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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05ANKARA2162 |
TURKISH PRESIDENT SEZER'S TRIP TO SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: President Sezer's April 13-14 visit appears indeed to have been symbolic (ref A), aside from his short one-on-one meeting with Asad. Turkish MFA officials are claiming that Sezer urged Asad to finish Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon by the end of the month and received Asad's pled [...] |
2005-04-15 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE TU PTER SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA3177 |
TURKISH MFA AND MILITARY ON SYRIAN MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Summary: Despite a blase official statement and light media coverage, Turkish MFA official says privately that the MFA considers as "serious" Syria's May 27 missile launch that resulted in one missile going astray over Turkey and scattering debris. MFA is not satisfied with the Syrian e [...] |
2005-06-07 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PINS PBTS SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA4260 |
SYRIAN DFM VISITS ANKARA, FM GUL REPORTEDLY FEELS "USED" [...] (C) Summary: Syrian DFM al-Muallim met with FM Gul in Ankara July 22 to discuss Iraq, the Israel Palestine peace process, and a possible upcoming "unofficial" visit to Turkey by Bashar Asad (reftel). One MFA official told us privately that the discussions were difficult and inconclusive; ano [...] |
2005-07-22 16:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU SY SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA5166 |
ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UN: TURKEY HAS INVITATION [...] (C) A/DCM and PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Oguz Celikkol on September 2. Celikkol, who was already aware of the points based on USUN's demarche to the Turkish Mission to the UN, acknowledged that PM Erdogan had, indeed, received an invitation [...] |
2005-09-03 03:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY TU UNGA SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA6370 |
TURKEY SUPPORTS UNIIIC MISSION, VIEWS IMPACT ON [...] (C) Turkey supports the UNIIIC investigation into the Hariri assassination and is anxiously awaiting publication of the Mehlis report. The GOT will examine the report carefully before commenting but expects it to detail direct links to high Syrian officials. Turkey is apprehensive about the [...] |
2005-10-21 12:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IZ SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA6531 |
TURKEY/SYRIA -- TURKISH MFA STATEMENT ON UNSC [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-01 15:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA6706 |
FM GUL PLANS TO VISIT SYRIA TO URGE COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. MFA Middle East DG Oguz Celikkol called in CDA November 14 to inform her that FM Gul plans to travel to Damascus on Wednesday, November 16, for a focused, three-hour visit with the purpose of encouraging Syrian President Bashar al-Asad to cooperate with the UN [...] |
2005-11-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA6771 |
READ-OUT OF FM GUL'S VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (U) This message contains an action request. See para 4. Summary and Action Request -------------------------- 2. (C) MFA Middle East DG Oguz Celikkol provided CDA a readout of FM Gul's brief November 16 visit to Damascus (reftel). Celikkol reported Gul made most of the points in t [...] |
2005-11-17 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA6827 |
CHARGE TELLS TURKS NO MORE TALK ON SYRIA [...] (C) Charge re-engaged with Turkish MFA Middle East Director General Oguz Celikkol on November 18 and told him the USG is definitely not/not interested in a trilateral dialogue with Turkey and Syria, as the Turks had conveyed upon FM Gul's return from Damascus (refs b and c). The time for tal [...] |
2005-11-18 16:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA7073 |
Turkish-Syrian Economic Relations Grow [...] (SBU) Summary. Starting at very low levels, there has been substantial growth of Turkish business with Syria although bilateral trade and investment remain trifling as a share of Turkey's overall trade and economy. Most of the benefits of the growth of the economic relationship have accrue [...] |
2005-12-02 06:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ANKARA7376 |
TURKEY/SYRIA/LEBANON: TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY ON [...] (C) MFA Syria Department Head Sedat Onal told us December 15 that he had not yet seen any draft UNSC resolution based on the UNIIIC's latest report, but surmised that Turkey will support a resolution that enjoins Syria to improve its cooperation with the Mehlis Commission. He acknowledged tha [...] |
2005-12-15 15:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE SY TU SYRIA |
| 05ISTANBUL2071 |
AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S DECEMBER 4 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a very cordial hour-long lunch sandwiched between U.S. meetings with a team of Iraqi Sunnis -- conducted in Istanbul and orchestrated and observed by the GOT -- Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad that Turkey had counseled t [...] |
2005-12-07 14:42:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY IZ TU SYRIA |