]	2006-12-12 09:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL CVIS TU
06ISTANBUL369	ISTANBUL JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AWAIT LEGAL STATUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Jehovah's Witnesses continue to face obstacles from the Turkish bureaucracy in their efforts to form a legal association. Their members also face short prison terms for refusing to carry arms as part of their mandatory military service, due to their status as conscientious ob [...]	2006-03-14 15:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU
06ISTANBUL372	ISTANBUL CONFERENCE TACKLES TURKEY'S "KURDISH [...] (C) Summary. A March 11-12 Istanbul conference on "Turkey's Kurdish Problem" brought together a range of leading figures from Turkey's Kurdish community with the ambitious goal of hammering out an alternative to the leadership of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organizers argued that [...]	2006-03-15 05:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL419	ISTANBUL'S AKP AND CHP - A STUDY IN CONTRASTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent calls on their Istanbul political party headquarters highlighted stark contrasts between Turkey's pedigreed social-democratic Republican People's Party (CHP) and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The AKP's brightly decorated, modular headquarters hummed wi [...]	2006-03-21 15:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL422	FROM THE VISA LINE, ISSUE ONE [...] (SBU) Summary: From the Visa Line is a new reporting vehicle encompassing vignettes, anecdotes and observations from Amconsulate Istanbul Consular officers' daily interactions with Turkish--and sometime non-Turkish--visa applicants. Taken together, they offer a unique perspective on local s [...]	2006-03-22 13:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CASC SOCI PREL IR TU
06ISTANBUL444	BSEC SENIOR OFFICIALS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Black Sea Economic Cooperation organization's meeting of Senior Officials at the end of February highlighted both the organization's strengths and weaknesses. The organization is a rare forum grouping not just all the sea's littoral states, but also other countries such as [...]	2006-03-27 09:20:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETTC KFPC KTIA TU XG
06ISTANBUL498	TURKISH BANKS ATTRACT MORE FDI -- FINANSBANK SALE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish bank values hit a new peak on April 3 with the announcement in Athens that the National Bank of Greece (NBG) will purchase a near controlling stake in Finansbank, Turkey's ninth largest bank, for 2.8 billion USD. The sale price values the bank at 5.05 billion USD, 3.6 [...]	2006-04-04 13:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV TU
06ISTANBUL504	ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY ARMENIAN CONFERENCE: A SMALL [...] (C) Summary: A March 15-17 conference at Istanbul University brought defenders of the official Turkish narrative on the events of 1915-16 together with a handful of more independent voices, including Israeli and Armenian presenters, who openly used the term "Armenian Genocide." The conferenc [...]	2006-04-05 08:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
06ISTANBUL524	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE AT THE ECHR: BUYUKADA [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarchate officials have expressed to us deep consternation over alleged changes to the Turkish property registry for the Buyukada Orphanage. Before its 2004 expropriation, the historic structure was the last remaining Greek Orthodox property deeded to the Patriarch [...]	2006-04-10 11:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL527	SUNNY SKIES OVER ISTANBUL TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (U) Summry: There may be overcast skies in the tourism industry elsewhere in Turkey, but in Istanbul the sunis shining, according to two leading figures in the industry. The Ministry of Tourism calculates 4.9 million tourists visited Istanbul in 2005, 23 of atotal 1.1million visitors to Turkey [...]	2006-04-11 11:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON
06ISTANBUL578	AMBASSADOR WILSON'S ISTANBUL APRIL 2-4 VISIT [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilson visited Istanbul on April 2-4, 2006. He attended and addressed the openings of two significant conferences and met with business, religious, and community leaders. Concerns in Istanbul focused on U.S. actions regarding the PKK, U.S. intentions in Iran, and the [...]	2006-04-18 07:14:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV EINV TU
06ISTANBUL596	AMBASSADOR WILSON'S ISTANBUL APRIL 2-4 VISIT - [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilson visited Istanbul on April 2-4, 2006. He attended and addressed the openings of two significant conferences and met with business, religious, and community leaders. Concerns in Istanbul focused on U.S. actions regarding the PKK, U.S. intentions in Iran, and the [...]	2006-04-20 07:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV EINV TU
06ISTANBUL625	FORMER GOT MINISTER ERDAL INONU PREDICTS AN [...] (C) Summary. Erdal Inonu, son of Turkey's second President and himself a former deputy prime minister, predicts Turkey will continue the project of westernization begun under Ataturk. Despite the current Islamic-oriented governing party, he predicts Turks will continue toward a progressive [...]	2006-04-26 09:51:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
06ISTANBUL693	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SHOWS TURKEY,S GROWING [...] (U) Summary: The Governments of Turkey and the United States co-chaired a high-level conference in Istanbul April 27-28, 2006 on international cooperation for disaster relief and humanitarian assistance. The conference, attended by twelve nations and the leadership of the United Nation,s Off [...]	2006-05-09 11:36:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IR PHUM PREL TU
06ISTANBUL733	CONSUL GENERAL OUTREACH TO BURSA, TURKEY [...] (U) Summary: The Consul General traveled May 2-3, 2006 to Bursa -- Turkey,s fourth largest city and one of its most dynamic commercial centers with important textile and automobile manufacturing -- to address a conference on globalization and entrepreneurship. In addition to meeting with the [...]	2006-05-15 05:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL798	"MORTGAGE" MARKET STEAMS FORWARD EVEN AS NEW LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's newfound macroeconomic stability and failing interest rates have brought a boom in consumer lending, including especially a dramatic increase in "mortgage" financing for home purchases. Housing loans grew four fold over the course of 2005, from $1.8 billion to $7.5 b [...]	2006-05-17 09:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON TU
06ISTANBUL832	FETHULLAH GULEN: WHY ARE HIS FOLLOWERS TRAVELING? [...] (C) Summary: Fethullah Gulen sits at the center of a vast and growing network encompassing more than 160 affiliated organizations in over 30 countries, including over 50 in the U.S. As a result, Gulen supporters account for an increasing proportion of Mission Turkey,s nonimmigrant visa applic [...]	2006-05-23 12:02:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PREL SOCI KFRD TU
06ISTANBUL956	REAL ESTATE BOOM IN ISTANBUL GOING THROUGH THE ROOF [...] (U) Summary: Real estate in Istanbul is flourishing, as property prices have on average doubled in the past two years. A confluence of demographic, economic, financial, and structural forces have come together to make owning housing increasingly desirable. The most important of these is the [...]	2006-06-02 08:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EINV TU
06JAKARTA6025	INDONESIA/IRAN: AHMADI-NEJAD A DIFFICULT GUEST [...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 11 the Ambassador conveyed to Dino Patti Djalal, National Security Advisor to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, our objections to the GOI's initiative to create a new U.N. grouping to address Iran's nuclear program. Djalal took our points on board, but it [...]	2006-05-12 12:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNPP KISL IR ID
06JAKARTA6026	INDONESIA/IRAN: AHMADI-NEJAD A DIFFICULT GUEST [...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 11 the Ambassador conveyed to Dino Patti Djalal, National Security Advisor to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, our objections to the GOI's initiative to create a new U.N. grouping to address Iran's nuclear program. Djalal took our points on board, but it [...]	2006-05-14 23:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNPP KISL IR ID
06JAKARTA6201	D-8 SUMMIT KEEPS FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Indonesian hosts and other participants at the D-8 Summit in Bali succeeded in preventing Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad from using the event as a platform to drum up support for his country's nuclear program. The D-8 (which also includes Turkey, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, M [...]	2006-05-16 10:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KISL KNNP PREL TU IR ID
06JEDDAH385	OBSERVATIONS ON THE NORTHERN ARABIAN CITY OF TABUK [...] SUMMARY: During a visit to Tabuk on May 16, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief were able to meet with the Governor and leading members of the Tabuk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (reftels). The trip included a tour of the city of Tabuk which provided a chance to form some general impressions. Tabu [...]	2006-05-23 14:43:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH466	GUARDED OPINION OF CAPABILITIES OF OIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: An AmCit employee of the Islamic Development Bank dismissed the Organization of the Islamic Conference as an organization that has no credibility with its members or the rest of the international community. He described the OIC as little more than a forum for Arab outrage. He [...]	2006-07-10 13:11:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PREL SA
06JERUSALEM723	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (2/17): HAMAS IN A NEW [...] Columnist Samih Shbeib commented in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Following the Formation of the [Palestinian] Legislative [Council]" (2/17): "Israel and the United States do not view Hamas as a political party capable of standing up to recent Middle East developments, and accordi [...]	2006-02-17 11:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
06KABUL4045	NAC VISIT TO KANDAHAR PROMPTS REQUEST FOR MORE [...] (C) Over the course of two days, the North Atlantic Council (NAC) visited Kandahar Air Field (KAF),home of NATO Regional Command South (RC-South),to review PRT activities in southern Afghanistan and receive a briefing on Operation MEDUSA. On September 5, Kandahar PRT Commander LtCol Simon [...]	2006-09-10 03:41:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	MARR NATO PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5965	MEETING WITH GENERAL DOSTUM [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: Uzbek factional leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum is feeling increasingly frustrated over his lack of a significant role in Afghan decision making and his lack of contact with the Palace. Once a respected (even feared) force in national politics, he has been side-lined from [...]	2006-12-27 10:51:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PINS PREL AF
06KIEV2190	UKRAINE: OPPOSITION CREATES TEMPEST OVER "SEA [...] (SBU) Summary: Anti-Orange Revolution forces are using the occasion of a joint U.S.-Ukraine mil-mil cooperative exercise in Crimea to stir up anti-NATO sentiment in the majority ethnic Russian peninsula and smear the Ukrainian government. Demonstrators outside GOU-administered compounds in t [...]	2006-06-06 16:43:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO PINR RS UP
06KIRKUK112	KRG WOOING "COWARDLY CAPITAL" WITH NEW INVESTMENT STRATEGY [...] Summary: The KRG is attempting to win-over hesitant foreign investors with a combination of new airports, trade shows, and investment incentives. In a meeting April 22 with KRG Deputy Finance Minister Abdullah Abdulrahim, Abdulrahim told Emboffs that he welcomed input and U.S. technical assist [...]	2006-05-10 07:36:00	REO Kirkuk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ
06KIRKUK131	(C) ASSYRIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT LEADER ON CHRISTIANS' [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) General Secretary, Salim Kako, stated on July 9 that poor security and ethnic discrimination were causing Christians and Kurds to resettle to northern areas of Iraq, which was straining the relations between Kurdish and Assy [...]	2006-07-25 09:11:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PINS ECON KDEM IZ
06KIRKUK136	(C) KDP KIRKUK ASAYISH HEAD ON SECURITY, MERGER WITH PUK, [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: KDP Kirkuk Asayish head, Hallo Najat Hamza, told IPAOs on July 25 that the terrorists were getting stronger and were targeting security forces in Kirkuk. Hamza said the open borders of Kirkuk and guards cooperating with the terrorists at checkpoints were pri [...]	2006-08-02 17:27:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PNAT PREF PREL PTER KDEM IZ
06KIRKUK137	(C) KIRKUK TURKOMAN DIVIDED ON ARTICLE 140, FUTURE STATUS OF [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: Turkoman political leaders from different blocs said on July 26 they do not agree on the issues of implementation of Article 140 and the future status of Kirkuk. In separate meetings bloc leaders from the Iraqi Turkoman Front (ITF) and the Iraqi Turkoman Nat [...]	2006-08-02 17:49:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PNAT PREF PREL KDEM IZ TU
06KIRKUK26	KRG CONSTITUTION: KURDS HOPE TO ENTICE MINORITIES [...] (C) The KNA's Constitutional Committee continues to work on a KRG Constitution. Members expect further changes. In the next few weeks, the committee is supposed to send the draft to party leaders. Once they have blessed it, the committee will issue it for public comment. KNA Deputy Speake [...]	2006-02-04 17:19:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PNAT PHUM KDEM KISL IZ TU
06KIRKUK61	TRIBAL LEADER WARNS OF FUNDAMENTALISM, CORRUPTION IN KURDISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The leader of the second largest Kurdish tribe in Iraq, the Harki, identified corruption, nepotism and the growth of Islamic fundamentalism fueled by economic instability as the major threats to democracy in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Shaykh Mahmud Asad Fattah Harki said that th [...]	2006-03-14 12:21:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL PHUM APER IR SY TU IZ PREL
06KIRKUK62	(U) DIYALA REPRESENTATIVES' BIOS [...] (U) This is a SET Ba'qubah cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: SET has collected background information on nine of the ten representatives elected from Diyala province in the December 2005 elections. These representatives-elect share virtually no common characteristics, but their backgrounds reveal a l [...]	2006-03-15 11:58:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDEM IZ
06KIRKUK83	ZEBARI SHAYKH SAYS TRIBES CONTROL SOCIAL AFFAIRS IN NORTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The head of the Zebari tribe said he supported the Coalition presence in Iraq, but requested that the U.S. pay more attention to the tribes. He explained that while the Sunni Arabs of Iraq are demanding a U.S. withdrawal, the Kurds fear it. Zebari said Kurds blamed the U.S. fo [...]	2006-04-10 13:50:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR PHUM PINS PREL PINR KDEM KWMN IZ IR
06KIRKUK93	BANNED IN TURKEY, POLITICAL PARTY OPENS ERBIL OFFICE ON [...] (C/NOFORN) SUMMARY: The Socialist Party of Kurdistan recently opened a party office in the Kurdistan Region capital of Erbil, Iraq. Its representative Nureddin Agiri said Erbil's Kurdistan Regional Government was subsidizing the SPK's Erbil office. Agiri admitted his under-financed party was b [...]	2006-04-16 08:48:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL PTER PHUM IZ TU
06KUWAIT143	PA PRESIDENT ABBAS AND OTHER FOREIGN DIGNITARIES [...] On the last official day for condolences, foreign dignitaries continued to arrive in Kuwait to pay their respects to the family of the late Amir Shaykh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Heads of state and government waited patiently with thousands of Kuwaitis for an opportunity to express th [...]	2006-01-17 14:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KU

06KUWAIT998	NATO'S ICI VISIT BRINGS MISUNDERSTANDINGS TO A HEAD [...] (C) Summary and Comment: NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) delegation to Kuwait briefed over a dozen NATO member country mission chiefs on its March 19 meetings with GOK officials. According to the head of the six-person delegation, Rear Admiral Dr. Deniz Kutluk of Turkey, the Kuw [...]	2006-03-21 13:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PREL PTER IR IZ KU
06LJUBLJANA822	SLOVENIA: PRIME MINISTER ON BOARD WITH U.S.ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING A SHORT ONE HOUR LUNCH DECEMBER 19 WITH COM ONE-ON-ONE, SLOVENIAN PRIME MINISTER JANSA EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI'S WAY FORWARD ON KOSOVO, SAYING HE HAD ARGUED AT THE EUROPEAN SUMMIT LAST WEEK THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO DELAY INTRODUCING THE PLAN ONCE SER [...]	2006-12-20 15:16:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SI
06LONDON5958	(U) TENSIONS RISE BETWEEN BRITISH MUSLIMS AND HMG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Frustrated by the bruising that their community has taken after 24 UK-born Muslims were arrested in connection with the recently-thwarted air terrorist plot (reftels),prominent British Muslims sent an open letter to PM Tony Blair August 12 blaming his policy on Iraq and the Middle Eas [...]	2006-08-14 17:17:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KISL UK
06LONDON8279	UK VIEWS ON DECEMBER EU FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING [...] (SBU) The UK expects Turkey and the China Arms Embargo to be the most "difficult" issues at the upcoming December GAERC meeting, according to Martin Sherman, head of the FCO's EU Coordination Office. PolCouns discussed the upcoming GAERC with Sherman on December 7, who confirmed Foreign Secre [...]	2006-12-08 17:24:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL EUN YI SR BK IS LE IR
06LUXEMBOURG613	JUNCKER TELLS TURKEY TO ADMIT GREEK CYPRIOT SHIPPING [...] (C/NF) During their November 14 private meeting Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker told Turkish Economy Minister Ali Babacan that Turkey should remove a major obstacle to its EU accession woes by admitting Greek Cypriot ships and aircraft to a designated port of entry under a plan pr [...]	2006-11-21 14:04:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EUN LU TU
06LUXEMBOURG638	PRIME MINISTER JUNCKER DISCUSSES THE EU [...] (C/NF) During a private meeting with the Ambassador on December 11, Prime Minister Juncker expressed a pessimism concerning the future of the EU Constitution which contrasted with his generally more optimistic public comments. Noting the lack of effective governments in several EU countries, [...]	2006-12-13 15:44:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL TU LU EUN
06MADRID1908	SPAIN: GOS POSITION ON PHARE ASSISTANCE TO TURKISH [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to GOS European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez Arias on July 18 and Jose Luis Pardo, an official in the Subdirectorate General for General Affairs, on July 27. 2. (C) Fernandez Arias told Poloff that the Cyprus reintegration is coming to a head and r [...]	2006-07-27 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID LH EUN CY SP
06MADRID2624	SPAIN: IN ADVANCE OF OCT. 16 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with MFA European Correspondent Carlos Fernandez-Arias on October 13 to discuss Spain's position in advance of the October 16 GAERC meeting. Fernandez-Arias indicated that Spain was in complete agreement on most topics with the United States, but he singled out Kosovo [...]	2006-10-17 07:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV UN EU YI SR BO MK SU CG IS LE IR IZ UP
06MADRID2685	TREASURY DEPSEC'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Foreign Minister Moratinos told Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt October 19 that Spain strongly supports the SIPDIS Iraq Compact and that Madrid would transfer the 22 million dollars it had pledged for the Basra Children's Hospital within about one month. He also pledged Spanish supp [...]	2006-10-23 15:13:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	EAID EINV EFIN PREL PARM ETTC KIPR SP
06MILAN150	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE END-USE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-10 12:32:00	Consulate Milan	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC IT BLUE LANTERN
06MOSCOW1637	HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/DCM met February 17 with MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin to follow up on earlier discussion (reftel) on the forthcoming visit of a Hamas delegation to Russia, which will take place March 3. .... END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Timing and Level. Vershinin [...]	2006-02-20 10:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
06MOSCOW5104	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BORJOMI MINERAL WATER BAN [...] (C) Summary: Jacques Fleury, Managing Director of Georgian Glass and Mineral Waters (GGMW),producer of Borjomi water, outlined for us May 12 the company's recent troubles with the Russian government. A press campaign had turned into threats by the GOR to ban import of the water; the ban was [...]	2006-05-15 09:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSUL24	KURDISH VIEWS FROM NINEWA [...] (C) PRT Mosul had lengthy discussions with three Kurdish leaders in late February: two top Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials and one from the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). All were united in their support for continued American presence in Iraq, the difficulties Ja'afari [...]	2006-03-01 08:54:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL36	KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ: PUK REP CLAIMS NINEWA "HANGS IN THE [...] (C) According to the Western Ninewa director of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mustafa Khokhe, Ninewa province "hangs in the balance." Ethnic tensions and the flow of terrorism from Iraq's neighbors are all contributing to a potentially combustible situation, he claims. He says Tal Afar, [...]	2006-03-30 14:04:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL46	NINEWA: PUK NATIONAL ASSEMBLYMEMBER CONFIDENT IMPASSE OVER [...] (C) PUK national assemblymember from Ninewa Abdelbari Al Zebari is an optimist. On a recent visit to Turkey with PUK colleagues for talks with members of the Turkish parliament, the delegation was told -- repeatedly -- that the Iraqis should "get accustomed" to the idea of working with the Tu [...]	2006-04-14 12:39:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MUNICH819	POLICE RAID TURKISH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DHKP/C [...] (U) In a coordinated effort led by Munich prosecutors, police from Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and North Rhine Westphalia raided the apartments and workplaces of alleged supporters of the Turkish terrorist organization "Revolutionary People's Liberation Front" (DHKP/C) on November 28. Accord [...]	2006-12-01 15:47:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN KJUS PTER PGOV ASEC GM TU
06NDJAMENA421	CHAD: VOICES OF THE RULING PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Secretary General of the ruling party acknowledges rot in the party and an up-hill battle to stimulate popular interest in the coming election. The Governor of Kanem, a former rebel, dismisses the political opposition as ineffective and looks toward an ill-defined "polit [...]	2006-03-15 18:02:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NEWDELHI3873	ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHIC NOTES ON PAKISTANI DIPLOMATS [...] (C) Summary: This message contains biographic reporting on two Pakistani diplomats currently serving to New Delhi -- a key posting for any Pakistani Foreign Service officer. The first, Counselor (Political) Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, will be of interest because of his meteoric rise through t [...]	2006-06-05 10:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR IN PK
06NICOSIA1088	CYPRIOT LEADERS MEET, AGREE ON NEXT (BABY) STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 8, Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders meeting with U/SYG Gambari reached agreement on a "Set of Principles" and immediate next steps to get the stalled Cyprus settlement process moving again. Working with the UN, the two sides will engage in technical talks on day [...]	2006-07-10 14:50:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN UNFICYP TU CY
06NICOSIA113	VAROSHA - THE ETERNAL BARGAINING CHIP [...] (SBU) Turkey's recent proposal to link the opening of ports in northern Cyprus to the implementation of the Ankara Protocol has already been rejected outright by the GOC. The Greek Cypriots have made clear their preference to discuss the return of Varosha in exchange for limited Turkish Cyprio [...]	2006-01-27 15:43:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GR TU CY
06NICOSIA136	MANAGING THE CYPRUS PROBLEM IN BRUSSELS [...] (C) Matt: In advance of your upcoming visit to Brussels, we would like to share some thoughts regarding recent developments on Cyprus, and in particular the Greek Cypriot strategy vis-a-vis Turkey and the EU. The Europeans need to hear a sobering message about the potential consequences of a s [...]	2006-02-01 15:27:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU CY
06NICOSIA150	CYPRUS AI UPDATE: VISITING EU EXPERT REPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a private briefing February 1, a visiting EU veterinary expert called the Turkish Cypriot response to positive H5N1 tests for a cock and hen in north Cyprus on January 29 (ref b) "adequate," and said the outbreak appears isolated and under control. Since no other AI cases h [...]	2006-02-03 14:44:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR EAID KSCA TBIO KSTH WHO AMED CASC
06NICOSIA1543	"TRNC GOVERNMENT" CALLS IT QUITS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ruling coalition in the "TRNC" resigned on September 11 following months of internal wrangling in the wake of June parliamentary bi-elections. Talat ally "PM" Soyer, from the ruling CTP, announced his resignation and said he would seek "new formulations," ditching "DPM" and [...]	2006-09-12 09:49:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA1614	CYPRUS: PROMOTING BICOMMUNAL TOURISM PROJECTS [...] (C) Summary: Tourism continues to be the main lifeblood of the Greek Cypriot economy and is a key growth sector in the Turkish Cypriot north. Cooperation between the two communities on the development and joint marketing of tourism could be a win-win for both communities and increase tourist [...]	2006-09-22 12:40:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV CY
06NICOSIA1691	TURKISH CYPRIOT CABINET UNVEILED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish Cypriot "PM" Soyer has unveiled his new cabinet, a coalition with the newly-formed Freedom and Reform Party (OP),which has replaced the DP of former "FM" Serdar Denktash as the center-left CTP's junior governing partner. The new cabinet contains some new faces -- most n [...]	2006-09-29 13:10:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID PINR TU CY
06NICOSIA1767	"TRNC" UNIVERSITIES: A (STUNTED) GROWTH INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish Cypriot higher education system has developed into an important source of income for the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" and pride for the community. Recent developments, however, call into question the viability of the education sector. Expanded capacity in [...]	2006-10-13 13:30:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OEXC PREL KPAO CY TU
06NICOSIA1885	CYPRUS: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Per Reftel request, Post submits in para 2 below Part I (Drugs and Chemical Control) of the 2006-2007 INCSR. The report is based on an update of last year's published version. 2. BEGIN TEXT Cyprus Cyprus has been divided since the Turkish military intervention of 1974, following a c [...]	2006-11-03 15:27:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CY
06NICOSIA1889	CYPRUS: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Per Reftel request, Post submits in para 2 below Part II (Financial Crimes and Money Laundering) of the 2006-2007 INCSR. The report is based on an update of last year's published version. As requested Reftel, we will also e-mail a track-changes version of this report to the officials request [...]	2006-11-06 11:30:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR CY
06NICOSIA1920	CYPRUS: LAIKI PLANS FOR MERGER WITH GREEK MARFIN AND [...] (SBU) Summary. The triple merger between Laiki Bank in Cyprus, and Greek-based Marfin Financial Group and Egnatias Bank remains firmly on track, after winning the approval of authorities in both countries, and of Laiki shareholders on October 31. Unless there are any unexpected surprises, th [...]	2006-11-09 15:02:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON CY
06NICOSIA1964	CYPROB POLITICS, NOT ISSUES, DOMINATE MUNICIPAL [...] SUMMARY: Greek Cypriots head to the polls December 17 to elect mayors, municipal councils, and, for the first time, school board members. Other than vague demands for greater autonomy from Nicosia, issues have taken a back seat to politics in the months-long elections run-up. Garnering the [...]	2006-11-27 14:43:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CY
06NICOSIA1970	NEW CYPRUS PROPERTY LAW: TURNING THE SCREWS [...] (C) SUMMARY. New ROC legislation introducing stiff prison sentences for those buying Greek Cypriot property in the north has upped the stakes in the ongoing property war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Three non-Cypriot land-buyers have already been arrested under the new law, and more a [...]	2006-11-29 16:42:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON CASC EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA2010	ECHR GIVES TENTATIVE BLESSING TO "TRNC" PROPERTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 7 ruling on the Xenidis-Arestis case (reftels),the European Court of Human Rights upheld a Greek Cypriot claimant's ownership of her property in the closed city of Varosha and ordered Turkey to pay her over a million dollars in damages. At the same time, the ECHR [...]	2006-12-08 16:07:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON CASC PHUM EUN UNFICYP TU CY
06NICOSIA2048	CYPRUS: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post offers the following input for the 2006 Annual Terrorism Report. A note on terminology is in order: Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided de facto into the Greek Cypriot government-controlled area, comprising the southern two-thirds of the island, and a northern third, [...]	2006-12-20 15:42:00	Embassy Nicosia	SECRET	PTER ASEC CY EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO
06NICOSIA2050	UN REP, P-5 AMBS TAKE STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hosting local Perm Five ambassadors and the resident UN chief to a working lunch December 18, the Ambassador orchestrated a tour d'horizon that touched on the UN transition in New York, horsetrading over the UNFICYP mandate renewal, developments on the UN negotiating track in Ni [...]	2006-12-20 15:45:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNGA CY
06NICOSIA2052	UN REP, P-5 AMBS TAKE STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hosting local Perm Five ambassadors and the resident UN chief to a working lunch December 18, the Ambassador orchestrated a tour d'horizon that touched on the UN transition in New York, horsetrading over the UNFICYP mandate renewal, developments on the UN negotiating track in Ni [...]	2006-12-20 15:50:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNGA CY
06NICOSIA2053	CYPRUS: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post offers the following input for the 2006 Annual Terrorism Report. A note on terminology is in order: Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided de facto into the Greek Cypriot government-controlled area, comprising the southern two-thirds of the island, and a northern third, [...]	2006-12-20 15:50:00	Embassy Nicosia	SECRET	PTER ASEC CY EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO
06NICOSIA2054	CYPRUS: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post offers the following input for the 2006 Annual Terrorism Report. A note on terminology is in order: Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided de facto into the Greek Cypriot government-controlled area, comprising the southern two-thirds of the island, and a northern third, [...]	2006-12-20 15:50:00	Embassy Nicosia	SECRET	PTER ASEC CY EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO
06NICOSIA234	CYPRUS PROPERTY: GOC PUTS ANOTHER FINGER IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. A GOC decision to withdraw its court appeal and allow Turkish Cypriot Arif Mustafa to reclaim his property in the south has caused a stir because: 1) this is the first high-profile case in which a Turkish Cypriot has been granted restitution as opposed to compensation for lost pr [...]	2006-02-17 07:05:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU CY
06NICOSIA235	GREEK CYPRIOTS OFFER DORA BAKOYIANNI A LUKEWARM [...] (C) Summary: The Greek Cypriot reaction -- both official and unofficial -- to the appointment of Dora Bakoyianni as Greek Foreign Minister was noticeably cool and reserved. Bakoyianni has the reputation here for being both pro-American and soft on the Cyprus issue. Only the right-wing, pro- [...]	2006-02-17 10:00:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY GR
06NICOSIA273	CYPRUS REACTS TO EU AID PACKAGE FOR TURKISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The EU's decision to approve its long-awaited 139 million euro aid package for the Turkish Cypriots has been welcomed as a triumph of diplomacy on the Greek Cypriot side. GOC contacts note that the shape of the aid package -- as well as the content of an accompanying declaratio [...]	2006-02-27 16:04:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA293	AREA ADMINISTERED BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS: SIXTH [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified--not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the March 2004-March 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Bridget Alway, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3545, Fax (3 [...]	2006-03-01 14:44:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CY ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06NICOSIA294	GREEK CYPRIOTS "FULLY SATISFIED" WITH PARIS TALKS [...] (C) Summary: The February 28 meeting between Cypriot President Papadopoulos and UN SYG Kofi Annan resulted in agreement on a "bottom up" approach to the Cyprus issue that would begin with technical-level talks aimed at preparing the ground for the resumption of negotiations on a comprehensiv [...]	2006-03-01 15:58:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY
06NICOSIA313	REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS: SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified--not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the March 2005-March 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Bridget Alway, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3545, Fax (3 [...]	2006-03-02 12:34:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CY ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06NICOSIA410	GOC REACTS ANGRILY TO THE RELEASE OF THE HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Although somewhat more muted than last year, GOC authorities have once again lashed out at the human rights report on Cyprus. Privately, MFA officials criticized us for producing a "political document" that was aimed more at upgrading the Turkish Cypriot "entity" than at advanci [...]	2006-03-20 08:06:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CY
06NICOSIA440	TURKISH CYPRIOTS MEET ECHR DEADLINE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Cypriot authorities have met the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) deadline for revising the property compensation commission that the court had earlier ruled inadequate to be considered an effective domestic remedy. The new commission has a more diverse membershi [...]	2006-03-23 16:13:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CY
06NICOSIA454	TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER TALAT SAYS TECHNICAL TALKS [...] (C) On March 27, a tired but healthy-looking Mehmet Ali Talat briefed Ambassador Schlicher on his meeting with UNFICYP Chief Michael Moeller earlier that day. Talat's meetings with Moeller and the Ambassador were his first meetings with foreigners since he underwent unexpected heart surgery i [...]	2006-03-28 13:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	UN PGOV PREL EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA47	WHO'S REALLY IN CHARGE HERE? TURKEY AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The relationship between Turkey and the "TRNC" is less of a clear-cut, master-servant arrangement than Greek Cypriot rhetoric about the "military occupation regime" would suggest. The north's lack of outside political recognition, the large local Turkish garrison, and a heavy dep [...]	2006-01-17 11:18:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
06NICOSIA476	BUMPY START TO EU AID FOR TURKISH CYPRIOTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With the long-awaited EU aid package for the Turkish Cypriots finally approved, the European Commission and Turkish Cypriots have begun negotiating over project priorities and sensitive details of implementation. The question of whether the EU's aid office will be located in the [...]	2006-03-29 15:26:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA503	TURKISH CYPRIOTS UNDERWHELMED BY FIRST UN-BROKERED [...] (C) The Turkish Cypriots were "disappointed" by the first UN-brokered meeting to discuss the way ahead on technical talks, according to "President" Talat's Under Secretary Rasit Pertev. Held in Nicosia on March 31, the meeting brought together UNFICYP Chief and SRSG Michael Moeller, ROC Presi [...]	2006-04-04 14:58:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU EUN UN CY
06NICOSIA522	SMOOTHING TURKEY'S EU PATH -- DG ENLARGEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 6, visiting EC Director General for Enlargement Michael Leigh (accompanied by Georg Ziegler and Andrea Battista from the Commission's Cyprus team) briefed Ambassador Schlicher on implementation plans for the European Union's assistance package to the Turkish Cypriot commu [...]	2006-04-06 13:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA536	GETTING OUR MESSAGE THROUGH TO THE GREEK CYPRIOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Greek Cypriot media is consistent to the point of Pavlovian response. Certain phrases -- even particular words -- in the mouth of a U.S. official will elicit very predictable results. Our Cyprus policy is the right one, but we need to tweak our public diplomacy message in w [...]	2006-04-11 15:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY
06NICOSIA593	READING TEA LEAVES: POLLS SHOW MIXED FEELINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY. A recent CyBC poll suggesting that only 45 percent of Greek Cypriots are willing to live together with Turkish Cypriots (down from 67 percent when the Green Line checkpoints opened in 2003) has raised serious questions in the minds of many local pundits over whether a solution to [...]	2006-04-20 13:07:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI EUN CY
06NICOSIA643	TURKISH CYPRIOT CENSUS UNLIKELY TO PROVIDE MUCH [...] (C) Summary: Although authorities enforced a strict 13-hour curfew to improve prospects for an accurate count, lingering questions about the reliability of the Turkish Cypriot census on April 30 are likely to undercut the utility of what was -- by local standards -- an enormously complex unde [...]	2006-05-02 13:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CY
06NICOSIA716	TURKISH CYPRIOT PROPERTY COMMISSION BEGINS HEARING [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Cypriot Property Commission has begun processing claims from Greek Cypriots displaced from their properties in the north since the 1974 war -- and sources close to the body say it may start "closing cases" by returning land or paying compensation in the coming months. [...]	2006-05-17 10:32:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA721	Turkish Cypriot Areas Become Active Transit Point [...] Located along a heavily-used migration route and hobbled by weak border controls, the area administered by Turkish Cypriots - the unrecognized "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)" - is becoming an attractive transit point for undocumented economic migrants, especially from the Middle [...]	2006-05-17 12:48:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KFRD PGOV PREL TU CY EUN SMIG CVIS
06NICOSIA726	TURKISH "AMBASSADOR" HOLDS A HARD LINE ON THE [...] (C) Summary: In a May 16 conversation with Ambassador Schlicher, Aydan Karahan, the Turkish "Ambassador" to the "TRNC," stressed that Ankara was still waiting for a reply to both the Gul proposal from January on the mutual easing of restrictions and the April 4 letter from Turkish Cypriot le [...]	2006-05-18 13:13:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
06NICOSIA757	TURKISH CYPRIOT ECONOMY ENJOYING DOUBLE-DIGIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past three years the service- based Turkish Cypriot economy has experienced double-digit annual economic growth -- an estimated 10.6 percent in 2005, 15.4 percent in 2004 and 11.4 percent in 2003, according to Turkish Cypriot statistics. This growth has been fuelled by [...]	2006-05-19 14:07:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV CY
06NICOSIA762	CYPRIOT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: DEJA VU ALL OVER [...] (C) Summary: Parliamentary elections on the Greek Cypriot side on May 21 left the political landscape in the south essentially unchanged. AKEL narrowly edged out DISY to retain bragging rights as the largest political party, but the two are now dead even in the House with 18 seats apiece. P [...]	2006-05-22 10:23:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY
06NICOSIA766	EUR/SE DEPUTY DIRECTOR BAXTER HUNT'S MAY 8-9 [...] (C) Summary. EUR/SE Deputy Director Baxter Hunt visited Nicosia May 7-9 and held meetings with key Cypriot political and business figures in both the north and the south. On the Greek Cypriot side, AKEL Spokesman and Foreign Relations Secretary Andros Kyprianou and DISY Deputy Leader Averof [...]	2006-05-23 07:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PROG
06NICOSIA781	EU OFFICIAL BRIEFS ON TURKISH CYPRIOT ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: The European Commission is going forward with plans to implement the delivery of 259 million Euro of assistance to the Turkish Cypriot community over the next three years. DG Enlargement's Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Unit (TAIEX) will begin work immediately and [...]	2006-05-24 15:29:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV EUN CY
06NICOSIA816	AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 1 LUNCH WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a private lunch on June 1, Ambassador Schlicher and President Papadopoulos' Diplomatic Advisor Tasos Tzionis discussed the current state-of-play in the UN-led technical talks, as well as Turkey's EU accession prospects, and the possibility of a visit by DAS Bryza to Cyprus in [...]	2006-06-02 13:41:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
06NICOSIA838	TURKISH CYPRIOTS LAY DOWN MARKERS ON PORTS/TRADE; [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to the Turkish Cypriots, June 1 talks in Vienna between "TRNC President" Talat's U/S Rasit Pertev and representatives of the Austrian Presidency explored ways to move forward on question of EU direct trade measures for the Turkish Cypriots. The Austrians, keen on aver [...]	2006-06-08 04:36:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA87	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, Ambassador Schlicher and Interior Minister Andreas Christou discussed the GOC's slow pace in implementing the National Action Plan on Trafficking in Persons, as well as the latest developments on property issues, the prospects for a reinvigorated Cyprus process and [...]	2006-01-24 15:34:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CY
06NICOSIA918	WHY CIVIL SOCIETY IN CYPRUS IS DYSFUNCTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Civil society in Cyprus is fragmented, weak and riven by personal rivalries. The elephant in the living room -- the Cyprus issue -- further distorts the NGO scene in Nicosia and restricts opportunities for Cypriot activists and organizations to play a broader role on issues of mo [...]	2006-06-16 09:12:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL CY
06NICOSIA926	FIRST KNOWN TURKISH CYPRIOT GRAVE SITE FOUND IN [...] (C) Summary. A bicommunal team working under the Tripartite Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has discovered human remains thought to be those of Turkish Cypriots missing since the intercommunal clashes of 1963 and 1964. If confirmed by DNA analysis, this would be the first case of a Turki [...]	2006-06-19 07:36:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UN TU CY PREL PGOV
06NICOSIA935	TURKISH CYPRIOTS SCHLEP TOWARD JUNE 25 ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Cypriots go to the polls on June 25 to elect "mayors" and councils in all 26 of the north's municipalities -- and to fill two empty seats in the "TRNC Parliament." Having been to the polls four times since 2003, however, most voters are unenthusiastic about these electio [...]	2006-06-20 14:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN UN TU CY
06OTTAWA1904	Northwest Passage Conference in Ottawa Offers Bold [...] Sensitive But Unclassified, not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: Panelists at an Ottawa conference on Canada's arctic waters called for Canada and the U.S. to open talks on the Arctic route because the increasing melt rate of Arctic sea ice could allow significant su [...]	2006-06-19 21:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT PREL PBTS MARR CA
06PARIS1295	UNESCO: CARTOON ISSUE THREATENS TO HIJACK UPCOMING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is a guidance request, see para 7. On February 15 the UNESCO Ambassadors of the Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) released a statement in response to the Danish cartoons. Among other things, the statement calls for the creation of a normativ [...]	2006-03-01 17:56:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL AORC KISL UNESCO
06PARIS1468	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran UN Reform [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 11:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4296	(U) UNESCO PRIZES [...] (U) This is a guidance request, see para. 11. 2. (C) Summary. The awarding of prizes at UNESCO continues to be done on an ad hoc basis and often with little advance notice. This week's inclusion of Cuba in the announcement of UNESCO's literacy prizes is but one more example of how easily [...]	2006-06-21 16:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	CU VE UNESCO
06PARIS4651	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - North Korea Missile Tests [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-07 09:32:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5574	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - International Force - [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-18 11:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5657	FRENCH SUPPORT FOR IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt led a delegation to France August 16-17 to discuss the Iraq Compact. French officials remained positive about the Compact's goals and were visibly engaged on the issue. Officials welcomed the briefing on USG discussions with Gulf countries, espe [...]	2006-08-24 07:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EIND EAID PREL IZ FR
06PARIS5926	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - Turkey in UNIFIL [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-05 10:20:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6166	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Latest Al-Qaida Video - [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 10:39:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6274	TURKISH FM GUL IN FRANCE: GOOD ATMOSPHERICS, NO [...] (C) Summary: According to the Turkish Embassy, Turkish FM Gul's September 13-14 meetings with President Chirac, FM Douste-Blazy and Minister-delegate Colonna produced nothing new in substance from the French side. The Turks nonetheless profess to have discerned some softening in French attit [...]	2006-09-19 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN TU CY MARR
06PARIS6842	MFA DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (S) Summary: In a meeting on October 16, MFA DAS-equivalent for Security in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs, Pierre Thenard, outlined generally positive French views on the Terrorist Inciters/Facilitators Initiative. Thenard inquired about [...]	2006-10-17 13:35:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL FR
06PARIS6943	MEDIA WRAP-UP: DPRK SANCTIONS, IRAQ AND FRENCH-TURKISH [...] (SBU) This week's commentary led with items on potential sanctions following North Korea's nuclear test and the difficulty of finding a balance between a firm stance and China's concerns over the "disintegration" of North Korea (DPRK),with a number of media linking the DPRK and Iran. Iraq sta [...]	2006-10-20 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO OPRC FR
06PARIS6946	MFA A/S-EQUIVALENT PESSIMISTIC ON TURKEY-EU TRAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S-equivalent for European Union affairs Gilles Briatta told us October 20 that Turkey understood that the French National Assembly's passage of legislation criminalizing denial of the Armenian "genocide" was only a first parliamentary step, and that Turkey had managed the [...]	2006-10-23 06:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EU TU CY PGOV RS ENRG ETRD
06PARIS7337	FRANCE/GAERC: GOF MAD ON LEBANON; SKEPTICAL ON [...] (U) We shared reftel points November 7 with MFA DAS-equivalent for the Middle East Herve Besancenot, DAS-equivalent for Iran Franck Gellet, DAS-equivalent for Nonproliferation (Iran) Philippe Errera and Deputy David Bertolotti, and DAS-equivalent for CFSP Emmanuel Cohet. Separately, we raised [...]	2006-11-09 16:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN PGOV PHUM UNAUS YI SR BK CG IS
06PARIS7508	APPROACHING FRANCE ON TURKEY-EU [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION RECOMMENDATION: Widespread public opposition to Turkish EU membership in the run-up to France's presidential elections severely limits the GOF's flexibility in dealing with the Turkey-Cyprus issue, notwithstanding Chirac's foreign policy prerogatives and his long-standi [...]	2006-11-22 13:49:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN NATO TU CY UNO
06PARIS7666	U/S OF DEFENSE FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decision to do more in Afghanistan by ensuring that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and [...]	2006-12-05 08:47:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MARR ECPS NATO AF FR
06PARIS7684	DOD U/S EDELMAN'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH CHIRAC'S [...] (S) Summary: In a December 1 meeting with DoD U/S Edelman devoted primarily to Syria/Lebanon, French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) assessed that Syria was the weakest link in the Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis and wondered whether Israel could apply more pressure on Syria, a questi [...]	2006-12-06 13:08:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR IS KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
06PARIS7699	DOD U/S FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS: [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made on Afghanistan at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decisions to ensure that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and OEF through [...]	2006-12-07 11:54:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MARR ECPS NATO MNUC AF FR
06PARIS7864	OECD: COUNCIL DISCUSSES BUDGET, MAY MINISTERIAL AS WELL AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The OECD Council met all day on December 14 for its last regularly scheduled session in 2006. PermReps considered the program of work and budget (PWB) for 2007-2008 (see reftel),enlargement and enhanced engagement as well as planning for the May 2007 Meeting of the Council at [...]	2006-12-20 15:03:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON OECD EFIN ETRD EAID
06PRAGUE1491	CZECHS ON THE DECEMBER 11-12 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the December 11-12 GAERC, the Czechs expect the focus to be on the Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, China, and Turkey. Czech policy continues to closely track U.S. policy in these regions/countries. At the upcoming GAERC, the Czechs will support (1) ICTY compliance and th [...]	2006-12-07 16:09:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNAUS EUN YI SR BK IS LE IR
06PRISTINA335	KOSOVO: A UNIFIED CONTACT GROUP PRESSES STANDARDS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Contact Group (CG) visited Kosovo April 6-7 to highlight CG unity and deliver a focused message about the importance of the standards and elements of an eventual future status settlement; by prior agreement, the CG did not address the status outcome itself. [...]	2006-04-20 14:13:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA427	KOSOVO: NON-SERB MINORITIES AMBIVALENT ABOUT [...] (SBU) Kosovo's non-Serb minority leaders are glad to be involved in the status negotiations in Vienna and generally pleased with the work of the Communities Consultative Council, but are concerned about what they see as Belgrade's efforts to manipulate non-Serb minority issues for its own adv [...]	2006-05-18 15:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA600	KOSOVO: PISG PROGRESS ON CG STANDARDS PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) continue to make progress on fulfilling the Contact Group's 13 priorities for standards implementation. Prime Minister Agim Ceku announced July 11 that two of the 13 had already been fulfilled and the PISG completed ano [...]	2006-07-17 18:50:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA640	WISNER TO KOSOVARS: SIX WEEKS TO COME TO CLOSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on July 27 with President Fatmir Sejdiu and the entire Kosovo negotiating team, U.S. Special Representative for the Kosovo Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner stressed the need to stay unified and to use the next six weeks to bring Kosovar Albanian negotiati [...]	2006-08-02 16:29:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA648	KOSOVO: CHIEF OF MISSION STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her initial calls on Kosovo's leaders, COM urged them to stay united and not let personal differences interfere with their seriousness of purpose in the Vienna status negotiations. President Fatmir Sejdiu vented his frustration at the antics of opposition leaders on the negot [...]	2006-08-04 16:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA779	KOSOVO: STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo government claims to have fulfilled nine of the Contact Group's 13 priorities for Standards implementation. Our estimate is lower, though overall implementation has moved forward. We can expect that progress on the remaining outstanding priorities will be slower as t [...]	2006-09-16 09:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA808	KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU REP LEHNE BRIEF ON ICO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 12-14, EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and EU rep Stefan Lehne briefed Kosovo Albanian and Serb leaders on the International Civilian Office (ICO) that will be established to supervise implementation of the status settlement. DiCarlo and Lehne underscored that plann [...]	2006-09-26 08:07:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06RABAT1801	MOROCCO MACROECONOMIC UPDATE AND ECONOMIC [...] (U) This message provides an update on Morocco's macroeconomic situation, together with other highlights of recent economic developments, including: A. Altadis's purchase of the remaining 20 percent of the National Tobacco Monopoly. B. The creation of a new fund (Oleo Capital) to support t [...]	2006-09-27 15:34:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ELAB EAIR EINT ECPS KTEX TS
06RABAT2299	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) Ambassador joined with Russian ambassador to present GI agenda and other information reftel December 13 to MFA Secretary-General Omar Hilale, who led the Moroccan SIPDIS delegation at the Initial Partners meeting in Rabat. Hilale confirmed that Morocco would attend the Ankara meeting [...]	2006-12-20 17:15:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC KNNP PTER PREL MO
06RABAT484	MOROCCO-TURKEY RELATIONS: A ROBUST AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: During a recent two-hour lunch with Polcouns, Turkish Embassy First Secretary Turker Ari painted a diverse portrait of Morocco-Turkish relations, touching on a series of planned and already executed high-level visits, extensive relations between the two countries' Islamist parti [...]	2006-03-17 16:13:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KISL MAS MO PGOV PREL
06RABAT561	WESTERN SAHARA: INFORMAL MINURSO VIEWS ON CURRENT [...] (C) MINURSO Political Officer Alexander Sporys (please protect) visited Rabat March 22-24 for consultations with the P-5, Spanish, and South Africans at the request of SRSG Bastagli. Sporys called on Polcouns March 23. SRSG Bastagli is expected in Rabat for follow-on discussions in early Apr [...]	2006-03-29 18:52:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06ROME1005	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES CASPIAN BASIN NATURAL GAS [...] (U) Summary: In March 17 meetings, GOI officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Productive Activities, and the Prime Minister's office concurred with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza's assessment of the risk to Italian and European energy security of Gazprom's dominance of natural gas shipments t [...]	2006-04-04 04:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EPET RU IR QA IT
06ROME17	AFTER BLOCKING SALE TO IRAN, ITALIAN MANUFACTURER [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary. Acting on instructions from Trade Vice Minister Adolfo Urso, Director General for Commercial Agreements Amadeo Teti called on Acting EcMin December 27 to seek USG assistance in finding U.S. buyers for fast boats manufact [...]	2006-01-04 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IR IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06SARAJEVO3188	BOSNIA: PIC POLITICAL DIRECTORS STRESS POLICE AND [...] (C) Summary: During its December 6-7 meeting in Brussels, the Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board emphasized the need for Bosnian leaders to achieve concrete progress on a wide reform agenda including constitutional, and police reform. EUR DAS Rosemary [...]	2006-12-18 14:08:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK

06SKOPJE887	MACEDONIA NOMINATES FORMER FM SRDJAN KERIM FOR [...] (U) MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva confirmed on September 16 press reports that the GOM has nominated former Foreign Minister and former Macedonian PermRep to the UN Srdjan Kerim for the 2007 UNGA Presidency. Kerim currently is the general director of the local med [...]	2006-09-20 01:37:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR UNGA MK
06SOFIA1080	LINE OF BULGARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BEGINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The October 22 presidential elections will offer Bulgarian voters the opportunity to pass judgment on the country,s most influential politician, incumbent President Georgi Parvanov. With Parvanov's candidacy a certainty (though still formally unannounced),several other figur [...]	2006-08-03 12:42:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BU
06SOFIA1320	BULGARIAN BIOFUEL INDUSTRY [...] SUMMARY: The Bulgarian biofuels industry is just getting off the ground. Biodiesel and bioethanol (see Definitions at bottom) are currently produced only in small quantities, although an increasing number of investors are constructing facilities for production of biofuels, mainly biodiesel. [...]	2006-09-15 10:55:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ENRG ECON ETRD BU
06SOFIA1369	BULGARIA,S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PARVANOV HAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incumbent Georgi Parvanov, a consistent supporter of moderate, pro-U.S. policies, looks poised to win re-election, if not on October 22 then in a second-round run off the following week. The conspicuous absence from the line-up of the charismatic Sofia Mayor Boiko Borissov has d [...]	2006-09-25 15:11:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BU
06SOFIA1370	BULGARIA,S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PARVANOV HAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incumbent Georgi Parvanov, a consistent supporter of moderate, pro-U.S. policies, looks poised to win re-election, if not on October 22 then in a second-round run off the following week. The conspicuous absence from the line-up of the charismatic Sofia Mayor Boiko Borissov has d [...]	2006-09-25 15:15:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BU
06SOFIA1491	BULGARIAN MOD COMMITTED TO IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 25 meeting with the Ambassador, Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov confirmed the GOB's willingness to extend its current mission in Iraq, and discussed plans to increase the Bulgarian deployment in Afghanistan. He also outlined the challenges the ministry will face [...]	2006-10-26 13:54:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO BU
06SOFIA1499	INCUMBENT PARVANOV SCORES LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN BULGARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Incumbent President Georgi Parvanov scored a decisive victory against extreme nationalist Volen Siderov in the October 29 run-off, becoming Bulgaria's first president re-elected since communism collapsed. The former Socialist leader captured 75.9 percent of a weak turnout, an u [...]	2006-10-30 12:41:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
06SOFIA1554	BULGARIA, TURKEY AND GREECE WANT MORE U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political and energy leaders from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey told EUR DAS Bryza on November 3 that the U.S should play a stronger role in ensuring diversity of energy supply - particularly gas - in the region. Bryza stressed the need for countries in the region to work together [...]	2006-11-09 15:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV RU BU
06SOFIA1573	CNO VISIT HIGHLIGHTS BULGARIA'S BLACK SEA POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 9-10 visit of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Mullen to Bulgaria shed light on the GOB's evolving Black Sea strategy -- particularly the General Staff's continuing wariness of Turkey's Black Sea Harmony (BSH) proposal. Their reluctance was echoed by MFA NATO an [...]	2006-11-17 14:37:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS BU
06SOFIA1652	BULGARIAN BANKS GENERALLY HEALTHY, BUT A FEW BAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bulgarian banking sector is in its strongest position since the banking crisis of 1996. Thanks to stricter legislation, sound bank oversight and management, and an influx of large, stable foreign banks, most Bulgarian banks are prospering legitimately. Two skunks are circling [...]	2006-12-11 12:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV BU
06SOFIA215	SCENESETTER FOR BULGARIAN INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Interior Minister Rumen Petkov is one of the most influential personalities in the current government, and is almost certainly the one who evokes the strongest feelings among Bulgarians. Recent public opinion data shows him to be among the most popular public officials in the coun [...]	2006-02-10 16:00:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM KCOR BU
06SOFIA661	BULGARIA: EXTREME NATIONALISTS REAPING WHAT THEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extreme nationalist party Ataka is reeling from self-inflicted wounds just one year after its founding. A recent scandal steming from the erratic behavior of several Ataka members following a highway accident has contributed to a sharp decline in the party's support and led [...]	2006-05-10 11:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PINR SOCI RU BU
06SOFIA786	STATE SECURITY FILES COME BACK TO HAUNT BULGARIA [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The unfinished sixteen-year-old debate over Bulgaria's communist-era State Security files was unexpectedly revived in recent days when Interior Minister Rumen Petkov revealed that several prominent journalists and political figures, including the country's highest Islamic lead [...]	2006-06-05 13:39:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR BU
06SOFIA83	BULGARIA 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-20 08:08:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	BU EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR
06SOFIA848	BULGARIA CAUTIOUS ON BLACK SEA HARMONY [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 14. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The GOB's impression of the June 5 Black Sea Forum in Bucharest was generally positive. While at the forum, the Bulgarian delegation received a draft bilateral agreement from Turkey to join Operation Black Sea Harmony ( [...]	2006-06-16 10:58:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO MARR MOPS RO TU BU
06SOFIA89	BULGARIA 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT. [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-23 10:13:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR BU
06TASHKENT440	WHAT IS EU IDENTITY IN UZBEKISTAN? [...] (C) Summary: The French Embassy, current EU chair in Tashkent, has started a campaign to inform Uzbek students about the EU. However, at a round-table discussion, EU diplomats failed to convey a concept of EU identity that satisfied their audience. The Uzbek students attending the roundtable [...]	2006-03-03 13:14:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EU PGOV PREL UZ
06TBILISI2668	GEORGIA TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR:UPDATED [...] Pursuant to Ref A Embassy Tbilisi provides the following statistics and information regarding the textile sector in Georgia. 2. Statistics (2005 data): Total industrial production (USD thousands): 1,158,267 Total textiles and apparel production (USD thousands): 7,745 Textile/apparel sha [...]	2006-10-04 12:50:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ETRD GG
06TBILISI2991	IMERETI REGION: SEEKING A VISION FOR ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. The Georgian city of Kutaisi and its surrounding region, Imereti, are struggling to find a clear direction for future economic growth. Regional leaders view the city, and the region, as a transit and regional service center for medicine, education, and trade, but seem to focus mo [...]	2006-11-09 15:01:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND ETRD GG
06TBILISI3399	NO SHAH DENIZ GAS MEANS TOUGH CHOICES FOR GEORGIA [...] Summary: BP reported the delay in availability of Shah Deniz gas to the Embassy on December 21. ACG associated gas, which is now being re-injected to support oil production, could supply up to 8.1 million cubic meters (cm) per day to Azerbaijan and Georgia. However, the old pipeline from Az [...]	2006-12-26 13:08:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL GG
06TELAVIV1611	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media bannered the triple explosion that took place last night in the Sinai resort town of Dahab. Up to 30 people were reported killed and more than 100 wounded. Israel Radio quoted E [...]	2006-04-25 12:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV1871	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 12:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV1876	AGAINST THE ODDS, MIDDLE EAST CANCER CONSORTIUM [...] (SBU) Summary: The Middle East Cancer Consortium is extending its reach and adding attendees from additional countries to its activities. Independent Palestinian health professionals remain eager to participate in MECC conferences and courses while PA officials are off-limits. Member countri [...]	2006-05-12 18:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PREL KPAL KWBG IS XF XD ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
06TELAVIV2157	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that FM Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will meet today with Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David SIPDI [...]	2006-06-06 11:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2469	INFRASTRUCTURE MINISTRY COOPERATING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Israel continues to supply 43 million cubic meters of water to Palestinians on the West Bank, and Israeli Water Commission officials communicate daily with Palestinian Water Authority counterparts on "emergency and humanitarian issues." GOI officials support donor projects to red [...]	2006-06-22 13:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ENRG PREL KPAL KWBG JO IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
06TELAVIV2714	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. North Korea ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli diplomatic officials expressed concern Thursday that the world's reaction to the IDF incursion into northern Gaza, considered relatively mil [...]	2006-07-07 13:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2901	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-26 12:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR
06TELAVIV389	MISHLEV DISCUSSES PA ELECTIONS, KARNI AND RAFAH [...] (C) Summary: Major General Yosef Mishlev told the Ambassador January 24 that preparations for the Palestinian elections were going well, and that the GOI and the Palestinian Authority (PA) had established joint coordination rooms in the West Bank and Gaza for election day to handle security. [...]	2006-01-27 16:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS
06TELAVIV3938	SPIEGEL ON CROSSINGS AND MOVING FORWARD WITH AMA [...] (C) Summary: In a September 4 meeting, BGen (ret.) Baruch Spiegel and MOD Senior Adviser Haggai Alon reported to the Ambassador that Minister of Defense Amir Peretz has given the green light for the MOD to undertake talks with the USG to implement the AMA, and that the MOD will also be workin [...]	2006-10-05 17:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS
06TELAVIV4703	ISRAEL SEEKS TO DIVERSIFY ITS ENERGY SUPPLY TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN ORDER TO MEET THE ENERGY DEMANDS OF A GROWING POPULATION AND A RISING STANDARD OF LIVING, ISRAEL WILL NEED TO DOUBLE ITS GENERATING CAPACITY OVER THE NEXT DECADE. IN AN EFFORT TO REDUCE ITS HEAVY DEPENDENCE ON IMPORTED OIL -- 90 PERCENT OF WHICH COMES FROM RUSSIA AND THE FOR [...]	2006-12-01 15:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL EPET PGOV ETRD IS
06TELAVIV535	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muhammad Cartoon Controversy 3. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that FM Tzipi Livni, who leaves for the U.S. today, will meet with Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State [...]	2006-02-06 12:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV678	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 11:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV700	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muhammad Cartoon Controversy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is expected to present to Acting PM Ehud Olmert today recommendations formulated by the defense establishment [...]	2006-02-17 11:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV751	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Muhammad Cartoon Controversy 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Israel's representative to the UN Danny Gillerman as warning at the UN Security Council Tuesday that an Iran-Syria-Hamas "terror ax [...]	2006-02-22 11:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV914	ISRAEL: SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 15:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
06THEHAGUE1708	NETHERLANDS: TURKISH IMAMS DENIED RESIDENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Netherlands, new, tighter immigration policies are causing friction with the country,s 436 mosques, which rely heavily on foreign-born clerics to lead their congregations. At least 18 Turkish mosques are without imams as a result of immigration delays. Meanwhile, the Neth [...]	2006-08-04 16:47:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL PREL PGOV PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KPAO NL
06THEHAGUE2326	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR U.S. COAST GUARD [...] Country clearance is granted for the November 27-December 2, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of U.S. Coast Guard personnel Felton L. Gilmore, LCDR; Joseph E. Couch, GS-13; and Brian J. Pruitt, LT, to provide support for the Department of Homeland Security to assess the anti-terrorism measures m [...]	2006-10-27 12:23:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2343	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EUR DEPUTY ASSISTANT [...] Country clearance is granted for November 2, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Matthew J. Bryza to attend the Diversity Dialogue Conference. 2. Control officer for the visit is Embassy Economic Officer Jason Heung - Emb. Tel: (31) (70) 310-2339; Cell Phone: - (31) (65) 378-2313; Fax: ( [...]	2006-11-01 12:47:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2345	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE [...] Country clearance is granted for Drs. John Milner, Branch Chief, National Cancer Institute (NCI),NIH; and Dr. Arthur Schatzkin, Branch Chief, NCI, to travel to the Netherlands from November 5-11, 2006, to attend and participate in the World Cancer Research Fund November Panel Meeting, which w [...]	2006-11-01 12:48:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2346	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA NATIONAL HQ [...] Country clearance is granted for Federal Aviation Administration officials Kenneth Peppard, Program Manager; and Mary Lucke Summers, Manager, to travel to the Netherlands from November 5-10, 2006 to serve as U.S. and North American reprsentatives to Civil Air Navigation Services Organization [...]	2006-11-01 14:40:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR NL
06THEHAGUE2360	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EMBASSY ANKARA [...] Country clearance is granted for Resident Legal Advisor Suzanne Hayden to travel to the Netherlands on November 6, 2006 to participate in meetings. 2. A hotel reservation has been made for November 6, 2006 at the Crowne Plaza Promenade Hotel, Van Stolkweg 1, 2585 JL The Hague - Phone - (3 [...]	2006-11-02 15:13:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ECON PREL PTER NL
06THEHAGUE2369	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA NORTHWEST [...] Country clearance is granted for FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Forrest Leland Keller to travel to the Netherlands from November 6-10, 2006 to review a contract with National Aerospace Library, Amsterdam. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitor [...]	2006-11-03 12:32:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2374	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANKFURT [...] Country clearance is granted for the November 22-23, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of TSA specialists Craig Matthew Lynes, Irene Goosley, and Sandra Lee Rohrbach to attend an aviation transportation security meeting in Amsterdam. 2. Embassy understands that no further assistance is requir [...]	2006-11-03 14:51:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2375	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC ECONOMIST JOHN [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services Economist John Blandford to lay over in the Netherlands for the night of November 19, 2006 on his way to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to provide formal training in economic evaluation methods applied to HIV treatm [...]	2006-11-03 14:51:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2379	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BUREAU OF [...] Country clearance is granted for November 21-26, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Bureau of Reclamation official John W. Shisler, Mechanical Engineer, to witness specification required factory inspection and testing of the hydraulic operating cylinder for the 4 by 6 foot high pressure slide g [...]	2006-11-03 16:00:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2389	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BUREAU OF [...] Country clearance is granted for November 21-26, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Bureau of Reclamation official John W. Shisler, Mechanical Engineer, to witness specification required factory inspection and testing of the hydraulic operating cylinder for the 4 by 6 foot high pressure slide g [...]	2006-11-06 11:37:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2390	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA GREAT LAKES [...] Country clearance is granted for November 12-17, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Inspector William Pratt to complete airman duties and flight deck procedures. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors who need unescorted access into secure areas [...]	2006-11-06 16:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2392	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA NATIONAL HQ [...] Country clearance is granted for December 11-15, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Federal Aviation Administration official John P. LaPointe, Manager, Flight Safety Branch, to participate in a joint FAA/CAA-NL review of aviation safety casual modeling efforts . 2. Embassy understands that [...]	2006-11-06 16:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR NL
06THEHAGUE2393	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA NATIONAL HQ [...] Country clearance is granted for November 7-10, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Federal Aviation Administration official Cristina S. Tan, Computer Specialist; and William J. Hughes to participate in meetings with the CAA Netherlands and their support contractor the National Aerospace Laborat [...]	2006-11-06 16:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR NL
06THEHAGUE2418	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL [...] Country Clearance is granted for Federal Air Marshal Service Operation Team PD 07-06/11 R60 to travel to The Netherlands from December 12, 2006 - January 8, 2007 to deter criminal acts targetting civil aviation. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. [...]	2006-11-08 16:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER ASEC OTRA HL
06THEHAGUE2419	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center officials Shaune Allen, David Bogart, Joseph Schepis and Ray Lundquist to travel to the Netherlands from December 4-9, 2006 to attend the James Webb Space Telescope mid infrared instrumen [...]	2006-11-08 16:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2420	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center official William Danchi to travel to the Netherlands from December 5-9, 2006 to attend the European Space Agency Darwin Terrestrial Exoplanet Meeting in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy underst [...]	2006-11-08 16:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2421	COUNTRY CLEARANCES GRANTED FOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL [...] Country clearance is granted for USGS Geologist Herman A. Karl to travel to the Netherlands from November 13-22, 2006 to make an invited presentation at the workshop "Living with Sediments" as part of an international project team of experts. 2. Embassy understands that no further assista [...]	2006-11-08 16:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY KSCA NL
06THEHAGUE2422	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] Country clearance is granted for the November 25 - December 1, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Dipesh Shah, Investigator, Office of Regional Operations, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, HHS to inspect a medical device manufacturer for compliance with FDAs good manufacturing practice and au [...]	2006-11-08 16:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2436	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center delegation consisting ofPamela Davila, William Eichhorn and Steven Graham to travel to the Netherlands from December 3-9, 2006 attend the James Webb Space Telescope Mid Infrared Instrument Critical Design Review to be held at E [...]	2006-11-13 15:33:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2437	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Lenore Launer, Senior Investigator, National Institute on Agine, NIH, to travel to the Netherlands from November 25-30, 2006 to consult with Dr. Mark Van Buchum on AGES and Camera studies and give a lecture on Vascular Dementia at a special symposium for t [...]	2006-11-13 15:33:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2438	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] Country clearance is granted for the November 26 - December 1, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Dr. Richard Whiting, Senior Scientist, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, HHS to travel to Bilhoven, The Netherlands from November 26 - December 1, 2006 to attend, on Dr. Buchanans [...]	2006-11-13 15:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2439	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] Country clearance is granted for the November 26 - December 1, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Dr. Richard Whiting, Senior Scientist, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, HHS to travel to Bilhoven, The Netherlands from November 26 - De3cember 1, 2006 to attend on Dr. Buchanans [...]	2006-11-13 15:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2440	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIALS DAVID [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services officials David Forney and Donald Ackerman to travel to the Netherlands from November 18-21, 2006 to lay over on their way to Papenburg, Germany to provide technical consultations to shipyard personnel on th [...]	2006-11-13 15:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2441	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIAL HUSSAIN [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services official Hussain Baseer, Public Health Officer, NCID, HHS/CDC to transit the Netherlands from December 23-24, 2006 on his way to Kigali, Rwanda to assist the Rwanda Public Health Advisor with program and ma [...]	2006-11-13 15:34:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2450	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center official Kirk Rhee to travel to the Netherlands from December 3-8, 2006 to attend the James Webb Space Telescope MID Infrared Instrument Critical Design Review. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. POST [...]	2006-11-15 12:57:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2451	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center officials Daniel Jacobs and Mark Hershey to travel to the Netherlands from December 10-16, 2006 to participate in common systems operations cost meetings at the European Space Technology Center [...]	2006-11-15 12:57:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2457	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Kent Hunter, Principal Investigator, National Cencer Institute, HIH, to travel to Amsterdam, The Netherlands from November 30 - December 2, 2006 to give a talk at the Josepine Nefkens Symposium. 2. Embassy understands that no further assistance is nec [...]	2006-11-16 13:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2458	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIAL [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services official Elizabeth Hall, Mathematical Statistician, NCID, HHS/CDC to lay over in the Netherlands on her way to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the Scientific Steering Committee meeting. 2. Embassy [...]	2006-11-16 13:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2462	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NUCLEAR REGULATORY [...] Country clearance is granted for the December 9-10,2006 visit to the Netherlands of J. Keith Everly, Senior Program Manager; Michael Mangefrida, IT Specialist; and Susan Bagley, Transportation Security Specialist, Nuclear Security and Incident Response; Timothy Johnson, Senior Environmental E [...]	2006-11-16 16:03:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2464	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIAL [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services official Elizabeth Zell, Mathematical Statistician, NCID, HHS/CDC to lay over in the Netherlands on her way to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the Scientific Steering Committee meeting. 2. Embassy [...]	2006-11-17 08:41:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2476	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TRANSPORTATION [...] Country Clearance is granted for Kevin Paul Cahill, TSA Specialist, to travel to the Netherlands from December 3-15, 2006 to assist in conducting an International Civil Aviation Organization audit of Amsterdam Airport. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. POST ACCESS: [...]	2006-11-20 16:07:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2483	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR U.S. POSTAL [...] Country clearance is granted for November 26-December 2, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Postal Inspectors Ruth Mendonca and Guy Brescia, to meet with Europol and Embassy representatives to prepare for anticipated USPIS TDY assignment to Europol. 2. Embassy control officer for the visit [...]	2006-11-21 14:11:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2501	COUNTRY CLEARANCES GRANTED FOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL [...] Country clearance is granted for USGS Research Geologists Donald L. Gautier and Timothy R. Klett to travel to the Hague, the Netherlands from November 26-29, 2006 to meet with Geologists of Shell International Ltd. to obtain information and data concerning petroleum resource potential of the [...]	2006-11-24 14:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY KSCA NL
06THEHAGUE2502	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA FRANKFURT SAFETY [...] Country clearance is granted for December 6-8, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of FAA Safety Inspector John J. Benning to conduct a recertification inspection commensurable to FAA authorizations for FAA repair stations in accordance with Federal Aviation regulations. 2. Embassy understands [...]	2006-11-24 14:17:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC NL
06THEHAGUE2503	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA FRANKFURT SAFETY [...] Country clearance is granted for December 18-21, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of safety inspectors Calvin B. Clark and Jose R. Benavides to conduct a recertification inspection commensurable to FAA authorizations for FAA repair stations in accordance with federal aviation regulations. 2. [...]	2006-11-24 15:54:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR FAA NL
06THEHAGUE2506	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIALS [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services officials Russell Enscore, Christopher Sexton and Mark Duffy to lay over in the Netherlands from November 28-29, 2006 on their way to Entebbe and Arua, Uganda to assist on pneumonic plague outbreak control. [...]	2006-11-27 12:21:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2509	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TRANSPORTATION [...] Country Clearance is granted for TSA officials Stuart David Miller, Robert Dewey Jamison, Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz and Dennis Holley to travel to Amsterdam, The Netherlands from November 30 - December 1, 2006 to meet with airport officials at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. 2. Embassy control offi [...]	2006-11-28 12:12:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EAIR ASEC NL
06THEHAGUE2514	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL [...] Country Clearance is granted for Federal Air Marshal Service Supervisor Dennis Holley to travel to the Netherlands on December 1, 2006 to accompany Mr. Jamison on a tour of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors [...]	2006-11-29 13:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER ASEC OTRA HL
06THEHAGUE2516	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID SENIOR POLICY [...] Country clearance is granted for United States Agency for International Development Senior Policy Advisor for Donor Coordination (USAID/PPC/DCO) Noreen O'Meara to travel to the Netherlands from December 6-10, 2006 to participate in the review of findings of a donor-sponsored study on multi-don [...]	2006-11-29 16:14:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2517	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIAL [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services Public Health Advisor, Jennifer Mann to lay over in the Netherlands from December 2-3, 2006 and January 4-5, 2007 on her way to and from Nairobi, Kenya to provide health information and immunization campaig [...]	2006-11-29 16:14:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2518	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA FRANKFURT SAFETY [...] Country clearance is granted for December 18-21, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector, Noel E. Arbis to conduct a recertification inspection commensurable to FAA authorizations for FAA repair stations in accordance with federal aviation reglations. [...]	2006-11-29 16:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR FAA NL
06THEHAGUE2529	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Trevor Archer, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, to travel to the Netherlands from November 30 - December 3, 2006 to visit Radbound University in Nijmegen to take part in a seminar and present a talk entitled "H [...]	2006-12-01 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2530	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE [...] Country clearance is granted December 5-9, 2006 travel to the Netherlands of NSF official Dr. Lynda Carlson, Director, Science Resource Statistics Division, to attend a meeting on innovation and technology policy. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is necessary. POST ACCESS: [...]	2006-12-01 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY KSCA AORC OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2531	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL [...] Country clearance is granted for NTSB team consisting of Thomas Kenneth Roth-Roffy and Alan Barry Strauch, both Marine Accident Investigators, to travel to the Netherlands from December 3-4, 2006 to observe bridge resource management training. 2. Embassy will contact the National Transpor [...]	2006-12-01 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EWWT ASEC NL
06THEHAGUE2532	CUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EPA OFFICIAL ROGER [...] Country clearance is granted for Roger Fernandez, Office of Air and Radiation, to travel to the Netherlands on December 12, 2006 to meet with Shell Oil Company representatives to discuss the Natural Gas Star International Program under the methane to markets Partnership. 2. Embassy point [...]	2006-12-01 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV OTRA TPHY EPA NL
06THEHAGUE2533	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL RESERVE [...] Country Clearance is granted for December 9-16, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Bimal B. Goel, Senior Examiner; and Paul Sternhagen, Analyst, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, to meet with the management of ABN AMRO Bank, NV, and Dutch Regulators related to implementation of Basel II. [...]	2006-12-01 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	NL TSPA OTRA
06THEHAGUE2536	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA HEADQUARTERS [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration official Zlatan Tsvetanov to travel to The Netherlands from December 6-9, 2006 to attend the Darwin Terrestrial Exoplanet Science Advisory Team Meeting, in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understands that no further assi [...]	2006-12-01 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2548	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA HEADQUARTERS [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration delegation, consisting of George Jackson, Glenn Rakow, and David Raphael, to travel to The Netherlands from January 16-20, 2006 to attend the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacewire Working Group Meeting in Noordwijk. [...]	2006-12-05 11:09:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2551	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Ronald Germain, Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to visit the Netherlands Cancer Institute and present "Building a Systems-Level Understanding of Adaptive Immunity: From Molecules to Models to M [...]	2006-12-05 15:56:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2552	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTE [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; and Melanie Kotys, Research Fellow, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, to travel to the Netherlands from December 7-12, 2006 to participate in the 2006 P [...]	2006-12-05 15:56:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2557	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIAL HEATHER [...] Country clearance is granted for Center for Disease Control, Health and Human Services Public Health Advisor, Heather Joseph, Behavioral Scientist, COGH, CCC, HHS to travel to the Netherlands from January 23-24, 2006 and February 9-10, 2007 to lay over in the Netherlands on her way to and fro [...]	2006-12-06 11:04:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2573	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] Country clearance is granted for the December 13-20, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Alexander Kosyak and Ned Heltzer to attend an IDA Beta test site inspection tool and meet with the European Commission on Humanitarian Aid to discuss precertification and possible collaboration . 2. Emba [...]	2006-12-07 16:33:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2578	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CODEL POE - DECEMBER [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ted Poe, Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats; and Alan Knapp, Legislative Director, to travel to the Netherlands from December 20-22, 2006, to meet with senior-level government officials to discuss anti-terrorism efforts [...]	2006-12-08 13:21:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NL
06THEHAGUE2585	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL [...] Country Clearance is granted for Federal Air Marshal Service operation PD 07-28/29 R61 to travel to the Netherlands from January 13-February 3, 2007 to act as a strategic deterrence against criminal acts targetting civil aviation, to include hijacking. 2. Embassy understands that no assis [...]	2006-12-08 16:04:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER ASEC OTRA HL
06THEHAGUE2588	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL [...] Country Clearance is granted for Federal Air Marshal Service Operation Team PD 07-06/11 R61 to travel to The Netherlands from January 8 - February 4, 2006, to deter criminal acts targetting civil aviation. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. Visito [...]	2006-12-11 15:10:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER ASEC OTRA HL
06THEHAGUE2624	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL [...] Country Clearance is granted for Federal Air Marshal Service Operation Team FO 07-11 R61 to travel to the Nethrlands from January 9-11, 2006 to deter criminal acts targetting civil aviation. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors who need une [...]	2006-12-18 06:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER ASEC OTRA HL
06THEHAGUE2625	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERAL AIR MARSHAL [...] Country Clearance is granted for Federal Air Marshal Service Operation Team PD 07-09 R61 to travel to the Nethrlands from January 9-11, 2006 to deter criminal acts targetting civil aviation. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors who need une [...]	2006-12-18 06:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER ASEC OTRA HL
06THEHAGUE2630	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA NATIONAL HQ [...] Country clearance is granted for January 9 - 14, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Federal Aviation Administration contractor Professor Ali Mosleh, to participate in the Peer Review Meeting of the Aviation Safety Causal Modeling Project sponsored by the Ministry of Transportation, The Civil Av [...]	2006-12-18 14:45:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR NL
06THEHAGUE2647	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA LANGLEY [...] Country clearance is granted for December 18 - Ausust 31, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Mark Carpenter to participate in a 9-month detail at the Technical University of Delft to develop efficient solver technology for time-dependent simulations. 2. Embassy understands that no further ass [...]	2006-12-20 15:31:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2648	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA FRANKFURT SAFETY [...] Country clearance is granted for the January 16-17, 2007 visit to the Netherlands of Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector, J. C. Jones to conduct a recertification inspection commensurable to FAA authorizations for FAA repair stations in accordance with federal aviation reglations. [...]	2006-12-20 15:31:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR FAA NL
06THEHAGUE2665	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA GREAT LAKES [...] Country clearance is granted for January 17-19, 2007 visit to the Netherlands of Inspector Bruce A. Larson to complete airman duties and flight deck procedures. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. POST ACCESS: 3. Visitors who need unescorted access into secure area [...]	2006-12-29 11:02:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE334	DUTCH LAUNCH TIP OUTREACH CAMPAIGN [...] (U) Summary. The Dutch government launched a national outreach campaign January 12 to counter trafficking in persons in the prostitution sector. The multimedia campaign is designed to increase awareness of the trafficking problem, and educate the public on how to identify potential victims [...]	2006-02-14 16:38:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG NL
06THEHAGUE374	NETHERLANDS/MUSLIM OUTREACH: MISSION SUCCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In August 2005, Post established an Integration Issues Working Group (IIWG) to coordinate outreach and reporting activities related to the Dutch Muslim community. This approach succeeded in considerably expanding Embassy The Hague's and Consul General Amsterdam's contacts in the Dutc [...]	2006-02-17 15:43:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KPAO KISL NL
06THEHAGUE406	REACHING OUT TO THE DUTCH MUSLIM BUSINESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An Embassy lunch with members of the Dutch Muslim business community on February 8 succeeded in launching a constructive dialogue on discrimination in Dutch employment practices, unemployment among young ethnic Muslims, and the pros and cons of membership in ethnic business [...]	2006-02-23 12:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI PHUM PREL PGOV KISL PINR NL

06THEHAGUE416	SCENESETTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND EMPLOYMENT [...] (U) Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Aart de Geus is in the United States to examine U.S. approaches to work place issues related to family and child care. His visit is part of broader information-gathering effort to identify effective labor and social welfare policies, in preparati [...]	2006-02-24 14:01:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV SOCI NL
06THEHAGUE453	EMBASSY THE HAGUE SUBMISSION FOR SIXTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel A's request for input for the 2006 TIP report. Part One summarizes key developments during the past year and Part Two responds to the questions in paragraphs 21 - 24 of reftel A. Preparation time is about 170 hours (FSN - 110; FS-04 - 30; FS-02 - 30 hours). [...]	2006-03-01 16:52:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF NL
06THEHAGUE534	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Russia hosted a March 7 meeting of the P-5 ambassadors. The Director General made a presentation on universality-related efforts of the OPCW. He noted that much has been achieved, membership now stands at 178 states, and the organization rapidly is being faced with approaches to just th [...]	2006-03-13 12:07:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE976	NETHERLANDS/EU: SUPPORT FOR ENLARGEMENT CANDIDATES [...] (C) Summary: The Netherlands appears likely to follow the European Commission's recommendation, due this month, on Bulgarian EU accession. The GONL is ambivalent on the date for Romania - 2007 or 2008 - and is not making any bets on whether Turkey will ever make it into the Union. The GONL b [...]	2006-05-02 15:02:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EU BU CY RO TU NL
06TIRANA599	DEFENSE MINISTER: RAISE NUMBER OF TROOPS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Mediu told Ambassador that he wanted to expand Albania's troop presence in Afghanistan from 22 troops to a company of 120 and that he further wanted them to be deployed with Italian, rather than Turkish, forces so that they could conduct a broader range of missio [...]	2006-06-06 13:50:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO AL
06TRIPOLI378	LIBYA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY-JUNE/JULY, 2006 [...] (SBU) Repsol said it will increase its production in Libya by 66%, reaching 415,000 barrels per day by 2010. Following the discovery of 21 wells in the last three years, Repsol's reserves in Libya will increase an estimated 10% over the next five years. Repsol, currently the biggest foreign co [...]	2006-07-31 14:16:00	Embassy Tripoli	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON LY PGOV
06TRIPOLI453	CONGRESSMAN LANTOS STRESSES BILATERAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings with senior Libyan officials during his August 22-24 trip to Libya, Congressman Tom Lantos, ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, reviewed bilateral achievements since his first visit to the country in January, 2004 and set new goals for enhanc [...]	2006-08-31 15:02:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET	OREP PREL PTER PGOV LY
06ULAANBAATAR553	GOM Explains Decision on 7th Troop Rotation to [...] (U) Reftel reported GOM's decision to send a seventh rotation of soldiers to Iraq, consisting of a "small number of command staff officers." The sixth rotation, whose tour is up in September, consists of 100 soldiers, serving under Polish command in Camp Echo, performing force protection dut [...]	2006-07-20 23:18:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS MOPS PREL KPAO MG IZ
06ULAANBAATAR554	GOM Explains Decision on 7th Troop Rotation to [...] (U) Summary: In a July 20 meeting, the Foreign Minister reiterated to Ambassador the Mongolian government's support for the war on terrorism and its commitment to remain a member of the coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that there had been no opposition in the Cabinet to a seventh [...]	2006-07-20 23:21:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS MOPS PREL KPAO MG IZ
06ULAANBAATAR750	7th Rotation of Mongolian Troops Departs for Iraq [...] One hundred Mongolian troops departed today for Iraq, where they will provide force protection at Camp Echo for Polish troops in the Multinational Force. The six month deployment is Mongolia's 7th rotation of troops to Iraq since 2003. The dawn departure ceremony was attended by the Charge, [...]	2006-10-04 00:27:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL KPKO MG IZ AF YI SL TU BE
06USNATO659	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT NOVEMBER 2, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- Afghanistan: SACEUR blasts France, Turkey and Italy for not fulfilling their security responsibility in areas around Kabul; NAC with EU, UN, World Bank Representatives seeks better coordination on reconstruction and development; NATO Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) asks [...]	2006-11-03 16:42:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET//NOFORN	NATO PREL
06USNATO687	NOVEMBER 7 HLTF AND NRC-ACE MEETINGS AT NATO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The HLTF met November 7 to review next steps regarding the U.S.-proposed "positive agenda" for engaging Russia on CFE issues during the next months; to consider language on CFE for inclusion in a Riga communiqu; and to address remaining questions regarding several I.S. discuss [...]	2006-11-28 11:28:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV KCFE NATO PREL RS
06USNATO701	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - DECEMBER 06, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- Afghanistan: SYG conveyed the strong political convictions expressed by NATO Allies at the Summit in support of NATO's Afghanistan operations. He also cited the recent reduction in the overall level of violence in Afghanistan and the Hungarian donation of 20,000 rifles to t [...]	2006-12-07 15:29:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL
06USNATO720	NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - DECEMBER 14, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- Afghanistan: SYG details a busy calendar of NATO events for early 2007. He observed that much more needs to be done on ANA train and equip. Ambassador Nuland seconds SYG,s call to accelerate military advice on ANA training before Seville, and also asked for more detailed br [...]	2006-12-15 16:51:00	Mission USNATO	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL AF
06USUNNEWYORK1347	SYG SELECTION: STRAW POLL IN JULY [...] (C) Summary. The Security Council has agreed on the next stage of the Secretary-General selection process, including the modalities of the straw polls to begin in July and the means by which the Council will notify candidates of the results. Incoming President of the Council, French PR de La [...]	2006-07-12 11:40:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC UN
06USUNNEWYORK1622	UNIFIL FORCE GENERATION UPDATE: A/S HILLEN PRESSES [...] (C) Summary. During separate meetings with UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown and Department of SIPDIS Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi on August 24, PM A/S Hillen emphasized the importance of ensuring that the international community helps [...]	2006-08-25 18:25:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO IS LE
06USUNNEWYORK1758	GAMBARI BRIEFS UNSC: COUNCIL SILENCE BROKEN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 29, following a briefing by Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari, Security Council members -- in a small, but welcome step forward -- agreed to a press statement that broke the Council's silence on the Cyprus issue for the first time since the [...]	2006-09-07 20:58:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CY GR TU
06USUNNEWYORK1856	A/S FRIED'S 9/20 MEETING WITH TURKISH PM CHIEF [...] (U) EUR A/S Daniel Fried and NSC Director Judy Ansley met with Ambassador/Chief Advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu September 21 for 90 minutes on the margins of the UNGA general debate in New York. Following recounts the meeting's substance by theme. PKK ------ 2. (C) [...]	2006-09-25 17:43:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	GR PREL PTER TU UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK1880	61ST UNGA LAUNCHES GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] On September 19, the UN launched the "Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy" at a meeting chaired by General Assembly President Khalifa. The "launch" attracted a number of Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors. The strategy, called for in the 2005 World Summit Outcome document was the result of se [...]	2006-09-29 20:37:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2111	SEEKING SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE [...] ACTION REQUEST PARA 6. 2. ON NOVEMBER 16, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL HOLD ELECTIONS TO FILL ALL 34 SEATS ON THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION. THE U.S. HAS NOMINATED FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY LEGAL ADVISER MICHAEL MATHESON FOR ONE OF THE EIGHT VACANCIES IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN AND OTHE [...]	2006-11-03 19:44:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA ODIP ILC
06USUNNEWYORK2164	IRAQ COMPACT: UPDATING UN MEMBER STATES ON [...] (U) Summary: On November 13, the UN invited all member-states to an update on the Iraq Compact. Over 70 countries heard remarks from Iraqi Minister of Planning Ali Baban, Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown, and UNDP Associate Administrator Ad Melkert. All three speakers said the Ira [...]	2006-11-17 00:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ
06USUNNEWYORK2169	U.S. CANDIDATE NOT ELECTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL [...] Summary. In a General Assembly election, November 16, the U.S. candidate missed being elected to the International Law Commission by eight votes. Michael Matheson placed ninth among 11 candidates seeking to fill eight Western seats on the Commission. European Union candidates took six of the [...]	2006-11-18 00:14:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	ILC ODIP UNGA
06VATICAN199	HOLY SEE: POPE'S REGENSBURG SPEECH IGNITES FIRESTORM, LEADS [...] (C) Summary. Pope Benedict XVI's September 12 speech in Regensburg caused an unwanted firestorm in the Islamic world because of the pope's quoting, in passing, an insulting reference made by a 14th-century Byzantine emperor. The Holy See, and the pope himself, responded with statements of clarifica [...]	2006-09-18 13:37:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL VT
06VATICAN204	POPE'S TURKEY TRIP STILL ON CALENDAR [...] (C) The Turkish DCM to the Holy See told Charge September 20 that the controversy over the pope's remarks in Regensburg (ref a,b) would not derail his November visit to Turkey. She noted controversy surrounding the visit and outlined the itinerary. Meanwhile, other sources described how the [...]	2006-09-21 16:53:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER VT TU KIRF
06VATICAN256	TURKEY: VATICAN BACKS INTEGRATION [...] (C) While not officially endorsing Turkey's entry into the EU (ref a),the Holy See continues to support the dialogue and reform process connected to the issue. Top officials, including the pope, have spoken positively in public and private about European integration. Although they are critical of [...]	2006-12-07 17:58:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM TU VT
06VIENNA1121	SCENESETTER FOR HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Austrian-U.S. relations have a solid basis in the common values of democracy and civil rights, and Austria's international activities contribute to our shared vision of a world of peace, freedom, democracy and prosperity. Austria holds the rotating Presidency of the EU Council for the f [...]	2006-04-19 15:56:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO OTRA OVIP KSCA KFLU AU
06VIENNA1227	SCENESETTER FOR THE MAY 3-5 VISIT BY THE ATTORNEY [...] (U) The Austrians are looking forward to your attendance, and that of Deputy Secretary Jackson, at the May 3-5 JHA Ministerials. These meetings constitute one of the more significant events of the six-month Austrian Presidency of the European Council. 2. (SBU) Austrian-U.S. relations hav [...]	2006-04-28 15:10:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN PREL PTER AU
06VIENNA2689	SCENESETTER FOR HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY AZAR'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Austrian-U.S. relations have a solid basis in the common values of democracy and civil rights, and Austria's international activities contribute to our shared vision of a world of peace, freedom, democracy and prosperity. Austria held the rotating Presidency of the EU Council for the fi [...]	2006-09-08 15:35:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA OVIP TBIO KSCA AU
06VIENNA2787	AUSTRIA'S OCTOBER 1 NATIONAL ELECTIONS -- FINDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Austria's October 1 elections take place in the context of a political shift that followed this year's revelations of fraud in the trade union-affiliated bank, BAWAG. This established a new political reality in which Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel's conservative People's Party [...]	2006-09-19 13:08:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AU
06VIENNA2976	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 05, 2006 [...] The chairperson of the Social Democrats Alfred Gusenbauer has said he only wants to hold coalition talks with the conservative OeVP, because "a two-party coalition is more stable than a three-party one." The OeVP, however, is divided on whether they want to govern with the SPOe. Presenting his [...]	2006-10-05 12:21:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3196	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 31, 2006 [...] Despite massive protests from the OeVP and the BZOe, the Social Democrats -- with the support of the Greens and the Freedom Party -- went ahead during Parliament's first session yesterday with plans to create a committee to investigate the government's decision to purchase 18 Eurofighter jets. [...]	2006-10-31 15:07:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA324	AUSTRIA ON A WAY FORWARD ON TURKEY/CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: The Austrian presidency will seek movement on ending the isolation of Northern Cyprus, starting with direct trade, but will do this quietly in order to avoid a torpedoing of the initiative by the Cypriots or by the British, who (according to the Austrian MFA's Southern Europe he [...]	2006-02-02 19:10:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY TU EU AU
06VIENNA3335	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 15, 2006 [...] The KPOe and Hans-Peter Martin's List are reportedly considering contesting the October 1 elections because the BZOe ran under different names in Carinthia province and at the national level. Should the Austrian Constitutional Court rule that the BZOe lose its representation in Parliament, the [...]	2006-11-15 14:43:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3343	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 16, 2006 [...] It is the moment of truth for the OeVP, an Austrian daily says: In a meeting at 10:00 am today, the Conservatives' leadership was to begin deciding whether to resume coalition negotiations with the SPOe, or go into opposition and give up much of its power. In an analysis of the OeVP's strategy [...]	2006-11-16 15:51:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3382	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 21, 2006 [...] Coalition talks between the People's Party and the Social Democrats resume on Wednesday, but speculation continues about what the next government will look like. Austrian President Heinz Fischer is calling for "serious and focused" coalition talks, adding he would welcome a deal by Christmas. [...]	2006-11-21 15:47:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3433	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 29, 2006 [...] Ahead of the next round of coalition talks on Thursday, the Social Democrats and the Conservatives have reached a compromise on the issue of pension increases: Both sides approved raising pensions next year by 1.6 percent and providing a single payment between 25 and 60 Euros. Minimum pensions [...]	2006-11-29 16:00:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3475	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 04, 2006 [...] The next round of talks between representatives from the SPOe and the OeVP to form a grand coalition begins today. At the top of the agenda are issues including government and administrative reforms, as well as social affairs, such as the details and financing of the proposed basic security pay [...]	2006-12-04 15:20:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3531	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 12, 2006 [...] In the dispute over a Social Affairs Ministry ruling, Interior Minister Liese Prokop has now taken the edge off Social Affairs Minister Ursula Haubner's controversial decree, which denied family benefits to the children of some foreign-born mothers living legally in Austria. In the future, the [...]	2006-12-12 15:48:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
06VIENNA3584	AUSTRIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Per reftel, Post is submitting the 2006 Country Report on Terrorism for Austria. Embassy POC for this report is Economic-Political Officer Dayna R. Robison, office phone: 43-1-31339-2196 and email: RobisonDR(at sign)state.gov. Post emailed the updated Intellipedia version of this report to [...]	2006-12-20 13:07:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM KPAO KHLS AEMR EFIN AU
06VIENNA506	AUSTRIAN, DANISH FMS MEET WITH MUSLIM [...] (U) Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, in her capacity as EU Council President, and Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller held an informal meeting with leading Muslim Representatives in Vienna on February 16. Participants included the leader of the Islamic Faith Community in Bosni [...]	2006-02-17 16:01:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM EUN SY DA BK TU SP AU
06VIENNA540	AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Austrians have organized a broad range of law enforcement and counterterrorism-related meetings and seminars during their EU Presidency from January - June 2006. The recently adopted (December 6, 2005) EU Council paper on "A Strategy for the External Dimension of JHA: Global [...]	2006-02-22 10:39:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KCRM SNAR EFIN ETTC AU EUN
06VILNIUS573	LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT: EU INCOMPLETE WITHOUT TURKEY [...] (SBU) President Adamkus argued for the eventual accession of Turkey to the European Union in a June 17 interview with Turkish newspaper Miliyet, according to the Lithuanian press. Adamkus plans to make an official visit to Turkey later this week, where he will meet President Sezer, PM Erdogan, [...]	2006-06-19 13:48:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL LH TU
06YEREVAN1091	AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...]	2006-08-09 13:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU
06YEREVAN1396	ARMENIANS WORRIED ABOUT EFFECTS OF GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] (C) Public statements from Armenian officials are generally calm and balanced, but acknowledge the effects on Armenia of the Russian blockade of Georgia. Privately, officials are more concerned, and more of them blame Georgia than Russia. PM Markarian told visiting DAS Matt Bryza on October [...]	2006-10-06 10:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AM
06YEREVAN1484	ASSESSING KURDISH MILITANCY IN ARMENIA -- SO FAR, [...] (S) PKK activities in Armenia seem thus far to be fairly low-level, though Armenia's Yezidi community -- an ethnic minority related to Kurds by blood and language -- may be receptive to PKK outreach. Among other things, we have heard reports that the PKK sends money to some Armenian Yezidi a [...]	2006-10-24 09:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1512	MEDIA REACTION TO A/S FRIED'S STATEMENTS ON FRENCH [...] (U) Armenian media broadly covered A/S Fried's October 20 remarks in Brussels on a bill approved by France's lower chamber of parliament that would criminalize denial of the "Armenian genocide." Major television stations and a number of newspapers and news agencies covered Fried's remarks, wit [...]	2006-10-27 11:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1529	CONCERN BUT NOT PANIC: ARMENIAN BUSINESSES COPE WITH CLOSURE OF THE GEORGIA-RUSSIA BORDER [...] (SBU) While Armenian officials have voiced considerable concern about the economic impact of the Georgian-Russian border closing, the Armenian business community's response has been relatively mild and fatalistic. Some local exporters report a 30 percent increase in shipping costs to Russia, [...]	2006-10-31 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAGR AM KFRD
06YEREVAN1645	JAVAKHETI: AN ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Georgia,s predominantly Armenian Samstkhe-Javakheti (S-J) region periodically makes news in Armenia, colored by the local perception here that Georgians treat their Armenian minority shabbily. Armenian government officials have not generally complained on this theme, but others, including [...]	2006-11-27 13:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG AM
06YEREVAN1706	ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) Members of parliament debated the country's first-ever draft National Security Strategy December 1. Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian presented the draft and moderated a remarkably civil and constructive discussion. Heads of foreign missions, representatives of NGOs and journalists were in [...]	2006-12-12 09:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN315	N-K: KOCHARIAN'S PRIME-TIME INTERVIEW [...] (SBU) In a rare, 45-minute television interview aired live on March 2, President Kocharian addressed Nagorno-Karabakh and OSCE-Minsk Group-led negotiations at Rambouillet in February. Looking fully at ease and in complete control of the scene, Kocharian answered questions from a carefully se [...]	2006-03-02 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN692	ARMENIA'S SYUNIK MARZ: NOT MUCH GROWTH AND LITTLE [...] (C) Armenia's southern Syunik region feels very little of the economic growth that is now so obvious in the capital. Separated from the rest of Armenia by mountains and connected by a two-lane road occasionally washed out by landslides, Syunik borders the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhichevan on the [...]	2006-05-19 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN819	TURKISH MP'S VISIT TO ARMENIA MARRED BY HEATED [...] (C) A member of the Turkish parliament made Armenian news June 13 when he got into a verbal scuffle with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosyan during a rare visit to Armenia. Twenty parliamentarians visited Armenia June 12-14 on an information-gathering trip managed by the NATO i [...]	2006-06-15 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL TU AM
06YEREVAN840	TOP ADVISER CLAIMS KOCHARIAN ORDERED TOUGHER [...] (C) Presidential National Security Adviser Garnik Isaghulyan told us June 21 that President Kocharian ordered law enforcement officials to toughen court verdicts for human traffickers and ensure that criminals are sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. This instruction was delivered at a [...]	2006-06-22 03:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG TU AE AM
07ADANA1	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 27, 2006 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for December 27, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. CUMHURIYET / TOPLUMSAL DEMOKRASI: [...]	2007-01-08 11:14:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA100	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 28-31, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for July 28-31, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET/SABAH/CUMHURIYET/YENI SAFAK [...]	2007-08-01 14:44:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA102	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 01 -03, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 01-03, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. GUNDEM: The DTP-supported parliame [...]	2007-08-06 07:37:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA103	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 04-08 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 04-08, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET: A remote-controlled PKK [...]	2007-08-09 10:51:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA104	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 9-10, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 9-10, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET: The Turkish Foreign Minis [...]	2007-08-13 11:06:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA106	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 27, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): All M [...]	2007-08-29 11:01:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA107	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 28, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 28, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET: Turkish General Staff [...]	2007-08-29 11:02:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA2	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 28, 2006 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for December 28, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. ZAMAN / BOLGE / EKSPRES: Mayo [...]	2007-01-08 11:17:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA20	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 14, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. BOLGE / HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / EKSPRE [...]	2007-02-15 13:06:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA21	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 16, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-16 09:44:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA25	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 21, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 21, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL 2. BOLGE: Eric Green, U.S. Consul to A [...]	2007-02-22 07:17:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA28	DTP CO-CHAIRMEN SENTENCED TO 1.5 YEARS IMPRISONMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Two co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish DTP were sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for violating laws which forbid speaking in non-Turkish languages during political meetings or party campaigns, and using honorific titles or phrases praising crimes or criminals, such as jailed PKK lead [...]	2007-02-27 15:00:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA29	GRAMEEN BANK: HELPING TURKEY'S POOREST [...] (SBU) Using the micro-credit model established by its parent bank in Bangladesh, Grameen's branch in Turkey has been offering loans - and life-coaching - to poor vendors, craftswomen and farmers in Diyarbakir. Though Grameen now has six offices with ambitious expansion plans throughout SE Turk [...]	2007-03-06 06:49:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TU
07ADANA38	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 13, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-13 13:51:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA39	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 13, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-14 10:39:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA41	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 15, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 09:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA51	TURKEY-IRAQ TRADE SUFFERING FROM INSTABILITY AND A CONGESTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's trade with Iraq has suffered in recent months due to increased instability in Iraq, continuing problems at Habur Gate and inadequate banking services. The situation at Habur dismays many businessmen since, even though the facilities there have been upgraded, it still t [...]	2007-04-06 06:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON TU
07ADANA52	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 06, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-06 12:18:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA69	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 09, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for May 09, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / EKSPRES / SABAH (GUNEY): [...]	2007-05-10 05:14:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA7	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 1, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-16 06:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA76	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 05, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 05, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. EVRENSEL / GUNDEM: The Gundem dai [...]	2007-06-07 05:25:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA77	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 06., 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 06, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): The da [...]	2007-06-07 12:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA78	TURKISH KURDISH SOUTHEAST: ELECORAL ARITHMETIC [...] (SBU) The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) released its list of 65 "independent" candidates who will compete for parliament in Turkey's July 22 general election, hoping to elect MPs after 13 years during which no Kurdish nationalists were represented. The DTP-endorsed list includes c [...]	2007-06-08 09:56:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
07ADANA79	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 11, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 11, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET: A large anti-PKK publi [...]	2007-06-11 11:36:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA81	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 14, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 14, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / EKSPRES / ZAMAN: Osman [...]	2007-06-14 14:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA83	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 15, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 15, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. EKSPRES ONLINE/ HABERLER.COM / HABER3. [...]	2007-06-18 10:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA84	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 20, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 20, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / EKSPRES: MHP Adana part [...]	2007-06-20 14:07:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA86	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 22, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 22, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / EKSPRES: CHP National L [...]	2007-06-22 11:45:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA90	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 27, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Hakkari Jandar [...]	2007-06-27 14:11:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA91	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 28, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Hakkari Jandar [...]	2007-06-28 09:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADANA99	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 21-27, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for July 21-27, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. CUMHURIYET/EVRENSEL/HURRIYET/YENI S [...]	2007-07-27 12:27:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07AMMAN4444	DESPITE CONCERNS, SENIOR OFFICIALS TELL AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of meetings with senior Jordanian government officials on October 28, Ambassador Crocker noted that the surge had been successful, stressed that opportunities remain to constrain Iran, and emphasized the importance and potential impact of an Arab diplomatic presence [...]	2007-11-01 18:13:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET//NOFORN	IZ JO PGOV PREL
07ANKARA10	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-04 13:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1002	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-27 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1003	TURKEY'S PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: OPPOSITION DEMANDS [...] (U) Turkey's Constitutional Court will now decide the course of the country's presidential election. A total of 361 MPs voted in the April 27 first round, with 357 votes going to ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate Abdullah Gul. The total number of votes cast fell six short [...]	2007-04-27 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1006	TURKEY: TGS STATEMENT SUPPORTS SECULARISTS; GOT [...] (SBU) Summary: At approximately 11:30 pm on April 27, the Turkish General Staff issued a strongly worded statement, warning of the dangers of "fundamentalism", identifying as enemies of the State those who do not ascribe to Ataturk's statement, "How happy is he who can say he is a Turk," and d [...]	2007-04-28 13:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR ECON TU
07ANKARA1014	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-30 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1017	TURKEY: FIFTH TIFA TALKS SEE CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The fifth meeting of the U.S.-Turkey Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting convened April 12 - 13 in Washington, D.C. The issue-packed agenda included substantive discussions on agricultural market access, the Doha Round, the Generalized System of Pref [...]	2007-05-01 06:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR KIPR TU
07ANKARA1024	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-01 14:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1025	TURKEY HEADED TO EARLY GENERAL ELECTIONS [...] (U) Turkey's Constitutional Court announced late Mary 1 that it has accepted the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) petition to annul the first round of presidential voting on the ground that the required quorum was not present. CHP had argued that 367 -- the two-thirds of the members [...]	2007-05-01 16:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA1027	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 13:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1035	TURKISH POLITICAL STAND-OFF TRIGGERS MIXED [...] (C) Summary. Turks across the spectrum agree that early parliamentary elections are the only way out of the current stand-off. That, and PM Erdogan's miscalculation in nominating FM Gul, may be the only things on which they do agree. Many see the May 1 Constitutional Court decision as posit [...]	2007-05-02 17:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
07ANKARA1039	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-03 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1042	TURKEY SUPPORTS U.S. PROPOSAL BUT WILL NOT [...] (SBU) According to Hasan Yalcin, Turkish Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) Deputy Director General for Multilateral Agreements, Turkey supports the U.S. proposal but wants an agreement with the EC that would consolidate the two papers into one compromise proposal. He added that it would be [...]	2007-05-03 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO TU
07ANKARA1043	TURKEY TAKES ITS PKK PROBLEM TO THE UNITED NATIONS [...] (C) On instructions from MFA Undersecretary (D-equivalent) Apakan, Head of Section for Iraq Aydin Selcen provided to us May 2 a copy of a letter dated April 27 from the Turkish UN Perm Rep, Baki Ilkin, to UNSYG Moon. The letter (full text in para. 4) reiterates Turkey's commitment to help Iraq [...]	2007-05-03 14:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AORC TU IZ
07ANKARA1046	TURKEY'S GENERAL ELECTION CALENDAR [...] On May 3, the Turkish parliament voted 458 to 0 for early general elections to be held on July 22, 2007. Turkey's Supreme Election Board (SEB) has prepared a draft schedule for parliamentary elections, based on the July 22 date. The calendar will start to run immediately, unless a party obje [...]	2007-05-04 07:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
07ANKARA105	ISPARTA: SMELLING THE ROSES WHILE WAITING FOR PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Isparta, five hours southwest of Ankara, is a central Anatolian city of 150,000, aptly nicknamed "The Land of Roses" owing to its production of sixty percent of the world's rose oil. A candidate for the GOT's expanded regional investment incentives program, Isparta was ultima [...]	2007-01-19 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON TU

07ANKARA1052	TURKEY PRESSING FOR SEAT AT ESDP TABLE [...] (C) Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General for NATO Affairs Serdar Kilic told us May 4 that Turkey is awaiting the EU's answer on its request for increased participation in ESDP, inclusion in the European Defense Agency (EDA),and progress on the Security Agreement between Turkey and the EU. [...]	2007-05-04 16:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1054	TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO REPEAT PRESIDENTIAL VOTE ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has scheduled a repeat of the first round of voting for their presidential candidate, FM Abdullah Gul, for May 6. If they are unable to muster a 367 member quorum, as required by a May 1 Constitutional Court decision [...]	2007-05-04 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1056	TURKISH PARLIAMENT STALLED ON PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. On May 6, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was unable to muster the 367 quorum required for parliament to repeat the first round of voting on FM Gul's controversial presidential candidacy. While Gul announced before the session began that he would w [...]	2007-05-06 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1066	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-07 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1070	PERSPECTIVES ON THE TURKISH MILITARY'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The effects of the Turkish General Staff's (TGS) April 27 "midnight memo" continue to be debated in Ankara. Universally regarded as a stern warning targeting an Abdullah Gul presidency, the military's message was justified in the view of our secular establishment contacts who do n [...]	2007-05-07 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS TU
07ANKARA1071	TURKEY: TURKS OF TWO MINDS ON THE MILITARY'S [...] (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT. Two main streams of thought assess the current political crisis in Turkey: one, that the ruling party's behavior compelled the military to take action; and two, that (even if the party's behavior or perceived agenda caused profound concerns) military intervention was [...]	2007-05-07 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL TU
07ANKARA1072	TURKISH YOUTH PARTY MANEUVERING FOR MERGER [...] (C) As the constitutional crisis over the presidency begins to wind down and general elections for parliament move into gear, political parties across the partisan spectrum are maneuvering for advantage. The recent decision by the center-right True Path and Motherland parties to unite has bee [...]	2007-05-07 15:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1081	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-08 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1084	TURKEY: BUSINESS INCREASINGLY WORRIED BY POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Turkish markets and businesses remain hopeful that a resolution will be found to the ongoing political turmoil. Market movements are subdued and direct investment continues to flow in. But more fundamentally, businesspeople worry that prospects for a political outcome that wo [...]	2007-05-08 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV TU
07ANKARA1085	TURKEY PLEASED WITH SHARM MINISTERIAL, SEEKS INPUT [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is generally happy with the Sharm ministerial but seeks clarification ASAP on Iraq's plans for follow-on working groups (WGs),GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol told the Ambassador May 8. Celikkol asked for U.S. assistance in ascertaining what Iraq wants for the WGs -- e [...]	2007-05-08 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PREF PTER UN TU IZ SY
07ANKARA1091	TURKEY: FM GUL AS THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES MASTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 11:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU
07ANKARA1092	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL NELSON/LOTT (MAY 25 - [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for CODEL Nelson/Lott. Chris Friefeld, Political Officer, is your Control Officer for Istanbul and Izmir. He can be reached at: Office 011-90-212-335-9288; Home: 011-90-212-351-0511; Cellular: 011-90-532-601-7779. Chris Krafft, Pol [...]	2007-05-09 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TU RU EI
07ANKARA1093	GROWTH HELPING ANATOLIAN BACKWATERS, BUT WORRIES ABOUT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV TU
07ANKARA1094	TURKEY: INTELLECTUALS TAKE A STAND AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and COMMENT. Two hundred five Turkish writers, artists, journalists, and human rights lawyers attached their names to a strongly worded condemnation of military interference in the political process. The statement is a leftist interpretation of the military's April 27 e-memoran [...]	2007-05-09 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TU
07ANKARA1096	TURKISH REACTIONS TO POLITICAL CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with two advisors to PM Erdogan, two former leaders on the left, an influential Ankara business figure, and three key journalists portray a range of views regarding Turkey's ongoing political turmoil and where it may lead. -- The ruling Justice and Development Par [...]	2007-05-10 05:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU US
07ANKARA11	TURKEY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CONTROVERSY GATHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition's effort to prevent Prime Minister Erdogan from becoming Turkey's next president in May is underway; following the January 1-3 national holiday, skirmishes look set to intensify. Attempts to find a constitutional basis for calling early elections (reftel A) or neut [...]	2007-01-04 14:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA110	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-19 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1102	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RANDALL E. DEPAUL AND [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Randall E. Depaul and William J. Tuttle. Christina Bobrow, Political Officer, is your Control Officer for Ankara. She can be reached at: Office 011-90-312-457-7250; Home: 011-90-312-491-7700; Cellular: 011-90-555-358-6803. Rusty [...]	2007-05-10 10:07:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TU
07ANKARA1104	TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' VIEWS ON ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 11:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA1107	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1108	TURKEY'S GOVERNING BIG TENT PARTY -- SPLITS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The political crisis sparked by Foreign Minister Gul's failed bid for the presidency has exacerbated pre-existing divisions within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). While AKP has always been a "big tent" coalition of the devout, the moderate, the nationalists and t [...]	2007-05-10 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1112	TURKEY: COURT PRESIDENT ISSUES WARNING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The President of the Council of State (Danistay, Turkey's highest administrative court),Sumru Cortoglu, used her remarks on the court's anniversary to issue a thinly veiled warning to the government. She held PM Erdogan's government accountable for the 2006 attack th [...]	2007-05-10 15:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1113	YOUR MAY 14 VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (C) Admiral, I look forward to your visit, the first to Turkey by a Chief of Naval Operations in two decades. It fits into work we have been engaged in for over two years to revive mil-mil cooperation that declined sharply after March 2003 and to restore high-level dialogue generally that has [...]	2007-05-10 15:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS TU
07ANKARA1119	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR INR/TNC ANALYST HEATHER [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to INR/TNC Analyst Heather Tsvaris. Post understands no assistance is requested. If assistance is required, you may contact the Political Counselor, Janice Weiner. She can be reached at Office: 011-90-312-457-7220; Cellular: 011-90-5 [...]	2007-05-11 08:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PTER TU
07ANKARA1130	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORT- (APR 2007) [...] Summary: The Wisconsin Project Team provided a presentation on their open source database to Government of Turkey (GOT) representatives. The database will assist GOT officials to process export licenses and investigate suspect companies/individuals. Department of Commerce contractors compl [...]	2007-05-11 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA1131	TURKEY REACTS MORE IN SORROW THAN ANGER TO [...] (C) We discussed the Armenian government's refusal to allow a team of Turkish OSCE election observers into the country with MFA Acting Deputy Director General Suleyman Gokce on several occasions this week, most recently on May 10. Gokce emphasized that Turkey had good intentions in sending o [...]	2007-05-11 12:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
07ANKARA1135	UPDATE ON TURKEY'S IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCRS 1737 [...] (C) Summary: MFA Head of Department for South Asia Murat Ahmet Yoruk told us May 11 that the implementing language for UNSCR 1737 is still awaiting the approval of the Council of Ministers and that the UNSCR 1747 implementation package has not yet been forwarded to the Prime Ministry. The GOT [...]	2007-05-11 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	KNNP PARM EAIR IR TU
07ANKARA1136	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-11 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1137	TURKEY INFORMED THAT CYPRUS HAS JOINED THE GI; MFA [...] (C) We confirmed for MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Head of Section Serhan Yigit on May 10 that the U.S. had received a diplomatic note from the Government of Cyprus advising of Cyprus' intent to join the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, Cyprus' support for the Global Initiativ [...]	2007-05-11 14:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KGIC KNNP PINR PINS PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA1139	HOW TURKISH POLITICS REACHED ITS CURRENT IMPASSE - [...] (SBU) The following is a somewhat speculative appraisal of how Turkey -- its ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),the opposition and the military -- reached its current level of political turmoil. 2. (C) Power centers across the board made wrong-headed, if typically Turkish, decisi [...]	2007-05-11 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1147	TURKEY: IZMIR "REPUBLIC RALLY" ECLIPSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sunday's enormous demonstration in Izmir caps a series of "Republic Rallies," in which pro-secular Turks turned out to demonstrate against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The massive crowds and stunning visuals of red Turkish flags against the blue Aegean Sea ec [...]	2007-05-14 14:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1148	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-14 14:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1149	TURKEY: INTELLECTUALS OPPOSE MILITARY'S [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. A group of 500 intellectuals issued a declaration May 13 against the Turkish military's April 27 e-memorandum. Echoing the message of a May 7 statement by 205 intellectuals (reftel),the signatories rejected the e-memorandum: "We openly declare that we have the right [...]	2007-05-14 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA115	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-22 10:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA1154	TURKISH MILITARY COURT ISSUES FIRST CONVICTION OF [...] (SBU) In its first sentencing of an active-duty general officer, a Turkish military court convicted Third Army Commander, and previous ISAF Commander, GEN Erdem Erdagi of misusing his authority by accepting a bribe for the award of a military construction tender during his 2002 to 2004 command [...]	2007-05-15 12:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR TU
07ANKARA116	TURKISH DEFMIN GONUL'S VISIT: SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Defense Gonul's January 25-26 visit, preceding the February visits of Foreign Minister Gul and Chief of the General Staff GEN Buyukanit, provides an opportunity to reaffirm the US commitment on Iraq; urge a measured Turkish response to a possible Congressional Armenian [...]	2007-01-22 11:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AR
07ANKARA1160	Update on PKK Violence (April 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-05-15 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1163	TURKISH TREASURY OFFICIALS ON IRAQ DEBT [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish officials at Sharm expressed willingness to engage with Iraqi officials on the issue of official bilateral Iraqi debt to Turkey. Turkish Treasury officials continue to work on reconciliation of Iraqi debt, both with Turkish state institutions holding claims and with Ir [...]	2007-05-15 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN IZ TU
07ANKARA1174	SCENESETTER FOR TRANSCOM/CC GENERAL SCHWARTZ MAY [...] (C) Summary: Your arrival comes at a crucial political moment as the derailed presidential bid of FM Gul has forced an early parliamentary election scramble. The Turkish General Staff,s (TGS) April 27 harsh statement against the nomination of FM Gul as president, and Gul,s subsequent withdraw [...]	2007-05-16 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU
07ANKARA1175	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1176	TURKEY LOOKS SERIOUSLY AT KYOTO PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey is a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),but has never signed the Kyoto Protocol. Turkish officials are looking seriously at the Kyoto Protocol, both because adopting it is a requirement of the daunting environment chapter of the EU "acqu [...]	2007-05-16 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENGR SENV EAGR 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
07ANKARA1188	TURKEY/KOSOVO: GOT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AHTISAARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey continues to support the Ahtisaari process and his report, and is concerned about Russian objectives and veto threats. The GOT has reached out to some UNSC member states to urge support for Ahtisaari's plan, including both Indonesia and Qatar in the context of the Organiza [...]	2007-05-17 13:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI TU
07ANKARA1189	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-17 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1190	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF BELIEVES PKK CEASEFIRE WILL [...] (S) Turkish General Staff J-2 (Intelligence) LTGEN Guner told us May 17 that the Turkish military believes the PKK will end its self-declared ceasefire on May 18 and it has ordered its terrorist cadres to commence attacks on Turkish soil. Guner claimed the TGS has information that the PKK has [...]	2007-05-17 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PTER MOPS PREL IZ TU
07ANKARA1191	TURKEY: KURDISH ACTIVIST ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary and comment: A long-time Kurdish activist offered us a window into her tense, confused post-April 27 world. We have no way to judge the validity of her observations, but she conveyed a greater level of concern than usual. She described an unusually heavy military presence in Hak [...]	2007-05-17 15:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS PTER PHUM TU
07ANKARA1192	MFA U/S APAKAN ON TURKEY'S ESDP COMPLAINTS, [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan told Ambassador on May 15 that Turkey's complaints about its role within the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) have not been resolved, but stated that Turkey was committed to a positive transition in Kosovo. Ambassador urged a rapid resolution of [...]	2007-05-17 16:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO TU
07ANKARA1202	Update on PKK Violence (May 1-15, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-05-18 12:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1203	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-18 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1206	TURKISH COURT OVERTURNS CONVICTIONS OF TWO ACCUSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Turkish appeals court on May 16 overturned the convictions of two jandarma non-commissioned officers (NCO) indicted for their role in the November 2005 bombing of a bookstore in the southeastern city of Semdinli and ruled that the case should have been tried by a military court. [...]	2007-05-18 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS 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
07ANKARA1216	U/S APAKAN'S POINTS ON CYPRUS [...] (C) MFA U/S Ertugrul Apakan told Ambassador on May 15 that Turkey hopes the UN report on Cyprus will contain a reference to the May 28, 2004 UN report. Apakan complained that the buffer zone was being extended at the expense of Turkish Cypriots. He provided Ambassador with a paper containin [...]	2007-05-21 08:44:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY TU
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
07ANKARA1223	TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION IN THE MAY 31-JUNE 1 OSCE [...] (C) We delivered reftel talking points and conference agenda May 16 jointly with Russian Embassy First Secretary Dmitri Zykov to Ceylan Oskiper, Head of Department for OSCE, MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department, urging a high-level, mulit-sectoral Turkish delegation. Oskipper thanked u [...]	2007-05-21 11:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN TU
07ANKARA1229	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 13:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA123	Turkey: U.S. Companies Worried about Business [...] (SBU) Summary. Many U.S. companies in Turkey feel they are missing out on Turkey's economic boom. They blame the persistence of traditional ways of doing business, including corruption and opaque regulatory practices, but also fault U.S. companies' lack of awareness of the substantial impro [...]	2007-01-23 11:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD BEXP PREL TU
07ANKARA1230	Update on PKK Violence (May 1-15, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-05-21 13:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1232	TURKEY: MFA ON KOSOVO/ESDP DISPUTE [...] (C) We followed up on the possibility of compromise language on the Kosovo Transitional Directive mentioned by D/CHOD Saygun (ref a) with MFA NATO Deputy Director General Serdar Kilic on May 21. Aware of our May 18 conversation with Saygun, Kilic provided a copy of NATO document MCM-0118-200 [...]	2007-05-21 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1233	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun called us and Russian polcouns Dimitri Zykov in on May 21 to notify us officially of the Turkish government's decision to lower its level of participation in the Global Initiative based on Cyprus' admission as a partner. Speaking on instr [...]	2007-05-21 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP ETTC CY TU
07ANKARA1239	GOT ABRUPTLY FIRES ITS SPECIAL ENVOY TO COMBAT PKK [...] (C) Summary: On May 21, the Turkish government fired its Special Envoy to combat the PKK, GEN (r) Baser, citing the general's negative public comments on the trilateral (U.S.-Iraq-Turkey) process. The GOT named MFA Deputy Undersecretary Akgunay as his replacement, signaling a continuation of [...]	2007-05-22 09:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL TU UZ US
07ANKARA1242	Scenesetter for the Visit of CODEL Nelson/Lott to Turkey [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes at a time of domestic political tumult and continued Turkish anxiety over Iraq and the PKK. Turkey stands at a crucial political crossroads as early parliamentary elections near. Officials here will be eager for an update on the ongoing congressional debate ove [...]	2007-05-22 13:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER ETRD PGOV TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1243	Scenesetter for the Visit of the Congressional Study Group [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes at a time of domestic political tumult and continued Turkish anxiety over Iraq and the PKK. Turkey stands at a crucial political crossroads as early parliamentary elections near. Officials here will be eager for an update on the ongoing congressional debate ove [...]	2007-05-22 13:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER ETRD PGOV TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1245	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1248	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL KATZ (MAY 26-29) [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Staff Delegation Katz. Jeffrey Collins, Political Officer will be your Control Officer for Ankara, Turkey. He can be reached at Office: 011-90-312-457-7191; Cellular: 011-90-532-620-3849. Katharina Gollner-Sweet, Public Affairs Off [...]	2007-05-23 06:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM TU IS
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
07ANKARA1259	TURKEY REVIEWING REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Per reftel request, we approached MFA Middle East Head of Department Sedat Onal on May 23 with the urgent request for a donation of ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and for continued public statements by the Turkish government in support of the Lebanese government and the LAF [...]	2007-05-23 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER TU LE
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
07ANKARA128	TURKEY: ADVANCE SPECIAL 301 INITIATIVE RESPONSE [...] (U) Turkish officials welcomed the opportunity to work with us on intellectual property issues in advance of the regular "Special 301" season. We coordinated with several Turkish government agencies, including the Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU),which is responsible for ensuring that Tur [...]	2007-01-23 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV 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
07ANKARA1282	TURKEY: DIRECT LEBANESE REQUEST FOR AMMUNITION [...] (C) On May 24, DCM and visiting TRANSCOM Commander Gen. Schwartz raised the LAF ammunition request with Deputy Chief of Staff GEN Ergin Saygun and J-4 Logistics Chief LTG Arslan. We also notified the MFA Middle East Department and the Turkish General Staff (TGS) of the specific request for 105 [...]	2007-05-25 11:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER TU LE
07ANKARA1283	TURKISH-AMERICAN PROJECT LAUNCHES GAS PRODUCTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With political speeches and fireworks alarmingly close to a heroic gas plume, the U.S. oil development company Toreador feted new gas production at its Black Sea facility on May 20. Toreador has overcome significant problems in bringing its production on line and connecting i [...]	2007-05-25 11:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET BEXP EINV TU
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
07ANKARA1291	TURKISH DCHOD COMPLAINS ABOUT US F-16 OVERFLIGHT [...] (S) The Turkish Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCHOD) GEN Ergin Saygun informed DCM on May 24 that two US F-16 aircraft violated Turkish airspace when they crossed the border from Iraq at approximately 12:01 that afternoon and crossed back into Iraq at 12:02 (Note: It is unclear whether th [...]	2007-05-25 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA1293	BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] We spoke with Roketsan General Director Huseyin Baysak and Roketsan Procurement Director Nevzat Caglayan May 25 concerning the use of U.S. Munitions List infrared camera systems in Roketsan's infrared laboratory. The Roketsan officials ensured us that Roketsan facilities are secured by electr [...]	2007-05-25 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC TU SW
07ANKARA1295	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1300	F-16 VIOLATION OF TURKISH AIRSPACE: PRESS [...] (C) The Turks first contacted us on May 24 to raise what they described as an obvious unintended violation of their airspace earlier in the day (ref a). In that discussion, D/CHOD Saygun told DCM that he was bringing the issue to our attention simply to avoid accidents in the future. We subs [...]	2007-05-29 12:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA1302	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-29 13:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1306	TURKEY REQUIRES SYRIAN CARGO PLANE TO LAND [...] (S/NF) MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Basat Ozturk told us late May 29 that Turkish authorities had required the Syrian cargo aircraft suspected of illicit arms transfers (reftels) to land for inspection at Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey. The aircraft compli [...]	2007-05-29 16:20:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PREL TU IR SY
07ANKARA1315	TURKISH PRESIDENT VETOES NUCLEAR ENERGY LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 8 the Turkish Parliament passed the long pending Nuclear Energy Law, but on May 24 President Sezer vetoed the legislation based on a few technical provisions concerning privatization and government obligations. Even in the unlikely event that the parliament overturns the [...]	2007-05-30 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV BEXP TU
07ANKARA1316	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1317	UN COUNTERTERRORISM COMMITTEE REINFORCES U.S. [...] (C) Summary: A group of experts from the UN counter-terrorism committee's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) visited Turkey May 11-21 to consult on Turkey's counter-terrorism regime, write a report, and identify training needs and other follow-up. The UN group honed in on [...]	2007-05-30 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN TU
07ANKARA1318	TURKEY WORRIED ABOUT TRANSFER OF SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Senior Turkish officials and MPs have expressed deep concern about the May 30 handover of security responsibility in northern Iraq from MNF-I to the KRG. The Turks' main concerns appear to be about control of the Iraq-Turkey border, but also extend to an apparent expansion of wha [...]	2007-05-30 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA132	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH TURKISH MFA U/S APAKAN -- [...] (C) Summary: In a January 19 meeting in Ankara, Turkish U/S Ertugrul Apakan told U/S Burns that Turkey supports the U.S. strategy of reinforcing Iraq with additional troops. He appealed for U.S. help on the PKK and for a delay in Kirkuk referendum. Apakan expressed concern about Iranian infl [...]	2007-01-24 08:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS TU IZ IR
07ANKARA1324	TURKEY: ANTI-PKK ENVOY AKGUNAY WANTS CONCRETE [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, Ambassador reviewed the state of play on anti-PKK efforts with Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay, who replaced retired General Edip Baser as Turkey's envoy for combating PKK terrorism following Baser's May 21 dismissal (ref b). Ambassador noted progress on U.S.-Turke [...]	2007-05-31 08:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA1326	TURKISH MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS ON IRAQI BORDER: [...] (S) Summary: The Turkish military has substantial forces in the southeastern region, as reported previously, and is using those forces aggressively in counter-terrorist operations against the PKK. In this highly charged pre-election atmosphere, exacerbated by the May 22 Ankara bombing and the [...]	2007-05-31 11:56:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA1331	TURKEY: STILL CONSIDERING AMMUNITION FOR LEBANESE [...] (C) WE CONTINUE TO PRESS THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER PROVIDING EXCESS AMMUNITION, ESPECIALLY 105MM TANK ROUNDS, TO THE LEBANESE ARMED FORCES (LAF) ON AN URGENT BASIS (REFTELS). AMBASSADOR RAISED THE ISSUE IN THE COURSE OF A MAY 29 MEETING WITH MFA UNDERSECRETARY APAKAN. APAKAN REPORTE [...]	2007-05-31 13:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS LE TU
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
07ANKARA1347	PKK TRAIN DERAILMENT REVEALS ARMS FROM IRAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Weapons were found in the wreckage of a Turkish train coming from Iran and bound for Syria derailed by a PKK mine in Bingol province on May 25. Chief of Defense General Yasar Buyukanit confirmed to reporters the presence of un-manifested weapons on the train. See ref for othe [...]	2007-06-01 13:05:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ETTC PTER US IR SY 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
07ANKARA135	TURKEY REQUESTS CONTINGENCY SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Turkish Consul General to Mosul, H. Avni Botsali, plans to deploy permanently in early February. Botsali told us that -- despite some tense moments -- he has a good relationship with Ninewah Governor Kashmoula, though [...]	2007-01-24 11:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV TU IZ US
07ANKARA1350	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EUROPEAN DEPUTY ASSISTANT [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to European Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew J. Bryza. Your Control Officer for Ankara is Political Officer, Anthony Renzulli. He can be reached at Embassy: 011-90-312-4576-7178; Home: 011-90-312-442-1804; Cell: 011-90-554-671-4877. [...]	2007-06-01 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TU LA NO
07ANKARA1351	TURKEY/NATO/ESDP: UK NATO PERMREP MAKES LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: UK NATO PermRep Stewart Eldon made little headway with the Turks during May 30 ESDP/Kosovo discussions in Ankara. The UK plans to encourage NATO SYG Solana to offer proposals prior to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Summit in Istanbul, June 24-25. In meetings with MFA [...]	2007-06-01 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EU TU
07ANKARA1352	SULEYMANIYAH INCIDENT HITS RAW NERVE; TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: The encounter between Turkish Special Forces and Peshmerga security units in Suleymaniyah on June 1 sparked a reaction throughout the Turkish government. The Turkish General Staff issued a public statement about the encounter which included a warning that another such incident w [...]	2007-06-02 16:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	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

07ANKARA1360	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-04 05:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1370	TURKEY ON RUSSIA'S CFE CONCERNS AND HLTF [...] (C) We shared reftel points with MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun on June 1. Gun subsequently called us in on June 4 to provide MFA feedback in advance of the HLTF meeting. Gun reported that the Russians had circulated a second, more focused paper [...]	2007-06-04 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA1371	CODEL NELSON AND CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Bulent Arinc met May 28 with Codel Nelson and the Congressional Study Group on Turkey. Arinc focused his remarks on the solid, longstanding bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Turkey as well as Turkish concerns about the situation in Iraq a [...]	2007-06-04 13:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA1373	CODELS NELSON AND WHITFIELD MEETING WITH D/CHOD [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Chief of Defense General Ergin Saygun briefed Codels Nelson and Whitfield on May 28 on Turkey's contributions to regional peace and stability. He complained that some European nations were seeking to re-define trans-Atlantic security at NATO's expense. He described the [...]	2007-06-04 14:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PGOV PREL MARR TU
07ANKARA1374	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) We pressed ref a points June 4 with MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control Ahmet Muhtar Gun, urging Turkey to consider sending a higher level delegation to the GI meeting in Astana and stressing our efforts to ensure all partners understand the GI is not an appropriate forum for airi [...]	2007-06-04 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KGIC KNNP PREL CY TU
07ANKARA1376	TURKISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DISMISSES US [...] (C) GEN Aslan Guner, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Intelligence branch (J-2) informed us on June 1 that TGS is not upset about the May 24 incident in which a US F-16 crossed over into Turkish airspace for several minutes, stating that the Turkish media had overblown the situation. G [...]	2007-06-04 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA1381	TURKEY'S CENTER-RIGHT: A HOUSE DIVIDED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The eagerly anticipated merger of two center-right parties fizzled out over the weekend of June 2, running aground over mismanagement, mistrust, and massive egos. By bungling the merger, the two parties squandered the advantage they had to offer a viable alternative [...]	2007-06-04 15:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1390	TURKEY/IRAQ: MESSAGE RECEIVED ON MUQTADA AL-SADR [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche June 5 to MFA Head of Section for Iraq Aydin Selcen. Selcen reported that GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol had met with Sadrist representatives during his May 27-28 visit to Baghdad, and that the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad maintained contacts with some Sadr [...]	2007-06-05 12:56:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA1392	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-05 13:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1393	STATUS OF TURKISH ACTION ON IRAN SANCTIONS, BANK [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA officials claim that Turkey is on the verge of implementing UNSCR 1737, and will then implement 1747. Turkey will report to the Security Council on the status of its implementation of 1747 once it can confirm to the UN that it has implemented 1737. In the meantime, MF [...]	2007-06-05 14:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP TU IR
07ANKARA1396	TURKEY COMPLAINS ABOUT US C-130 CHAFF/FLARE [...] (SBU) We received a diplomatic note from the Foreign Ministry on June 4 registering a complaint that on May 20 a US C-130 transiting Turkish airspace en route from Iraq to Romania released chaff and flares just over the Iraqi border in Cizre, Turkey, and requesting the Embassy urge relevant US [...]	2007-06-05 15:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA1397	TURKEY: HOPE TO HAVE DECISION ON AMMUNITION FOR [...] (C) DURING A JUNE 6 MEETING FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON EVENTS IN AFGHANISTAN (REPORTED SEPTEL) AMBASSADOR PRESSED MFA DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY FOR MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA FERIDUN SINIRLIOGLU FOR A DECISION ON WHETHER TURKEY CAN PROVIDE EXCESS AMMUNITION, ESPECIALLY 105MM TANK ROUNDS, TO THE LEBANES [...]	2007-06-05 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS LE TU
07ANKARA1398	TURKISH ALARM ABOUT AFGHANISTAN ABATES; PRESSING [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE GOT BELIEVES THE JUNE 3 FIRING OF JOWZJAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR JUMA KHAN HAMDARD HAS TEMPORARILY ALLEVIATED TURKEY'S MOST IMMEDIATE CONCERN THAT TENSIONS BETWEEN AFGHANI PRESIDENT KARZAI AND WARLORD GENERAL ABDUL RASHID DOSTUM WOULD BUBBLE OVER. ACCORDING TO MFA OFFICIALS, KAR [...]	2007-06-05 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS AF TU
07ANKARA1399	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-06 05:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1406	REQUEST FOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS ON IRAN'S [...] (S) We need to keep Turkish military and government authorities focused on the medium to long-term threat posed by an Iran with nuclear weapons and long range delivery systems. As part of this effort, we must continue to stress with the Turks the geopolitical and physical dimensions of the th [...]	2007-06-06 07:11:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MCAP MNUC KNNP ETTC IR 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
07ANKARA1412	TURKEY-IRAN ADVANCE ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although negotiations have been long and difficult, Turkey continues to dally with Iran on energy cooperation. The visit of the Iranian Energy Minister (who is responsible for energy and electricity, but not oil and gas, issues) and a possible reciprocating visit by Guler to Ira [...]	2007-06-06 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA1413	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (MAY 2007) [...] Summary: Coordination continued for Turkish officials attending training events in June including: Radiation Detection and Response (RADACAD) training, International Rail Interdiction Training, and UGA Export Control Academy. Additional training opportunities were proposed to the Government [...]	2007-06-06 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA142	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, December 2006 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on December 28. Internal developments affecting Turkey's national security and the PKK terrorist organization topped the agenda. Recent developments in Iraq and the Iraq Study Group's report were discussed and Turkey's relat [...]	2007-01-24 15:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL AJ KG GR YI TS PK IS TU
07ANKARA1427	UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (MAY 16-31, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-06-07 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA1433	ICRC SEEKS TO ESTABLISH ROLE IN TURKEY AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: ICRC is working to establish a permanent presence in Turkey and to bring the Turkish Red Crescent into conformity with Geneva standards, according to the ICRC's new Turkey representative. ICRC also hopes to be able to establish contact with PKK detainees and to use Turkey as a co [...]	2007-06-07 10:51:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM 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
07ANKARA1440	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-07 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1441	TURKISH MILITARY ESTABLISHES TEMPORARY SECURITY [...] (U) The Turkish General Staff (TGS) website on June 7 posted the coordinates of four areas within the southeastern provinces of Siirt, Sirnak and Hakkari that will be designated as Temporary Security Zones for the purposes of military operations. Entry into and exit from these zones will be r [...]	2007-06-07 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PTER TU
07ANKARA1449	TURKISH MILITARY CALLS FOR PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO [...] (SBU) The Turkish General Staff (TGS) posted on its website (www.tsk.mil.tr) late in the evening of June 7 a press announcement regarding the recent (PKK) terrorist incidents in Turkey. The statement noted that Chief of Staff Buyukanit had predicted a rise in terrorist attacks; criticized tho [...]	2007-06-08 10:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER TU
07ANKARA1452	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-08 13:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1454	TURKEY-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS: FOCUS ON EU-NATO [...] (C) During June 4 EU Troika-Turkey consultations in Ankara, headed for the Turks by FM Abdullah Gul and State Minister/lead EU negotiator Ali Babacan and on the EU side by German FM Steinmeier, Turkey-EU-NATO relations was one of many topics discussed. According to German DCM Pruegel, FM Gul [...]	2007-06-08 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV EUN NATO TU
07ANKARA1456	TURKEY UNLIKELY TO MAKE MORE ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS IN [...] (C) We presented to MFA NATO Affairs Head of Department Ihsan Kiziltan on June 6 reftel request on critical ISAF shortfalls and the urgent need for more allied contributions of troops and equipment. Drawing on background points provided, we emphasized the current gaps in the Regional Command [...]	2007-06-08 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MOPS MARR AF 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
07ANKARA1477	TURKEY ELECTION LISTS POSTSCRIPT: CONVICTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Supreme Election Board's (SEB) scrub of proposed candidates for the election has cut out some would-be candidates for parliament and prompted one minor party to withdraw from the election altogether. The SEB's ruling that 131 of parliamentary candidate-applicants f [...]	2007-06-11 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL 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
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
07ANKARA1509	FIRST US-TURKEY MIL-MIL COMBINED PLANNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the initial bilateral US/Turkey Combined Planning Committee (CPC) meeting, hosted by the US European Command J-5 on May 22-24 in Stuttgart, US and Turkish action officers exchanged views and developed proposals on a full range of military-to-military cooperation. Separate [...]	2007-06-14 05:09:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS MASS TU
07ANKARA1515	TURKEY-EU TROIKA MEETINGS: TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey-EU Troika consultations held June 4 in Ankara were constructive and served to underscore the continued mutual commitment to pursuing eventual Turkish EU membership, according to GOT and EU officials. Turkey's membership aspirations continue, and the technical process, thou [...]	2007-06-14 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU 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
07ANKARA1531	ACTION REQUEST: U.S. DEFENSE ARTICLES IN CYPRUS [...] (U) Action Request. See Para 5. 2. (C) During a June 14 meeting with EUR DAS Matt Bryza on broader Cyprus issues (reported septel),MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Northeast Mediterranean and Americas Haydar SIPDIS Berk reiterated GOT concerns about perceived USG non-enforcement of the A [...]	2007-06-15 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CY GR TU
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
07ANKARA1539	TURKISH PRESIDENT SENDS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT [...] (U) President Sezer declined on June 15 to approve a controversial constitutional amendments that would allow for direct presidential elections, sending the package to referendum instead. Sezer also plans to apply to the constitutional court to annul the amendments on unspecified procedural g [...]	2007-06-15 14:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV 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
07ANKARA1561	TURKISH PRESIDENT ATTEMPTS TO BLOCK DIRECT [...] (U) Turkey's president filed a petition with the Constitutional Court on June 18, asking the court to annul the constitutional amendment package that would move the country to direct presidential elections (reftel). The Court will combine Sezer's challenge, which is based on procedural defec [...]	2007-06-19 09:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
07ANKARA1567	GUIDE TO TURKISH BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's cornucopia of business organizations is often impenetrable and confusing to outsiders. Following is a brief introduction to the major players. More on each is available on Intellipedia (classified) under the title "Turkish Business Associations." End Summary. ---- [...]	2007-06-19 13:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP BBSR ECON TU
07ANKARA1569	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1571	Update on PKK Violence (June 1-15, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-06-20 10:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1573	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-20 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1577	ONE VIEW ON TURKEY'S IRANIAN DIASPORA (C-TN7-00225) [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to one expert at a leading Turkish think tank, the Iranian population in Turkey numbers no more than fifty thousand, most of whom are students or other short-term economic migrants. Due to a fear of Iran's intelligence services, the Iranian community in Turkey maintai [...]	2007-06-21 06:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL SCUL AJ IR TU
07ANKARA1578	TURKEY: WIPO TREATIES RATIFIED IN MAY 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 8, Turkey published in its Official Gazette the ratification of WIPO's Copyright Agreement and Performances and Phonograms Treaty, a priority action listed for Turkey in USTR's 2006 Special 301 report. Foreign Trade Undersecretariat officials tell us that Turkey should co [...]	2007-06-21 06:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR USTR TU
07ANKARA1581	TURKEY: PRE-ELECTION TENSIONS HIGH IN THE SOUTHEAST [...] (C) Summary: Kurds in southeastern Turkey feel increasingly squeezed by a lethal combination of political, economic and geopolitical factors. In addition to pre-election political pressure, an increase in PKK violence and continued economic stagnation, community leaders believe Kurds in the [...]	2007-06-21 08:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA159	TURKISH MFA MEETS ARMENIAN DFM: PROGRESS BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: The January 24 meeting in Istanbul between Turkish MFA DG Resit Uman and Armenian DFM Kirakossian, which MFA undertook on FM Gul's instruction, appears to have made some progress in the countries' ongoing discussion about establishing commissions to look at both the events of 1915 [...]	2007-01-26 09:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
07ANKARA1590	TURKEY: ONE VOICE FROM VAN - WE ARE AT THE TIPPING [...] (C) Summary and comment: Lamenting that he had to focus on politics instead of economics, the Chamber of Commerce president in the eastern city of Van expressed serious concern over Turkey's current political-military conjuncture, predicting that if all parties do not engage in dialogue, the [...]	2007-06-21 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER TU
07ANKARA1598	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH MFA CAUCASUS DG UMAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. DAS Matt Bryza met in Ankara on June 14 with MFA Director General for Caucasus and Central Asia Resit Uman and MFA Director General for Policy Planning Altay Cengizer. DAS Bryza shared his views on the previous week's disappointing meeting of the Azeri and Armenian Presidents on [...]	2007-06-22 07:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV NATO OSCE AJ AM GG RU TU ZJ
07ANKARA1600	WARNING FROM TURKISH FORCES COMMANDER ON IRAQ [...] (S) Mission LNO on Turkey's border with Iraq was called in urgently the evening of June 21 by the local Turkish Special Forces brigade chief of staff and G-3 to be advised of intelligence on PKK plans to attack Turkish forces stationed in Iraq and receive notice of Turkey's intention to retalia [...]	2007-06-22 09:34:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER EUN TU US
07ANKARA1603	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-22 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1605	TURKEY CONFIRMS INTENT TO NOTIFY UNSC ABOUT [...] (C) MFA South Asia Head of Department Murat Yoruk confirmed on June 22 that Turkey fully intends to fulfill its obligations under UNSCRs 1737 and 1747 and notify the Security Council about the discovery of an Iranian weapons cache on board the train that derailed on May 25 in the Genc district [...]	2007-06-22 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PARM IZ SY 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
07ANKARA1616	COMMERCE D/S SAMPSON ENCOURAGES TURKEY TO RESOLVE TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 5-9 visit to Turkey, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dr. David Sampson discussed ways to improve SIPDIS the bilateral economic relationship with Turkey's Foreign Trade Minister, the Chairman of Turkey's largest business organization, and the Foreign Minister and [...]	2007-06-25 11:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV KIPR TU
07ANKARA1619	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1620	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, May 2007 [...] The 8th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF - the biennial Turkish defense fair) was held on May 22-25 in Ankara. 494 companies (333 foreign and 161 Turkish firms) from 48 countries participated in the fair, including 42 American companies. Many high level officials from different count [...]	2007-06-25 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL GG MK BK AF GR EG AJ QA BA SA LE
07ANKARA1628	TURKEY/NATO: TURKISH GENERAL STAFF VIEWS ON NATO [...] (C) Turkish Chief of Defense Buyukanit told visiting USAFE Commander Gen Hobbins June 22 that Turkey supports the NATO Response Force (NRF) concept and has earmarked forces for it. However, he claimed, there has been an effort to change the NRF concept from that of a "first-in/first-out" force [...]	2007-06-26 07:29:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO EUN
07ANKARA1630	USAFE GENERAL HOBBINS DISCUSSES IRAQ AIR [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkish Chief of Defense Gen Buyukanit and Turkish Air Force Chief Comert told USAFE Commander Gen Hobbins June 22 that Turkey is sensitive about U.S. reconnaissance and other aircraft operating close to the Turkish border in northern Iraq. Buyukanit warned that even small inc [...]	2007-06-26 08:06:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PTER MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA1634	Update on PKK Violence (June 16-22, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-06-26 13:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1644	ICAO ASSEMBLY: TURKEY INTERESTED IN SUPPORT BUT STILL [...] This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 12. 2. (SBU) Summary: According to MFA civil aviation officials, Turkey is interested in supporting several of the U.S. positions at the upcoming ICAO General Assembly, but Turkish officials will begin to meet in the next few weeks to formulate [...]	2007-06-27 08:04:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD ECON TU
07ANKARA1657	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY (JUN 30 - [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Alan Makovsky. Your control officer for Ankara will be Political Officer, Christina Bobrow. She can be reached at Office: 011-90-312-457-7250, Home: 011-90-312-491-7700; Cell: 011-90-555-358-6803. Your control officer for Is [...]	2007-06-27 14:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP TU GM
07ANKARA1658	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-27 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1660	TURKEY UNSATISFIED WITH CURRENT STATE OF EU [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey received the June 26 EU decision to open only two negotiating chapters rather than three with calm frustration. Turkish negotiators and business representatives reject the EU's technical justifications presented for not opening the economic and monetary union chapter, ar [...]	2007-06-27 16:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ECIN ETRD EUN FR TU
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
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
07ANKARA1683	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL GUREVICH [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Gene Gurevich. Your control officer for Ankara will be Political Officer, Christina Bobrow. She can be reached at Office: 011-90-312-457-7250, Home: 011-90-312-491-7700; Cell: 011-90-555-358-6803. Your control officer for Is [...]	2007-06-29 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP TU GE
07ANKARA1686	Mission Turkey: FAST Forward [...] (U) Mission Turkey's First and Second Tour (FAST) contingent is comprised of twenty-four generalists and fifteen specialists, assigned to Ankara, Istanbul, and Adana. The Mission's FAST program of professional development culminates each year in a day-long conference dedicated to discussion an [...]	2007-07-02 05:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER KSPR TU
07ANKARA1699	TURKEY TO CONSIDER CONTRIBUTION TO UN/AU OPERATION [...] (U) Per reftel request, we met with MFA Head of Department for Africa and East Asia Raif Karaca on July 3 to request Turkey consider a contribution of military troops and/or police officers to the UN/AU Hybrid Operation to be stood up in Darfur, Sudan. Karaca was familiar with the mission and [...]	2007-07-03 10:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS TU SU
07ANKARA1703	TURKEY STILL UNDECIDED ON AMMUNITION CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) Summary: We followed up with MFA Head of Department for Middle East Affairs Sedat Onal on July 2 to press for a contribution of 105MM and 155MM ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces to assist in their continuing battle against Fatah al-Islam. Onal said that, with national elections two [...]	2007-07-03 12:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER PREL PGOV TU LE
07ANKARA1705	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-03 12:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1708	Update on PKK Violence (June 23-30, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-07-03 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1709	Azeri Gas Arrives, Contract Issue Unresolved [...] (SBU) Summary. After months of delay, Turkish officials confirm that natural gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field should begin flowing into Turkey in the next few days despite the lack of resolution to the issue of the contract period. The head of Azerbaijan's SOCAR is coming to Turkey wi [...]	2007-07-05 05:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EINV TU
07ANKARA1710	TURKEY COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CHANDARLIS, [...] Embassy Ankara grants country clearance to CBP delegation of Mr. Michael Chandarlis, Mr. Patrick Christian, and Mr. Bobby Picket to travel to Ankara to conduct an EXBS Targeting and Risk Management Training Course from July 6 to 18, 2007. 2. Embassy Control Officer is Kevin Lyon who can be [...]	2007-07-05 06:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PARM 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
07ANKARA1732	STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY'S MEETINGS WITH MFA OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate July 2 meetings, HCFA Senior Staff Member Alan Makovsky discussed the Armenian Genocide Resolution (AGR),Middle East and regional issues and Cyprus with MFA U/S Apakan, Deputy U/S Cevikoz and Deputy U/S Berk. Apakan reviewed his recent consultations in Israel, noting [...]	2007-07-06 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL PBTS PGOV PINS PTER AJ AM IR IS
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
07ANKARA1737	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE- [...] Summary: Twenty-four Turkish National Police (TNP) officials attended Department of Energy Radiation Detection Training; fifteen Turkish Customs officials attended Customs and Border Protection (CBP) International Rail Interdiction Training and three Government of Turkey officials attended [...]	2007-07-06 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL 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
07ANKARA1739	DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO GOT REGARDING US DFENSE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding US defense articles in Cyprus to MFA Deputy U/S Haydar Berk on July 6. Ambassador emphasized our desire to be transparent, noted previous discussions with the Turkish General Staff on the problem of Greek-supplied US defense articles in Cyprus [...]	2007-07-09 08:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CY GR TU
07ANKARA174	SOMO STOPS FUEL PURCHASES FROM TURKEY [...] (C) Summary. Iraq's state oil company SOMO cut off without warning all imports of fuel products via Turkey at the start of 2007. About 200 fuel tankers are stuck in the Iraqi border town of Zakho since December 28 while SOMO refuses to accept delivery of their loads. Efforts of Turkish tra [...]	2007-01-26 16:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EPET PREL TU IZ
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
07ANKARA175	TURKEY OBJECTS TO NGO GENEVA CALL CONSULTATIVE [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control Ahmet Muhtar Gun convened Pol-Mil Counselor January 26 to register the Turkish government's strong objection to the request of the NGO "Geneva Call" to establish consultative status with ECOSOC. He asserted that Geneva Call has signed a so-calle [...]	2007-01-26 16:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER UN
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
07ANKARA1769	ONE MAN'S VOICE - YUSUF ALATAS, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a recent conversation, Yusuf Alatas, a long-time Embassy contact, independent thinker and outgoing president of Turkey's Human Rights Association (IHD),was pessimistic about the current political situation and enormously skeptical as to whether the pro-Kurdish Dem [...]	2007-07-11 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER 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
07ANKARA1782	TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: WORRIED ABOUT JOBS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Separate discussions with Turkish students bound for America and several American English Language Fellows (ELFs) assigned to universities across Turkey for the past year provided insights on anti-Americanism, Turkey's secular-religious divide, election concerns, and the impact o [...]	2007-07-12 11:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1783	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-12 12:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1784	TURKEY: OPPOSITION PARTIES PLAYING TO TEN: MHP, [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),Youth Party (GP),and Democrat Party (DP) -- all significantly weaker than the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) -- are scrambling to garner votes in the July 22 general [...]	2007-07-12 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA1787	TURKEY U/S FOR ENERGY SAMI DEMIRBILEK BLAMES [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's Under Secretary for Energy Sami Demirbilek discussed stalled negotiations with Greece and Italy for Turkish transit of Azeri gas. Demirbilek voiced frustration with the Greek position, which insists on excluding Greek gas distributors from the requirement of 15 percent " [...]	2007-07-13 05:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINV TU
07ANKARA1791	Update on PKK Violence (July 1-7, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-07-13 11:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA1793	PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN: CONSTRUCTIVE START TO [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 6, Ankara hosted the first meeting of the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey Joint Working Group (JWG),established by the leaders of the three counties at their April 2007 summit meeting in Ankara. The deputy foreign minister-level meeting identified various confidence buildin [...]	2007-07-13 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PREF PBTS SNAR AF PK TU
07ANKARA1795	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-13 13:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1796	TURKISH AMMUNITION CONTRIBUTION TO LEBANESE ARMED [...] (C) We followed up with MFA Head of Department for Middle East Affairs Sedat Onal on July 10 to press for a contribution of 105MM and 155MM ammunition to the Lebanese Armed Forces to assist in their continuing battle against Fatah al-Islam. Onal repeated pre-election political concerns repor [...]	2007-07-13 14:40:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PTER PREL PGOV TU LE
07ANKARA180	CFE: TURKEY MAKES NEW FLANK ENTITLEMENT OFFER [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun told us January 29 that the Turkish government is now prepared to offer 35 (thirty-five) tank and 20 (twenty) ACV flank entitlements from its headroom vice the original offer of 63 tank entitlements. He said this offer has been clea [...]	2007-01-29 12:00:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE PARM PREL NATO TU
07ANKARA1805	AFGHANISTAN: TURKEY REPORTS TALIBAN INFILTRATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 7. 2. (S) SUMMARY. Turkey is learning about new alleged ISI and Taliban-affiliated groups that have emerged in northern Afghanistan that are hostile to General Abdul Rashid Dostum. Dostum believes the Karzai government is also providing wea [...]	2007-07-16 13:37:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PINS PREL AF TU
07ANKARA1809	IRAN-TURKEY NATURAL GAS MOU [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA officials MFA confirm that Energy Minister Hilmi Guler signed a preliminary MOU with Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Variri-Hamaneh that, after further study, may involve (1) construction of pipelines and the transit of gas from Turkmenistan through Iran to Turkey, (2) devel [...]	2007-07-16 16:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
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
07ANKARA1823	TURKEY NOTIFIED OF USAFE MANPOWER REDUCTION PLANS [...] (S) We informed MFA Head of Department for the Americas Oguzhan Ertugrul on July 17 of US Air Force Europe plans to reduce manpower over three fiscal years across the command (ref b). We provided specific figures for reductions planned for Turkey by location, emphasizing that the adjustments a [...]	2007-07-18 09:42:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR PARM NATO TU
07ANKARA183	STRATEGY FOR ENGAGING TURKEY ON IRAN [...] (S) Summary: We believe that it is time to initiate in-depth consultations with Turkey on the defense and security implications of a resurgent, possibly nuclear-armed and missile-equipped Iran, and we recommend making use of the visit by U/S Joseph and ISN A/S Rood in February to do so. Work [...]	2007-01-29 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MOPS PGOV TU IR
07ANKARA1832	TURKISH ELECTION: SOUTHEAST KURDISH VOTERS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In Turkey's southeastern provinces the Kurdish issue will be the main determinant of voting patterns on July 22, giving the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and independent candidates endorsed by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) the bulk of the seats. Many [...]	2007-07-18 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER TU
07ANKARA1836	TURKEY COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] Embassy Ankara grants country clearance to Mr. Erik Deschler and Ms. Erin Mark to travel to Ankara to meet with Turkish National Police representatives to discuss the providing of nonproliferation assistance, including training and equipment, from July 30 to August 3, 2007. 2. Embassy Cont [...]	2007-07-19 06:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA PARM TU
07ANKARA1840	Update on PKK Violence (July 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on Kurdistan Workers' Party (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 T [...]	2007-07-19 09:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA1852	ON THE EVE OF TURKEY'S ELECTION - PKK VIOLENCE [...] (C) As Turks prepare to vote this Sunday, July 22, they do so following a campaign dominated in part by the ongoing terrorist activities of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),coupled with claims by the nationalist opposition that ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) efforts to counter th [...]	2007-07-19 14:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ
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
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
07ANKARA1882	TURKEY/IRAQ: NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IRAQI CLAIMS [...] (S/NF) Summary: We have investigated and found no evidence to support Iraqi claims (ref a) that Turkey undertook major cross-border strikes into Iraq on July 18. JAC Molesworth, as well as the NATO Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in Eskisehir, which monitors regional airspace, report no [...]	2007-07-23 15:23:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MOPS IZ 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
07ANKARA1891	TURKEY: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel A points to MFA South Caucasus Desk Officer Yavuz Kul July 20. Kul expressed the GOT's appreciation for the careful approach adopted by the United States towards Azerbaijan, and pledged to convey our points to his principals and to the Turkish Embassy in Baku. 2. [...]	2007-07-24 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE PHUM AJ TU
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
07ANKARA1902	TURKEY: CHP LEADERSHIP IN DENIAL, AGITATION FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is in deep denial and disarray after a lacklustre showing in the July 22 general election. CHP leadership is pointing the finger everywhere but at itself, going so far as to hint that the ruling Justice and Dev [...]	2007-07-26 08:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV 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
07ANKARA1909	Update on PKK Violence (July 16-23, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-07-26 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA1915	TURKISH U/S APAKAN ON AGENDA FOR TALKS WITH U/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA U/S Apakan told Ambassador July 24 that he plans to pursue a broad agenda during his late August bilateral consultations with U/S Burns and others in Washington. Apakan expressed interest in the U.S. internal debate over Iraq and medium-long term U.S. plans and expectations t [...]	2007-07-26 14:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU US
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
07ANKARA1923	TURKEY'S ROBUST ROLE IN PEACEKEEPING AND [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's contributions to multi-national peacekeeping operations around the world are significant. Possessing NATO's second largest military, Turkey has led operations in the Middle East and the Balkans, and has provided troops and support to UN initiatives in Africa and East Asia [...]	2007-07-27 07:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO UN TU
07ANKARA1940	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BAIRD/SHAYS [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Congressman Shays and Mr. Nicholas Palarino. Anthony Renzulli will be your Control Officer for Ankara. He can be reached at: Office: 011-90-312-457-7178; Home: 011-90-312-442-1804; Cellular: 011-90-554-671-4877. Rusty Ingraham [...]	2007-07-30 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TU
07ANKARA1941	TURKISH CUSTOMS TARGETING AND RISK MANAGEMENT [...] Summary: Turkish Customs places great importance on accurate and timely targeting and risk management of shipments coming to, leaving, and passing through the Republic of Turkey. Due to the high volume of cargo which does pass through Turkish Customs areas, Turkish Customs has been working t [...]	2007-07-30 13:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PARM TU
07ANKARA1948	TURKEY/IRAQ: DOD GENERAL COUNSEL HAYNES BRIEFS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive law enforcement information regarding ongoing investigations. Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) Summary: Department of Defense General Counsel Haynes briefed Turkish officials July 25 on the ongoing DOD investigation into corruption relating to the procurement [...]	2007-07-31 05:39:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS KCRM IZ TU
07ANKARA1952	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-31 08:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1957	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF VIEWS ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Turkish General Staff (TGS) J-3 Chief of Plans and Operations MG Kenan Kocak told a visiting Senate Appropriations Sucommittee on Foreign Operations (SACFO) staff delegation led by Paul Grove on July 26 that TGS is not optimistic about a decrease in the level of violence in Iraq a [...]	2007-07-31 10:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER OREP IZ TU
07ANKARA1958	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-31 11:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA1960	STAFFDEL GROVE'S MEETINGS WITH TURKISH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Senate Appropriations Committee staffdel led by Paul Grove discussed Russia, Iraq and Iran with Turkish MFA officials on July 26. Emphasizing the importance of Turkey's strategic partnership with the United States, the Turks stressed the damage to bilateral relations if the Ho [...]	2007-07-31 13:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER OREP AJ AM IZ IR RS 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
07ANKARA1976	TURKEY REQUESTS VERIFICATION OF MILITARY CARGO [...] (U) Action request at para 4. 2. (C) Pol-Mil Counselor was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on August 1 by Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar, who requested information on the vessel MV Slavyanin and verification that its military cargo, reportedly destined for the [...]	2007-08-01 16:24:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ CY
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
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
07ANKARA1992	TURKISH PUBLIC OPINION: WHAT IT MEANS AND WHAT WE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This year's Pew poll confirmed what many already knew -- Turks are angry about US policies. Negative opinion has increased over the past four years, exacerbated by the situation in Iraq and perceived US inaction toward the PKK. Negative Turkish public opinion has gone beyond pol [...]	2007-08-03 06:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO TU
07ANKARA20	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-05 14:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2000	USTR GSP DIRECTOR DISCUSSES TURKEY'S PARTICIPATION AT [...] (SBU) Summary: As discussed at the April U.S.-Turkey Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council meeting (reftel),USTR Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program Executive Director Marideth Sandler visited Turkey during the week of July 9 to discuss Turkey's participation in [...]	2007-08-03 12:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD TU
07ANKARA2001	Update on PKK Violence (July 24-31, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-08-03 12:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2003	TURKISH MFA ON BSEC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) held on July 10 an after action review of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) 15th Anniversary Summit in Istanbul on June 25. Deputy Director General for Multilateral Affairs Ahmet Asim Arar chaired the meeting, and representativ [...]	2007-08-03 12:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN SENV TU
07ANKARA2014	TURKEY'S NATIONALIST ACTION PARTY DEPUTIES: FRESH SOPHISTICATES COVER UP OLD-LINE BRUISERS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is returning to parliament after five years on the sidelines, having carried 14.4 percent of the vote in Turkey's July 22 elections (septel). Since its coalition government with the Motherland Party (ANAP) and Democratic [...]	2007-08-07 09:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PBIO PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2019	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-07 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2020	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (JUL 2007) [...] Summary: MFA notifies Embassy that final step in the entry-into-force of NP Cooperation Agreement depends on information concerning status of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy Agreement. Twenty-four Turkish Customs officials attend Targeting and Risk Management Workshop in Ankara. This worksh [...]	2007-08-08 05:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL 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
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
07ANKARA2035	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF PROVIDES LIST OF SERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR KCRM IZ 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
07ANKARA2043	Update on PKK Violence (August 1-7, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-08-10 09:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2046	TURKISH D/CHOD SEEKS AIR RECON OF IRAQI BORDER [...] (S/NF) The Turkish military would like to conduct air reconnaissance missions up to 10 kilometers inside Iraq over PKK terrorist camps located along the Turkish-Iraqi border, D/CHOD General Saygun told Charge on August 9. Charge reminded Saygun that the US had previously conducted this type [...]	2007-08-10 13:06:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PTER MOPS IZ TU
07ANKARA2049	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, July 2007 [...] The Silk Road-2007 Flag Officers Seminar (the 8th annual seminar) was held on July 2-6 in Antalya. Defense ministers and army chiefs from NATO, Partnership for Peace, Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative countries participated in the seminar. In the keynote address, Chie [...]	2007-08-10 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL UP GR TU
07ANKARA2051	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-10 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2057	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL ROSENBLUM (AUGUST [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to StaffDel Rosenblum. Rebecca Graham will be your Control Officer for Ankara. She can be reached at: Office: 011-90-312-457-7194; Home: 011-90-312-441-8338; Cellular: 011-90-532-620-3846. Dan Kiryelejza will be your Control Office [...]	2007-08-13 10:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP OTRA TU
07ANKARA206	U.S.-TURKEY POLICY PLANNING CONSULTATIONS: DATE [...] (U) This contains an action request: please see para 8. 2. (U) Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Policy Planning Atilla Gunay informed us that the Turkish side accepts the proposed date of February 22 for bilateral policy planning talks. Ambassador Altay Cengizer, who will shortly t [...]	2007-02-01 11:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TU US
07ANKARA2067	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-13 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2077	TURKEY PRESSING FOR CONSTRUCTIVE FOLLOW-UP TO [...] (C) The GOT is committed to a quick and constructive effort to build on the progress achieved during the August 7 visit to Ankara by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki (ref). The Turks' top priority now is to ensure that the promised follow-up visit by the Iraqi National Security Advisor and Interio [...]	2007-08-14 10:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2080	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-14 13:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2110	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-15 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2112	TURKISH POLICE SEIZE EQUIPMENT ALLEGED FOR PKK AND [...] (C) On August 14, MFA Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar requested US assistance with an investigation of a truck seized by Turkish police in the Mediterranean Sea port of Mersin on August 2. The truck contained portable radios and first aid supplies which, according [...]	2007-08-15 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER GM 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
07ANKARA2120	TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SPECTER, AUGUST [...] (SBU) Summary: The new parliament is in the midst of electing Turkey,s next president, following general elections in July. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored a significant victory, returning with a mandate to pursue its economic and political reform policies. On Iraq, Tur [...]	2007-08-16 14:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AM ECON ENRG IZ OREP PGOV PINS PTER TU
07ANKARA2122	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-16 14:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR 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
07ANKARA2135	TURKEY'S RECENT ENERGY DIPLOMACY WITH IRAN, [...] (U) Summary: GOT officials say that Turkey intends to continue its energy cooperation with Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan as potential future sources of gas to meet Turkey,s growing domestic needs and supply European markets. We have on several occasions firmly reiterated U.S. polic [...]	2007-08-17 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS TU
07ANKARA2139	TURKISH BUSINESS COMMUNITY LOOKING BEYOND GUL PRESIDENCY TO [...] Both Embassy Ankara and ConGen Istanbul contributed to this report. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Turkish business community's reaction to FonMin Abdullah Gul's presidential candidacy has been positive but muted. In public statements, most business groups expressed support for Gul's presidency wh [...]	2007-08-20 04:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN 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
07ANKARA2149	HIJACKING OF ATLAS JET FLIGHT KKK 1011 ON AUGUST 18, 2007 [...] (SBU) We are currently awaiting information from the GOT's investigation of the August 18, 2007 hijacking of Atlas Jet flight KKK 1011, which departed from Lefkosa (Northern Cyprus) en route to Istanbul. Two students from Northern Cyprus -- Mommen Abdul Aziz Jumah Talikh, possibly an Egyptian [...]	2007-08-20 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER EAIR ASEC 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
07ANKARA2167	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
07ANKARA217	TURKEY/IRAQ: SPECIFIC ISSUES RAISED DURING [...] (U) Action Request at para. 4. 2. (S/NF) In the context of January 30-31 talks in Ankara on countering PKK terrorism from northern Iraq, Turkish anti-PKK envoy Edip Baser raised several specific allegations concerning U.S. activities in Iraq in a private meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Rals [...]	2007-02-01 16:26:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2179	TURKEY: IMPORT SAFETY DIALOGUE STARTED [...] We delivered ref A information to Ziya Altunyaldiz, Deputy Director General for Exports, and Kadir Bal, Deputy Director General for Imports, at the Turkish Foreign Trade Undersecretariat. Neither had substantive comments at this time but assured us they would review it. We will include this t [...]	2007-08-22 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO TU
07ANKARA2184	Update on PKK Violence (August 8-15, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-08-23 12:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2188	TURKEY REVIEWING REQUEST TO DENY FLIGHT CLEARANCE [...] (S) Per reftel request, we met with MFA Aviation Department Head Hamit Olcay and Acting South Asia Department Head Ilhan Sener at 1030 local on August 24 to deliver demarche concerning reftel Iranian PARS Air flight. Olcay checked immediately with the MFA flight clearance department to determ [...]	2007-08-24 11:10:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC IR SY TU
07ANKARA219	GOT REITERATES TO SPECIAL ENVOY RALSTON THE NEED FOR CONCRETE ACTION AGAINST PKK [...] (S) Summary: Turkey is still waiting for concrete action against the PKK, GOT leaders and officials told visiting Special Envoy Ralston Jan. 30-31. Ralston's interlocutors acknowledged progress on the Makhmour refugee camp, but emphasized that they have higher priorities. The GOT agreed to work w [...]	2007-02-01 16:50:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER PREL PREF MOPS TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2196	GOT OFFICIALS PRESS CODEL SPECTER ON CONTINUED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials believe the U.S. must remain in Iraq to ensure the country's future as a unified state. They also see increased involvement by the United Nations as an asset. Senator Specter argued that Iraqi political leaders have had sufficient time to establish a power-shar [...]	2007-08-24 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ IR SY
07ANKARA220	TURKISH BUSINESS ECOURAGED ON GAZA PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish business officials say they had productive meetings in Israel in mid-January about their proposed development of the Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza. Israeli officials said they would start work on special tax and security arrangements for the zone, with the MOD taking t [...]	2007-02-02 06:16:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAID PREL TU

07ANKARA2206	TURKEY DECLARES CYPRIOT TENDERS FOR OIL [...] (U) We met this week with the TPAO (Turkish Petroleum Corporation) Acting General Director Mehmet Uyusal, MFA Acting Deputy Director General for Cyprus Huseyin Muftaoglu, Maritime Department Head Mehmet Poroy, and Norwegian Charge Stian Christensen to discuss the recent Cypriot announcement of [...]	2007-08-27 14:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG EPET IR IZ KZ RS 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
07ANKARA2213	MILITARY PUTS GUL ON NOTICE AS HE APPROACHES [...] (C) Summary: In a tersely worded Victory Day message to the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) posted to the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website the evening of August 27, Chief of Defense GEN Buyukanit condemned those seeking to undermine the unity and secular nature of the Turkish state. Buyukanit's mess [...]	2007-08-28 10:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR TU
07ANKARA2214	TURKEY DENIES OVERFLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-28 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC IR SY 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
07ANKARA2222	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-28 14:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR 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
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
07ANKARA2247	MFA UNDERSECRETARY APAKAN INQUIRY ABOUT M-16S [...] (U) Action request at para 4. 2. (C) Turkish MFA U/S Apakan and DG for Security Affairs Guven raised the issue of US-origin M-16s captured recently from PKK terrorists in Turkey during an August 29 meeting with Ambassador on various subjects. The Turkish General Staff had provided the MFA [...]	2007-08-31 14:57:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ASIG PREL MARR KCRM PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2254	Update on PKK Violence (August 16-23, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-09-04 12:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2255	Update on PKK Violence (August 24-31, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-09-04 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2258	PRM A/S SAUERBREY VISIT TO TURKEY: CONTINUED QUICK [...] Summary: In an August 22-24 visit to Turkey, PRM Bureau Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey expressed thanks to Government of Turkey SIPDIS counterparts for their cooperation in issuing exit permission to in-country Iraqi refugees being resettled to the United States, and requested that this [...]	2007-09-04 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF TU IZ
07ANKARA2273	REGIONAL ENERGY CHIEFS OF MISSION CONFERENCE - [...] This message grants country clearance and provides an update on administrative and logistical arrangements for the Regional Energy Chiefs of Mission Conference to be held at the Conrad Hilton hotel in Istanbul September 20-22, 2007. Attendees will receive a notional schedule via email in comin [...]	2007-09-06 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG 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
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
07ANKARA2292	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR 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
07ANKARA231	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-02 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2313	Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-09-11 10:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2315	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 13:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2324	TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PACKAGE VOTE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The voting process for the October 21 referendum on the seven-article constitutional amendment package (the "Package") -- which foresees direct election of the President -- started September 11 at the border gates. One article is sowing confusion because it refers to [...]	2007-09-12 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2325	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (AUG 2007) [...] Summary: EXBS Advisor continued work on grant agreement to transfer a new Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) to Turkish Customs. Work also continued on cooperation plan to standardize the training curriculum of the Turkish Customs Training Academy. Twenty-four Turkish Customs officials attend Radiation [...]	2007-09-12 12:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA2333	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DRL OFFICER KATHRYN LURIE [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DRL Officer Kathryn Lurie. Geoffrey Odlum will be your Control Officer for Istanbul. He can be reached at: Office: 011-90-212-335-6492; Home: 011-90-212-351-7752; Cellular: 011-90-533-385-1273. Jeff Collins will be your Control [...]	2007-09-13 12:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PHUM TU
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
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
07ANKARA2367	Update on PKK Violence (September 8-15, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-09-19 04:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
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
07ANKARA2394	TURKEY TO INSPECT SHIPMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND SYRIA [...] (S) We provided reftel points on the potential shipment of sensitive equipment to Hizballah and Syria via IL-76 aircraft from Iran via Turkish airspace to Basat Ozturk, MFA Deputy Director General for Aviation and Maritime Affairs, on the morning of September 22. 2. (S) Ozturk informed us t [...]	2007-09-22 09:24:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MASS SY IR TU
07ANKARA2403	VETERAN DIPLOMAT FINALLY NAMED SECRETARY GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: On September 22, the Government of Turkey announced the appointment of Turkish Ambassador to Greece Tahsin Burcuoglu as Secretary General of Turkey's National Security Council (MGK),a post that has been vacant for months because of the previous President's refusal to sign off on [...]	2007-09-24 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL TU
07ANKARA2405	TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL OFF TO A PURPOSEFUL BUT [...] (C) Summary and Comment. President Gul's first weeks in office have set the tone for a more open, accessible, and constructively engaged presidency than that of his predecessor, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Gul is trying to demonstrate that he represents all Turks, not just those who voted for his fo [...]	2007-09-25 10:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2408	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-26 04:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2413	Update on PKK Violence (September 16-23, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-09-26 09:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2419	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-27 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2420	TURKEY: SENIOR GENERAL ON KURDISH ISSUE, [...] (C) Summary: In his annual address to new cadets at the start of the Turkish Military Academy's academic year, Turkish Land Forces Commander General Ilker Basbug (widely expected to become CHOD in 2008 -- ref. a) warned against attempts to redefine "secularism." He cautioned Kurdish nationali [...]	2007-09-27 14:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR TU
07ANKARA2430	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR INR/B OFFICER NIGRO AND [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to INR/B Officer Alexandra Nigro and Political Officer Melissa Will. Christina Bobrow will be your Control Officer for Ankara. She can be reached at: Office: 011-90-312-457-7250; Home: 011-90-312-491-7700; Cellular: 011-90-555-358-6 [...]	2007-09-28 12:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR OTRA TU
07ANKARA2437	TURKEY AND IRAQ SIGN COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey and Iraq signed on September 28 a bilateral accord that provides for cooperation in countering terrorist groups and acts of terrorism in both countries. The two sides were unable to come to agreement on specific language concerning hot pursuit of terrorists across the Turki [...]	2007-09-28 16:15:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2439	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-01 13:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2440	TURKEY AND IRAQ SIGN COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey and Iraq signed on September 28 a bilateral accord that provides for cooperation in countering terrorist groups and acts of terrorism in both countries. The two sides were unable to come to agreement on specific language concerning hot pursuit of terrorists across the Turki [...]	2007-10-01 14:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2442	TURKEY'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY GAINING IN EU, LOSING IN U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: While overall Turkish exports of apparel increased 15.4% in 2006, government and industry officials are concerned about the continued drop in exports to the U.S., which fell by 26% in 2006. The textile and apparel sectors in Turkey comprise close to 7.8 percent of total GDP and [...]	2007-10-02 04:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EIND KTEX ECON TU
07ANKARA2445	Update on PKK Violence (September 24-30, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-10-02 09:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2461	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 14:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2467	TURKEY: U/S BURNS CONSULTATIONS WITH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under Secretary Nicholas Burns consulted with senior Turkish MFA officials on a broad array of issues during bilateral meetings in Ankara September 19. They discussed Iraq, the PKK, Iran, U.S.-Turkey bilateral relations and the impact of a Congressional Armenian genocide resoluti [...]	2007-10-04 12:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TU IZ IR
07ANKARA2468	TURKEY: POLITICAL REFORMS STALLED AS GOT FOCUSES [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-04 12:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2469	TURKEY/IRAQ: DEFENSE AND STATE INSPECTORS GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: During their September 28 visit to Ankara, DOD IG Kicklighter and DOS IG Krongard outlined for senior Turkish officials their mission to establish more effective controls and accountability for U.S. arms being provided to the security forces of Iraq and Afghanistan. They undersc [...]	2007-10-04 12:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS KCRM IZ AF TU
07ANKARA2474	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORT- (SEP 2007) [...] Summary: EXBS Advisor continued work on grant agreement to transfer a new Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) to Turkish Customs. Work also continued on a cooperation plan to standardize the training curriculum of the Turkish Customs Training Academy. Eighteen Turkish officials from Turkish Customs, Nat [...]	2007-10-05 04:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL 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
07ANKARA2508	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-10 11:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR 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
07ANKARA252	FORMER TURKISH PRESIDENT DEMIREL ON ARMENIA [...] (C) Summary: Former Turkish President Demirel is worried about the "extremely negative" impact of an Armenian genocide resolution on the Turkish public and on US-Turkish relations. In a private lunch with Ambassador and Demirel advisor Mehmet Ali Bayar on February 5, the former president pre [...]	2007-02-06 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU UZ AM IZ
07ANKARA2520	TURKEY UNABLE TO SEND SENIOR MFA REP TO MNF-I [...] (C) MFA Head of Department in the Office of the Iraq Coordinator, Aydin Selcen, told us October 11 that, because of the Iraq Neighbor's Ministerial meeting Turkey plans to host in Istanbul on November 2-3, the MFA does not expect Turkey's Special Representative for Iraq, Ambassador Oguz Celikk [...]	2007-10-11 13:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL OTRA IZ TU
07ANKARA2521	Update on PKK Violence (October 1 - 7, 2007) [...] (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 [...]	2007-10-11 13:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2534	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-15 13:18:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2537	TURKEY: USD(P) EDELMAN AND A/S FRIED DISCUSS PKK [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Apakan and Deputy Defense Chief GEN Saygun told USD(P) Edelman and A/S Fried October 13 that Turkey is reaching the end of its patience with PKK terrorism and expects concrete US help. They noted recent unprecedented attacks, including rocket attac [...]	2007-10-15 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PTER TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2545	TURKEY REMAINS CONCERNED ABOUT IRAQ-BOUND MILITARY [...] (U) Action Request at para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Ministry officials have requested re-confirmation of the bonafides of a shipment of military equipment aboard the MV Slavyanin, currently being transloaded to Mongolian-flagged "Onyx" in Limassol, and destined for Iraq. Absent confirmat [...]	2007-10-16 08:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MARR KNNP IZ CY MO TU
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
07ANKARA2569	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-17 12:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
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
07ANKARA2582	KRG OFFICIALS IN ANKARA SEEK DIALOGUE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador met October 17 with the Chief of Staff to KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani, Sawraz Hawrami, and advisor Zakaria Hazan to discuss the PKK and Turkey/KRG dialogue. Ambassador told Hawrami that the Turkish government does not want military action against the PKK in northern Iraq [...]	2007-10-18 15:04:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PTER IZ 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
07ANKARA2587	TURKEY: INTENSIVE MIDDLE EAST OUTREACH [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. Turkish FM Babacan embarked on the second leg of an intensive period of Middle East and regional outreach this week. His October 17-19 visit to Egypt and Lebanon follows closely on the heels of his recent tour of Syria, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. As a [...]	2007-10-19 08:02:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL IS IZ SA SY TU XF
07ANKARA2589	TURKEY: URGING PRO-KURDISH DTP PARTY TO CONDMEN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-19 09:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2591	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-19 11:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2598	TURKEY: KOSOVO ESDP MISSION UNDER CLOUD OF [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's so far unrequited desire for more direct participation in ESDP decision-making and access to EDA continues to cast a shadow over ESDP mission planning for Kosovo (ref a). Foreign Ministry officials appear unimpressed with EU and French ideas for improving NATO-EU relatio [...]	2007-10-19 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	AF EU MARR PREL TU NATO
07ANKARA26	TURKEY: 2006 DECA INSPECTION DEMONSTRATES PROGRESS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-08 15:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR 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
07ANKARA2608	Update on PKK Violence (October 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents military contacts/clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. TGS does not account for police casualties and Ministry of Int [...]	2007-10-22 16:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2614	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON TURKEY'S NEW ENVIRONMENT [...] (C) Summary: On October 9, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly appointed Minister of Environment and Forestry Veysel Eroglu. Previously, Eroglu served for four years as the Director General of State Hydraulic Works. He continues to be highly interested in water issues and hydro electri [...]	2007-10-23 09:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENIV ENRG SENV 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
07ANKARA262	EURO-TURKISH PROSECUTORS' ANTI-TERRORISM ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 25-26, the US Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training ("OPDAT") through post's Resident Legal Adviser, hosted a legislative roundtable on methods to investigate and prosecute terrorist organizations, particularly t [...]	2007-02-07 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KTFN TU FR NL UK
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
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
07ANKARA2636	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2640	TURKEY: FM BABACAN CONTINUES REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Babacan continued his intensive outreach to Middle East neighbors with trips to Egypt and Lebanon while, concurrently, Syrian President Asad and FM Mualem visited Ankara. GOT officials continue to urge the SARG to stem the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and to play [...]	2007-10-25 08:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS IZ LE SY TU XF
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
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
07ANKARA2664	TURKEY: GOT FRUSTRATED BY YEREVAN'S SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) MFA U/S Apakan told the Ambassador on October 18 that GOT officials are deeply frustrated by what they describe as contentment on the part of Armenian officials regarding the progress of AGR in the U.S. House of Representatives. The GOAM is "totally wrong" to believe that it can force Tur [...]	2007-10-28 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL AM 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
07ANKARA2676	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-30 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2677	Update on PKK Violence (October 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...]	2007-10-30 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2680	MINISTERS TO DECIDE ON ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Council of Ministers will meet in emergency session on October 31 to consider authorizing economic actions against Northern Iraq. Four potential measures are on the agenda: cutting off of electricity exports, closing road access through Habur Gate, restricting Turkis [...]	2007-10-31 10:53:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KFPC ECON ETRD ETTC PREL EAIR 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
07ANKARA2685	TURKEY SUPPORTS USG POLICY IN BOSNIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 13:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK TU NATO
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
07ANKARA2699	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 15:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2702	WARM RECEPTION FOR FM BABACAN IN IRAN; TEPID [...] SUMMARY. Turkish FM Babacan received a warm reception from Iranian political leaders in his first visit to Iran, October 27-28. Iran is well-positioned to understand Turkey's PKK dilemma, but Iranian leaders did not extend support for a Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq. Iran an [...]	2007-11-02 09:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP PARM EFIN IR IZ 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
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
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
07ANKARA2727	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - [...] Summary: The EXBS Advisor transition was completed with Robert Cieslinski assuming duties as EXBS Advisor to Turkey. The language in the property grant to transfer Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) to Turkish Customs has been reviewed with A/LM/AQM and is under consideration by Turkish Customs. Turki [...]	2007-11-07 08:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA2730	TURKEY: HOLDING US TO THE RULES ON MIL-MIL [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) has continued its trend, seen since late 2006, of tightening requirements and more strictly enforcing rules for routine military cooperation, within established bilateral agreements. On October 31, TGS informed us that we would be held more strictl [...]	2007-11-07 14:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS TU
07ANKARA2731	TURKEY'S NATIONALISTIC JUDICIARY AN OBSTACLE TO [...] (C) Summary: A diverse array of legal experts agree the judiciary (judges and prosecutors) has been a major force in Turkey's failure to fully implement legal reforms related to its EU harmonization effort. Contacts from academia, private practice, government, and civil society told us that, [...]	2007-11-07 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2736	DEMARCHE TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ON HAMAS [...] (U) This contains an urgent action request - please see para 5 below. 2. (C) Charge raised reftel points November 8 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay. He was accompanied by Middle East Deputy Director General Omer Onhon. Charge stressed both USG and Palestinian Authority Presid [...]	2007-11-08 09:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU
07ANKARA2739	Update on PKK Violence (October 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...]	2007-11-08 11:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2741	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-08 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR 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
07ANKARA2745	TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ON ILLICIT CASH [...] We spoke with Ergin Ergul, Deputy Director General for Foreign Relations at the Justice Ministry. His comments related to questions in reftel are shown below. In addition, we have included information from the April 2007 Financial Action Task Force review of Turkey, which are relevant to th [...]	2007-11-09 08:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN KCRM EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
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
07ANKARA2755	TURKEY PASSES ITS NUCLEAR ENERGY LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish Parliament passed the long pending Nuclear Energy Law on October 8, after just two days of debate and despite criticism from opposition parties and NGO's. The law is expected to be approved by the President. The law establishes an extremely rapid selection process, [...]	2007-11-09 17:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EINV BEXP TU
07ANKARA2756	DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] Per reftel we met with and advised all relevant parties in the Turkish Government to inform them of these designations. Those contacts are Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Iranian Affairs, Babur Hizlan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Security A [...]	2007-11-09 17:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL PARM EFIN
07ANKARA2758	Update on PKK Violence (November 1-7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and Ministry of Inte [...]	2007-11-13 10:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA2761	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR 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
07ANKARA2769	PERES ENCOURAGES MODERATION, COMPROMISE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli President Shimon Peres addressed a group of Bilkent University students and faculty on November 11, his first public event during a three-day visit to Ankara. He encouraged the students to embrace a future defined by moderation and risk-taking. Throughout his talk, Pe [...]	2007-11-14 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KMDR TU IS
07ANKARA2774	TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP PARTY ELECTS HARDLINER AS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) members elected Nurettin Demirtas, 34, as party chairman and adopted the concept of "democratic autonomy" during a November 8 extraordinary convention in Ankara. Several Kurdish contacts believe the elevation of Demirtas, a h [...]	2007-11-15 12:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA2776	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 14:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2777	TURKISH GOVERNMENT VIEWS ON BANK MELLI AND BANK [...] (U) This is an action cable. Post requests guidance on related item outlined in paragraph 4. 2. (S) Per Reftel A, we informed leaders at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA),and MASAK, the Turkish financial intelligence unit, of Bank Mell [...]	2007-11-15 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	KNNP MNUC TU PREL IR PARM EFIN
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
07ANKARA2785	TURKISH PARTICIPANTS FOR ONDCP/INL DEMAND [...] We spoke with leaders at the Turkish International Academy Against Drugs and Organized Crime (TADOC) and the Alcohol and Substance Addiction Treatment and Training Center (AMATEM) to discuss the best candidates for the January 23-24, 2008 ONDCP/INL International Demand Reduction Seminar on Be [...]	2007-11-16 13:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SNAR
07ANKARA2786	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-16 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2792	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 13:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2798	Update on PKK Violence (November 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...]	2007-11-19 15:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2817	CFE/ISTANBUL: TURKEY SHARES OUR SKEPTICISM ABOUT [...] (C) We shared ref a points with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun on November 21. Gun was grateful to have our views in advance of the arrival of the German and Spanish ambassadors, who met with Deputy Undersecretary Rafet Akgunay later that day to push the G [...]	2007-11-23 12:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS NATO OSCE KCFE TU
07ANKARA2826	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-26 14:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA283	Cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza Confirmed in Poultry in [...] (U) Summary. In a press release, the Ministry of Agriculture (MARA) confirmed that 170 birds died of Avian Influenza (AI) on a small farm in the village of Bogazkoy in the province of Batman. On Feb. 9, MARA confirmed that the birds were indeed infected with the H5N1 strain of AI. All precau [...]	2007-02-09 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU KFLU
07ANKARA2831	TURKEY: CENTER-RIGHT DEMOCRAT PARTY DOWN FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. After an abysmal showing in Turkey's July 22 election, Democrat Party's (DP) reflections on how it got to this point and how to recover have been supplanted by fractious internal jockeying. Center-right consensus holds that DP was doomed as soon as the planned merger with the Mo [...]	2007-11-26 17:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA2834	TURKEY: CHP LEADER BAYKAL MAKES POTEMKIN SENSE, AT [...] (C) Summary. Deniz Baykal, Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP),recently proposed surprising policy approaches to Turkey's Kurdish problem, including starting to deal with northern Iraqi authorities. Baykal, a chronic contrarian, urged strategic thinking and outreach to Iraqi Kur [...]	2007-11-27 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2848	TURKEY: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Post responses are keyed to reftel questions. 2. (U) A. Watchlisting (see para 10, below) 3. (U) B. Traveler Information Collection. -- Who collects traveler information? Turkish National Police (TNP) Foreigner [...]	2007-11-28 15:54:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS TU
07ANKARA2853	Update on PKK Violence (November 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK as well as casualties incurred. The TGS does not account for police casualties and the Ministry of [...]	2007-11-29 10:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA286	ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION: TURKS PREDICT DIRE [...] (C) Summary: Contacts from across the Turkish political spectrum are deeply alarmed at the prospect that a Congressional Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) is likely to pass for the first time this year. All predict a harsh reaction, especially from the public, in this already politically-cha [...]	2007-02-09 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM US
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
07ANKARA2865	CRASH OF ATLASJET FLIGHT FROM ISTANBUL TO ISPARTA, TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: An Atlasjet flight from Istanbul to Isparta, Turkey crashed 12 km from the Isparta Airport at approximately 01:45 local time on 30 November, 2007. The plane was a McDonald-Douglas 83. The remains of all 57 onboard have been located by Search and Rescue teams. The pilot, Serh [...]	2007-11-30 17:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ASEC TU
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
07ANKARA2874	TURKEY: POSITIVE REACTIONS TO DECEMBER 1 [...] (U) Summary: There has been no subsequent military action following artillery strikes against PKK positions in northern Iraq on December 1. However, senior GOT officials have publicly reaffirmed Turkey's readiness to make additional hits on PKK bases across the border and have said it is no [...]	2007-12-03 12:35:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS MARR IZ TU
07ANKARA2875	Update on PKK Violence (November 24-31, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of periodic reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website. TGS does not account for police casualties and Ministry of Interior casualty data is not made public. As a result, actual numbers for total Turkish [...]	2007-12-03 12:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2891	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-04 14:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2907	TURKEY/IRAN: INITIAL TURKISH REACTION TO NATIONAL [...] (C) Ambassador reviewed the NIE key judgments and reftel points with MFA Undersecretary Apakan and President/Prime Minister advisor Davutoglu on December 4. Drawing on points in reftel, Ambassador highlighted the NIE's conclusion that Iran had a nuclear weapons program and stopped it in 2003, [...]	2007-12-06 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IR TU
07ANKARA2909	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-06 15:34:00	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
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
07ANKARA293	BEST YEAR EVER: TURKEY IMPORTANT MARKET FOR U.S. PHRMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey currently represents the 14th largest market in the world in terms of pharmaceutical sales, and it is on track to grow to the 10th largest by 2009. The size of the market comes from volume and not from the pricing of pharmaceuticals, which PhRMA company representatives c [...]	2007-02-12 12:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR USTR EUN TU
07ANKARA2931	Update on PKK Violence (December 1-7, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 1-7, 2007 reporting period, one GOT se [...]	2007-12-11 05:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
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
07ANKARA2938	INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS ASSOCIATION SETS 2008 PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Moving Turkey's informal economy (still estimated at over 40% of the Turkish workforce) into the formal economy and tax rolls again topped the International Investors Association of Turkey's (YASED) priorities for 2008. During their November annual meeting in Ankara, YASED exec [...]	2007-12-11 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV BEXP KIPR TU
07ANKARA2943	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORT- (NOVEMBER [...] Summary: The EXBS Advisor completed transfer of the Z-Backscatter Van (ZBV) to Turkish Customs. Turkish MFA continues to withhold implementation of EXBS Agreement pending U.S. ratification of the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (123) Agreement. Progress continues for ongoing enforcement tra [...]	2007-12-12 05:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA2945	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 15:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA2949	MFA OFFICIAL PREDICTS RENEWED NATO-EU TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: EU plans to deploy an ESDP police mission to Kosovo could spark renewed NATO-EU tensions by mid-January unless the issue of NATO support for the mission, and the broader problem of Turkey's relationship with ESDP, are addressed to Turkey's satisfaction. A Turkish MFA official hi [...]	2007-12-13 11:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL TU YI
07ANKARA2952	TURKEY: GOT CONCERNED ABOUT NEW YORK SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 13:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL 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
07ANKARA2959	TURKEY: 2007 DECA INSPECTION FOCUSES ON INCIRLIK [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-14 11:14:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR 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
07ANKARA2965	TURKEY: UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Turkey continues its efforts to eliminate all forms of child labor, increasing access to basic and vocational education to improve the prospects of children currently working, and withdrawing them from employment while they are children. Post provides new information below in response to the [...]	2007-12-14 14:32:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI 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
07ANKARA2970	TURKEY: 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-14 15:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR TU
07ANKARA2973	TURKEY: CURRENT THINKING ON THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with Turkish officials, parliamentarians, academics, and opinion-makers following publication of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, reveal the following: -- While the GOT remains opposed to and very concerned about a nuclear-armed Iran, it f [...]	2007-12-16 01:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNUC OREP TU IR

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
07ANKARA2991	TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKISH AIR AND ARTILLERY STRIKES ON [...] (S) Turkish warplanes attacked suspected PKK positions in the Zap region, in northern Iraq along the Turkey-Iraq border, between 1200 and 1400 hours local time on December 17. The Turkish General Staff (TGS) provided advance warning to the Ankara Coordination Center (ACC) located in the Offic [...]	2007-12-17 17:38:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MOPS TU IZ
07ANKARA2992	PKK-LINKED ROJ-TV DOMINATES TURKEY-DENMARK CT [...] (C) Summary. Denmark needs "better" evidence from the Turks to successfully prosecute PKK-linked ROJ-TV, Danish U/S Taksoe-Jensen told his Turkish counterparts during inaugural Turkey-Denmark CT consultations on December 12. Given the strict independence of Denmark's prosecutors, he suggested [...]	2007-12-17 18:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KTFN DA TU
07ANKARA2997	TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKISH TROOPS ENTER NORTHERN IRAQ ON [...] (S) Summary: Turkish troops in battalion strength entered northern Iraq in the Hakurk and Ava Shin regions late December 17 and into December 18. Turkish General Staff (TGS) claims this was a hot pursuit operation, initiated by a local commander and to a limited depth, and therefore was unabl [...]	2007-12-18 10:49:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MOPS PTER IZ TU
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
07ANKARA3008	Update on PKK Violence (December 8-15, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 8-15, 2007 reporting period, no GOT se [...]	2007-12-19 09:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA3009	TURKEY TO FOLLOW-UP AGAINST WITH IRANIANS ON [...] (S) GOT officials have said they will again follow-up with Government of Iran authorities to press for information related to the disappearance of Robert Levinson. MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia Babur Hizlan told us December 18 that he will ask the Turkish embassy in Tehran to cont [...]	2007-12-19 09:40:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	CASC PREL PHUM TU IR
07ANKARA3016	TURKEY: RULING AKP TACKLES A TABOO -- IMPROVING [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA3017	TURKEY: MHP'S BRIEF MOMENT OF NOTORIETY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition Nationalist Action Party (MHP) members are quietly distancing themselves from the words of their colleague in parliament, Osman Durmus, who sharply criticized Chief of the General Staff General Buyukanit. MHP will wisely keep itself at arm's length from direct attacks [...]	2007-12-19 14:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER 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
07ANKARA3031	Update on PKK Violence (December 16-23, 2007) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 16-23, 2007 reporting period, no GOT s [...]	2007-12-27 06:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER 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
07ANKARA3040	TURKEY: 2007 ADVANCE SPECIAL 301 INITIATIVE UPDATE [...] (SBU) The Turkish government has made little progress on six action items in the 2007 Advance Special 301 Initiative Action Plan since we presented it to them in August. Foreign Trade Undersecretariat (FTU) officials enthusiastically accepted the plan but, we surmise, ran into resistance with [...]	2007-12-27 16:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV 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
07ANKARA3049	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-28 14:46:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA3051	TURKEY: BATMAN SEES LOCAL POLITICAL TENSIONS RISING [...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Two prominent Batman Bar Association leaders in southeast Turkey told us during a recent visit that local political tensions between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) have inc [...]	2007-12-28 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
07ANKARA307	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 15:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA308	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S/P DIRECTOR STEPHEN KRASNER [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to S/P Director Stephen Krasner and S/P Delegation. 2. (U) Janice Weiner, Political Counselor, is your Control Officer for Ankara. She can be reached at: Office 011-90-312-455-5555, Ext 2515; Home: 011-90-312-448-2108 or ext 2114; [...]	2007-02-13 16:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PREL TU
07ANKARA310	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (JAN 2007) [...] Summary: Turkish Parliament ratified the U.S. - Turkish NP Cooperation Agreement, a major step in fully opening the EXBS program in Turkey. EXBS Advisor continued coordination of training opportunities for Turkish Customs Officials. GOT approved the upgrade of previously installed por [...]	2007-02-14 05:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA311	MIDNIGHT EXPRESS IT'S NOT: MODEL TURKISH PRISON [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-14 07:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE 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
07ANKARA317	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION@SDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-14 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA319	TURKEY: NATIONALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY CHAIRMAN DEVLET BAHCELI: NATIONALISM FOR ALL TURKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 5, Nationalist People's Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahceli outlined to Ambassador the party's priorities for the coming election year. His candor was hampered by an adherence to the party's declared goal of becoming the sole governing party after the general electio [...]	2007-02-15 06:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ANKARA324	UNSCR 1737: TURKEY WILL SEARCH FOR ASSETS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Demarches on implementation of UNSCR 1737 have been delivered to the Minister of Finance, Turkey's financial intelligence unit, and the Foreign Ministry. The senior foreign ministry official responsible for intelligence and security appreciated the information, but admitted tha [...]	2007-02-15 12:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KFTN PARM KNNP IR TU
07ANKARA335	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-15 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA336	ANKARA DELIGHTED WITH PKK ARRESTS IN FRANCE AND [...] (S) Summary: Turkish MFA Director General for Security Guven stressed the importance of the recent French and Belgian arrests of PKK individuals and looked forward to further cooperation with the French on the case. At the same time, Guven noted French concerns about press reports crediting [...]	2007-02-15 15:32:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	KTFN PTER EFIN FRU TU BE
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
07ANKARA356	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL TILLEMANN [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Tomicah Tillemann. 2. (U) Jeff Collins, Political Officer, is your Control Officer for Ankara. He can be reached at: Office 011-90-312-455-5555, Ext 2521; Home: 011-90-312-495-6433; Cellular: 011-90-532-620-3849. Chris Fri [...]	2007-02-20 07:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP AMGT AFIN ASEC TU
07ANKARA367	TURKEY SEEK TO REVITALIZE BSEC AS IT FETES 15 YEARS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey aims to use its BSEC (Black Sea Economic Cooperation) chairmanship to revitalize BSEC as it commemorates its 15th anniversary at its Istanbul Summit on June 25. BSEC and Turkey urge high level participation at this event. BSEC hopes to highlight BSEC institutional refo [...]	2007-02-20 15:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SENV KCRM TU
07ANKARA369	TURKEY COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DHS/DNDO [...] Embassy Ankara to Mr. Dave Smith and will travel to Ankara and@fuclear Research Facility Q February 24 to March 3, rol Officer is Kevin Lyon who can be contacted via the IVG 295-2524 or Commercial (90)(312)455-5555 ext.2524 or through Embassy switchboard ext 0. 3. Local contact and lodgin [...]	2007-02-21 09:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP OTRA PREL TU
07ANKARA375	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-21 13:08:00	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
07ANKARA381	CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN AMGT OREP OTRA PGOV TK TRY
07ANKARA384	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 14:47:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA399	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA40	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-09 15:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA403	RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND [...] (C) Ambassador raised ref a points February 22 with MFA Deputy Undersecretary (U/S-equivalent) Haydar Berk, stressing unacceptable Russian threats to Poland and the Czech Republic even though Russia knows missile defenses based in those countries pose no threat to the Russian strategic arsenal. [...]	2007-02-23 16:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL CZ RU TU
07ANKARA406	TURKISH FM GUL REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF BILATERAL [...] SUMMARY: Turkish FM Gul told a congressional delegation that the US/Turkey relationship has weathered many storms but that a US congressional Armenian genocide resolution threatens to undermine cooperation on our shared goals for Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, NATO and more. US failure in Iraq will [...]	2007-02-26 10:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ AR
07ANKARA407	ENERGY MIN TELLS A/S SULLIVAN READY TO TRANSIT AZERI GAS TO EUROPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 10 meetings with EEB A/S Dan Sullivan on the margins of U.S.-Turkey Economic Partnership Committee meetings, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler and state-owned pipeline company (BOTAS) acting Director General Saltuk Duzyol emphasized that Turkey is ready facilitate transit [...]	2007-02-26 10:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU GG AJ RS IZ
07ANKARA418	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 15:29:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA424	TURKISH FM GUL REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF BILATERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkish FM Gul told a congressional delegation that the US/Turkey relationship has weathered many storms but that a US congressional Armenian genocide resolution threatens to undermine cooperation on our shared goals for Iraq, Afghani and more. US failure `ill be Turkey's failu [...]	2007-02-27 09:57:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU IZ AR
07ANKARA429	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-27 11:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA438	CFE FLANK ENTITLEMENTS: TURKEY REVIEWING THE MOU [...] (C) Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Arms Control and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun told us February 23 that the ministry's legal office is reviewing U.S. comments on the draft MOU for Turkey's transfer of flank entitlements to the U.S. Gun said he is arguing for the more flexible, poli [...]	2007-02-28 08:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE NATO NO GR TU
07ANKARA444	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR [...] (U) Mission warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Departm Amy Ritualo. Chris Fri@er, is your Control Of 0@779. 2. (U) Post underQlogistical arrangementQng made by ILO. 3. (U)Visas: Please note that all Americans entering Turkey must have a valid Visa. The onlyexception [...]	2007-02-28 11:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB OTRA AFIN AMGT TU
07ANKARA451	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) In the wake of the second Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism meeting held in Ankara on February 12-13, we addressed follow-up items with MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun on February 23. Gun noted that, as a contribution to the GI workplan, Turkey has [...]	2007-02-28 16:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KNNP TU
07ANKARA458	TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 1 of 3 (septel). Embassy point of contact is Cathy Westley, telephone number 90-312-455-5555 X 2513, fax number 90-312-468-4775. Westley (FS-03) spent [...]	2007-03-01 09:42:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
07ANKARA459	TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: INVESTIGATION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 2 of 3 (septels). -------------------------------------------- Investigation and Prosecution of Traffickers ------------------------------------------ [...]	2007-03-01 09:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
07ANKARA460	TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROTECTION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 3 of 3 (septels). ------------------------------------ Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------------ A. (U) The GOT [...]	2007-03-01 09:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
07ANKARA467	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-01 15:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
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
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
07ANKARA488	MFA CENTRAL ASIA CONSULTATIONS IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's approach to Central Asian countries largely echoes ours: ensuring security and stability, promoting democracy and human rights and fostering economic development and integration. During broad consultations in Ankara, SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum and MFA interlocutors explor [...]	2007-03-05 08:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TX AJ UZ TI AF KG TU
07ANKARA489	TURKEY EAGER TO COOPERATE ON CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Turkish government officials agreed with SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum to explore complementary cooperation where possible on our approaches to Central Asia (septel). Representatives from the Turkish General Staff, the Turkish International Cooperation Administration, the Foreign Trade [...]	2007-03-05 08:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TX AJ UZ TI AF KG TU
07ANKARA491	PROGRESS IN TURKEY'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting U.S. team was impressed by the level of commitment and sophistication in emergency planning evidenced in a range of meetings with national-level disaster assistance players in the Turkish capital. FEMA and OFDA committed to follow up with the Turkish Emergency Manage [...]	2007-03-05 13:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV EINV TU
07ANKARA493	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-05 15:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA494	TURKEY: WEAPONS TRAINING DEPLOYMENTS REINITIATED [...] (C) On February 23, the US 22nd and 23rd Fighter Squadrons, based at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, completed a six-week long Weapons Training Deployment (WTD) (NOTE: Turkey prefers the use of the term Rotational Training Deployment) at Incirlik Air Base, the first significant WTD to take pl [...]	2007-03-05 15:56:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TU
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
07ANKARA501	EXCITEMENT AND FRUSTRATION IN TURKEY'S TELECOM SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Fresh from participation at the annual 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona, participants at a recent telecom sector conference in Istanbul were agog with new visions, technology, and opportunities. Coming back to earth, there was widespread frustration with recently privatized an [...]	2007-03-06 11:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS EINT EINV TU
07ANKARA502	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-06 14:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA515	CFE FLANK ENTITLEMENTS: TURKS WILLING TO WORK ON [...] (C) In the absence of MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun, we pressed Department Head Serhan Yigit on March 7 for Turkish reaction to our comments on the draft MOU for the transfer of 35 tank and 20 ACV entitlements, explaining our desire to complete notification of the [...]	2007-03-07 11:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KCFE NATO GR NO TU
07ANKARA516	TURKEY: DISPLACED VILLAGERS CRITICIZE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 13:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE 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
07ANKARA522	RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND [...] (C) MFA Arms Control Acting DDG Serhan Yigit told us March 7 that Turkey had decided against making any public statement concerning Russian threats to Poland and the Czech Republic as we had urged MFA officials to do on February 22 and 23 (ref a). 2. (C) Yigit told us the MFA is concerned t [...]	2007-03-08 09:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL CZ RU TU
07ANKARA525	EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (FEB 2007) [...] Summary: EXBS Advisor assisted in Embassy support to U.S. delegation attending Global Initiative (GI) meetings, coordinated Turkish participation at export control conference and began coordination of Turkish customs officials' participation at upcoming International Border Interdiction [...]	2007-03-08 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU
07ANKARA529	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 15:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA531	SMOOTHING THE ENTRY OF TURKISH OFFICIALS INTO THE [...] (U) Action request at para. 5. 2. (SBU) A Turkish delegation headed by Minister of State Ali Babacan and Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCHOD) GEN Ergin Saygun and including Undersecretary for Defense Industries Murad Bayar, TGS J-5 Strategy Division Chief MGEN Serdar Savas and other o [...]	2007-03-08 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR CMGT TU
07ANKARA541	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-09 14:15:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA542	TURKISH COURT BLOCKS ACCESS TO "YOUTUBE" WEBSITE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-09 15:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ECPS OSCE TU
07ANKARA548	SPECIAL ENVOY FOR COUNTERING THE PKK RALSTON [...] (S/NF) Summary: Turkey will review U.S. suggestions for deliverables on the PKK, GOT Special Envoy Baser told U.S. Special Envoy Ralston March 8. Turkey remains concerned that the PKK maintains a potentially intimidating presence in the Makhmour refugee camp, but will proceed with negotiations [...]	2007-03-12 09:33:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PREF PGOV TU IZ
07ANKARA55	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-11 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA552	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF TAKING A HARDER LINE WITH [...] (C) The Turkish General Staff (TGS),in some cases fronted by the Foreign Ministry, is taking a harder line on routine military cooperation with allies. -- Ankara-based diplomats told us that blanket overflight clearances granted to France, Germany, Spain, and Canada for support to Operati [...]	2007-03-12 11:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR FR GE SP AU 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
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
07ANKARA581	TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, February 2007 [...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on February 23. Internal developments affecting Turkey's national security and the PKK terrorist organization topped the agenda. Recent developments in Iraq were discussed and the importance of territorial integrity and poli [...]	2007-03-14 10:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL ET AJ AL JO AF TU
07ANKARA584	TURKEY: GOT POSITIVELY INCLINED TO US REQUEST FOR [...] SUMMARY: Turkish government officials are likely to make a positive decision in response to the USG request to resettle Iraqi refugees currently located in Turkey. They expressed some initial hesitation, primarily because they fear an increased influx of refugees from Iraq and elsewhere in t [...]	2007-03-14 13:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM TU IZ
07ANKARA585	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-14 14:30:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA591	IMF CONFIDENT DESPITE ELECTION YEAR [...] (C) Summary. At a March 13 breakfast briefing hosted by Ambassador at the midpoint of the ongoing 6th review of Turkey's stand-by program, Mission Chief Lorenzo Giorgianni told G-7 ambassadors and embassies that he was facing difficult negotiations of specific structural and fiscal issues. [...]	2007-03-14 16:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN TU
07ANKARA616	MFA PREVIEWS TURKEY'S RESPONSE TO EPC ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 14 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ertegrul Apakan previewed Turkey's reaction to our draft of the Economic Partnership Commission (EPC) Action Plan. Stressing that MFA staff needed a week or two to get interagency clearance, Apakan said h [...]	2007-03-19 09:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD 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
07ANKARA628	TURKEY: POST SUPPORTS FY07 SECTION 1206 SUBMISSION [...] (S) In response to reftel request, post stands by its FY07 1206 program request. The proposal was comprised of two parts: an $8.5M UAV training and maintenance program for the upgrade of and training on three grounded Unmanned Aerial Vehicles currently in Turkey's inventory, and a $2.5M count [...]	2007-03-19 16:15:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MASS PARM 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
07ANKARA632	TURKEY SUPPORTS U.S. NATO GOALS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials told USNATO PermRep Nuland that Turkey will maintain its commitments in Afghanistan and expand Wardak PRT operations, but would not commit to sending additional helicopters. Amb. Nuland praised Turkish contributions to ISAF while urging the Turks to do more and [...]	2007-03-20 10:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OVIP TU
07ANKARA635	TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY REACTION TO WMD [...] (C) Summary: The Foreign Ministry is reviewing the draft WMD Enforcement Task Force MOU but told us it will be tough to sell to other agencies without modification and further justification. Post suggests we focus our efforts on the Consequence Management MOU instead and recommends ISN bureau [...]	2007-03-20 13:42:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PTER 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
07ANKARA643	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) We notified MFA Arms Control Deputy Director General Ahmet Muhtar Gun that the U.S and Russia have invited most of the world's countries to participate in the initiative (ref a). In response, Gun repeated earlier Turkish concerns about Cyprus becoming a partner. He warned that, while the [...]	2007-03-21 13:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KNNP IAEA CY TU

07ANKARA644	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-21 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU

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