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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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09ANKARA1230 | DAVUTOGLU URGES ISRAELI SETTLEMENT RESTRAINT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 12:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU IS |
09ANKARA124 | Update on PKK Violence (January 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 16-23, 2009, reporting period, no securi [...] | 2009-01-26 10:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1240 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-24 04:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1245 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-24 10:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1247 | SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN WEXLER'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: You will find Turks increasingly focused on Erdogan's still inchoate "Democratic Initiative," which seeks to address the social and economic factors contributing to many Turkish Kurds' sense of alienation from their government and modern Turkey. The initiative's opponents fear [...] | 2009-08-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA125 | TURKEY: MARCH LOCAL ELECTIONS - A PRIMER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 29 will face its first nationwide electoral test since its landslide victory in the July 2007 parliamentary elections. Some 48 million voters will go to the polls to elect approximately 2,300 mayors and almost 100,00 [...] | 2009-01-26 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1253 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-25 10:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA126 | TURKEY TO SEND BACK VENEZUELA-BOUND IRANIAN [...] (C) MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament DDG Ahmet Muhtar Gun confirmed for Pol-Mil Couns on January 26 that the GOT has decided to turn back the Iranian shipment bound for Venezuela (reftel). According to Gun, detailed investigations into the contents of the shipment concluded that the shipm [...] | 2009-01-26 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL TU IR |
09ANKARA1262 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-26 10:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1263 | TURKEY: MILITARY BREAKS SILENCE ON KURDISH OPENING [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish Military Chief GEN Basbug used his August 25 Victory Week commemoration message to break the military's silence on the government's "Democratic Opening" on Kurdish issues (ref a). His message gave support to the government's effort to take steps in the "economi [...] | 2009-08-26 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1264 | GOT PROTESTS GEORGIAN SEIZURE OF MERCHANT SHIPS [...] (SBU) The GOT has protested the seizure of two ships, which, it claims, were stopped by the Georgian Coast Guard in international waters in the Black Sea off the coast of Georgia and taken into the port of Poti (see reftel). The Turkish-crewed Panamanian-flagged oil tanker "Buket," which was [...] | 2009-08-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EWWT TU GG |
09ANKARA1267 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 10:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1274 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1277 | Update on PKK Violence (August 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 16-23, 2009, two security officials were [...] | 2009-08-28 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA128 | EXBS: GOT INTERAGENCY RESPONSE TO EXBS SEMINAR [...] SUMMARY: MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Department provided us an official response to U.S. proposals for practical nonproliferation cooperation originally put forward during the September 2008 EXBS and Nonproliferation Seminar (ref a). MFA indicated GOT is interested in pursuing limi [...] | 2009-01-27 05:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA1288 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-31 11:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1290 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1293 | NATO SYG'S INITIAL VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: During his initial trip to Turkey as the new NATO SYG, Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged senior GoT officials to provide significant additional training support in Afghanistan and received strong push back when he pressed Turkey to show more flexibility to help improve NATO-EU cooperati [...] | 2009-09-01 20:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO TU |
09ANKARA1294 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-02 12:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1298 | TURKISH MILITARY DENIES HARASSMENT OF GREEK [...] (SBU) The Turkish General Staff (TGS) posted a statement (unoffical translation in para. 2) on September 2 refuting Greek media claims that Turkish F-16s harassed a Greek airliner in the Aegean on August 31. 2. (U) Begin unofficial translation of TGS statement: Allegations from Greece h [...] | 2009-09-03 10:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS GR TU |
09ANKARA1299 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 12:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1300 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 10:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1304 | Update on PKK Violence (August 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 24-31, 2009, four security officials were [...] | 2009-09-04 15:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1309 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 10:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1310 | CODEL WEXLER URGES TURKISH ACTION ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary. Rep. Robert Wexler met August 26-27 with a wide array of top-level Turkish officials to discuss the current state of U.S.-Turkish relations and to urge them to push for greater regional support for President Obama's initiatives on Middle East peace and his willingness to deal wit [...] | 2009-09-08 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG AM AZ IS IR TU |
09ANKARA1311 | PROGRESS AT TURKEY - IRAQ - SYRIA WATER TRILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 12:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL SENV IZ SY TU |
09ANKARA1312 | CFE: TURKEY'S REACTIONS TO A/S GOTTEMOELLER'S [...] (C) We briefed September 8 Turkey's HLTF Rep and MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Muhtar Gun on A/S Gottemoeller's discussions with Russian Disarmament Director Antonov (reftel). Gun expressed appreciation for the briefing and told us that Ambassador Sensoy will meet w [...] | 2009-09-09 05:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
09ANKARA1317 | TURKEY: VIEWS ON THE LATEST IAEA REPORTS ON IRAN [...] (C) We shared U.S. views on the latest IAEA reports on Iran and Syria (ref a) and passed the non-paper to MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmement Ahmet Gun on September 8. Gun agreed that the measures undertaken by Iran at Arak and Natanz as signals of cooperation were minimalist, [...] | 2009-09-09 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC TRGY PREL TU |
09ANKARA1320 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1324 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-09-09 14:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1326 | DAS KAIDANOW'S INITIAL CONSULTATIONS IN TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: GoT officials told EUR DAS Kaidanow during her initial visit to Ankara that: -- Turkey is committed to the reconciliation process with Armenia, but Ankara also needs to see progress on Nagorno-Karabakh; -- Ankara fully supports Talat and is giving him maximum flexibility, but [...] | 2009-09-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AR GR TU |
09ANKARA1328 | TURKEY: ANKARA BRAVES OPPOSITION TO ARMENIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition parties continue to object vigorously to the Turkish MFA's August 31 announcement of the agreement between Turkey and Armenia to begin consultations on bilateral protocols on establishing diplomatic relations and opening the border. Given the opposition's pre-existing [...] | 2009-09-10 04:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
09ANKARA1329 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for a TNP sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and advise Post whether any derogato [...] | 2009-09-10 06:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1332 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-09-10 10:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1333 | Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During September 1-7, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-09-10 11:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1334 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidate for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on this flag officer in appropriate databases (DR [...] | 2009-09-10 12:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1336 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1341 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 10:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1343 | TURKEY: CHILD LABOR REPORT RUFFLES GOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post delivered the points in reftel to appropriate officials in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MOLSS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The GOT's response ranged from moderately negative to baffled. Even though the USDOL report on Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL [...] | 2009-09-11 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1349 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 12:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1357 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-16 12:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1359 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN WILL ATTEND FRIENDS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-16 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON PK TU |
09ANKARA1361 | TURKEY: MFA ON AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) The Ambassador made REFTEL points to MFA U/S Sinirlioglu on September 14, underscoring that congratulatory messages should not be premature. Sinirlioglu said Ankara already is aware of USG concerns and intends to be careful about extending congratulations. He noted that the Turkish Gove [...] | 2009-09-16 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO AF TU |
09ANKARA1362 | TURKEY: MFA CONTENDS IT GAVE CLEAR MESSAGE TO IRAN [...] (C) Late on September 14 the Ambassador met with MFA Under Secretary Sinirlioglu and delivered REF A points on Turkey's key role in expressing our shared concern about Iran's nuclear program, and the potential for an already delicate security situation to unravel. Sinirlioglu asserted that F [...] | 2009-09-16 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TU |
09ANKARA1366 | TURKEY SUPPORTS FOLLOW-ON UNSCR 1820 RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) On September 17 we delivered REFTEL talking points to Erman Topcu at MFA's Directorate General of International Political Organizations. He informed us that Turkey supported the entire USG proposal in principle, including the organization of a task force, regular reporting on conflict-rel [...] | 2009-09-17 12:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PHUM PREL CG KWMN TU |
09ANKARA1367 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1369 | TURKEY: EUROPEAN MISSILE DEFENSE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | MARR PREL TU |
09ANKARA137 | DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES SOUTH CAUCASUS WITH GOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Deputy U/S for Eastern Europe and South Caucasus Unal Cevikoz emphasized to visiting DAS Bryza and the Ambassador January 16 the importance Turkey attaches to the continuation of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). Cevikoz said Turkey would support a UNOMIG extensio [...] | 2009-01-27 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV AJ AM GG RU TU XY |
09ANKARA1370 | IRANIAN ELECTION PROTESTER'S TORTURE ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. CONOFF spoke with Ebrahim Sharifi (please strictly protect) on Thursday September 17 concerning his involvement in Iran,s recent election and post election activities as well as his detainment, torture, and sodomy by government authorities. Sharifi discussed his efforts to expose [...] | 2009-09-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1371 | (S) GOT WILL LOOK INTO POTENTIAL LME TRANSFER TO [...] (S) We delivered the information regarding the potential transfer of lethal military equipment from Bulgaria to Syria through a Turkish intermediary (reftel) with MFA Acting Department Head for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Affairs Mustafa Yurdakul on September 17. Yurdakul pledged to look [...] | 2009-09-18 07:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER MASS |
09ANKARA1372 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an FBI-sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and advise Post whether any derogat [...] | 2009-09-18 08:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1373 | TURKEY: EARLY REACTION IN THE MEDIA TO MISSILE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish media reaction to the White House announcement on European missile defense has been limited thus far and ranged from straightforward reporting based on the Presidential announcement to speculation that the announcement portends a greater role for Turkey in the new "Phase [...] | 2009-09-18 10:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL KMDR NATO IR TU |
09ANKARA1375 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (SEPTEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 8-15, 2009, ten security officials wer [...] | 2009-09-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1379 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an IMET sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and advise Post whether any deroga [...] | 2009-09-18 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1382 | TURKISH MFA: FM PRESSED IRAN ON ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 18 MFA's Department Head for Iran Korkut Gungen gave us a readout of FM Davutoglu's September 12-13 visit to Iran, noting that Davutoglu had raised the nuclear issue with each of his interlocutors (including a tete-a-tete with Ahmadinejad) and had pressed the GOI to [...] | 2009-09-18 16:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TU |
09ANKARA1406 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-28 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA141 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-28 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1411 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (SEPTEMBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the period September 16-23, one security official wa [...] | 2009-09-30 05:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1414 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 05:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1418 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA142 | SCENESETTER FOR MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL ENVOY GEORGE [...] (S) The Gaza crisis and IDF attacks on Palestinian civilians dominated the Turkish press for three weeks and will still be fresh in the minds of GOT officials as you arrive. PM Erdogan, incensed that Israel launched attacks on Gaza just days after PM Olmert had visited Ankara with no mention [...] | 2009-01-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA1421 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Embassy Ankara warmly welcomes your visit to Turkey October 8-10. Our relations with Turkey are strong. While the euphoria from the President's visit last April have faded, the steady stream of senior visitors from Washington has helped us convince Turkey's leaders that the Administrat [...] | 2009-09-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1425 | GOVERNMENT VS. DOGAN GRUDGE MATCH CHILLS TURKISH JOURNALISM [...] (U) This cable is a joint Embassy Ankara/Consulate General Istanbul product. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Despite international signals about the press freedom implications of record tax fines levied against the Dogan Media Group, the GOT has upped the ante in its battle with the beleaguered media gian [...] | 2009-10-01 13:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KPAO TU |
09ANKARA1429 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-02 11:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1430 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-02 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1433 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidate for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on the candidate in appropriate databases (DRL/PM [...] | 2009-10-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1434 | (S) TURKEY AGREES TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST TRUCK [...] (S/NF) We shared the non-paper regarding the transit of a truck convoy from Iran to the Levant carrying a shipment of high concern (reftel) with MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation Ahmet Gun on October 2, and asked the GoT to take immediate action to disrupt the shipment. Gun agreed to alert rel [...] | 2009-10-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC MARR MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER |
09ANKARA1437 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-05 10:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA144 | ERGENEKON PROBE: SOME SMOKE, BUT LASTING IMPACT [...] (C) Summary: The widening scope of the Ergenekon investigation has divided Turkish society into two increasingly hardened camps: those who see the case as a courageous step to bring Turkish society under the rule of law, by uncovering and then holding accountable the gangs responsible for hu [...] | 2009-01-29 12:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1440 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (SEPTEMBER [...] Summary: Robert Hessler assumed the position of EXBS Advisor to Turkey. TDY EXBS Advisor, Kevin Cummings, provided a week of orientation and accompanied Mr. Hessler to introductory meetings with Turkish government officials. EXBS team completed preparations for the DOE, International Non Pro [...] | 2009-10-05 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA1445 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-06 10:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1446 | TURKEY PUSHES FOR STRATEGIC COOPERATION WITH IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad is the culmination of a recently revitalized GoT effort to establish a strategic partnership with Iraq. He hopes to lay the foundations for bilateral cooperation in areas ranging from counter-terrorism cooperation and hydrocarbons trans [...] | 2009-10-06 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1447 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (SEPTEMBER 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the September 24-30 period, no security personnel we [...] | 2009-10-06 15:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA145 | TURKEY: THE LINGERING IMPACT OF GOT GAZA RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan's harsh condemnation of GOI actions during the recent Gaza crisis continues to impact Turkey's Jewish minority and its bilateral relationship with Israel. Jewish Community leaders in Istanbul told the Ambassador that while they had previously enjoyed a clos [...] | 2009-01-29 13:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS TU |
09ANKARA1452 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT EXTENDS AUTHORITY FOR CROSS [...] (U) On October 6 the Turkish Parliament approved a one-year extension to perform cross border operations in Iraq. Out of the 475 Ministers of Parliament who voted on the motion, 452 voted in favor. All twenty-one members of DTP, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party. The one-year time line [...] | 2009-10-07 11:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS TU IZ |
09ANKARA1453 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1455 | DAVUTOGLU TAKES THE CASE FOR TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION [...] (SBU) Summary: EU embassy interlocutors here interpreted Davutoglu's October 1 Brussels statement urging the EU to admit Turkey by 2015 not as an ultimatum, but as a reaffirmation of the GoT's commitment to its EU candidacy. Progress on internal reforms and GoT actions that encourage hopes fo [...] | 2009-10-07 15:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN TU |
09ANKARA146 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-29 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1460 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish National Police candidates for an IMET sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on these candidates in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and advise Post wh [...] | 2009-10-08 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1464 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1467 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-09 13:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1468 | TURKEY: GROWING PESSIMISM AMONG KURDS IN SOUTHEAST [...] (C) Summary: During a recent eight-day tour around southeast Turkey, we found Kurds throughout the region expressing growing doubt that the Government of Turkey is sincere about its "Democratic Opening." Many view it as the AK Party's (AKP) tactic to attract Kurdish voters after losing Kurd [...] | 2009-10-09 13:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA147 | TURKEY: NO AGREEMENT YET ON CSCP MODALITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform (CSCP) parties, meeting in Istanbul January 26, did not reach agreement on how the platform will be institutionalized or how it will engage other countries and relate to other regional mechanisms, according to Russian and Georgian Embas [...] | 2009-01-30 10:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM AJ GG RU TU XY |
09ANKARA1472 | SCENESETTER: YOUR VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (S) Sandy, Glad you'll be able to visit Turkey at this key time. Your short visit will give you an opportunity to engage with key Turkish leaders on, first and foremost in their minds, missile defense. The Turks are keen to learn more about U.S. plans, in particular what role the U.S. wants/e [...] | 2009-10-13 08:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM PTER TU |
09ANKARA1474 | WOMEN IN POLITICS: THE ROAD IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: The road to political empowerment of Turkish women continues to be under construction. While women have equal political rights and freedoms, the right to vote, and the right to be elected and to engage in political activity, the number of female Members of Parliament (MPs) and [...] | 2009-10-13 14:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TU |
09ANKARA1477 | PM ERDOGAN'S WISH LIST FOR OCTOBER 15 BAGHDAD VISIT [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Erdogan and his delegation of nine ministers hope to sign well over 40 protocols, memoranda of understanding and agreements with their Iraqi counterparts when they visit Baghdad October 15 (REFTEL),according to the MFA. The GOT hopes the documents will guide bilateral co [...] | 2009-10-14 04:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1478 | TURKEY: ISN DELEGATION TWISTS ARMS, MAKES PROGRESS [...] (C) During September 28 consultations with the Turkish interagency in Ankara, ISN DAS Eliot Kang and ISN/NESS Office Director Richard Stratford made a persuasive case for Turkey to join the growing consensus for new guidelines at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to prohibit the transfer of n [...] | 2009-10-14 09:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PREL TU |
09ANKARA1481 | TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS CONTINUE TO SOUR [...] (C) Summary: Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained. GOT interlocutors attribute the tension to Israel's December Gaza operation and argue that the bilateral relationship will recover only when Israel allows improvements to the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The GOT's last-minu [...] | 2009-10-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TU IS |
09ANKARA1482 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 1 - 7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 1 - 7 period, two security officials, i [...] | 2009-10-14 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1486 | TURKEY-SYRIA RELATIONS: AN AKP WORK IN PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish government firmly supports its expanding bilateral relationship with Syria, which it argues benefits both nations and the region. Increasing ties and cooperation between the two governments led to a recent agreement to remove visa requirements, which the MFA deems a c [...] | 2009-10-15 12:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SY TU |
09ANKARA1487 | ARMENIA PROTOCOL MAY FACE PARLIAMENT GRIDLOCK [...] (C) Summary: Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Murat Mercan, told us October 15 that the government will submit the Armenia protocols to him next week for discussion by the Foreign Affairs Committee. He said an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh is a p [...] | 2009-10-16 09:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ AM PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA149 | ERDOGAN'S DAVOS REMARKS PLAY WELL FOR AKP [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan received a hero's welcome on his return to Turkey early January 30 from Davos, where during a televised discussion concerning Gaza he harshly criticized the Israeli government and stormed out, swearing to never return. The outburst has [...] | 2009-01-30 11:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1498 | TURKS WILL JOIN CONSENSUS ON SEDM MEMBERSHIP FOR [...] (C) MFA NATO and Euroatlantic Security Policy Department Head Mustafa Turan expressed appreciation for the infomation about USG readiness to join consensus on extending Southeastern European Defense Ministerial (SEDM) membership to Serbia (reftel) and agreed that there should be no obstacles t [...] | 2009-10-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL TU |
09ANKARA1500 | TURKS ACCENT THE POSITIVE IN EU PROGRESS REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: State Minister for EU Affairs Egemen Bagis and the MFA offered a broadly positive official reaction to the European Commission's 12th annual progress report, released October 14. Both Bagis and the MFA portrayed the report in their public statements as endorsing the government's [...] | 2009-10-16 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CY EU PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1505 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA151 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1511 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1519 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-21 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1520 | IRAN ASYLUM SEEKER ALLEGES TORTURE AND SIGNS OF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On Monday October 19th, CONOFF and LEGATT interviewed Ebrahim Ali MEHTARI (strictly protect),an Iranian asylum seeker in Ankara, regarding MEHTARI's claims that he saw writing by Robert LEVINSON at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) detention center during MEHTARI' [...] | 2009-10-21 12:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | CVIS IR PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SCUL SOCI TU |
09ANKARA1522 | TURKEY TO PRESS FOR IRAQI SUPPORT OF KURDISH [...] (C) Turkey's Ambassador to Iraq, Murat Ozcelik, told us October 21 that upon his return to Baghdad later in the week he would attempt to engage the Iraqi government and KRG in the nascent Kurdish-Turk returnee process (REFTELS). Ozcelik said the early focus of his engagement effort would be fu [...] | 2009-10-21 15:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1526 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy sponsored programs. Post's EXBS Advisor will escort the participants to the programs. Action Request: Post requests that Department [...] | 2009-10-22 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1527 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1528 | ASD VERSHBOW BRIEFS TURKS ON MISSILE DEFENSE: GOOD [...] (S) ASD Vershbow briefed top Turkish MFA and General Staff officials on details of the proposed U.S. Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) to European ballistic missile defense and presented Turkey with a request to participate in this effort to protect NATO territory by agreeing to allow a radar an [...] | 2009-10-22 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL NATO TU |
09ANKARA1530 | TURKEY UNDECIDED ON PARTICIPATION FOR BMENA FORUM [...] (SBU) On October 22 we spoke with Rami Sayliman at the Turkish MFA try of Foreign Affairs concerning Turkish participation in the G-8 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future on November 2-3 in Marrakech (REFTEL). Sayliman told us the MFA has not yet determined who to [...] | 2009-10-23 05:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KDEM KPAO OPDC PREL KMPI TU |
09ANKARA1532 | ISRAELI EMBASSY HOPES FOR BETTER TIMES AFTER [...] (C) Israeli DCM Menahem Kanafi told DCM October 21 that the Turkish MFA and Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) have been responsive to Israeli requests regarding a soap opera airing this week on TRT that dramatized graphic Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians. After the Israeli Amb [...] | 2009-10-23 07:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS TU |
09ANKARA1533 | PM'S OCTOBER 15 BAGHDAD VISIT: LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: The GOT is pleased with the 48 MOUs, protocols and agreements PM Erdogan and his nine ministers signed with their Iraqi counterparts during Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad. The MFA realizes that implementing the accords will be difficult. The MOU on natural gas exports es [...] | 2009-10-23 08:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1534 | PM'S OCTOBER 15 BAGHDAD VISIT: LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: The GOT is pleased with the 48 MOUs, protocols and agreements PM Erdogan and his nine ministers signed with their Iraqi counterparts during Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad. The MFA realizes that implementing the accords will be difficult. The MOU on natural gas exports es [...] | 2009-10-23 08:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1535 | TURKEY ASKS FOR PILOT TO BE INCLUDED IN SPACE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 08:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | NASA PREL TSPA TU |
09ANKARA1536 | LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 2. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidate for Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy sponsored programs. Post's EXBS Advisor will escort the participant to the programs. Action Request: Post requests that Department co [...] | 2009-10-23 13:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1537 | TIES THAT BIND: AZERI INFLUENCE OVER TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Turkey-Armenia protocols begin to percolate in the Turkish Parliament (SEPTEL),Azerbaijan's influence on Turkish public opinion will be pivotal. Given the close cultural, historical and linguistic ties between the Turks and Azerbaijanis, the Turkish public appears unwilli [...] | 2009-10-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON AR AJ TU |
09ANKARA1539 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 8-15, 2009, four security officials were [...] | 2009-10-24 10:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1545 | 64TH UNGA, THIRD COMMITTEE: TURKEY'S POSITIONS [...] (C) Kaan Esener, head of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told us on October 26 that Turkey would support U.S. positions (REFTEL) on the 64th UNGA Third Committee's Burma and DPRK resolutions. He added that Turkey would co-sponsor and support the U.S. electoral [...] | 2009-10-26 16:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN TU |
09ANKARA1548 | TURKEY CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF WTO [...] We delivered reftel talking points and background information to Halit Akcaglayan, WTO Affairs Department Head at the Foreign Trade Undersecretariat. Akcaglayan was already familiar with the issue and noted that Turkey has no problems in principle with the current proposed text and could supp [...] | 2009-10-27 09:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD PREL ECON WTRO TU |
09ANKARA1549 | ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TRACES HIS PROBLEMS TO ERDOGAN [...] (C) During an October 26 call on the Ambassador, Israeli Ambassador Gabby Levy registered concern over the recent deterioration in his country's bilateral relations with Turkey and the conviction that the relationship's decline is attributable exclusively to Prime Minister Erdogan. Levy said Foreig [...] | 2009-10-27 11:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IS |
09ANKARA1553 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-27 12:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1554 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-27 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1560 | Major Iranian Protest Expected Next Wednesday [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This week a variety of immigrant (IV) and non-immigrant visa (NIV) applicants told CONOFF that major national student-led protests are planned for Wednesday, November 4. It is unclear who the leaders of the protests are, but participants plan to use "student's day" as a cover t [...] | 2009-10-27 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1563 | ASD VERSHBOW DISCUSSES REGIONAL SECURITY ISSUES [...] (C) In an October 19 visit to Turkey focused primarily on missile defense (ref),ASD Vershbow discussed a broad range of issues related to security in the region with his Turkish counterparts. He pressed MFA leaders to re-engage with Israel, to stay on track with efforts to keep tension low i [...] | 2009-10-28 06:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU |
09ANKARA1564 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (OCTOBER [...] Summary: The EXBS Team and PMA Counselor met with the Director General of Customs Enforcement to discuss a shipment of concern (see Ankara Cables 1434,1438 and 1448),DOE/INECP conducted pre-deployment training of the XRF metal analysis device for Turkish Customs Officers. Additionally, INEC [...] | 2009-10-28 07:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA1566 | TURKEY'S SEARCH FOR A PLAN B ON NATURAL GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As negotiations with Azerbaijan have stalled -- in Turkey's view, because of Azeri pique over its rapprochement with Armenia -- the GoT has been actively developing its options for a short to medium term natural gas picture without a deal with Azerbaijan. It believes that having a [...] | 2009-10-28 12:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL TU |
09ANKARA1568 | TURKISH MFA "FORWARD-LOOKING" ON CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 23 the Turkish MFA hosted an internal marathon session devoted to Cyprus that was refreshingly critical of Turkish policy over the past decade, reaffirmed that the status quo is unacceptable and resolved that Ankara must "find ways to break the deadlocks" that threaten [...] | 2009-10-29 13:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNFICYP CY TU |
09ANKARA1569 | PROTOCOLS IN PARLIAMENT-WHAT NEXT? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Now that the Turkey-Armenia protocols are in parliament, "the hard part begins." The GOT faces an uphill battle in pushing for ratification, as the opposition continues its criticism and public opinion demands progress on Nagorno-Karabakh. What constitutes the minimum political [...] | 2009-10-29 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AR TU |
09ANKARA1570 | TURKEY: URGENT DEMARCHE REQUEST - POSSIBLE UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
09ANKARA1571 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 12:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1572 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH [...] (C) We delivered reftel report to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul on October 30. Yurdakul expressed appreciation for the report and took the opportunity to note that Turkey's position regarding MTCR outreach remains unchanged. He stated that Turkey will oppo [...] | 2009-10-30 17:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KSCA ETTC PARM PREL TSPA |
09ANKARA1573 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 16-23 period, no security official was [...] | 2009-11-02 09:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1574 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-02 11:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA158 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1580 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 11:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1583 | WORKING ERDOGAN BACK INTO THE FOLD ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: During an October 21 meeting with MFA Undersecretary Sinirlioglu, the Ambassador challenged Prime Minister Erdogan's recent dismissal of international community allegations that Iran intends to acquire nuclear weapons as "gossip." The Ambassador emphasized Iran will be the singl [...] | 2009-11-03 16:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC TU IR |
09ANKARA1584 | TURKEY: GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 16:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IS |
09ANKARA1585 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (OCTOBER 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the October 24-31 period, no security official was [...] | 2009-11-04 09:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1586 | STANDSTILL LOOMS FOR TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION BID [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is on track to open the Environment Chapter under the Swedish EU presidency, but has run out of "easy" technical chapters to open after the beginning of 2010 and could face a standstill in its EU accession bid. Ankara already has abandoned its previous policy of trying to [...] | 2009-11-04 10:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1589 | DOE DEP SEC PONEMAN VISIT: TURKS POSITIVE ON [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Minister of Energy Yildiz and BOTAS Acting Director General Konuk, DoE Deputy Secretary Poneman stressed U.S. support for the Southern Corridor and the urgent need to resolve negotiations with the Azeris to make the Corridor a reality. Both Yildiz and Konu [...] | 2009-11-05 09:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL TU AZ |
09ANKARA159 | TURKEY: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) POST [...] Post POC for NPT-related isssues is Robert Lee in the Office of Political Military Affairs. He can be reached via e-mail at leerd@state.gov or leerd@state.sgov.gov or by phone at 90-312-457-7177. The GOT POC for NPT-related is Mustafa Yurdakul, Section Chief in MFA's Department for Nonproli [...] | 2009-02-02 13:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL IAEA |
09ANKARA1590 | STANDSTILL LOOMS FOR TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION BID [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is on track to open the Environment Chapter under the Swedish EU presidency, but has run out of "easy" technical chapters to open after the beginning of 2010 and could face a standstill in its EU accession bid. Ankara already has abandoned its previous policy of trying to [...] | 2009-11-05 09:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1592 | TURKIC COUNCIL ESTABLISHED; KAZAKHSTAN THE PRIZE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey has renewed its effort to consolidate its influence among the Turkic countries to its east with a new approach toward its neighbors. Two recent developments point to the initial success of this new posture. During the October 2-3 Turkic Summit in Nakhcivan, Turkey join [...] | 2009-11-05 11:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG AJ ZK TU |
09ANKARA1593 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 11:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1594 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1596 | IMAM HATIP SCHOOLS AGAIN ON AKP AGENDA? [...] (U) SUMMARY: Turkey's imam hatip schools (IHS) are again drawing attention in light of a new Justice and Development Party (AKP) proposal to enable IHS students to complete grades 6-8 in IHS versus state schools. This follows closely behind the recent regulation that abolished the university [...] | 2009-11-05 13:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1599 | (S) FOLLOWING-UP WITH TURKEY ON AK MAKINA'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-05 16:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | MTCR PARM PREL IR TU |
09ANKARA1600 | IRAQ-TURKEY COUNTERTERRORISM AGREEMENT [...] (C) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs November 5 gave us an English-language copy of the Iraqi-Turkish counter-terrorism agreement signed by the two countries' Interior Ministers during Prime Minister Erdogan's October 15 visit to Baghdad (REFTEL). MFA contacts contend this agreement provides a [...] | 2009-11-06 16:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
09ANKARA1601 | MORE COMMENTATORS QUESTION AKP FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Among Turkish media commentators and academics, we are observing an increasing tendency to question the Erdogan/Davutoglu foreign policy's perceived goal of reorienting Turkey away from the West towards positions and a vernacular that appeal to the "Islamic street." Riza Turmen, a former [...] | 2009-11-09 06:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1602 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 06:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1604 | TURKEY: MFA READY FOR BILATERAL CT DIALOGUE; [...] (C) Summary. Turkey is willing to explore inaugurating the official high-level counterterrorism (CT) dialogue as early as January 2010, MFA DDG for Security Affairs Ozyildiz told us November 5. An interagency task force is preparing changes to Turkey's legal definition of terrorism to satisfy [...] | 2009-11-09 06:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EFIN IZ DA TU |
09ANKARA1608 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR TRIP TO TURKEY [...] (S) I look forward to welcoming you. Missile Defense is at the top of our crowded agenda with Turkey and the Turks are fully engaged. They will look for you to advance the discussions which were well begun by Sandy Vershbow and others both here in Ankara and at NATO. They will be looking fo [...] | 2009-11-09 11:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL NATO TU |
09ANKARA1609 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-09 11:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1614 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 12:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1617 | TURKEY STILL SEEKS NATO MAP FOR BOTH BOSNIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA TU BK |
09ANKARA1618 | TURKEY STILL SEEKS NATO MAP FOR BOTH BOSNIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 09:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA TU BK |
09ANKARA1619 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 13:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1625 | MFA UNDER SECRETARY ON CYPRUS, AEGEAN, ARMENIA [...] SUMMARY. In a November 10 discussion with the Ambassador, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Sinirlioglu: -- urged that the US get involved in the Cyprus talks and noted that the 2006 Finnish proposal for the Additional Ankara Protocol is "still on the table"; -- indicated that while flights in the [...] | 2009-11-13 05:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1626 | MFA UNDER SECRETARY ON CYPRUS, AEGEAN, ARMENIA [...] SUMMARY. In a November 10 discussion with the Ambassador, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Sinirlioglu: -- urged that the US get involved in the Cyprus talks and noted that the 2006 Finnish proposal for the Additional Ankara Protocol is "still on the table"; -- indicated that while flights in the [...] | 2009-11-13 05:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1628 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-13 11:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1629 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the week of November 1-7, no security official was [...] | 2009-11-13 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA163 | TURKEY: LOCAL ELECTIONS NO BOON FOR GENDER EQUALITY [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara - Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary: Few female candidates have been selected by political parties for March 29 local elections. Only 44 female candidates are among the thousands running in Turkey's mayoral races. Contacts from the ruling [...] | 2009-02-03 11:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1631 | TURKISH FM WILL ATTEND AFGHAN INAUGURATION [...] (C) Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu confirmed to visiting EUR A/S Gordon November 12 that he plans to attend President Karzai's inauguration in Kabul on November 19. The Ambassador also had raised REFTEL points with MFA Under Secretary Sinirlioglu late on November 10. Sinirlioglu had pred [...] | 2009-11-13 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV TU AF |
09ANKARA1632 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (C) The GOT will warmly welcome your November 18 visit as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. It will be seen as yet another indication of U.S. respect for Turkey's international role and domestic progress. Despite turmoil and unrest in its neighborh [...] | 2009-11-13 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA1633 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (C) The GOT will warmly welcome your November 18 visit as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. It will be seen as yet another indication of U.S. respect for Turkey's international role and domestic progress. Despite turmoil and unrest in its neighborh [...] | 2009-11-13 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA1637 | TURKEY'S LETTER TO GREECE: DEAR GEORGE [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish MFA proudly points to Prime Minister Erdogan's October 30 letter to Greece as a positive step for the future of bilateral relations between the two countries, but admits that much depends on Greece's response -- and the ongoing Cyprus negotiations. In the letter, Erd [...] | 2009-11-16 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU GR |
09ANKARA164 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-03 14:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1640 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 12:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1641 | TURKEY SUPPORTS MACEDONIA'S EU MEMBERSHIP AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 15:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EU EUN GR MK TU PREL PGOV |
09ANKARA1644 | A/S GORDON'S NOVEMBER 12 MEETING WITH U/S [...] (C) Summary: MFA Undersecretary Sinirlioglu opened his November 12 meeting with EUR A/S Gordon by attempting to recast Erdogan's recent public efforts to deflect international community criticism of Iran's nuclear program as an idiosyncratic reaffirmation of NPT principles. Gordon cautioned [...] | 2009-11-17 08:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC MASS IR TU |
09ANKARA1647 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 11:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1651 | TURKEY TRYING TO KEEP ITS INFLUENCE IN BOSNIA [...] (C) Summary: Turkey is trying to keep a foot in the Balkans with its position that Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH) is not ready to close its Office of the High Representative (OHR) and transition to a reinforced EU Special Representative (EUSR),despite supporting BIH's constitutional reform efforts [...] | 2009-11-17 16:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU BK GR |
09ANKARA1654 | TURKEY: A/S GORDON PRESSES FM DAVUTOGLU ON IRAN [...] (S) Iran dominated A/S Gordon's 40-minute meeting November 12 with Foreign Minister Davutoglu. The FM had just gotten off the phone with El-Baradei and had discussed in detail the IAEA proposal to send Iran's low enriched uranium to Turkey. El-Baradei had said he would "call Washington" that s [...] | 2009-11-17 17:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KNNP PREL TU IR |
09ANKARA1655 | TURKEY ON UNGA COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Yonca Ozceri, head of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told us November 17 that Turkey would "act in the way it acted in previous years" on the UNGA Third Committee resolution on Iran. (Note: It chose to be absent during the 2008 vote. End Note). He said t [...] | 2009-11-17 17:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA TU |
09ANKARA166 | TURKEY: "I APOLOGIZE" CAMPAIGN CATHARTIC, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of signatures attached to the on-line campaign apologizing for the "great disaster" suffered by Ottoman Armenians in 1915 has begun to taper off after reaching 30,000 -- a figure far exceeding the organizers' expectations. While criticized strongly by retired diplomat [...] | 2009-02-03 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AM TU |
09ANKARA1661 | PLANS FOR AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN SUMMITS [...] (C) Turkey plans to involve itself actively in organizing meetings related to both Afghanistan and Pakistan in the coming year. Turkey's "Action Plan for Afghanistan" (included in para 4 below),which lists "immediate steps" for Turkish efforts in Afghanistan, includes convening the fourth Af [...] | 2009-11-19 09:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1662 | NATO MISSILE DEFENSE: STRONG COMMUNIQUE WILL BE [...] (C) During her November 18 Missile Defense consultations in Ankara (septel),U/S Tauscher reviewed the basic outline of our proposed NATO Ministerial Communique Missile Defense Language (as per reftel para 2) with top Turkish General Staff and Foreign Ministry officials. While the Turks did n [...] | 2009-11-19 11:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR PREL NATO TU |
09ANKARA1663 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 8-15, no security official was killed or i [...] | 2009-11-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1664 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 8-15, no security official was killed or i [...] | 2009-11-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1665 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1666 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 11:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1672 | ISRAELIS STILL SEEKING A CHANNEL TO THE SENIOR [...] (C) Israeli Embassy Spokesperson Amit Zarouk (Protect) told us November 18 his government, urged on by Minister of Defense Barak and the Israel Defense Force, continues to search for a reliable communication channel to the GoT's senior political level. Zarouk fears the lack of such a channel [...] | 2009-11-19 16:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS TU IS |
09ANKARA1673 | OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 16:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IS |
09ANKARA1675 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 11:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1676 | SUPPORT TO NEW KARZAI GOVERMENT REF: A. STATE 118297 B. ANKARA 1661 Classified By: DCM Doug Silliman for reasons 1.4 (b,d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-20 13:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1677 | TURKEY RESPONSE FOR LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW [...] (SBU) Turkey does not have significant economic or political interests in Cuba. 2. (C) Further detail on Ref A questions is provided below: -- Turkey supports European Union efforts to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba, but has not undertaken any unilateral efforts along those li [...] | 2009-11-20 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL TU |
09ANKARA168 | TURKEY/NATO ENLARGEMENT: ACCESSION PROCESS NEAR [...] MFA Department Head for NATO Policy Gulhan Ulutekin confirmed on January 31 that the Council of Ministers decree has been published in the official gazette declaring Turkey's ratification of the protocols for Albania and Croatia's NATO accession. According to Ulutekin, the only remaining step [...] | 2009-02-03 15:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL |
09ANKARA1688 | TURKEY: BALKANS AS NEW FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey is looking to re-engage in the Balkans to regain its historical influence in the region, with a particular focus on Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH),according to the MFA. On November 19 MFA Deputy Director General for Central and Southeastern Europe, Murat Karagoz, provided us an [...] | 2009-11-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU BK GR |
09ANKARA169 | TURKEY TO CONTINUE ACTIVIST ROLE IN MIDDLE EAST; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOT aims to continue to play an activist role in establishing peace and stability in its neighborhood as a foreign policy priority, in large measure because of a deep distrust and fear of Iran's exhibited malevolent influence throughout the region, according to senior MFA offi [...] | 2009-02-03 16:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ENRG KPAL TU IZ IR IS |
09ANKARA1692 | SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR: FOURTH U.S.-TURKEY ENERGY WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Over the past several months, Turkey has been actively exploring its energy options--from Azerbaijan and Russia to Iran and Qatar (reftel). As the GoT prepares next steps in several areas of its energy relations, your bilateral meeting with Energy Minister Yildiz and the fourth round of th [...] | 2009-11-24 13:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL TU |
09ANKARA1695 | TURKEY: RESPONSE FOR GLOBAL CONTEXT SECTION OF THE [...] (U) This cable responds to the information request in reftel. This cable is sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) To what degree will/can technology empower individuals, or civil society in the host country, to exercise a more active role in public life? Are hos [...] | 2009-11-25 07:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL SOCI TU |
09ANKARA1698 | TURKISH NUCLEAR TENDER CANCELED [...] (U) On November 20, the Turkish Electricity Trading and Contracting Company (TETAS) canceled the September 2008 tender to build and operate Turkey's first nuclear power plant. The cancelation follows a November 10 decision by the Council of State (Danistay) to suspend several articles of the [...] | 2009-11-25 11:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL TU |
09ANKARA1702 | TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN: MORE TRAINING POSSIBLE, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador briefed Turkish General Staff Deputy Chief Aslan Guner November 24 on the President's plan to announce a significant increase in U.S. civilian and military contributions to Afghanistan (reftel) and pressed Turkey to strongly support this announcement and provide signifi [...] | 2009-11-25 15:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF TU |
09ANKARA1703 | NOMINATION FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] (SBU) Full Name: Ilknur Ustun Job Titles/ Associations: President of KA-DER Ankara Branch, Turkey Coordinator for the European Women Lobby, and General Coordinator for Women Coalition Date of Birth: May 18, 1965 Country of Birth: Turkey Citizenship: Turkish Address: Bulten Sokak 51/25 Kavakl [...] | 2009-11-25 16:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM |
09ANKARA1704 | TURKEY/IRAN NUCLEAR: TURKEY STILL WORKING TRR [...] (C) On November 25, DCM raised reftel points with MFA Deputy Undersecretary Engin Soysal. We delivered the same message to MFA Deputy DG for South Asia Burak Akcapar and Nonproliferation Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul. Soysal said that FM Davutoglu was planning to brief NSA Jones on his discu [...] | 2009-11-25 16:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR TU |
09ANKARA1705 | TURKEY: INFLUENTIAL JOURNALIST'S SOBER VIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 18 Radikal columnist Murat Yetkin, one of the most influential journalists in Turkey, provided us with a broad sweep of insights into current affairs. These included his "fatalistic" mood on the Dogan Media fine, his lament that the USG has not taken a more prominen [...] | 2009-11-25 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
09ANKARA1707 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-01 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1711 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (NOVEMBER [...] Summary: The EXBS Team escorted 21 Turkish Customs officers, 1 Turkish National Police officer and 1 representative from the Under Secretariat for Foreign Trade (UFT) to the Department of Energy's Radiation Academy, at the HAMMER facility in Richland, Washington from November 2-7.Eighteen of [...] | 2009-12-02 11:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA1712 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1713 | TURKEY: ROLLING OUT THE MESSAGE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Mission Turkey continued on December 2 the strong press for additional Turkish support for the President's strategy in Afghanistan. In separate meetings with both Minister of National Defense Vecdi Gonul and with MFA Deputy Undersecretary Namik Tan, the Ambassador pushed hard for Turkey t [...] | 2009-12-02 17:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO TU |
09ANKARA1716 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 11:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1717 | FM DAVUTOGLU: YES, WE ARE THE NEW OTTOMANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent speech before the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) retreat, Turkey's Foreign Minister Davutoglu appeared to embrace the concept of Neo-Ottomanism as a framework for Turkish foreign policy. Though Davutoglu and the MFA have tried to step back from the stat [...] | 2009-12-03 13:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR TU |
09ANKARA1718 | TURKISH MFA SEES CYPRUS TALKS AS GLASS HALF FULL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The MFA's Deputy Director General for Cyprus told us December 2 that Ankara is still waiting for a reply from Athens to PM Erdogan's proposal for quadrilateral talks on a Cyprus settlement, but that Turkey is newly optimistic about the prospects for a solution after the November 1 [...] | 2009-12-03 16:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CY PREL TU UNFICYP US |
09ANKARA1719 | TURKEY ON ISRAEL'S SETTLEMENT MORATORIUM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU IS |
09ANKARA1722 | GULEN - TURKEY'S INVISIBLE MAN CASTS LONG SHADOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fethullah Gulen remains a political phenomenon in Turkey. Although "exiled" in Pennsylvania for the past decade, Gulen's impact continues to expand, aided by legions of loyalist supporters and a network of elite schools. The Gulen Movement's purported goals focus on interfaith d [...] | 2009-12-04 11:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1724 | TURKEY: MFA SEEKS NEW CURRENTS ON CAMP MAKHMOUR [...] SUMMARY. Iraqi authorities need to better isolate Makhmour Camp residents from PKK pressure to allow camp residents to express their feelings about returning to Turkey without coercion, newly appointed DG for Security Affairs Aydin Sezgin told us December 1. The DCM urged Turkey to involve t [...] | 2009-12-04 11:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL IZ TU |
09ANKARA1726 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-04 12:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1727 | TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN: MORE TROOPS POSSIBLE, NO [...] (C) Despite initial wide-spread and deep skepticism in the media and reactions ranging from frustration to outrage from senior GoT contacts about the U.S. request for more Turkish troops in Afghanistan (reftel),several media outlets (pro-government Zaman, mass circulation Aksam, and secularist [...] | 2009-12-04 12:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AF TU |
09ANKARA1732 | TURKEY: Eastern Provinces Score Gains in Counternarotics, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Turkish officials are making steady inroads against drug smuggling in the southeast, local officials told Embassy officers during a recent visit. PKK terrorist activity has declined, but it remains active in drug smuggling. The inability of Turkish officials to share informati [...] | 2009-12-04 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SNAR PREL EFIN IR IZ TU |
09ANKARA1734 | GOT PROPOSED "VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES ON OIL TANKER TRANSIT [...] (SBU) Summary: At the December 3 meeting of the U.S. Turkey Energy Working Group, Hakki Akil, MFA deputy undersecretary for economic affairs and head of the Turkish EWG delegation, asked for U.S. consideration and support of proposed "Voluntary Principles on Oil Tanker Transit through the Turk [...] | 2009-12-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET SENV PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1736 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-07 11:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1742 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1744 | Iran Student's Day Protest Feedback [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Tuesday December 8th, CONOFF surveyed Iranian non-immigrant visa (NIV) applicants regarding the December 7th "Student's Day" protest in Iran. The protests were described as better organized and larger than the November 4th demonstrations. Reactions to the present political c [...] | 2009-12-08 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL PINS PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1745 | TURKEY: PARTNERS BUT NOT PALS WITH EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both the Turkish MFA and Egyptian Embassy view the bilateral relationship positively for now, but the two countries' wariness towards each other could impact relations down the road. The Turkish MFA says it views Egypt as a partner and not a competitor. The Egyptian Embassy com [...] | 2009-12-08 15:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EG PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1746 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 16-23, no security official was killed or [...] | 2009-12-08 16:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1747 | TURKEY: EU TROIKA PRESSES ANKARA ON CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkey-EU Troika meeting on November 26 in Istanbul focused on Turkey's EU bid, but made reference to Turkey's unwillingness to implement the Ankara Additional Protocol. (The Swedish Embassy passed us their final report on this meeting but emphasized that not all EU members h [...] | 2009-12-08 16:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU EU CY |
09ANKARA1748 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (NOVEMBER 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During November 24-30, no security official was killed or [...] | 2009-12-09 08:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1749 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE: KURDISH OPENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On a December 1-4 trip to southeast Turkey, a range of Kurdish contacts representing the intelligentsia, political elite and civic activists gave surprisingly similar observations on the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "democratic opening," citing selfishness and i [...] | 2009-12-09 13:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA175 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 13:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1751 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-09 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1752 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (DECEMBER 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 1-7 period, eight security officials we [...] | 2009-12-09 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1753 | Iran Students Vow Protest Will Continue [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Wednesday December 9, CONOFF surveyed Iranian non-immigrant visa (NIV) applicants regarding the Monday, December 7 and Tuesday, December 8 protests in Iran. According to applicant reports, students vowed to continue their protests until the dean of Tehran University, a hard- [...] | 2009-12-09 15:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PINS PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1754 | AZERBAIJAN EMBASSY PLANS TO LOBBY AGAINST PROTOCOLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Azerbaijan Embassy was shocked by what it perceived as lukewarm support from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Turkish public for Azerbaijan's perspective on the Armenia Protocols, and plans to increase its public diplomacy efforts and take its case direct [...] | 2009-12-09 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ AM PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1755 | SECURITY AGENCIES: BARZANI KEY TO DEFEATING THE PKK [...] (C) During a recent discussion of his ministry's goals for the December 20-22 Trilateral Mechanism Ministerial in Baghdad and Erbil, Ministry of Interior (MoI) Secretary General Eyup Tepe said the Turkish General Staff, Turkish National Intelligence Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs an [...] | 2009-12-09 17:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR TU IZ |
09ANKARA1759 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 12:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA176 | TURKEY: WALKING BACK THE GAZA RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan has begun to modify his politically charged Gaza rhetoric, responding to growing concerns in the Turkish Jewish community, moderate Arab capitals, American Jewish groups, and among GOT officials. Since Davos, Erdogan has repeatedly emphasized that his state [...] | 2009-02-04 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1760 | TURKEY: RAISING THE PROFILE OF TIES WITH SYRIA [...] (C) Continuing his government's pattern of frequent high-profile senior-level visits abroad, Prime Minister Erdogan will lead a delegation of as many as eight ministers to Damascus between December 21 and 25 for the inaugural Turkey-Syria High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council meeting. Acco [...] | 2009-12-10 17:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ SY |
09ANKARA1762 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-11 11:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1766 | 4TH U.S.-TURKEY ENERGY WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At the fourth session of the U.S.-Turkey Energy Working Group on December 3, the Turkish delegation proposed increased cooperation between the U.S. and Turkey to support development of Iraq's energy sector, specifically through a joint project to relaunch the Iraq Stra [...] | 2009-12-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL TU |
09ANKARA1767 | ISRAELIS STILL SEEKING ACCESS TO POLITICAL LEVEL [...] (C) During a recent conversation with us, Israeli Embassy DCM Menahem Kanafi described Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor Binyamin Ben Eliezer's November 23 - 24 visit to Ankara as a modest step towards his government's goal of re-establishing a reliable communication channel to the GoT's s [...] | 2009-12-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IS SY |
09ANKARA1769 | ISRAELIS STILL SEEKING ACCESS TO POLITICAL LEVEL [...] (C) During a recent conversation with us, Israeli Embassy DCM Menahem Kanafi described Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor Binyamin Ben Eliezer's November 23 - 24 visit to Ankara as a modest step towards his government's goal of re-establishing a reliable communication channel to the GoT's s [...] | 2009-12-11 19:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IS SY |
09ANKARA1771 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 12:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1773 | FBI DIRECTOR'S VISIT: POLICE PRAISE "KINGPIN" [...] (C) SUMMARY. FBI Director Mueller urged Turkey to accept an information sharing arrangement on biometric data during a November 18 meeting with Turkish National Police Director General Koksal. The Director separately offered to post a second FBI officer in Ankara to strengthen CT teamwork. K [...] | 2009-12-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PTER PREL SNAR KCRM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1774 | FBI DIRECTOR'S VISIT: DPM CICEK WELCOMES CLOSER CT [...] (C) SUMMARY. FBI Director Mueller offered to share biometric data with Turkey, post a second FBI agent in Ankara and assist Turkey with strengthening its counterterrorism legislation, FBI Director Mueller told DPM Cicek during a November 18 meeting. Biometric sharing would require changes to [...] | 2009-12-14 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PTER PREL KCRM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1775 | FBI DIRECTOR'S VISIT: MINISTER OF JUSTICE READY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a November 18 meeting, FBI Director Mueller pressed Justice Minister Ergin to establish a new bilateral framework that would facilitate the more rapid exchange of information. He also urged Turkey to revise its terrorism laws to better address the challenges brought by gl [...] | 2009-12-14 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PTER PREL KCRM IZ TU |
09ANKARA1778 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-15 11:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1780 | REVIEW OF TPAO INVESTMENT UNDER IRAN SANCTIONS ACT [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche to Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO) General Manager Mehmet Uysal on December 13. 2. (SBU) In November 2008, the GOT Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) signed a one-year memorandum of understanding on energy with Iran. The MOU provides for TPAO [...] | 2009-12-15 13:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC PREL IR TU |
09ANKARA1781 | TURKEY: SUPPORT FOR "TRNC" CARRIES HIGH PRICE TAG [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey's financial aid to the "TRNC" is roughly $600 million annually -- one third of the "TRNC" budget. Ankara routinely grouses about what it perceives as the Turkish Cypriots' lack of fiscal responsibility, but would never consider turning off this funding tap and does not vi [...] | 2009-12-15 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA1783 | TURKEY: CANDIDATE FOR OSCE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] Following consultations with relevant contacts in the Turkish National Police (TNP) and in the private sector, we are pleased to suggest the following candidate for the OSCE Counterterrorism Workshop to be held in Vienna February 11-12, 2010. TNP contacts may provide a TNP candidate, but were [...] | 2009-12-16 06:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KCIP OSCE TU |
09ANKARA1788 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-16 12:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1792 | TURKISH COUNTER-PKK EFFORT FOCUSES ON MAKHMOUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Interior Minister Atalay's priority for the December 21 Trilateral Mechanism Ministerial Meetings in Baghdad and Irbil is to secure KRG support for the expedited return of Turkish citizens from Makhmour camp. Rather than pressing KRG President Massoud Barzani to restrict PKK fre [...] | 2009-12-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
09ANKARA1795 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1797 | PM ERDOGAN AND MINISTER YILDIZ POSITIVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Morningstar on December 2, PM Erdogan and Energy Minister Yildiz both spoke positively of reaching agreement with the Azeris on Shah Deniz gas and cooperating more closely with the U.S. to develop Iraq's energy sector. E [...] | 2009-12-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL TU |
09ANKARA1798 | SHIELD S19-09: IRAN SEEKS CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] (S) We delivered reftel information to MFA Acting Department Head for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Murat Sogangoz on December 2. We highlighted discussions about Raja Shimi's role in Iran's chemical weapons program in the Australia Group (AG),noted our reporting requirements under the Ir [...] | 2009-12-17 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC IR TU |
09ANKARA1799 | TURKEY: NO APPLICATION RECEIVED FOR LME TRANSFER [...] (S) On December 16, we followed up our initial demarche (ref a) regarding the possible transfer of Bulgarian-origin lethal military equipment to Syria via Turkey (ref b) with MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul. Yurdakul told us that the MFA had consulted releva [...] | 2009-12-17 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER MASS |
09ANKARA1800 | TURKEY: PROTESTS CALM AND AKP PUSHES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In separate events on December 17, PM Erdogan and Interior Minister Atalay stressed the government's resolve to continue with its National Unity Project. Atalay cited two goals for the Project: eliminate terrorism and elevate democratic standards across the country. Protests [...] | 2009-12-17 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
09ANKARA1801 | TURKEY: PROTESTS CALM AND AKP PUSHES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In separate events on December 17, PM Erdogan and Interior Minister Atalay stressed the government's resolve to continue with its National Unity Project. Atalay cited two goals for the Project: eliminate terrorism and elevate democratic standards across the country. Protests [...] | 2009-12-17 16:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU IZ |
09ANKARA1804 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (DECEMBER 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During December 8-15, no security official was killed but [...] | 2009-12-18 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1811 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-21 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1817 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR JEFFREY DISCUSSES FSECC WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Jeffrey met with State Minister for Foreign Trade Zafer Caglayan on December 18 to discuss the new Framework for Strategic Economic and Commercial Cooperation (FSECC). The Ambassador congratulated Caglayan on being named as the GOT's FSECC co-chair, along with Deputy Prime Mini [...] | 2009-12-22 10:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL TU |
09ANKARA1819 | SRAP CONSULTATIONS IN ANKARA, DECEMBER 2-3 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 2-3 an interagency U.S. delegation led by Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Dan Feldman met with Turkish MFA officials and representatives from Turkish ministries and agencies that have a current or potential role in Afghanistan and Pakistan [...] | 2009-12-22 12:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AF PGOV PK PREL TU |
09ANKARA1825 | TURKISH MEDIA CRUCIFY PATRIARCH, THEN RECANT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Turkish media and political figures initially criticized Greek Patriarch Bartholomew for his perceived anti-GOT comments on the December 20 "60 Minutes" program. But the harshness of the commentary ebbed as columnists re-examined the Patriarch's comments through the prism of min [...] | 2009-12-22 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA1826 | DEMARCHE ON URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES [...] (C) On December 22 we delivered REFTEL points to MFA Department Head for South Asia Korkut Gungen. Gungen listened sympathetically, noted that the GOT leadership has regular discussions with its Iranian counterparts, and promised to pass along our points for consideration to the MFA upper ti [...] | 2009-12-23 11:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER TU |
09ANKARA1828 | SAFE DEPARTURE OF HEU FROM TURKEY ADVANCES [...] (C) Officials from Department of Energy/National Nuclear Safety Administration (DOE/NNSA) along with contractors oversaw on December 14 the removal of Turkey's stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU) spent fuel elements from the Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Center located in Istanb [...] | 2009-12-23 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL ENRG TU |
09ANKARA1832 | FORMER DTP MEMBERS HEAR PKK RHETORIC IN MAKHMOUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six officials who will soon join the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP),including three MPs from the former Democratic Society Party (DTP),traveled overland to Iraq on December 22 to visit the Makhmour refugee camp and hold meetings with officials from the Kurdistan Regional Gover [...] | 2009-12-23 16:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM TU |
09ANKARA1833 | TURKEY: DIVERSE WOMEN LEADERS FIND COMMON GROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Charge d'Affaires hosted a lunch December 17 to honor individuals at the forefront of eliminating violence against women. The event brought together prominent female parliamentarians, academics, NGO leaders, think-tank analysts, and activists. It prompted broad discussion [...] | 2009-12-24 09:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA1834 | TURKEY: MUBARAK VISIT YIELDS A PROFFERED EMBRACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Egyptian President Mubarak's visit to Ankara December 15-16 focused on bilateral ties and the Middle East during lengthy separate discussions with President Gul, Prime Minister Erdogan, Deputy PM Babacan, FM Davutoglu, and Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief Basbug. Although the Tu [...] | 2009-12-27 18:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | TU EG IS PREL IR |
09ANKARA1839 | TENSIONS SPIKE AMIDST DEPUTY PM ASSASSINATION PLOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prosecutors and police conducted extensive, unprecedented searches in the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Special Forces Mobility Command on December 25 following the arrest of two special forces officers for allegedly targeting Deputy PM Bulent Arinc for assassination. TGS Chief GEN [...] | 2009-12-28 13:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA184 | Update on PKK Violence (January 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 24-31, 2009, no security official was i [...] | 2009-02-05 08:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1840 | TURKEY: CARGO HUB OPERATIONS EXTENDED [...] (SBU) On December 25 the GOT notified post via dip note 2009/ALGY/570349 of the Council of Ministers' positive decision to extend pre-existing agreements for cargo hub and retrograde operations in Turkey. This extension allows U.S. forces to continue operations at Incirlik Air Base and is val [...] | 2009-12-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL TU IR AF |
09ANKARA1841 | TURKEY DROPS VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR MORE COUNTRIES [...] SUMMARY: (C) MFA Head of Visa Section Kemal Demirciler recently gave us a consular perspective on the increasing number of Turkish bilateral visa waiver agreements. He said his department is not consulted before a visa waiver agreement is signed, and he expects no notification as to which c [...] | 2009-12-28 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS CMGT PGOV PTER SY LY TU |
09ANKARA1844 | UPDATE ON PKK VIOLENCE (DECEMBER 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During December 16-23, no security official was killed or [...] | 2009-12-29 10:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA1846 | (C) TURKISH GOALS FOR A JANUARY MNFI INTEL TEAM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkish ambassador to Iraq Murat Ozcelik contends MNF-I intelligence support is key to a new cooperative GoT-KRG effort to reduce and ultimately dispose of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. Turkish Minister of Interior Besir Atalay reportedly secured [...] | 2009-12-29 17:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR MARR TU IZ |
09ANKARA1847 | Iranians Unchanged By Ashura Protest [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CONOFFs surveyed Iranian non-immigrant visa (NIV) and immigrant visa (IV) applicants following the Sunday, December 27, 2009 Ashura protests in Iran. None of the applicants participated in the protests nor did any have contact with protest participants. Most applicants were sk [...] | 2009-12-30 15:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PINS PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA1848 | DELIVERY OF UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER TU KTFN PREL SA YM UN |
09ANKARA1849 | TURKEY REPACKAGING PROPOSED SOMALIA CONFERENCE [...] (C) During a December 29 conversation with us, MFA Somalia Affairs Department Head Kemalettin Eruygur reaffirmed GOT support for the Djibouti Peace Process (DPP) and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Eruygur insisted Turkey's proposed Somalia reconciliation conference will not compet [...] | 2009-12-30 15:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO TU |
09ANKARA189 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA193 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-06 11:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA194 | TURKEY ON FRENCH NATO REINTEGRATION [...] (C) Summary: Upcoming local elections and an uneasy bilateral relationship with France make French reintegration into NATO's military structure a sensitive political issue for Turkey. A recent article in one of Turkey's leading newspapers highlighted the difficult decision facing PM Erdogan o [...] | 2009-02-06 12:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO TU |
09ANKARA200 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM, [...] We provided MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Chief Mustafa Yurdakul February 5 with information regarding the April 20-22 Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Model Guidelines Document (MGD) Follow-on Workshop (reftel),and encouraged Turkey to send participants and [...] | 2009-02-09 12:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER |
09ANKARA202 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (JANUARY [...] Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) provided Embassy with the requests for cooperation on EXBS and nonproliferation-related issues based on extensive GOT interagency deliberations following the EXBS/Nonproliferation Seminar held in Ankara September 2008. The GOT interagency desires mor [...] | 2009-02-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA203 | TURKEY: REPLACE MILITARY ENGAGEMENT WITH ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's Special Envoy for Iraq, Murat Ozcelik, argued to DCM February 5 that the US and Turkey must convince the GOI to make the strategic economic decision to send hydrocarbons north through Turkey to Europe. This is necessary to support US, Turkish, and European strategic ob [...] | 2009-02-09 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG IZ PREL TU |
09ANKARA204 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 14:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA205 | ANKARA MAYOR'S RACE A KEY BATTLEGROUND FOR AKP [...] (C) Summary: The Ankara mayoral race is a key test for the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) quest to show it remains the preeminent political force in Turkey. AKP's incumbent mayor Melih Gokcek will face Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Murat Karayalcin, a former Social [...] | 2009-02-09 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA206 | TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP LAUNCHES GENOCIDE CASE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Turkish NGO Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed People (Mazlum-Der) has filed a legal complaint accusing the Israeli government and 19 Israeli officials of committing genocide and crimes against humanity for the recent operation in the Gaza Strip. The compl [...] | 2009-02-09 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA207 | PLO ENVOY: ABBAS VISIT INTENDED TO DIFFUSE TENSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Authority President Abbas's February 6-8 Ankara trip was designed to smooth over growing tensions that resulted from GOT behavior during the Gaza crisis, PLO Ambassador Nabil Maarouf told us February 9. Fatah interpreted PM Erdogan's heated rhetoric and repeated calls [...] | 2009-02-09 16:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS TU |
09ANKARA218 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 06:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA226 | ELDERLY AMERICAN SMUGGLED OUT OF IRAN [...] (C) Summary: American citizen Hossein Ghanbarzadeh Vahedi appeared in the Ankara Consular section around noon on January 9, 2009. Mr. Vahedi, age 75, told Conoff he had paid smugglers $7500 to take him across the Iranian/Turkish border after having been held against his will in Iran for seven month [...] | 2009-02-11 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SCUL SNAR SOCI IR |
09ANKARA229 | MFA U/S: TURKEY'S MIDDLE EAST APPROACH "UNCHANGED" [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA Undersecretary Apakan told the Ambassador February 11 that Turkey's Middle East policy remains focused on encouraging Palestinian and Arab unity, and that Ankara assured Palestinian Authority leader Abbas that it views him as the only Palestinian president and that Palestinia [...] | 2009-02-11 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS TU SY SA IR IZ US |
09ANKARA232 | Update on PKK Violence (February 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 1-7, 2009, no security official was in [...] | 2009-02-13 05:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA233 | Update on PKK Violence (February 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 1-7, 2009, no security official was in [...] | 2009-02-13 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA234 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA235 | SUDAN: TURKEY UNDECIDED ON POTENTIAL ARTICLE 16 [...] (C) Ambassador raised reftel points with MFA U/S Apakan on February 12. Apakan asked what the US would do should the proposed UNSCR come to a vote. Ambassador underscored USG support for the ICC in pursuit of those who have perpetuated war crimes, and reiterated our interest in having this no [...] | 2009-02-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM SU TU XA XW |
09ANKARA237 | TURKEY: THE CALM AFTER THE GAZA STORM [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara-Consulate General Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Jewish Community in Turkey has reported a reduction in the level of anti-Semitic incidents precipitated by the Gaza crisis. This is likely due to a concerted effort on the part of the GOT to distingui [...] | 2009-02-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS TU |
09ANKARA238 | ANTI-REGIMC O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 ANKARA 000238 [...] (C) Summary: In mid January CONOFF interviewed XXXXXXXXXXXX, an anti-regime constitutional monarchist, for an immigrant visa. Soltani was repeatedly jailed and released by the Government of Iran for subversive activities and narrowly escaped re-imprisonment prior to his visa interview. XXXX [...] | 2009-02-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS IR PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI TR |
09ANKARA239 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES SENDING FRIGATE TO THE [...] The Turkish Parliament approved February 10 a motion authorizing the government to send naval forces to the Gulf of Aden to protect commercial vessels from pirates. The Turkish Naval Forces frigate Giresun (ex USS Flatley, an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate) will reportedly depart February [...] | 2009-02-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS KCRM PREL PGOV EWWT PBTS PHSA PTER TU |
09ANKARA241 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 05:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA243 | U/S APAKAN CONFIRMS TURKEY NOT ON BOARD WITH [...] (C) The Ambassador took advantage of a February 11 meeting with MFA Undersecretary Apakan to convey REF B points on Russian President Medvedev's proposal to establish a new European security treaty. The Ambassador noted that we believed it useful to prepare President Gul for what he could exp [...] | 2009-02-13 05:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINS PREL TU RS |
09ANKARA246 | TURKEY SOWING SEEDS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENGAGEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Government continues to seek closer ties to Africa. High-level engagement has continued in the wake of Turkey's November election to the UNSC as a non-permanent member. The MFA also has plans for a round of Ambassadorial meetings in 2011, followed by a second summit [...] | 2009-02-13 10:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU SU |
09ANKARA247 | TURKEY: PARTIES HUNT FOR VOTES FAR AFIELD [...] (C) Summary: With just six weeks to go, Turkish political parties are ramping up their campaigns for March 29 local elections -- the first nationwide electoral test for AKP since its landslide victory in the July 2007 parliamentary elections. Both the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK [...] | 2009-02-13 12:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA248 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA252 | TURKISH, ARAB LEADERS EXCHANGE POST-GAZA CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish and Arab leaders capitalized on a series of high-level meetings this week to address their respective concerns arising from the Gaza crisis. Troubled by GOT statements advocating HAMAS's inclusion in peace negotiations, Saudi King Abdullah, Palestinian Authority (PA) Pres [...] | 2009-02-13 16:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG IS TU |
09ANKARA256 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 12:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA257 | ISRAELI GENERAL'S COMMENTS ADD FUEL TO GAZA FIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: IDF Major General Mizrahi's February 13 comment that Turkey "should first look in the mirror" before judging Israeli operations during the most recent Gaza crisis have hit Turkish defenders of the bilateral relationship -- in particular, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) -- below the [...] | 2009-02-17 17:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS TU |
09ANKARA259 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 05:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA266 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 15:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA267 | Update on PKK Violence (February 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 8-15, 2009, no security official was i [...] | 2009-02-20 09:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA271 | TURKEY'S PREPARATIONS FOR UPCOMING NATO SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: At a Deputies-level interagency meeting in January, the GOT agreed on the general outlines of its approach concerning the upcoming NATO conference. MFA contacts called the contributions Turkey has already announced for Afghanistan as "ambitious," and said Turkey is unlikely to c [...] | 2009-02-20 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO TU |
09ANKARA278 | WITHDRAWING U.S. VESSEL FROM TURKISH NAVAL [...] (C) Exercise "EGEMEN" is a Turkish national naval exercise in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas which currently calls for the participation of UK, US, Dutch and Belgian forces. We understand that the UK is considering withdrawing their forces in response to Greek arguments. Since the [...] | 2009-02-20 16:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PARM TU |
09ANKARA279 | SCENESETTER FOR MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL ENVOY GEORGE [...] (S) Turkish officials, including President Gul and FM Babacan, have worked assiduously to walk back remarks by PM Erdogan that were extremely critical of Israel during the Gaza crisis, repair the traditionally strong Turkish-Israeli relationship, and assuage fears in Washington and European ca [...] | 2009-02-20 17:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU |
09ANKARA281 | AKP-CHP BATTLE FOR SECULAR STRONGHOLD OF IZMIR [...] (C) Summary: The Izmir mayoral race is shaping up as the tightest and most important contest in the March 29 local elections. Winning Turkey's third largest city, and the country's last main bastion of secularism, is at the heart of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) quest to [...] | 2009-02-23 05:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA284 | TURKISH VIEWS ON HANDLING IRAN AND SYRIA AT THE [...] (C) UNVIE Senior Advisor Andrea Hall, accompanied by Mission Turkey officers, met February 17 in Ankara with Turkish IAEA Governor Hakan Fidan and separately with the GOT Nonproliferation Task Force chaired by MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun to encourage [...] | 2009-02-23 12:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS KNNP IAEA TU IR SY |
09ANKARA285 | TURKEY: ERDOGAN STEPS UP CAMPAIGN IN KURDISH [...] (U) This is an AmCon Adana message. 2. (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan underscored AKP's goal of defeating the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in southeastern Turkey by visiting Diyarbakir, the cultural and commercial center of Turkey's Kurdish region, on February 21. Thoug [...] | 2009-02-23 14:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA286 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA287 | CODEL DURBIN: TALKING CYPRUS -- AND HALKI -- WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CODEL Durbin, led by Assistant Majority Leader Senator Richard Durbin, met with senior GOT officials February 19 on bilateral relations, Cyprus, and efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church to reopen Halki Theological Seminary for training of priests. During the meetings, Senator Dur [...] | 2009-02-23 17:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP PGOV CY GR TU |
09ANKARA289 | TURKEY: GUL'S HISTORIC VISIT TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: President Gul,s February 12-15 visit to Moscow and Tatarstan was the first ever by a Turkish Head of State to the Russian Federation, according to MFA Deputy U/S Cevikoz. The historic visit, which had a heavy commercial element, included extensive discussions with President Med [...] | 2009-02-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD MARR TU RU |
09ANKARA290 | TURKEY AGREES, WITH LIMITS, TO ALLOW WITHDRAWAL OF [...] (C) Summary: The MFA informed us on February 20 that Turkey will agree to modify the existing the Memorandum of Understanding so that the U.S. may transport weapons and weapons systems, including ammunition, from Iraq via the Habur Gate border crossing and overland by road to the Turkish port [...] | 2009-02-24 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL IZ TU |
09ANKARA293 | TURKISH COMPANY POSSIBLY SUPPLYING MACHINE TOOLS [...] (S) Responding to our initial demarche in January providing the GOT with information that Turkish firm Spinner Takim was attempting to ship proliferation sensitive materials to weapons-related entities in Pakistan (ref a),MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Gun told us on Febru [...] | 2009-02-24 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC TU |
09ANKARA296 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-25 14:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA3 | TURKEY SEIZES IRANIAN CONTAINERS WITH SUSPECTED [...] (C) On December 31, MFA DDG Ahmet Muhtar Gun confirmed for us media reporting the previous day that Turkish Customs seized 22 shipping containers originating from Iran bound for Venezuela, containing drums of nitrate and sulphite chemicals and dismantled laboratory instruments, which could poss [...] | 2009-01-02 16:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA300 | TURKEY: DTP PLAYS A KURDISH LANGUAGE ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Chairman Ahmet Turk delivered a February 24 speech in parliament in his native tongue of Kurdish, leading state-run television to immediately cut its live broadcast of the speech. Turk said that his speech was in honor of UNESCO Mother [...] | 2009-02-25 16:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA308 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 11:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA31 | TURKEY: 10TH ROUND OF ERGENEKON ARRESTS ROCK [...] (C) Summary and comment: A new wave of arrests on January 7 related to the Ergenekon investigation (ref a) included two retired four star generals and the former chair of the Higher Education Council (YOK). A former mayor of Istanbul, Bedrettin Dalan, who is in the U.S. currently, is also bein [...] | 2009-01-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA314 | TURKEY: CHP LEADER BAYKAL WARNS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkey's democratic development has regressed since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) took office in 2002, chief opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Deniz Baykal told Ambassador February 24. Turkey is more prosperous, he said, but corruption is "unbelievably [...] | 2009-02-27 07:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA319 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA321 | DEALS WITH IRAN BENEFIT PM ERDOGAN'S FRIENDS [...] (C) On February 22, local press reported that Turkey and Iran had established a joint venture company to develop gas in Iran and build a pipeline to bring this gas to Turkey and Europe. This JV was established to further the agreements reached in November 2008 and July 2007 MOUs between Turkey and [...] | 2009-02-27 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET TU IR |
09ANKARA328 | TURKEY: DOGAN MEDIA GROUP GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara - Consulate General Istanbul message. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Senior Dogan Media Group members went on a quiet offensive last week against what they see as GOT harassment, talking to our Ambassador and European Ambassadors. They denied any ver [...] | 2009-03-03 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KPAO TU |
09ANKARA331 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA336 | CODEL WEXLER TELLS ANKARA THAT GAZA RESPONSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Congressman Wexler's message to Turkey's leaders during his February 17-20 visit was blunt. He told President Gul, PM Erdogan, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (TGS) Basbug, PM Foreign Policy Advisor Davutoglu, MFA U/S Apakan, and other GOT, Parliamentary and opposition party [...] | 2009-03-04 16:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IS TU |
09ANKARA337 | TURKEY STILL PLANS TO MOVE AHEAD WITH BLACK SEA [...] (C) Turkey acknowledges reftel concerns regarding the upcoming Black Sea Defense Ministerial (BSDM),but still believes that establishing a political venue for littoral states would enhance security in the Black Sea. A crowded political calendar may put off this meeting for several months: a [...] | 2009-03-05 08:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR NATO TU |
09ANKARA34 | TURKS TRYING TO PERSUADE DOSTUM TO STAY [...] (S) MFA DDG for South Asia and Iran Babur Hizlan told us January 8 that Abdul Rashid Dostum is in a military hospital in Turkey (we presume in Ankara, though Hizlan did not say) getting rest and medical treatment. Hizlan did not specify the type of treatment Dostum is receiving, but noted amu [...] | 2009-01-09 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF TU |
09ANKARA340 | Update on PKK Violence (February 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 16-23, 2009, no security official was [...] | 2009-03-05 11:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA341 | TURKEY: NEW EU NEGOTIATOR DISCUSSES TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary: The GOT cannot push for bold EU-mandated reforms until after the March 29 local elections, according to Turkey's new EU negotiator Egemen Bagis. Even after the elections, Bagis noted that he would not have the necessary clout internally to successfully advocate for the unpopular [...] | 2009-03-05 11:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU |
09ANKARA342 | Update on PKK Violence (February 24-28, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the February 24-28, 2009, no security official was [...] | 2009-03-05 11:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA345 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-05 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA349 | AFGHAN AMBASSADOR PLEADS FOR GREATER TURKISH [...] (C) The Afghan Ambassador in Ankara believes that Turkey, as a Muslim country, can provide more effective and acceptable support to Afghanistan than other NATO allies. Military and police training, education, construction, and religious messaging are Turkey's comparative strengths. He argue [...] | 2009-03-05 16:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP MOPS AF TU |
09ANKARA351 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA353 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (FEBRUARY [...] Summary: PMA Counselor, EXBS Advisor, and Coordinator visited Port of Mersin and Cilvegozu Port of Entry on the Syrian border with GOT's inter-agency working group on non-proliferation issues to familiarize PMA staff and interagency with Customs inspection and enforcement procedures and logis [...] | 2009-03-06 13:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA356 | TURKEY: TRABZON UP FOR GRABS; UNEMPLOYMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The Black Sea city of Trabzon is a jewel in the opposition Republican People's Party crown that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) hopes to take in March 29 local elections. Black Sea politics are personal, however, and the CHP mayor is a hard-working, well-liked [...] | 2009-03-06 16:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECIN ECON ETRD GG TU |
09ANKARA362 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-09 15:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA363 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-10 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA365 | "BLONDE BRIDE" DOCUMENTARY STIRS PUBLIC OUTCRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish-Armenian community, Turkish Historical Foundation, the national teachers' union, human rights activists, and liberal journalists have condemned the distribution of a documentary film on the events of 1915 to Turkish primary schools; the father of one student is suing [...] | 2009-03-11 11:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI AM TU |
09ANKARA367 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-11 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA370 | TURKEY: BABACAN, LIVNI MEET WITH OPEN ARMS, [...] (C) Summary: In the first high-level engagement since the Gaza crisis and PM Erdogan's Davos outburst, Turkish FM Babacan and Israeli FM Livni met on the margins of the March 5 NATO Foreign Ministerial. The two leaders discussed Turkish-Israeli relations, the Gaza crisis, Palestinian reconci [...] | 2009-03-12 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS TU |
09ANKARA371 | Update on PKK Violence (March 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 1-7, 2009, no security official was injure [...] | 2009-03-12 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA372 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-12 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA373 | TURKISH GOVERNMENT CRITICIZES DECISION TO CENSOR [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Fierce reaction to the recent decision of the Turkish Scientific and Technological Studies Institution (TUBITAK) to pull a planned cover story about Charles Darwin has led GOT officials to speak out against the decision. Following a protest organized by the Universi [...] | 2009-03-12 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA374 | TURKEY: ROJ-TV STILL A THORN IN DENMARK'S SIDE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's March 9 response to a long-standing Danish request for concrete, "actionable" information on the link between PKK and ROJ-TV was inadequate, Danish Ambassador Vahr complained to us March 11. Turkey has not yet responded to Denmark's December proposal of formal bilateral [...] | 2009-03-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER PREL DA TU |
09ANKARA375 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-13 13:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA378 | TURKEY: GUL URGES TEHRAN NOT TO MISS "GOOD [...] (C) MFA Deputy DG for South Asia Babur Hizlan gave us a readout March 13 on President Gul's participation in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit in Tehran, March 10-11, where he met bilaterally with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and, accompanied by Ahmadinejad, with Supreme Lead [...] | 2009-03-13 16:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL ETRD AF IR PK TU |
09ANKARA379 | TURKEY: GUL URGES TEHRAN NOT TO MISS "GOOD [...] (C) MFA Deputy DG for South Asia Babur Hizlan gave us a readout March 13 on President Gul's participation in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit in Tehran, March 10-11, where he met bilaterally with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and, accompanied by Ahmadinejad, with Supreme Lead [...] | 2009-03-14 09:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL ETRD AF IR PK TU |
09ANKARA38 | TURKEY: OPPOSITION LEADERS MAKE HAY OVER GAZA [...] (SBU) Summary: Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip have hit a raw nerve in Turkey, where pro-Muslim, pro-Palestinian sentiments run deep among the masses, notwithstanding the close relations between the state and the Israeli government. With the approach of March 29 nationwide local elections [...] | 2009-01-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IS |
09ANKARA385 | TURKEY OBJECTS TO CYPRUS BID FOR MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (C) On March 16, Basat Ozturk, MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs, contacted us to encourage the USG to oppose including Cyprus in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP). Ozturk, acting on instructions, said that he had been informed that the GOC sought, at the [...] | 2009-03-16 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL TU |
09ANKARA386 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 15:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA389 | TURKEY: AS ELECTIONS LOOM, AKP STILL WAY AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two weeks prior to March 29 local elections, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is maintaining a significant lead in the polls, despite a severely ailing economy. Most polling companies are predicting that AKP will win a minimum of 40 percent of the nationwide v [...] | 2009-03-16 17:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA394 | SCENESETTER FOR USAEUR'S VISIT TO ANKARA, MARCH [...] (S) Thanks to highly successful intelligence sharing against PKK terrorists in northern Iraq over the last 15 months, bilateral military relations are at a high point. Your visit precedes a visit by President Obama in early April, follows the first ever bilateral Army-to-Army staff talks (in J [...] | 2009-03-17 11:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS IZ AF AM CY RS TU |
09ANKARA395 | TURKEY: INPUT ON STRATEGY TO INTEGRATE IRAQ INTO [...] (S) SUMMARY: The future of Iraq, its unity, stability, and territorial integrity, remain an issue of central importance to Turkey. Despite a high degree of tension in recent years between Turkey and Iraq because of the presence of PKK terrorists in the KRG-administered region, the Turks have [...] | 2009-03-17 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PGOV PREL ENRG IZ TU |
09ANKARA400 | HCOC "INREACH" - TURKEY TO SUBMIT THEIR ANNUAL [...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmamaent Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul confirmed that Turkey intends to submit its Annual Declaration on space and ballistic missile policies ahead of the March 31 deadline. Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at http://www.in [...] | 2009-03-18 11:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA |
09ANKARA401 | Update on PKK Violence (March 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 8-15, 2009, no security official was injur [...] | 2009-03-18 14:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA403 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA405 | TURKEY: PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE AND [...] (U) We delivered ref A points on the Pakistan Donors' Conference and ref B points on the Afghanistan Conference to MFA South Asia Department Head Babur Girgin March 18. PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE --------------------------- 2. (C) Turkey's representation is undecided for the April 17 me [...] | 2009-03-18 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON EFIN INRD IMF AF PK IR TU |
09ANKARA41 | Update on PKK Violence (January 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 1-7, 2009, reporting period, no security [...] | 2009-01-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA417 | TURKEY: EVALUATING ADDITIONAL POLICE/GENDARMERIE [...] (C) During a discussion about upcoming international conferences related to Afghanistan and Pakistan (ref a) MFA Afghanistan Department Head Babur Girgin told us on March 18 that Turkey is considering a number of steps to enhance its security contributions in support of ISAF. He noted that a [...] | 2009-03-20 11:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF TU |
09ANKARA423 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA424 | TURKEY: THE KURDISH ISSUE AND AKP: COURAGEOUS [...] (U) A highly acclaimed report on the Kurdish issue recently published by TESEV, an Istanbul think tank, noted that Turkey's policies of "denial and assimilation" have failed, fueling PKK terrorism and leaving many Kurds profoundly distrustful of the State. The report recommends new policies o [...] | 2009-03-20 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA430 | TURKEY: GAZA RECONSTRUCTION PLEDGE REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: Turkey pledged $ 93 million at the Egyptian-hosted March 2 donors' conference in Sharm al-Sheikh. The GOT will donate $ 50 million to in-kind reconstruction projects in coordination with the Palestinian Authority. The remaining $ 43 million reflects private donations made throug [...] | 2009-03-23 09:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL IS TU |
09ANKARA432 | TURKEY: POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Despite the March 17 introduction of the latest Armenian genocide resolution (AGR) in the House of Representatives (H. Res 252),Turkish anxiety about U.S. genocide recognition -- always heightened around April 24 (Armenian Remembrance Day) -- has been less acute than [...] | 2009-03-23 09:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM TU |
09ANKARA433 | CEVIKOZ DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's concerns that Armenia will stiffen its negotiating position on Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) if Turkey opens the border with Armenia are legitimate, according to MFA Deputy U/S Cevikoz. Armenia needs to be persuaded that relations with Turkey cannot be enhanced genuinely w [...] | 2009-03-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG AJ AM TU PTER |
09ANKARA435 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 13:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA44 | TURKEY'S CIRCASSIANS DEMAND FREEDOM TO TRAVEL TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Representatives of an estimated six million Circassians living in Turkey are demanding the right to travel to Abkhazia directly, potentially complicating Turkish efforts to maintain restrictions on direct travel and adopt further measures to isolate Abkhaz de facto authorities (re [...] | 2009-01-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RS TU |
09ANKARA444 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA446 | TURKEY: BALLOT BOX "VICTORY" DEPENDS ON THE VIEW [...] (C) Summary: As the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) inches closer to winning more than 40 percent of the national vote in March 29 local elections, all parties are positioning themselves to claim "victory." Prime Minister Erdogan, sensing the detrimental electoral effects of an ai [...] | 2009-03-24 17:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA447 | IDEOLOGICAL FAULT LINES AMONG KURDS IN SOUTHEAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. The January 2009 launch of Turkey's first government television channel to broadcast in Kurdish, the warming of ties between the GOT and northern Iraq, continued probing of the Ergenekon case, and conferences hosted by intellectuals and media elements to discuss once taboo subjects, re [...] | 2009-03-25 05:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PHUM IZ TU |
09ANKARA450 | (S) TURKEY WILL WATCH OUT FOR UAV SHIPMENT FROM [...] (S) We delivered on March 25 the information on plans for Iran to ship UAVs to Venezuela (ref a) to MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Gun. Gun expressed appreciation for the information and promised to share it with select officials in other agencies at a previously-sch [...] | 2009-03-25 13:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC |
09ANKARA451 | TURKEY: REQUEST REVISITING NSOI VISIT AFTER JUNE [...] (SBU) We delivered the request for Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative (NSOI) Coordinator Michael Stafford to visit Turkey soon to present for Turkish officials' consideration NSOI projects in the Caucasus and Central Asia (ref a). Gun expressed appreciation for Mr. Stafford's offer to visi [...] | 2009-03-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL |
09ANKARA452 | (S) ADDITIONAL INFO ON AK MAKINA'S DEALINGS IN [...] (S) We provided the additional information regarding Turkish firm Ak Makina's dealings with Iran (ref a) to MFA Deputy DG for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ahmet Gun on March 25. Gun expressed appreciation for the information and pledged to share and review the information with appropriate [...] | 2009-03-25 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL TW IR TU |
09ANKARA453 | TURKEY KEEN TO SHIP MORE IN NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials and private shipping company reps who participated in a March 9-10 regional transportation conference sponsored by the U.S. European Command told us that Turkey wants to and can do more as a shipper and supplier for alternative northern supply lines to Afghanista [...] | 2009-03-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS AF TU |
09ANKARA454 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-25 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA456 | INFLUENCING TURKEY'S APPROACH TO ADDRESSING [...] (C) Turkey's approach to the Black Sea and its perception of potential threats in the wider Black Sea region differ sharply from our own and from that of other littoral states. Turkey has consistently resisted almost every attempt to broaden membership of Black Sea-related organizations beyond [...] | 2009-03-26 06:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM TU |
09ANKARA46 | EU'S CT COORDINATOR GETS AN EARFUL IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. The December 22-23 Ankara visit of EU Counterterrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove allowed the Turks to detail their frustrations regarding the EU's handling of terrorist organizations targeting Turkey and laid the foundation for closer Turkey-EU cooperation, according to MFA [...] | 2009-01-12 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EU TU |
09ANKARA460 | TURKEY AND IRAQ: PRESIDENT GUL GOES TO BAGHDAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish President Abdullah Gul conducted what GOT officials described as a very successful, if largely symbolic, visit to Baghdad March 24-25. The Turks had low expectations for concrete deliverables emerging from the visit. What was more important was the fact a Turkish head of [...] | 2009-03-26 10:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV ECON ENRG IZ TU |
09ANKARA461 | TURKEY'S PERSPECTIVE ON NATO-EU RELATIONS [...] (C) Turkey's position on NATO-EU relations is tied to its policy regarding Cyprus and to its insistence on strict adherence to formal arrangements between the Alliance and the EU. Efforts to press Turkey to agree to any new formal agreements to allow closer NATO-EU cooperation, even if limite [...] | 2009-03-26 11:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EU TU |
09ANKARA464 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 12:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA466 | TURKEY'S LOCAL ELECTIONS: MARGIN OF AKP VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will easily come in first on March 29, when 48 million voters will go to the polls to elect approximately 2,300 mayors and almost 100,000 other local officials. The referendum-like quality of the elections has largely played [...] | 2009-03-26 16:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA467 | TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: ANKARA TO HOST THIRD [...] (S) MFA South Asia Department Head Babur Girgin previewed for us March 26 Turkey's objectives for the trilateral Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey summit that it will host in Ankara on April 1. The summit is the third in the "Ankara Process," the last occurring in December 2008 in Istanbul. Girgin [...] | 2009-03-26 16:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PINS PTER PINR MARR AF PK TU |
09ANKARA476 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA477 | TURKEY: DECONSTRUCTING PKK AMNESTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent statements by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani about amnesty for PKK militants are significant, particularly since their comments were not roundly denounced by Turkish officials. While suggesting leniency for PKKers poses political risks for any [...] | 2009-03-27 14:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE IZ TU |
09ANKARA478 | Update on PKK Violence (March 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the March 16-23, 2009, no security official was inj [...] | 2009-03-27 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA479 | TURKEY NERVOUS ABOUT ARRANGEMENTS FOR [...] (C) We met with MFA Afghanistan Department Head Babur Girgin and NATO Department Section Head Turker Ari to discuss NATO summit deliverables on Afghanistan and Pakistan (reftel) on March 26. The MFA officials welcomed the news that the U.S. review process has concluded and said Turkey looked [...] | 2009-03-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR |
09ANKARA480 | TURKEY/IRAQ: POST-GUL VISIT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials were pleased with President Gul's March 23-24 visit to Baghdad, but KRG President Massoud Barzani's decision to stay away from Baghdad and pass on the opportunity to meet with Gul there tempered Turks' enthusiasm somewhat, according to Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Oz [...] | 2009-03-27 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ENRG IZ TU |
09ANKARA485 | TURKISH ELECTIONS: JUST "ONE MINUTE," MR. ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary: In nation-wide local elections on March 29, the Turkish voters gave 39 percent of the votes to the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP),enough for it to retain first place in the polling, but shy of the 40 percent that was widely understood to be the threshold for victo [...] | 2009-03-30 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA492 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 14:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA495 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-31 12:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA498 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-01 12:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA499 | TURKEY: IRANIAN ACADEMIC AND DIPLOMAT OUTLINES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The study of Iranian foreign policy suffers from reductionist and simplistic approaches that boil the subject down to sound bites and labels, Ambassador Seyed Mohammed Kazem Sajjadpour, Associate Dean of Research at the Iranian MFA College of International Relations, told a smal [...] | 2009-04-01 14:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR TU |
09ANKARA5 | Update on PKK Violence (December 8-15, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 8-15, 2008 reporting period, no securit [...] | 2009-01-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA502 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA503 | TURKEY'S RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC ASKS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador raised with MFA U/S Apakan on April 2 the specific requests for additional Turkish contributions in Afghanistan (ref a). Apakan acknowledged that the request took into account Turkey's strengths and said that his government wants to be as helpful as possible. He said i [...] | 2009-04-02 19:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF TU |
09ANKARA504 | TURKEY: UK PLEASED WITH COUNTERTERRORISM TALKS -- [...] (C) Summary. The first high-level UK-Turkey counterterrorism consultation continued the positive trend begun with the January visit of UK Home Secretary, according to UK Embassy sources. The two sides agreed to strengthen police and intelligence cooperation, including on Al-Qaeda and other [...] | 2009-04-03 11:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL UK TU |
09ANKARA508 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-04 05:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA510 | TURKEY SUPPORTS CONDEMNATION IN UNSC OF NORTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-06 05:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | UNSC PREL KNNP KN TU |
09ANKARA514 | Update on PKK Violence (March 24-31, 2009) [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. (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. [...] | 2009-04-07 05:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA515 | OBAMA WINS THE HEARTS OF TURKISH MEDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 08:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA516 | TURKEY: PRAISE FOR POTUS'S SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: President Obama's speech to Turkish Parliament -- the most public aspect of his Turkey visit -- was widely praised among our political and civil society contacts. All segments of the Turkish government and state in attendance resoundingly applauded the President's statement of s [...] | 2009-04-07 10:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA519 | OBAMA'S POSITIVE MESSAGES RESONATE WITH TURKISH MEDIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 10:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA521 | Religious Minorities in Iran: From the Privately Content [...] (SBU) Summary: In a continuation of Embassy Ankara's vignette reporting based on interesting insights from Iranian visa applicants, we interviewed a number Iranians recently from various religious minorities in Iran, including from the Jewish, Armenian, Baha'i and Zoroastrian communities, as [...] | 2009-04-08 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TU IR |
09ANKARA522 | TURKEY TO PLEDGE $100 MILLION AT PAKISTAN DONORS [...] (C) We delivered ref A follow-up points April 8 on the Pakistan Donors Conference to MFA South Asia Department Head Babur Girgin. Girgin confirmed that Foreign Minister Ali Babacan does plan to attend the conference. Accompanying him will be MFA Deputy U/S for South Asia and Middle East Ferid [...] | 2009-04-08 16:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK TU |
09ANKARA523 | TURKEY STEPS UP TO THE PLATE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey will more than double its troop presence in Afghanistan, from about 820 to almost 1900. MFA officials provided clarification to the additional Turkish contributions listed in ref a and said that the GOT is actively considering sending an additional PRT to Afgha [...] | 2009-04-08 16:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF TU |
09ANKARA532 | MIXED REACTIONS TO OBAMA'S CALL FOR DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-09 11:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA534 | TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: MARCH 2009 [...] (C) TGS Deputy Chief Hasan Igsiz visited Baghdad on March 4 and met with Iraqi Defense Minister Jassem in Baghdad. Igsiz said Ankara was prepared to increase support for the Iraqi army and proposed that the two sides sign a memorandum of understanding (in lieu of a formal agreement) regarding [...] | 2009-04-09 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AS IS MARR PINS PREL SR TU |
09ANKARA535 | Media Say Turkey and Azerbaijan Will Address Tensions Over [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-10 11:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA536 | FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: TURKISH BUDGET IS TRANSPARENT [...] Per reftel, Turkey does make publicly available on an annual basis its national budget, including income and expenditures. Therefore, it is in full compliance with Section 7088(c)(1) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2009. 2. The G [...] | 2009-04-10 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL TU |
09ANKARA539 | TURKEY: SABERI DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (S) Ambassador delivered reftel points April 10 and urged Turkish MFA U/S Apakan that Turkey press Iran to release Roxana Saberi as a humanitarian gesture. 2. (S) We delivered the demarche separately April 10 MFA Iran Section Head Mehmet Sekerci. Sekerci assured us he would convey our requ [...] | 2009-04-10 15:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM IR TU |
09ANKARA540 | TURKEY ASKS FOR SUPPORT FOR AHMET UZUMCU AS NEW [...] (C) MFA Undersecretary Apakan has requested U.S. support for the candidacy of Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu for the post of Director General of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Apakan noted to Ambassador April 10 that Uzumcu, currently Turkish Permanent Delegate to the U [...] | 2009-04-10 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TU |
09ANKARA541 | TURKEY INSISTS ON EASTERN PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT INVITE [...] (C) MFA U/S Apakan told Ambassador April 10 that Ankara's position is firm: Turkey needs to get an invitation to observe at the EU Eastern Partnership (EP) Summit May 7. Apakan argued that Turkey, as a member of the European Customs Union and a major partner of the Caucasus states in various [...] | 2009-04-10 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET ZJ ZK TU |
09ANKARA542 | CALIFORNIA GENOCIDE BILL THREATENS U.S.-TURKEY [...] (C) MFA U/S Apakan conveyed to Ambassador April 10 the following points on a bill before the California State Assembly that would prohibit the state from contracting with companies that have engaged with governments that are perpetrators of genocide. He underscored the seriousness of the matt [...] | 2009-04-10 16:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU |
09ANKARA543 | TURKEY WILL SUPPORT IMF/WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-10 16:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL TU KV |
09ANKARA545 | Media Say Turkey and Azerbaijan Will Address Tensions Over [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 10:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA546 | "Media: Baku Complicates Turco-Armenian Normalization, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 10:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA548 | SCENESETTER: YOUR VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) In the short time since your last visit to Turkey, we have seen a broad shift in Turkey's perception of the U.S. and in its view of how we should approach some of the more complex issues in the region. The visit of President Obama was extraordinary, and had a game-changing effect not only [...] | 2009-04-14 14:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PARM TU |
09ANKARA549 | TURKEY: FOLLOW-UP FROM 8 APRIL 2009 E3 PLUS 3 [...] (S) Ambassador met April 14 with Ambassador Gurcan Turkoglu, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Gul, and urged the GOT to help persuade Iran to accept the renewed E3 Plus 3 approach and the freeze for freeze proposal. Turkoglu did not commit to taking any specific action, but said he underst [...] | 2009-04-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL KNNP PARM MNUC IR TU |
09ANKARA550 | TWELTH ERGENEKON SWEEP HITS ACADEMICS, NGO WORKERS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish police on April 14 raided 83 locations and detained 29 suspects across Turkey in the twelfth sweep of suspects linked to the Ergenekon investigation. The detainees include two current and three former university rectors, a "Cumhuriyet" columnist, and officials from the A [...] | 2009-04-14 16:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA551 | TURKEY: LARGE-SCALE COUNTER-TERROR OPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police reportedly arrested upwards of 70 people nationwide April 14 in a synchronized operation targeting the terrorist PKK and those that support it. The operation was launched against offices of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 14 different provinces, as well [...] | 2009-04-14 17:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU |
09ANKARA552 | TURKEY: LARGE-SCALE COUNTER-TERROR OPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police reportedly arrested upwards of 70 people nationwide April 14 in a synchronized operation targeting the terrorist PKK and those that support it. The operation was launched against offices of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 14 different provinces, as well [...] | 2009-04-15 04:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL TU |
09ANKARA557 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA559 | TURKEY STILL UNDECIDED ON ICJ ADVISORY OPINION [...] (C) MFA Balkans Department Head Ahmet Riza Demirer told us April 14 that MFA still has yet to decide if Turkey will offer any submission (advisory opinion or written statement) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the legality of the manner in which Kosovo declared independenc [...] | 2009-04-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL ICJ KV TU |
09ANKARA560 | TURKEY'S TOP GENERAL SPEAKS OUT ON CIVIL-MILITARY [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief Basbug's April 14 address at the Turkish War Academies Command received blanket and mostly positive media coverage. Commentators called the speech "groundbreaking," "balanced" and "courageous," and characterized the conciliatory languag [...] | 2009-04-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
09ANKARA563 | (S) TURKEY: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SHIPMENT OF [...] (S) We delivered the non-paper containing additional information on the shipment of UAVs from Iran to Venezuela (ref a) as well as the unclassified slide containing a photograph and specifications of the Mohajer 2 (ref b) to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Acting Department Head Mustafa Y [...] | 2009-04-16 11:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC |
09ANKARA564 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-16 11:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA565 | TURKEY/ARMENIA: GOVERNMENT TRIES TO REGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish government is trying to steady itself in the storm over negotiations to normalize relations and open the border with Armenia. MFA and parliamentary officials have canceled participation at public conferences on the topic both in Ankara and Baku. Erdogan has not spoken [...] | 2009-04-16 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AJ AM TU |
09ANKARA569 | MEDIA SUPPORT PARALLEL STEPS BETWEEN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 10:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA573 | Update on PKK Violence (April 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 1-7, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-04-20 07:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA574 | Update on PKK Violence (April 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 8-15, 2009, three security officials were [...] | 2009-04-20 08:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA575 | Media: MFA Denies Argument between Babacan and Guliev; [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-20 10:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA583 | Media Summary [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-21 11:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA584 | TURKEY: FIFTH GICNT PLENARY MEETING DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on April 21 jointly with Dutch and Russian embassy representatives to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul. Yurkdakul noted Turkey's support for the goals and principles of the Global Initiative and pointed to Turkey's role as h [...] | 2009-04-21 13:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL PTER MNUC |
09ANKARA587 | TURKEY: DEMARCHE ON USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-22 05:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
09ANKARA589 | Ankara Media Summary [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-22 10:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA595 | Ankara Media Summary [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 10:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA596 | ZFR TURKEY: DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT TO SOMALI'S TFG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 10:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
09ANKARA597 | TURKEY: WAVE OF DTP ARRESTS DEFLATES HOPES AMONG [...] (C) SUMMARY and COMMENT: In Diyarbakir, the new judicial offensive targeting DTP officials has sparked near-universal outrage among local political and business leaders. The PKK has suspended its cease-fire offer and violent protests have been reported in Hakkari and other remote provinces; [...] | 2009-04-24 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA599 | TURKEY: DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT TO SOMALI'S TFG [...] (SBU) We passed REFTEL points to MFA Africa Section Chief, Aykut Kumbaroglu, on April 22. Kumbaroglu reported the Government of Turkey (GOT) will announce a USD one million pledge at the April 23 Donors Conference in Brussels earmarked for programs supporting Somalia's Transitional Federal [...] | 2009-04-24 12:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL |
09ANKARA6 | Update on PKK Violence (December 16-23, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 16-23, 2008 reporting period, no securi [...] | 2009-01-05 07:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA600 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT [...] (C) Coming in the wake of the hugely successful visits of President Obama and Secretary Clinton, the GOT will warmly welcome your visit as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. It will be seen as yet another indication of U.S. respect for Turkey's inte [...] | 2009-04-24 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA602 | TURKEY: PARTICIPATION IN ISLAMABAD REGIONAL [...] (C) We delivered reftel points April 24 to MFA South Asia Section Head Emre Karagol. Deputy U/S for South Asia, Middle East and Iran Feridun Sinirlioglu and Deputy DG for South Asia Babur Hizlan are in Washington April 20-25, having traveled there directly from Tokyo where they attended the P [...] | 2009-04-24 16:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG ETRD KPWR EAID BEXP AF TU |
09ANKARA603 | Update on PKK Violence (April 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 16-23, 2009, no security official was kill [...] | 2009-04-27 07:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA606 | OBAMA DIDN'T SAY 'GENOCIDE' ... IN ENGLISH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 09:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA608 | TURKS RELIEVED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA DID NOT SAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reaction to the President's April 24 Armenian Remembrance Day statement was initial relief that he did not use the word "genocide," followed by deeper analysis and criticism of the words he chose to describe the events, particularly his use of the Armenian term 'Yeds Meghern' (Gre [...] | 2009-04-27 13:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU AM |
09ANKARA611 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-28 12:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA618 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-29 13:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA624 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-30 09:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA625 | TURKEY'S MILITARY CHIEF ADDRESSES MEDIA ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During a April 29 press conference, Turkey's top military official GEN Ilker Basbug rejected media speculations of military links to the shadowy "Ergenekon" organization, whose alleged aim is to foment a coup against the current government. He reiterated the military' [...] | 2009-04-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TU |
09ANKARA63 | TURKISH PARTICIPATION IN NATO ALLIANCE GROUND [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MFA NATO Infrastructure and Logistics Department Head Deniz Cakar told us that although Turkey has decided not to break silence on the basing decision for the NATO AGS program, it was not happy with the process leading up to the NAC decision sheet. She made [...] | 2009-01-14 17:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO MARR |
09ANKARA631 | TURKEY'S DEFENSE AGREEMENT AND EXERCISE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Turkey signed a bilateral defense industry cooperation agreement with Syria on April 27 and conducted the first ever bilateral military exercise with Syria from April 27 to 29. The significance of these developments should not be exaggerated. The Turks stressed that the agreemen [...] | 2009-04-30 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SY IS TU |
09ANKARA632 | TURKEY: LEADING COLUMNIST SCOLDS "SECULARIST [...] (C) Summary: In a too rare development, a key Turkish journalist spoke the truth about the inflexibility of Turkish foreign policy amid a feverish media commentary on the President's use of "Meds Yeghern" in our Armenian Remembrance Day message last week. "Sabah" columnist Mehmet Barlas called [...] | 2009-04-30 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA633 | TURKEY: GOT FLOATS ISRAEL-LEBANON TALKS DURING [...] (C) Summary: Michel Suleiman, the first Lebanese president to visit Turkey since the signing of the Baghdad Pact in 1955, met with President Gul, PM Erdogan, and Parliament Speaker Toptan during his April 22-23 trip to Ankara. The visit was more ceremonial than substantive. Suleiman thanked [...] | 2009-04-30 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU LE |
09ANKARA64 | ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION EMBEDDED IN TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary and comment: The rapidly widening scope and pace of the Ergenekon investigation (ref A) has been accompanied by an equally sharp rise in heated political rhetoric. PM Erdogan, on January 13, defended the investigation and accused its main critic, opposition Republican People's Pa [...] | 2009-01-15 05:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA641 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 11:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA643 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN SHAKES UP HIS CABINET, TILTING [...] (C) Summary: To shore up support for his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) following its disappointing performance in March 29 local elections, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced May 1 an extensive overhaul of his cabinet, appointing nine new ministers, dismissing eight, an [...] | 2009-05-04 11:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA645 | TURKEY: SADRIST MOVEMENT MEETS IN TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Moqtada al-Sadr gathered together approximately 80 Shiite politicians and other members of the Sadrist movement May 2-3 in Istanbul to discuss their political future and need to focus on improving their performance in the next national election in Iraq. Sadr met with President Gu [...] | 2009-05-05 03:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IZ TU |
09ANKARA65 | INVESTIGATION INTO IRANIAN SHIPMENT BOUND FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 07:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU IR |
09ANKARA650 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-05 10:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA655 | TURKISH DELEGATION TO PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to the Embassy on May 4 that Turkey will send a four person delegation to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts' Group meeting to be held in Miami, May 12-15, 2009. 2. Turkish delegation will be led by Ms. Elif Comoglu Ulge [...] | 2009-05-05 12:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA656 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-06 09:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA659 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-06 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA660 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO TURKEY OF VADM [...] (C) Summary: You will arrive in Turkey a month after President Obama's visit. The President's April visit had a game-changing effect not only in public opinion of the U.S. here, but also on issues relating to Turkey's increased commitments to Afghanistan, its readiness to move in the directi [...] | 2009-05-07 05:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS PGOV TU |
09ANKARA663 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-07 10:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA666 | AMBASSADOR RAISES AEGEAN ISSUES WITH DCHOD AND MFA [...] (C) The Ambassador raised Aegean issues during a May 5 meeting with General Hasan Igsiz, Deputy Chief of Turkey's General Staff. He pointed to the successful conduct of Exercise Egemen, an international exercise held in the Aegean in March 2009 which could serve as a strong first step toward [...] | 2009-05-07 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR TU |
09ANKARA667 | TURKISH GENERAL STAFF INTEREST IN REACHING OUT TO [...] (C) In a wide-ranging May 5 discussion with Ambassador and ODC Chief, General Hasan Igsiz, Deputy Chief of Turkey's General Staff said that Turkey's military was ready to explore new levels of engagement with the "local authorities of northern Iraq." (Note: while Igsiz would never utter the [...] | 2009-05-07 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA669 | Update on PKK Violence (April 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the April 24-30, 2009 reporting period, nine securit [...] | 2009-05-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA670 | MFA U/S APAKAN TALKS CYPRUS, N-K, AEGEAN, AND [...] (C) ACTION REQUESTS in Paras 4 and 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Turkey is concerned about signs that contrary to GOT expectations of US efforts to lessen the isolation of Turkish Cypriots, it appears the USG is actually making decisions that have the opposite effect. The GOT is extremely concerned [...] | 2009-05-07 16:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV OVIP CY GR TU |
09ANKARA672 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-08 10:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA679 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-11 11:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA686 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-12 10:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA687 | TURKEY COMPLAINS ABOUT NEIGHBORS' WATER MANAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On the margins of the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul March 16-22, Iraqi Environment Minister Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid met with Turkish Environment Minister Eroglu and once again asked Turkey to release more water from the Euphrates for use in Iraq. According to Turkish MFA [...] | 2009-05-12 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ PREL SY TU |
09ANKARA689 | RECONCEPTUALIZING TURKEY-AZERBAIJAN RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The stiff blowback Turkey has received from Azerbaijan over the normalization of relations with Armenia has annoyed many Turks even as official Ankara remains, for the most part, eager to mend relations with Baku. No matter what the final outcome of the Turkey-Armenia process, h [...] | 2009-05-13 07:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EPET ENRG PHUM KDEM AJ AM TU |
09ANKARA692 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-13 10:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA696 | TURKEY: SUN RISING ON KURDISH ISSUE? [...] (C) Summary: A series of events in recent weeks signal possible progress on Turkey's long-standing Kurdish issue. President Abdullah Gul, following a May 7 meeting with pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Turk, called the Kurdish issue Turkey's "most important problem" and [...] | 2009-05-13 16:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA697 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR MEETS PRO-PKK DTP LEADER [...] (C) Summary: In a May 13 meeting with Ambassador, pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Turk said DTP is pursuing dialogue to achieve Kurds' main demands: the ability to use freely their mother tongue, express their Kurdish identity and culture, and participate in local gov [...] | 2009-05-14 07:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA7 | Update on PKK Violence (December 24-31, 2008) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the December 24-31, 2008 reporting period, three se [...] | 2009-01-05 08:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA70 | (S) TURKEY: WILL CHECK ON TURKISH COMPANIES' ROLE [...] (S) We delivered reftel information to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Department Head Elif Ulgen on January 15. Ulgen expressed appreciation for the information and noted that the Turkish entities, Ak Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited and Ak Makina Uluslar Arasi Ticaret. Ltd, are known t [...] | 2009-01-15 11:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCR TU IR |
09ANKARA700 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-14 12:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA71 | TURKEY: AQ KHAN SANCTIONS REACTION, UPDATE ON CASE \ [...] (S) MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Department Head \ Elif Ulgen expressed appreciation for receiving advanced \ notification of US intentions to sanction individuals and \ companies linked with the AQ Khan network (reftel) and for \ the background information on the various sanctions. We \ p [...] | 2009-01-15 11:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | ETTC MNUC EFIN KNNP PARM PINS PREL SZ |
09ANKARA710 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-15 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA711 | TURKEY: RESPONSE ON FINANCIAL CRISIS' EFFECT ON [...] (SBU) The following is Turkey's response to reftel information request. Answers are keyed to the questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) B.1. To date, the drop in remittances to Turkey -- most of which originate in Western Europe -- following the onset of the economic crisis has not had a noticeable [...] | 2009-05-15 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR ECON ELAB EUN PGOV PREL SMIG TU |
09ANKARA714 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-18 11:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA715 | Update on PKK Violence (May 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 1-7, 2009, one security official was killed [...] | 2009-05-18 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA716 | Update on PKK Violence (May 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 8-15, 2009, five security officials were ki [...] | 2009-05-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA717 | TURKEY: IO CONSULATIONS ON UNSC ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: An IO delegation led by PDAS Warlick met May 14 with a wide range of MFA officials during an all-day session at the MFA to discuss UN Security Council issues, particularly Cyprus, Somali piracy, Georgia, Sudan, Iraq and Iran. The discussions also touched upon Turkey's role on the [...] | 2009-05-20 04:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU UNSC |
09ANKARA719 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-20 10:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA721 | COURT RULES PRESIDENT GUL SHOULD BE TRIED FOR FRAUD [...] (C) Summary: An Ankara court ruled May 18 that President Gul should stand trial for fraud for his alleged involvement in the 1990's case which involved misappropriation of state funds by officials of the now-closed Welfare Party (Refah Partisi or RP),of which Gul was once Deputy Chairman. Al [...] | 2009-05-20 11:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA722 | TURKEY RESPONSE ON LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW [...] (SBU) Turkey does not have significant economic or political interests in Cuba. 2. (C) Further detail on Ref A questions is provided below: -- Turkey supports European Union efforts to promote democracy and human rights, but has not undertaken any unilateral efforts along those lines. [...] | 2009-05-20 12:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU TU |
09ANKARA723 | TURKEY: GUL ENCOURAGES ASAD ON USG OVERTURES [...] (C) Summary: President Gul and Syrian President Asad discussed regional and bilateral economic issues during the former's May 15-17 Damascus visit, according to an MFA readout. Gul encouraged Asad to take seriously President Obama's overtures for improved US-Syria relations, as the window of [...] | 2009-05-20 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY TU |
09ANKARA725 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-21 10:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA731 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA735 | REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ: A TURKISH [...] (C) In response to ref A para 12 request for an assessment of GOT views regarding creation of new regional networks on a host of issues beyond the existing Iraq-centric mechanisms, post notes specific GOT views conveyed in ref E, especially paras 10-12. As noted therein (as well as in refs B, [...] | 2009-05-22 14:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09ANKARA736 | TURKEY SAYS IT CANNOT HOST ISTANBUL EXBS [...] (C) On May 21, Elif Ulgen, Head of the MFA,s Department of Arms Control and Disarmament raised concerns about the participation of Taiwan in the 10th Annual Export Control and Related Border Security Conference, to be held in Istanbul on June 25. After conferring with the Department (ref),w [...] | 2009-05-22 15:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM TU |
09ANKARA737 | TURKEY: PUTIN TELLS ERDOGAN NOT TO LINK ARMENIAN [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan and Russian Prime Minister Putin discussed bilateral economic relations and regional issues during their three-hour meeting May 16 in Sochi, Russia. Trade dominated the conversation. Erdogan and Putin agreed to explore expanding bilateral energy relations, including co [...] | 2009-05-22 16:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL RS TU |
09ANKARA738 | TURKEY: PAKISTAN IDP AID DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered REFTEL points on May 22 to MFA South Asia Department Head Emre Karagol. On May 18 Turkey hosted a meeting of all the Pakistan-Afghanistan SRAPS. During the course of this meeting, MFA Deputy U/S Sinirlioglu stated that Turkey was preparing a package of aid for Pakistan in a [...] | 2009-05-22 16:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON IMF PK PREL TU |
09ANKARA74 | TURKEY: FIFTH GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-15 13:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER |
09ANKARA744 | KARS AND IGDIR: AS WINTER RETREATS, EYES ON ARMENIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the far northeastern reaches of Turkey lie the two mountainous provinces of Kars and Igdir. Imposing snow-covered mountains surround patches of dark green pastures newly emerged from the freeze of the extended winter. Scattered across these fields are clusters of small stone [...] | 2009-05-26 09:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU EAGR AJ AM |
09ANKARA745 | TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CASEY [...] (SBU) Coming in the wake of hugely successful trips of President Obama and Secretary Clinton, your visit will be seen as a further sign that Washington views Turkey as an important strategic partner. Your visit is an opportunity to reinforce the importance of strong U.S.-Turkey relations and [...] | 2009-05-26 13:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA747 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 14:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA749 | Update on PKK Violence (May 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 16-23, 2009, no security official was killed [...] | 2009-05-27 07:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA751 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 13:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA752 | TURKEY:NO NEW AGREEMENT ON EUPHRATES OR TIGRIS [...] (C) We met May 27 with MFA Regional and Transboundary Waters Department Head Sibel Algan and Altay Altinors, a hydrological engineer working as an advisor to Algan's office. Algan said that, contrary to press reports, Foreign Minister Davutoglu did not agree to an increase in downstream water [...] | 2009-05-27 13:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL IZ IR SY TU |
09ANKARA754 | TURKEY: ERDOGAN CRITICIZES TURKEY'S "FASCIST [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan told a crowd of AKP supporters on May 23 that Turkey had exhibited a "fascist approach" in the past when it had "shown the door to different ethnic identities." The remarks drew immediate and widespread attention in the Turkish press as well as the ire of opposition p [...] | 2009-05-27 15:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA756 | SCENESETTER: TURKEY'S CHOD AND MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (C) The visits to Washington of Chief of Staff General Ilker Basbug and Minister of National Defense Vecdi Gonul will take place in a positive bilateral environment, although some of the euphoria which followed President Obama's landmark visit to Turkey has subsided. Turkey's leaders welcomed [...] | 2009-05-28 08:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM MARR TU |
09ANKARA757 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-28 11:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA758 | TURKEY: UNSC ACTION ON BURMA IN WAKE OF CHARGES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-28 12:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC TU BM |
09ANKARA759 | TURKEY: MARDIN MASSACRE PUTS VILLAGE GUARDS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Kurdish issue moves to the forefront of Turkey's domestic policy debate, what to do -- if anything -- with the village guards has reemerged as an important piece of the puzzle. Established in the mid-1980s as a local militia to aid the Turkish military in its operations ag [...] | 2009-05-28 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA764 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 10:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA767 | TURKEY: TALK OF PROGRESS MET WITH SKEPTICISM IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite fevered media speculation in recent weeks about "solving" the Kurdish issue, contacts in Turkey's southeast remain skeptical that the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led government has the will to make bold reforms in the short term. The progressive rhetoric is met wi [...] | 2009-06-01 08:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA768 | TURKEY SUPPORTED KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP [...] Per reftels, the Government of Turkey voted in support of Kosovo's application to become a member of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. According to Memduh Akcay, Treasury's Director General for International Economic Relations, Turkey sent in its vote on May 27, 2009. In addit [...] | 2009-06-01 11:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KVPR PREL TU |
09ANKARA769 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-01 12:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA771 | LULA SAMBAS INTO ANKARA, REINVIGORATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva's visit to Ankara on May 22-23 was the latest in a series of steps over recent years to strengthen Turco-Brazilian ties. This successful visit was capped by the signing of an $800 million investment deal between state-owned energy c [...] | 2009-06-01 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL BR TU |
09ANKARA774 | SRAP HOLBROOKE'S GOT BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS: "THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 18 meeting in Istanbul, SRAP Holbrooke pressed his Turkish MFA counterpart to increase Turkey's diplomatic, political, economic/reconstruction and military training activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in close coordination with the US. Holbrooke underscored that Tu [...] | 2009-06-02 12:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM PK AF TU |
09ANKARA776 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-02 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA777 | TURKEY: UPDATED INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Post's responses are keyed to Ref A questions. As instructed, only updates are provided. Unless otherwise stated, information provided Ref B remains valid. New information is provided in CAPITAL LETTERS. A. (SBU) Imm [...] | 2009-06-02 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KVPR PREL PGOV CVIS KHLS TU |
09ANKARA78 | KEEPING CALM IN THE AEGEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The list of potential flashpoints between Turkey and Greece is long, and both sides have tried to drag the U.S. or NATO into these disputes, particularly on the status of demilitarization of islands in the eastern Aegean. To help ensure Greece -Turkey relations do not go off track [...] | 2009-01-15 17:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO GR TU |
09ANKARA780 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF TURKISH FM DAVUTOGLU [...] (S) Newly appointed Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu welcomes the opportunity to meet with you early in his tenure as Minister. Our continued willingness to engage the Turks at the highest levels reinforces the message that this administration considers Turkey a strategic partner. Turkish of [...] | 2009-06-03 08:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ENRG TU |
09ANKARA781 | TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN WARNS CODEL CASEY ON AGR [...] (C) Senators Robert Casey (D-PA),Ted Kaufman (D-DE),and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ),and Representative Timothy Walz (D-MN) and Charge met May 29 with PM Erdogan, TGS D/CHOD General Igsiz, and a senior MFA delegation led by U/S Apakan. On Armenia, PM Erdogan urged Congress to leave the events of [...] | 2009-06-03 09:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IS SY TU AM AZ |
09ANKARA782 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 10:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA783 | Update on PKK Violence (May 24-31, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the May 24-31, 2009, nine security officials were k [...] | 2009-06-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA784 | TURKEY: REQUEST FOR AIR ASSETS FOR PAKISTAN [...] (C) Post believes that Turkey has approximately 13 operational Mi-17 utility helicopters in its inventory. All of these aircraft are currently deployed at Turkish Jandarma bases in Ankara and in southeast Turkey. 2. (C) On June 3, we delivered reftel request for Turkey to consider lease, [...] | 2009-06-03 13:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG PARM PK TU |
09ANKARA787 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 10:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA790 | TURKEY: AKP DRAGS ITS FEET ON CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is postponing plans to introduce a series of constitutional amendments in Parliament until after the July 1 summer recess, according to AKP whip Bekir Bozdag. He told us that AKP desires to enact the reforms without having to go [...] | 2009-06-04 15:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA792 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 10:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA799 | TURKEY: OBAMA SPEECH HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish public widely welcomed the open and sincere tone of President Obama's June 4 speech to the Muslim world from Cairo. Reflecting statements by other Turkish political and religious leaders, President Gul complimented Obama for being honest and realistic. Particular att [...] | 2009-06-05 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU |
09ANKARA803 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-08 10:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA807 | TURKEY UNDECIDED ON ICSC THIRD CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-09 05:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA TU |
09ANKARA814 | MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: GOT BEGINS THINKING ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOT officials are again considering how they might move forward with closure of Makhmour Refugee Camp in northern Iraq after a two year period during which discussion of the topic has been moribund. As the political situation in Turkey has evolved and provided politicians more spa [...] | 2009-06-10 09:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV MARR TU IZ |
09ANKARA815 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 12:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA816 | TURKEY: DAVUTOGLU STEPS FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN [...] (C) Summary: Ahmet Davutoglu's May 1 appointment as Foreign Minister has raised many questions about the future of Turkish foreign policy. As Senior Prime Ministry Foreign Policy Advisor, Davutoglu created a new paradigm that broadened Turkey's traditional Western orientation to include a dee [...] | 2009-06-10 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANKARA824 | TURKEY:AMERICANS, HOMOSEXUALS AND BIKINIS NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul's Bahcesehir University conducted a face-to-face survey with 1,714 Turks on radicalism and extremism as measured by neighborhood tolerance in 34 cities. The poll revealed high levels of intolerance toward non-Muslim, American, homosexual, and non-married neighbors. It [...] | 2009-06-12 14:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA826 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 11:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA829 | Update on PKK Violence (June 1-7, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the June 1-7, 2009, three security officials were k [...] | 2009-06-15 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA83 | TURKEY: SUCCESS OF KURDISH BROADCASTING: [...] (C) Summary: Since the January 1 launch of Kurdish language broadcasts on Turkish State television (TRT-6),the taboo on use of Kurdish in quasi-official venues such as universities and prisons is coming to an end. Most moderate Kurds are welcoming these developments warmly as long-overdue r [...] | 2009-01-16 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA833 | TURKEY: FM DAVUTOGLU TO IRAQ; MORE WATER FOR [...] (S) FM Davutoglu is planning to visit Iraq beginning June 22, remaining in country at least through June 24 and perhaps until June 25, according to MFA Special Envoy for Iraq Murat Ozcelik. Ozcelik provided us June 15 with a provisional program for Davutoglu's upcoming visit. He plans to arri [...] | 2009-06-16 04:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09ANKARA834 | ALLEGED MILITARY PLOT TO UNDERMINE RULING AKP [...] (C) Summary: Speculation swirled in the Turkish press following the June 12 publication in Turkish daily "Taraf" of a "secret military plan" allegedly authored by an active duty colonel serving in the TGS' Psy-Ops department to undermine the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the r [...] | 2009-06-16 12:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA835 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-16 12:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA837 | DPM CICEK'S WASHINGTON TRIP: NEED FOR HIGH LEVEL [...] (SBU) This is an action request cable (See paragraph 4). 2. (C) Summary: During a June 12 meeting with Ambassador, MFA Deputy Undersecretary Ambassador Tezcan was emphatic that Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek's 20-25 July US visit for consultations on counterterrorism be substantive, with [...] | 2009-06-17 05:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA839 | SCENESETTER: YOUR VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Dave, thanks for taking the time to come to Turkey. Building on President Obama's and Secretary Clinton's landmark visits earlier this year, your trip will further underscore our recognition of Turkey as an essential partner in practically every mission we seek to accomplish in this regio [...] | 2009-06-17 08:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM PTER TU |
09ANKARA84 | TURKEY: U.S.-ISRAEL ANTI-SMUGGLING MOU [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche January 16 to MFA Israel Desk Officer Rauf Alp Denktas, who briefed MFA Undersecretary Apakan on the demarche points. 2. (C) Post convened an EAC January 9 to discuss the ongoing security threat from the situation in Gaza. In light of reftel, Post will cont [...] | 2009-01-16 16:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS |
09ANKARA840 | ERDOGAN'S ATHENS VISIT: STARTING OVER AGAIN...AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: Although PM Erdogan and Greek PM Karamanlis have not officially met face-to-face since January 2008, the leaders will only have a brief opportunity to speak on the margins of the June 20-21 Acropolis Museum opening festivities. MFA and Greek Embassy officials report that the ab [...] | 2009-06-17 13:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GR TU |
09ANKARA847 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 10:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA850 | MFA ON NATO SECGEN'S FAREWELL VISIT AND NRC [...] (C) Summary: NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security Affairs Department Head Gulhan Ulutekin provided a readout of NATO Sec Gen Jaap de Hoop Scheffer,s June 8 farewell visit to Turkey and briefed us on Turkey,s position regarding the NATO Russia Council (NRC). She also confirmed that the MFA is co [...] | 2009-06-18 10:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS TU NATO US |
09ANKARA852 | TURKEY: FM DAVUTOGLU VISIT TO PAKISTAN AND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Davutoglu presented $10 million for IDP support plus additional material aid to Pakistan during a recent visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan July 9-12. Turkey also agreed on a new mechanism for coope [...] | 2009-06-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AF PK TU |
09ANKARA853 | TURKEY'S VIEW ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE CORFU [...] (C) MFA DDG for OSCE, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Affairs Ahmet Muhtar Gun said that Turkey fully supports the principles outlined in ref a regarding the Corfu ministerial and noted specifically that Turkey's approach will be guided by the language contained in Paragraph 3 of the December [...] | 2009-06-19 07:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM OSCE PREL NATO PGOV PHUM ECON |
09ANKARA854 | COUNTER PIRACY: TURKEY READY TO CONTRIBUTE MORE [...] (C) Turkey strongly supports NATO's Operation Ocean Shield and pledged a Turkish naval vessel to deploy together with the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 to the region. That was the message we received loud and clear from Cagatay Erciyes, head of the MFA's Maritime Affairs Section and Turker [...] | 2009-06-19 07:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MARR TU |
09ANKARA855 | TURKEY: AEGEAN ISSUES MUST BE ADDRESSED AS A [...] (S) The Ambassador raised Aegean issues with Turkish MFA Undersecretary Apakan on June 16, pressing hard that overflights of inhabited Greek islands did not support the goal of calm in the Aegean. Apakan was clearly taken aback by our approach on the overflights specifically, and said he cou [...] | 2009-06-19 10:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL MARR TU |
09ANKARA86 | TURKEY: RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL STRAINED BUT INTACT [...] (C) Summary: Widespread public outrage over Israel's incursion into Gaza and upcoming nationwide local elections in March have contributed to the harsh tone of Turkey's political discourse regarding Israel. Despite his inflammatory condemnation of the humanitarian situation, PM Erdogan has re [...] | 2009-01-16 18:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS TU |
09ANKARA862 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 13:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA864 | TURKEY: UN COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 13:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TU |
09ANKARA866 | MALIKI AIMS AT BARZANI; HITS DAVUTOGLU, TURK-IRAQI [...] (S) SUMMARY: The GOT has postponed FM Davutoglu's planned June 22-24/5 visit to six cities in Iraq because of PM Maliki's reported insistence that Davutoglu not go to Erbil (nor to Kirkuk or Mosul) during the visit. Maliki's "request" was delivered in ham-handed fashion by Maliki advisor Sade [...] | 2009-06-22 03:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ TU |
09ANKARA868 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA87 | UK HOME SECRETARY FINDS POSITIVE VIBES IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's January 5-7 Ankara visit was a success, both British and Turkish contacts agreed. Discussions focused heavily on counterterrorism (CT) and laid the groundwork for high-level counterterrorism consultations set to be held in London in the coming w [...] | 2009-01-20 05:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL UK TU |
09ANKARA870 | Iranian Visa Applicants Talk about the Crisis. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 07:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CVIS IR TK |
09ANKARA871 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-23 10:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA878 | TURKEY: IRANIAN PROTESTS: THE START OF A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Based on reports from their embassy and consulates in Iran, the MFA described the ongoing demonstrations as the "start of a political revolution." The reaction of former President Rafsanjani and the "fractured" political elite in Iran will be one of the main determining factors f [...] | 2009-06-23 15:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR TU |
09ANKARA889 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-24 11:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA890 | AMBASSADOR RAISES AEGEAN ISSUES WITH FM DAVUTOGLU [...] (S) Ambassador raised the Aegean demarche (ref a) with FONMIN Davutoglu late June 23, noting specifically the need to end the overflights of Agathonisi and Farmakonisi, and the commitment made in writing to maintain promises GEN Craddock gave TGS. Davutoglu pushed back initially, arguing that [...] | 2009-06-24 11:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR TU GR |
09ANKARA893 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR RAISES IRAN WITH FORMIN [...] (S) Ambassador raised Iran with FONMIN Davutoglu and MFA U/S Apakan on the margins of a meeting February 23. Stating that we was speaking on his own and without instructions, Ambassador said that we was troubled by the Turkish statement regarding Iran at the June 15 IAEA board meeting (ref A) [...] | 2009-06-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL AROC KNNP IAEA IR TU |
09ANKARA896 | Update on PKK Violence (June 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the week of June 8-15, 2009, one security official w [...] | 2009-06-25 10:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA899 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA903 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 10:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA92 | DCHOD IGSIZ ON AEGEAN, IRAQ AND BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (C) During the Ambassador's first formal call, Deputy Chief of Staff General Hasan Igsiz praised the current strength of the U.S. - Turkey military relationship, thanked the U.S. for sharing vital intelligence as Turkey fights PKK terrorists in Northern Iraq and took on board the Ambassador's [...] | 2009-01-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM TU |
09ANKARA920 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 04:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA922 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA925 | TURKEY: ADANA'S WILY OLD FOX ON THE ART OF POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey's longest-serving big-city mayor, Aytac Durak in Adana, proved unusually talkative in recent meetings with us. He highlighted service, independence, and being able to turn tables on one's opponents as keys to his success in the Turkish political game. Durak's career und [...] | 2009-07-01 08:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
09ANKARA93 | Update on PKK Violence (January 8-15, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the January 8-15, 2009 reporting period, no security [...] | 2009-01-20 14:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA930 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-01 13:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA933 | TURKISH PARTICIPATION IN THE MAJOR ECONOMIES FORUM [...] (U) For Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern from Ambassador James Jeffrey 2. (C) We understand that the NSC notified the Turkish Embassy in Washington on June 30 that the USG would not support Turkey's proposed participation in the July 9 Major Economies Forum meeting in Italy. Our [...] | 2009-07-01 15:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV TU |
09ANKARA938 | Update on PKK Violence (June 16-23, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the June 16-23, 2009, two security officials were k [...] | 2009-07-02 06:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA940 | MOVE ALLOWING CIVILIAN COURTS TO TRY MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Tension between the civilian government led by PM Erdogan's party and the military is sharpening, sparked by the military's denial of any involvement in an alleged secret military plan to undermine the government (reftel) and the government's successful effort to rush through legi [...] | 2009-07-02 08:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA948 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 13:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA949 | TURKEY'S NATO SUMMIT COMMITMENTS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Turkey is on track to meet its NATO summit ISAF commitments (reftel),according to MFA NATO Department Section Head Turker Ari. The four military teams pledged for the Election Support Force, totaling about eighty personnel, will deploy to Afghanistan by mid-July. Plans to reassume comma [...] | 2009-07-02 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF TU |
09ANKARA95 | TURKEY: PROLIFERATION-RELATED SHIPMENTS TO IRAN [...] (S) MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Department Head followed up on January 20 regarding Turkish Firm Ak Makinasi's efforts to acquire proliferation-sensitive equipment for Machine Sazi Tabriz, an Iranian company affiliated with the Shahid Hemmat Industries Group (refs a and b). According [...] | 2009-01-21 06:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC |
09ANKARA951 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR HEARS DISCORDANT VOICES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an all-day visit to Diyarbakir June 17, which featured meetings with a wide range of political and civic leaders, the Ambassador heard repeated appeals for the USG to engage on the Kurdish issue. He downplayed that prospect, noting that Turkey must solve this issue itself. [...] | 2009-07-02 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV PHUM TU |
09ANKARA957 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-06 13:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA959 | TURKEY: GETTING PAST "NO" ON NEW NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS [...] (C) Summary: Our effort to persuade Turkey to change its view on supporting a "clean text" of guidelines on enrichment has continued after the Budapest NSG meeting in early June. Action Request: See Para. 7. End Summary 2. (C) DCM met with PM Erdogan's foreign policy advisor and IAEA Board [...] | 2009-07-07 04:26:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KNUC TU |
09ANKARA960 | TURKEY: GETTING PAST "NO" ON NEW NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS [...] (C) Summary: Our effort to persuade Turkey to change its view on supporting a "clean text" of guidelines on enrichment has continued after the Budapest NSG meeting in early June. Action Request: See Para. 7. End Summary 2. (C) DCM met with PM Erdogan's foreign policy advisor and IAEA Board [...] | 2009-07-07 04:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KNUC TU |
09ANKARA964 | DEMARCHE ON ITSO ARBITRATION DELIVERED [...] Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Emra Topcu at MFA's Directorate General of International Political Organizations. He informed us that Turkey would be represented at the ITSO Extraordinary Assembly by Ahmet Calik, Senior Expert at Turksat, the independent agency responsible for Turk [...] | 2009-07-07 06:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ECPS EFIN KTIA PREL TSPA TU |
09ANKARA965 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-07 10:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA969 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-08 10:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA972 | TURKEY'S EU STRATEGY: END OR MEANS? [...] (C) Summary: Boasting a major economy and an established democracy, Turkey is unlike any other country that has previously sought EU membership. Accordingly, Ankara has faced a unique set of challenges since launching its EU accession negotiations, many of its own making. The ruling Justice [...] | 2009-07-09 06:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN TU |
09ANKARA976 | TURKISH MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 10:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
09ANKARA979 | Update on PKK Violence (June 24-30, 2009) [...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the June 24-30, 2009, seven security officials were [...] | 2009-07-09 14:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ |
09ANKARA981 | TURKEY: RISING UNEMPLOYMENT GLOOM IN TRABZON [...] (C) SUMMARY: We recently visited the eastern Black Sea city of Trabzon, a port city that until the March 29 local elections was a region of support for the CHP. We found the newly-elected AK Party welcoming and upbeat, in strong contrast to the decidedly hostile and brooding CHP officials. [...] | 2009-07-09 15:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
09ANKARA982 | US-TURKEY POLICY PLANNING TALKS IDENTIFY COMMON [...] (C) Summary: S/P Director Anne-Marie Slaughter, S/P Senior Staff Dean Pittman, and Ambassador Jeffrey held informal policy planning talks with MFA Director General of Policy Planning Ambassador Dicle Kopuz, Deputy Director General Ahmet Oktay, Strategic Planning Department Head Burak Akcapar, [...] | 2009-07-09 16:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
09ANKARA983 | TURKEY: ANKARA'S UIGHUR PARADOX [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite President Gul's recent trip to China, the GOT leadership has vocally condemned Chinese Government actions against the ethnically Turkic Uighurs in Urumqi. PM Erdogan characterized the violence as a "massacre" and called on Beijing to end its siege. Reflecting Erdogan's p [...] | 2009-07-09 17:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH TU |
09ANKARA985 | GEN PETRAEUS VISITS ANKARA, FINDS BROAD AGREEMENT [...] (S) During a June 30 - July 1 visit to Turkey, CENTCOM Commander GEN David Petraeus found broad agreement on and readiness to cooperate with the USG approach in Afghanistan, Pakistan and, generally speaking, Iraq. Turkey was already working to increase further its commitment to Afghanistan, b [...] | 2009-07-10 08:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PARM MARR TU |
09ANKARA987 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH DCHOD [...] (C) Summary: During a tour d'horizon with Ambassador on July, TGS Deputy Chief GEN Hasan Igsiz: -- Said the TGS is holding high level talks with the Syrian military in Istanbul July 7-8 and will reinforce the U.S. message that it must stop the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq. Igsiz sai [...] | 2009-07-10 09:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS TU |
09ANKARA99 | EXBS: TURKEY ADVISORS MONTHLY REPORT- (DECEMBER [...] Summary: The new EXBS Program Manager from ISN/ECC for Turkey met with post and Turkish officials to review the state of the program. EXBS Advisor met with various Turkish officials to discuss future EXBS and SLD engagement following September EXBS Nonproliferation Seminar. 2. Completed [...] | 2009-01-21 15:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TU |
09ANKARA995 | TURKEY: UPHILL TREK ON JUDICIAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Judicial reform lies at the center of a growing Turkish debate over its EU accession path, as well as its internal political power struggles. The EU mandates that to open chapter 23 (on the judiciary and fundamental legal rights),Turkey must overhaul its judicial system. The Mi [...] | 2009-07-10 16:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU |
09ANTANANARIVO10 | PRESIDENT SAMBI ANNOUNCES WISH TO EXTEND MANDATE [...] (SBU) In a New Year's speech Comoran President Sambi expressed his intention to ask the electorate, by referendum, to extend his term in office by one year until 2011. The President stated he wants "twelve more months at the country's helm so that I can complete the projects I promised to un [...] | 2009-01-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CN |
09ANTANANARIVO102 | Comoran Dialogue Finished Before It Begins (Again) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: African Union Special Envoy Madeira obtained agreement early this month from all Comoran stakeholders to convene an Inter-Comoran Dialogue February 27 to March 4. A few days later, President Sambi announced a date for his constitutional referendum (March 22),at which point all [...] | 2009-02-17 04:51:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO103 | MADAGASCAR: A FORK IN THE ROAD? [...] (C) Summary: Madagascar may be approaching -- this week, potentially -- a critical fork in the road to its political future. One way leads through negotiation to a compromise by which Ravalomanana stays at least nominally in power, albeit much weakened, while avoiding further blodshed. Th [...] | 2009-02-17 12:17:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PREL PINR PGOV |
09ANTANANARIVO107 | Former Comoran President Azali Watching, Waiting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Comoran President Azali told Comoros Officer February 17 he is concerned about President Sambi's "dangerous and unconstitutional" actions. He believes Sambi cares too much about foreign friends (like Iran) and is losing touch with the Comoran people; especially Imams who [...] | 2009-02-19 09:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO113 | MADAGASCAR: STALLED DIALOGUE (CON'T) [...] (C) Summary: A dangerous game of cat-and-mouse over launching dialogue between President and Mayor continues here, with each side professing its willingness to meet immediately -- and yet no meeting taking place. SADC "Troika" ministers were here today to see both sides, and the President [...] | 2009-02-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PREL PINR |
09ANTANANARIVO115 | Comorans Rally Against Sambi [...] (U) SUMMARY: Dozens of opposition leaders, Imams, and elder leaders representing all three islands held a rally February 18 calling on the people to actively prevent President Sambi's constitutional referendum from taking place. They denounced the president as illegitimate and dangerous, vowi [...] | 2009-02-20 05:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO123 | MADAGASCAR: NOW FOR THE HARD PART [...] (C) Summary/Action Request: Saturday's welcome meeting between Ravalomanana and "TGV" provides the first light at the end of the tunnel since this crisis became deadly one month ago. The truly heavy lifting starts now, as Ravalomanana will have to accept a difficult and personally unpleasant [...] | 2009-02-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PREL PINR |
09ANTANANARIVO136 | SUPPORTING UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL NOMINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 14:22:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA MA |
09ANTANANARIVO138 | COMOROS WELCOMES IRANIAN PRESIDENT AHMEDINEJAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thousands of moderate Sunni Comorans saw no contradiction in turning out to enthusiastically welcome Shi'a Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, to the Comoros February 25. Comorans are pro-American, eagerly asking that we reopen our Embassy and Peace Corps program. After year [...] | 2009-02-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL PHUM EAID ECON CN IR PGOV PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO139 | MADAGASCAR: COUNTING ON THE U.N. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following successive no-shows by each party, direct negotiations between President Ravalomanana and former Mayor Rajoelina are suspended and may well be over. However, UNSYG Ban Ki-Moon, who met Thursday with Malagasy ministers in South Africa, is sending reinforcements to shore u [...] | 2009-02-27 10:14:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UN |
09ANTANANARIVO140 | DELIVERED: USG PARTICIPATION IN THE UN HUMAN [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel request on February 27 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and will keep the Department informed of any GOM response. MARQUARDT [...] | 2009-03-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO149 | MADAGASCAR: CLASHES CONTINUE AS NEGOTIATIONS LOOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Last week's failed negotiations between president and TGV have been followed by almost-daily protests in Antananarivo and in several provincial capitals, despite the appearance of weakening public support and an increasingly firm response by GOM security forces. The conflict has [...] | 2009-03-03 15:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO150 | COMOROS AND IRAN: UN SANCTION BREAKING? [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of Iranian president Ahmedinejad's February 25 visit to the Comores (ref a),the French Ambassador in Moroni reported to Emboff that the GOC entered into bilateral military agreements with the GOI that may directly violate UNSCR and US laws (ref B). These agree [...] | 2009-03-03 15:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | PARM PREL IR CN XA |
09ANTANANARIVO153 | Inter-Comoran Dialogue Opens [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Union Vice President Idi Nadhoim, speaking on behalf of the Head of State, officially opened the Inter-Comoran Dialogue March 3. African Union Special Envoy Madeira hailed Comorans for their historic decision to meet in order to advance reconciliation. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU [...] | 2009-03-04 13:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO160 | MADAGASCAR: BACK TO THE BRINK -- BUT OF WHAT? [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, along with several other Chiefs of Mission, today again urged the former Mayor and the President to pursue dialogue, rather than violence, to find a resolution to the current political conflict in Madagascar. Reeling from an attack near and -- in his view -- on his [...] | 2009-03-06 11:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MEA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO162 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS RAJOELINA'S ASYLUM, [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) Meeting, chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened at the DCR, (the Alternate Command Center (ACC)),on Sunday, March 8. Initially, the Ambassador called a meeting to provide updates to POL, PA, DAO and RSO on the current political situation, but given ev [...] | 2009-03-09 09:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO166 | MADAGASCAR: RAVALOMANANA HANGING ON BY A THREAD [...] (C) Summary. The political situation in Madagascar is more fuild than ever after the Wednesday take-over of the military command structure by "the Colonels", but the crumbling security situation appears to have settled down in Tana -- at least for now -- as a result of their move. I have m [...] | 2009-03-12 10:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO167 | EAC CONVENED MARCH 9 TO DISCUSS TRIPWIRES, [...] (SBU) This information has previously been reported through alternate channels. An Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened on March 9, 2009 at the DCR to review the trip wires in light of the recent events and discuss the possibility of authorized departure (AD [...] | 2009-03-12 10:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO178 | Inter-Comoran Dialogue Ends [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After five days of talks on the constitution, institutions, and governance, the Inter-Comoran Dialogue closed March 7. While the recommendations are not binding, an overwhelming majority of participants insisted that President Sambi not seek to extend his mandate in the upcomi [...] | 2009-03-14 08:56:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO186 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS INCREASING ANTI-AMERICAN [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened on March 17, 2009 to discuss the recent increase of anti-American press and the military take over of the Presidential Palace. Also discussed were the present status of the other Presidential Palace located in Ia [...] | 2009-03-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO19 | Six Months Of Enhanced Engagement In The Comoros [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since July, 2008, Post has had a dedicated Comoros Officer spending three-quarters of his time on extended TDYs in the Comoros. This cable highlights the positive reaction from the Comoros and improved efforts to pursue Mission objectives. END SUMMARY. U.S. Presence "Promo [...] | 2009-01-09 11:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON EFIN CN |
09ANTANANARIVO195 | MADAGASCAR/RAVALOMANANA: I DID NOT RESIGN! [...] (C) A breathless ex-President Ravalomanana phoned the ambassador today from his undisclosed location (believed to be somewhere near Antsirabe) to explain a few things. Referring the their last two dramatic meetings on Tuesday morning (when he showed the US and South African ambassadors and U [...] | 2009-03-20 09:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO198 | France's Last African Colony Votes [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The island of Mayotte, governed by France but claimed by the Union of the Comoros since independence in 1975, will vote March 29 in a "consultation" to become a French Overseas Department. Most observers expect the overwhelming majority of Maorais to vote in favor of becoming a [...] | 2009-03-23 09:20:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV EAID CN FR |
09ANTANANARIVO2 | Gulf Investment Group Influence In The Comoros [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Post seeks insight from the Department into the background of Comoro Gulf Holdings and its principal officers: Bashar Kiwan (French-Syrian),President; Ali Kazma, Vice President; Ahmed Jaroudi (Lebanese),Manager. END ACTION REQUEST. Investment Promotion - - - - - - [...] | 2009-01-05 08:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EFIN CN |
09ANTANANARIVO200 | AU Efforts IN The Comoros Continue [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the Inter-Comoran Dialogue (REFTELS),AU S/E Madeira continues to mediate in the Comoros. With guidance from Addis, he brokered a meeting between Preisdent Sambi and the island presidents and obtained agreement for all parliamentary elections to take place in 2009. Tanza [...] | 2009-03-24 09:08:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO201 | MADAGASCAR: ELECTIONS WITHIN SIX MONTHS? [...] (C) Summary: The St. Paddy's Day coup here ended the initial phase of Madagascar's political crisis, but the crisis itself is far from over; months of instability, often mascarading as normalcy, probably lie ahead for the long-suffering people of this extremely poor nation. In the wake of [...] | 2009-03-24 10:49:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO207 | DISASTER DECLARATION - COMPLEX EMERGENCY: POLITICAL CRISIS [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraph 2 and 11. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. A power struggle beginning in January 2009 that led to an unconstitutional transfer of power has resulted in a severe shock to the economy of Madagascar and a near paralysis of government capability to respond [...] | 2009-03-25 10:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREL PHUM PGOV ZI |
09ANTANANARIVO217 | MADAGASCAR: UN, AU, AND SADC ROLES, GOING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: The UN, SADC, and AU are working to coordinate and harmonize next steps in resolving the Madagascar crisis. Elections within six months are their shared goal. SADC says it will not seat Ravalomanana at the upcoming SADC Summit, but TGV -- perceiving SADC bias in favor of his [...] | 2009-03-26 09:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO221 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS UPCOMING RALLIES, SECURITY [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) chaired by DCM Stromayer was convened on March 27, 2009 to discuss the current state of affairs, the upcoming proposed weekend rallies, the status of security measures and the need for additional tripwires and reverse tripwires. 2. (C) The DCM convene [...] | 2009-03-30 05:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO223 | COMOROS DENIES MILITARY COOPERATION WITH IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Post's diplomatic note on March 10, the GOC has formally denied any military cooperation with Iran. 2. (C) On March 26, the Comoran Ministry of External Relations and Cooperation faxed a dipnote stating only that "...the government of the Union of Comoros is acti [...] | 2009-03-30 14:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR CN XA |
09ANTANANARIVO225 | COMOROS CELEBRATES AU ANJOUAN ACTION ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tanzanian President Kikwete visited the Comoros March 24-26 to join celebrations of the one year anniversary of the African Union liberation of Anjouan. Lauded by President Sambi and cheered by throngs of Comorans as a national hero, President Kikwete promised closer ties with [...] | 2009-03-31 12:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD MOPS PGOV TZ CN |
09ANTANANARIVO227 | "GOM" PRIORITIES MET WITH DIPLOMATIC SILENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Madagascar's "High Transitional Authority" (HAT) convened leaders of the diplomatic corps on March 31 to announce its priorities for the coming months, and advance a conciliatory posture towards the international community in Antananarivo. Transition Minister of Finance Benja Raz [...] | 2009-03-31 13:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO246 | Comoros Explanation Of Economic Citizenship [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of the Union of the Comoros provided the Embassy with an official explanation of the implementation of its new "economic citizenship" law. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Upon our request, the GOC provided an official explanation of how the "economic citizenship" law is bei [...] | 2009-04-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EINV PREL PGOV CN |
09ANTANANARIVO247 | ANTANANARIVO UPDATE: MADAGASCAR'S "NEW OPPOSITION" FIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for the week of March 30 to April 3, an unclassified review of major events and information from the U.S. mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. The last two weeks in Madagascar have been dominated by ongoing demonstrations, while Andr [...] | 2009-04-03 03:46:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MA CN |
09ANTANANARIVO261 | MADAGASCAR: POLITICAL PROCESS MOVING HALTINGLY [...] (C) Summary: Malagasy political and civil society actors are moving haltingly forward toward a grand national dialogue, using separate but somewhat parallel processes that all attempt to address the same major questions before Madagascar: political reconciliation, constitutional reform, el [...] | 2009-04-08 12:59:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO270 | MADAGASCAR: TIME TO REGROUP AFTER TALKS COLLAPSE [...] (C) Summary: The collapse of weekend talks facilitated by the UN and AU between the four main Malagasy political "families" is being followed by a pause. Clarification of SADC's current position, especially as regards the possible return to Madagascar of Marc Ravalomanana, is needed before [...] | 2009-04-14 09:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO285 | Comoran President Announces Referendum May 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Comoran President Sambi announced the constitutional referendum will be held May 17. The new draft revision has not been made public yet, but is expected to concentrate powers in the Union presidency, reduce island autonomy, and allow Sambi to extend his current term in office [...] | 2009-04-20 06:03:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO304 | MADAGASCAR INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP: PREPARING [...] (C) Later this week in Addis, the AU will convene and chair the first meeting of the Madagascar International Contact Group (MICG). While the meeting may primarily provide a procedural and ceremonial launch of the new MICG, it is also an opportunity to lay down some important markers about USG [...] | 2009-04-27 10:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MA UN AU |
09ANTANANARIVO331 | COMOROS DISASTER DECLARATION - WIDESPREAD FLOODING FROM [...] This is an Action Cable. See para 2 and 5 for action required. SUMMARY: 2. Unseasonably heavy and sustained rains in the Comoros from late March to mid-April caused extensive damage to buildings, infrastructure, and crops. The Government of the Union of the Comoros has declared an offici [...] | 2009-05-07 05:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREL PHUM PGOV ZI |
09ANTANANARIVO332 | Comoros Tense Ahead Of May 17 Referendum [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Sambi's Union Government is actively campaigning for a constitutional referendum that would concentrate power in the central government, weaken island autonomy, and open the possibility that he could remain in office beyond the May, 2010 end of his term. Opposition l [...] | 2009-05-07 12:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CN |
09ANTANANARIVO336 | MADAGASCAR: PROGRESS TOWARD AN AGREEMENT, AS [...] (C) Summary: President Wade of Senegal has entered the fray in Madagascar, inviting the "four protagonists" -- TGV, Ravalomanana, Ratsikaka, and Zafy -- to Dakar this week to reach and sign a political agreement on the way forward to elections. The reaction here, among both the Malagasy th [...] | 2009-05-11 07:43:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA UN AU |
09ANTANANARIVO353 | MADAGASCAR: TGV RENEGES, AU TAKES OVER, AND EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: With Andry "TGV" Rajoelina now explicitly conditioning his decision not to run on Zafy, Ravalomanana, and Ratsiraka following suit, it is unclear whether this key provision of the "Transition Charter" under negotiation here is still viable. The EU "Political Dialogue" is schedule [...] | 2009-05-18 11:19:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MA UN |
09ANTANANARIVO354 | EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW ORDERED DEPARTURE STATUS [...] (SBU) Summary: An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) was convened on May 18, 2009. The main topic was a review of Post's ordered departure (OD) status. The committee unanimously recommended that OD be lifted. The EAC also reviewed the current security and political situation in Antananarivo and [...] | 2009-05-18 11:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO356 | MADAGASCAR RECEIVES QUESTIONABLE SAUDI INVESTORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A group of questionable Saudi investors has signed an agreement with Madagascar's High Transitional Authority (HAT) allegedly to invest 2 billion dollars (over 20% of GDP) in Madagascar. To further sweeten the deal, the Saudi investors plan to export large quantities of staple c [...] | 2009-05-18 13:31:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL MA SA |
09ANTANANARIVO357 | Comoros President Pleased With Referendum Win [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Comoros President Sambi received AU S/E Madeira, the diplomatic corps, and 10 Libyan elections observers the day after his apparently successful constitutional referendum May 17. While an official Constitutional Court declaration of the result is pending, the President outlined [...] | 2009-05-19 07:34:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CN |
09ANTANANARIVO359 | MADAGASCAR: EU DIALOGUE AND TGV'S COMING TRAVELS [...] (C) The May 19 Madagascar-EU "Political Dialogue" appears to have helped sober up the HAT and its President about the possible realities that lie ahead for them. The EU, led competently by Czech Ambassador Petr Kopriva, promised that the "120 day clock" for article 96 consultations is about [...] | 2009-05-20 12:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MA UN EU AU |
09ANTANANARIVO360 | UN FLASH APPEAL MAKING SLOW PROGRESS [...] SUMMARY: This is an action request. One month after the announcement of a United Nations flash appeal for immediate relief and early recovery efforts in Madagascar (reftel),only 2 percent of the requested USD 35.7 million has been received. Post requests that the Department consider contribu [...] | 2009-05-22 04:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO362 | MADAGASCAR: REQUEST FOR USG CONTRIBUTION TO UN FLASH [...] SUMMARY: This is an action request (see para 4). Six weeks after the announcement of a United Nations flash appeal for immediate relief and early recovery efforts in Madagascar (reftel),only two percent of the requested USD 35.7 million has been pledged - and the human suffering in this ongoi [...] | 2009-05-22 05:42:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO364 | MADAGASCAR: CURRENT SECURITY ENVIRONMENT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable provides further information on the security situation in Antananarivo and Madagascar in support of post's request (refs C and D) to lift ordered departure status, and in preparation for the Ambassador's meetings next week in Washington. Since a limited resurgence in [...] | 2009-05-22 09:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO370 | MADAGASCAR: BRINKMANSHIP AS NEGOTIATIONS PROCEED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Contrary to media reports on the faltering negotiations between Madagascar's four main political movements, UN and AU mediators remain confident that talks will continue, that last week's negotiated gains will not be lost, and that the increasingly loud rhetoric emanating from th [...] | 2009-05-26 13:21:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO390 | MADAGASCAR: MONTH THREE OF GENERAL SOCIAL CALM BEGINS, AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the exception of a brief flare up of violent confrontations April 20-25, Madagascar and Antananarivo are moving into the third month of general social calm since the coup of mid-March. The generally positive conditions reported in refs A and B continue to prevail. Through [...] | 2009-05-29 12:13:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC MA |
09ANTANANARIVO414 | SOUTH AFRICAN CHARGE DISCUSSES MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador, DCM and DATT met June 8 with South African Charge Marius Conradie to discuss current state of mediation efforts and continuing rumors about possible recruitment of mercenaries by Marc Ravalomanana in South Africa or Swaziland to support his effort to return to power he [...] | 2009-06-08 15:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC MA PGOV PREL SA |
09ANTANANARIVO430 | MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-15 11:14:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO439 | MADAGASCAR: TIME TO RE-ENGAGE WITH THE FRENCH? [...] (C) Summary: This is an action message for AF and possibly Embassy Paris (see para 7). With AU/UN/Francophonie-mediated negotiations here all but collapsed (reftel),the International Contact Group for Madagascar (ICG) -- which includes the USG -- should now regroup and consider alternate [...] | 2009-06-16 09:49:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN MA |
09ANTANANARIVO446 | Comoros Plans To Hold Legislative Elections in July [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While still implementing new constitutional provisions, President Sambi intends to hold legislative elections before Ramadan begins in late August and has asked donors for financing and technical assistance. Hundreds of candidates will likely contest the more than 70 positions [...] | 2009-06-18 06:59:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CN |
09ANTANANARIVO450 | MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE JUNE 19 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Unfounded rumors and press reports of mercenaries hired by Ravalomanana (Ra8) arriving in country continue, as have inaccurate press reports of alleged U.S. support for the Legalists. However, the Department's June 17 press statement usefully correcteed the record and played in [...] | 2009-06-19 08:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO468 | MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE JUNE 23 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily "Legalist" protests continue at Magro. An undetonated artisanal bomb was discovered and defused by security forces. Additional, but still sketchy information on the "Vigimada" security plan for June 26 National Day has been released. Otherwise, a general calm prevails in [...] | 2009-06-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO475 | COMOROS CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (SBU) SUBJECT: Union of the Comoros President Sambi made sweeping changes to his cabinet June 24, dismissing some competent and loyal Ministers in favor or several unknowns. END SUBJECT. 2. (SBU) President Sambi has made the most dramatic changes to his cabinet since taking office in 2006 [...] | 2009-06-25 10:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO476 | MADAGASCAR: RAVALOMANANA SEEKING USG HELP HE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the ambassador in Johannesburg on June 22, former president Marc Ravalomanana requested USG help with his desired return to Madagascar and stressed the key role he must play as head of state in returning the country to "constitutional order". The ambassador re [...] | 2009-06-25 12:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PREL PINR |
09ANTANANARIVO477 | MADAGASCAR: A SOUTH AFRICAN VIEW OF THE SADC [...] (C) I met on June 23 in Jo'Burg with South African Ambassador to Madagascar Sam Monaisa to hear his views on the weekend SADC Summit, which he had attended. Monaisa said he also had attended UN mediator Tiebile Drame's Friday briefing of the South African foreign minister, and he later helpe [...] | 2009-06-25 13:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA |
09ANTANANARIVO486 | MADAGASCAR: EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW SECURITY AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: On June 30, 2009, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened to discuss the possibility of lifting the Ordered Departure (OD) status for post. The EAC discussed several recent events involving small explosive devices, arrests connected to those events, and the reported throwing [...] | 2009-07-01 14:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO492 | EAC CONVENED TO UPDATE REVERSE TREIPWIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Based on a suggestion/request from Washington, the mission's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met again today to propose revisions to our exisiting reverse tripwires. This cable updates our previous set of reverse tripwires (reftel),which post agrees were too rigid and no longer [...] | 2009-07-02 08:55:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO494 | MADAGASCAR: LETTER TO POTUS ON AGOA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 13:14:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA EINV ECON PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO503 | MADAGASCAR: JAPANESE TO RAISE MINING CONCERN AT G8 [...] (C) Summary: The HAT is threatening to alter the terms of investment for the USD 4.5 billion Ambatovy nickel mine. The Japanese, Canadian, and Korean investors involved are gearing up to defend their interests in arbitration if the HAT goes forward with its threat. The Japanese Prime Ministe [...] | 2009-07-07 07:10:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EMIN PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO515 | MADAGASCAR: CHISSANO STAKES STOCK [...] (C) Summary: During his July 9-12 visit to Madagascar, SADC mediator Chissano solicited advice from the dip corps then met with transition authority (HAT) president Andry Rajoelina July 10, followe by weeekend meetings with the delegations of the other three movements (Zafy, Ratsiraka, Ravalom [...] | 2009-07-13 13:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO523 | MADAGASCAR: TGV - A HIGH SPEED TRAIN WRECK [...] (C) Summary: The Malagasy Permanent Rep to the UN Rajemison -- a former Senate President, former TIKO employee and erstwhile Ravalomanana faithful -- recently returned to Madagascar to moderate the regional conferences organized by the illegal transition government (HAT) with an eye towards ad [...] | 2009-07-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO526 | MADAGASCAR: PROPOSED TALKING POINTS FOR JULY 22 [...] (SBU) Summary: The second consultative meeting of the international contact group (ICG) on Madagascar will be hosted by the African Union in Addis Ababa July 22. This meeting presents an opportunity to shore up cohesiveness within the international community to ensure that all ICG members con [...] | 2009-07-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO547 | EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW TRIPWIRES, DISCUSS RECENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on July 20, 2009 to review the current tripwires, specifically those for Civil Disorder/Armed Combat and the updated Health and Environment tripwires. This was especially timely in light of the weekend plot reported by local authoriti [...] | 2009-07-22 08:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER |
09ANTANANARIVO548 | HAT FM ALLEGES RAVALOMANANA ASSOCIATED FIGURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a Note Verbal dated July 20 to the Diplomatic Corps the HAT Foreign Ministry alleges that Ravalomanana and figures close to him are responsible for the spate of bombing attempts and violence (ref A) directed at regime offices in the last week. At HAT Foreign Minister Ny Hasina [...] | 2009-07-22 13:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO60 | DIPLOMATIC EFFORT REVEALS FULL-BLOWN MALAGASY [...] (C) SUMMARY. DIPLOMATS MET ON JANUARY 22 FIRST WITH ANTANANARIVO MAYOR ANDRY "TGV" RAJOELINA AND IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS WITH THE PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER TO SEEK COMMON GROUND THAT MIGHT CALM THE WORSENING POLITICAL CRISIS IN MADAGASCAR. THE TWO DISCUSSIONS, EACH LASTING ABOUT T [...] | 2009-01-23 09:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PINR PREL |
09ANTANANARIVO607 | MADAGASCAR'S ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP WITH EU UNDER THREAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since 2002 the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) have been working to put in place new trade agreements: the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs),designed to enhance cooperation in all areas related to trade. Madagascar signed an [...] | 2009-08-21 06:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO615 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for the week of August 24 to 28, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. END SUMMARY. POLITICS -------- 2. (SBU) POLITI [...] | 2009-08-28 09:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO629 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for the week of August 31 to September 4, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. END SUMMARY. POLITICS -------- 2. (SBU) [...] | 2009-09-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO631 | MADAGASCAR: ISPS CODE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 10:07:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ETRD ECON KHLS PTER PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO634 | MADAGASCAR: NEW TRANSITION GOVERNMENT FAR FROM [...] (C) Summary: High Transitional Authority (HAT) Prime Minister Roindefo Monja today announced the composition of Madagascar's "new and consensual" transition government, confirming suspicions that the majority of positions would remain safely in the hands of HAT loyalists (para 6). Their effor [...] | 2009-09-08 14:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO642 | MADAGASCAR: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DELIVERS BLUNT [...] (C) Summary. Urgently convoked by HAT President Rajoelina on September 10, key ambassadors responded to his soft-soap appeal for understanding and support with a firm, unified reply denouncing his unilateral formation of a non-consensual government and stating that further sanctions and dif [...] | 2009-09-11 07:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO644 | MADAGASCAR: REVISED GUIDANCE FOR ENGAGING WITH THE [...] (C) Post requests a slight revision of standing guidance from the Department on engaging with the de facto transition regime in Madagascar (reftel). Specifically, we suggest revising that guidance to allow occasional, discreet contacts with high transition authority (HAT) or government member [...] | 2009-09-11 08:49:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO657 | MADAGASCAR'S COUP REGIME HEADS TO NEW YORK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several representatives of Madagascar's transition MFA departed for New York on September 13; a presidential delegation intends to follow on or around September 21. In total, there are 23 members of the official delegation, and nine journalists accompanying them. The MFA team i [...] | 2009-09-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA MA |
09ANTANANARIVO669 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for September 7 to 18, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. END SUMMARY. POLITICS -------- 2. (SBU) POLITICAL UPDATE: Op [...] | 2009-09-18 08:50:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO679 | MADAGASCAR: ACTION REQUEST FOR PRESS STATEMENT [...] (C) Summary: During the Human Rights Committee meeting on September 22 at the UN, a statement was made concerning USG policy in Madagascar that has generated some confusion in country. Additionally, the African Union plans to host the third International Contact Group meeting on Madagascar he [...] | 2009-09-25 08:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO68 | REFLECTIONS ON THE CURRENT MALAGASY POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Whatever we might decide to do here to help defuse the current political crisis -- perhaps a phone call to the President from the Secretary -- should first be coordinated with Paris. They, unlike us, have extensive interests in Madagascar and are properly in the lead of any intern [...] | 2009-01-29 10:30:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PINR PREL |
09ANTANANARIVO682 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (09/25/2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for September 21 to 25, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICAL (paras 2-7) - Rajoelina at the UN General Assembly [...] | 2009-09-25 08:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO69 | PRESIDENT MAY BE OPEN TO MEETING -- BUT NOT TO [...] (C) Summary: President Ravalomanana told ambassadors Thursday that he is open to meeting the Mayor, but not to any broad dialogue with him, or anyone else. A meeting may or may not occur Friday at 1500 at the German residence. Prospects for the meeting have dimmed as the Mayor publicly stated [...] | 2009-01-30 08:18:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PINR PREL |
09ANTANANARIVO691 | MADAGASCAR: SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS FOR OCTOBER 6 [...] (SBU) Summary: The third consultative meeting of the international contact group (ICG) on Madagascar will be hosted by the African Union in Antananarivo October 6. This meeting presents an opportunity to shore up cohesiveness within the international community and endorse mediator Chissano's [...] | 2009-09-30 07:51:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MA |
09ANTANANARIVO692 | MADAGASCAR: VITUPERATIVE ANTI-SADC RHETORIC FOLLOWS UNGA [...] (U) The Malagasy transition government (HAT) and its allies are clearly frustrated by the successful efforts of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to block the scheduled speech of HAT President Andry Rajoelina at the United Nations General Assembly last week. On Monday September [...] | 2009-09-30 11:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SADC MA |
09ANTANANARIVO697 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (10/02/2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for September 28 - October 2, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICAL (paras 2-4) - Rajoelina's Return from UNGA - [...] | 2009-10-02 08:31:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO70 | WHAT'S NEXT IN MADAGASCAR'S POLITICAL CRISIS? [...] (C) Summary. Following Mayor TGV's Saturday's declaration that he is now "in charge of Madagascar's public affairs" and his call for Ravalomanana's impeachment, it is very unclear what comes next. The Mayor is rumored to be on the verge of naming his own government and asking the crowd to [...] | 2009-02-02 07:32:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PINR PREL |
09ANTANANARIVO701 | MADAGASCAR: TGV DIMS HOPE OF CRISIS RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of the third ICG-M hosted by the AU in Antananarivo, de facto transition leader Rajoelina failed to make good on his promises to replace his prime minister with a consensus candidate. Instead, he demanded on national television that the international community make se [...] | 2009-10-05 14:24:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO707 | MADAGASCAR: FRAGILE POWER-SHARING DEAL REACHED AT [...] (C) Summary: Following de facto transition leader Andry Rajoelina's announcement Oct 4 that he agreed to replace his prime minister Monja Roindefo with a consensus candidate to form a unity government, high-level officials attending the third international contact group meeting on Madagascar [...] | 2009-10-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO72 | MADAGASCAR: WEEKEND MEETINGS OF THE EACS REVIEW [...] (SBU) At 1800 on Friday, January 30, 2009, following a Town Hall Meeting, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by DCM Stromayer, met at the DCM's residence, to assess the security posture of the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar as the weekend begins. Another meeting of EAC was called to me [...] | 2009-02-02 10:03:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO726 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (10/16/2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for October 5-16, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICAL (paras 2-4) - Ambassador Carter Visit - Public Reaction [...] | 2009-10-16 10:19:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO727 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (10/16/2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for October 5-16, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICAL (paras 2-4) - Ambassador Carter Visit - Public Reaction [...] | 2009-10-16 10:32:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO728 | MADAGASCAR: BIG FOUR SUMMIT POSTPONED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Envoy Tiebile Drame convoked the diplomatic corps October 16 to seek their opinion on the next steps in finding a way out of Madagascar's political crisis. He explained that ousted President Ravalomanana had rejected the Geneva venue for the planned Oct 17-19 summit of Madag [...] | 2009-10-16 12:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO750 | COMOROS-LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS POSTPONED BY ONE WEEK [...] Summary: The Comoran government and opposition have agreed to hold the scheduled legislative elections a week later than initially planned. "The first round will take place on December 6 instead of November 29 and the second round on December 20 instead of December 13," according to the chairm [...] | 2009-11-02 07:42:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CN |
09ANTANANARIVO753 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (11/02/2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for October 19 to November 2, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICAL (Paragraphs 2-6) - Negotiations in Addis Abab [...] | 2009-11-02 14:01:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MA |
09ANTANANARIVO756 | SUBJECT: MADAGASCAR: WORRIED MALAGASY CHOD WARNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Malagasy Army Defense Chief, (newly-promoted) Brigadier General Andre Ndriarijaona, and his Chief of Staff, Colonel Raphael Ramasy called on the Ambassador and Defense Attache November 3, at their request. General Ndriarijaona expressed concern over the lack of concrete progress [...] | 2009-11-03 14:31:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC MA MOPS PREL PGOV |
09ANTANANARIVO76 | DISASTER DECLARATION - SIGNIFICANT DAMAGES AND POPULATION [...] This is an Action Cable. See Paragraphs 9 and 10 below. ------- Summary ------- 2. The Intense Tropical Cyclone Fanele, a category three tropical cyclone, hit a populated area on the west coast of Madagascar in the Morondava region on the morning of January 20, 2009 and headed westward [...] | 2009-02-03 11:58:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL SENV SOCI MA |
09ANTANANARIVO771 | MADAGASCAR AND COMOROS: NO ONGOING SECURITY DIALOGUES [...] In response to questions in reftel, Post does not maintain any regular bilateral security dialogue with the governments of Madagascar or Comoros. The USG does offer limited training opportunities, both abroad and in-country, to members of the Comoran armed forces, and is currently conducting s [...] | 2009-11-12 14:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MA CN |
09ANTANANARIVO779 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (13-NOV-2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for November 2-13, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICS (Paragraphs 2-4) - Transition Government: Still a Work in [...] | 2009-11-13 12:29:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ECPS EINV MA |
09ANTANANARIVO791 | MADAGASCAR: INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: The implementation of the transition charter agreed to in Maputo by Madagascar's four main political rivals has begun. The leadership of a new power-sharing transition government has been installed, including a consensus prime minister, president of congress, the transition pre [...] | 2009-11-19 14:05:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MA |
09ANTANANARIVO811 | COMOROS STILL VERY FRAGILE AS ELECTIONS APPROACH [...] (C) Summary. During a three-day visit to Grande Comore, only my second visit to the country in 2009, I found the country busily if somewhat tensely preparing for December legislative elections. President Sambi was typically upbeat in his assessment and asked again for the USG to increase its [...] | 2009-11-25 10:21:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KPIR MA IR |
09ANTANANARIVO818 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (27-NOV-2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for November 16-27, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICS (Paragraphs 2-8) - AU/UN Evaluation Mission - Continued [...] | 2009-11-27 11:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV MA |
09ANTANANARIVO832 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (04-DEC-2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for November 30 to December 4, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICS (Paragraphs 2-4) - TRANSITION CABINET REMAINS [...] | 2009-12-04 07:35:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV MA |
09ANTANANARIVO833 | MADAGASCAR REPORT OF FAILED ATTACK ON TRANSITION PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Via multiple press sources, Madagascar was informed on December 3 and 4 that on the night of December 2 President Rajoelina's car was allegedly fired on as he returned to Antananarivo from an in-country trip. No one was hurt and as of December 4, there are no known witnesses, e [...] | 2009-12-04 07:39:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO840 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE SUSPENSION OF AGOA [...] (C) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by the ambassador and DCM, was convened on December 8 to assess potential security consequences if Madagascar's AGOA eligibility is terminated later this month. There was a general consensus amongst the EAC members that although there might even [...] | 2009-12-08 09:51:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO850 | MADAGASCAR: TRYING TO AVOID THE WORST [...] (C) Summary: Madagascar's halting mediation and transition process has derailed dramatically following publication of Tuesday's "Maputo III" resolutions and Rajoelina's immediate, extreme, and negative reaction to them (reftel). Probably using the resolutions and the unfortunate letters sign [...] | 2009-12-11 10:00:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA |
09ANTANANARIVO856 | MADAGASCAR: SECURITY MINISTER STOPS POLITICIANS' RETURN [...] (SBU) The de facto GOM has clarified its intention to keep rival political leaders from returning to Madagascar after their summit in Maputo, Mozambique (reftel A and B). Minister of Internal Security Organes RAKOTOMIHANTARIZAKA issued a note on December 11 listing 25 individuals who were to b [...] | 2009-12-14 14:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA SF |
09ANTANANARIVO857 | LETTER: FMR PRES RATSIRAKA TO SECRETARY CLINTON ON AGOA [...] (U) Below is the full text of a letter regarding AGOA from former Malagasy President Didier Ratsiraka to Secretary Clinton, delivered to Post by fax on December 12. The original fax, written in English, will be delivered via email to AF/E. [BEGIN TEXT] FROM: Mr. Didier Ratsiraka Forme [...] | 2009-12-14 14:45:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MA SF |
09ANTANANARIVO87 | Comoros Reestablishes Links To Swahili Coast [...] (U) SUMMARY: After decades of instability and post-colonial focus on France, the Union of the Comoros is rediscovering historic links to the Swahili Coast of Africa. In partnership with Tanzania's Board of External Trade, the Comoran Chamber of Commerce will soon open an office in Dar es Sal [...] | 2009-02-09 06:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON ETRD CN |
09ANTANANARIVO872 | OPPOSITION REJECTS NEW PM, PLANS PARALLEL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andry "TGV" Rajoelina has removed all of the opposition leaders from positions held under the failed Maputo process, and named a retired army colonel, Albert Camille Vital, as his new prime minister. The opposition movements announced they would continue implementing the Maputo [...] | 2009-12-21 18:33:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA SF |
09ANTANANARIVO874 | OPPOSITION REJECTS NEW PM, PLANS PARALLEL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andry "TGV" Rajoelina has removed all of the opposition leaders from positions held under the failed Maputo process, and named a retired army colonel, Albert Camille Vital, as his new prime minister. The opposition movements announced they would continue implementing the Maput [...] | 2009-12-22 04:46:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MA SF |
09ANTANANARIVO876 | ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (22-DEC-2009) [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for December 7 to 22, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICS (Paragraphs 1-5) - Rajoelina kills the Maputo process [...] | 2009-12-23 10:26:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV MA |
09ANTANANARIVO88 | Comoran Students Look Abroad For Opportunity [...] (U) SUMMARY: Comoran education and foreign ministry officials express growing concern about the trend in Comoran students going abroad far and wide seeking educational opportunities. Thousands of Comorans study in more than 30 countries, some with scholarships, some self-financed and most ob [...] | 2009-02-09 06:04:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON CN |
09ANTANANARIVO887 | ICG-M IN ADDIS ABABA: BACKGROUND AND TALKING POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 6, members of the International Contact Group on Madagascar (ICG-M) will meet in Addis Ababa to discuss the international community's response to recent developments in Antananarivo. This cable contains suggested talking points for use by the U.S. delegation to the ICG- [...] | 2009-12-29 12:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MA FR ET |
09ANTANANARIVO90 | MADAGASCAR: ABANDONING RAVALOMANANA [...] (C) KEY CONTACTS ARE TELLING THE AMBASSADOR THAT SUPPORT FOR RAVALOMANANA FROM WITHIN THE MILITARY AND HIS OWN GOVERNMENT IS WEAKENING. KEY MINISTERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO RESIGN THIS MORNING, WHILE THE MILITARY IS LIKELY TO REMAIN ON THE SIDELINES AND LET THE POLITICS PLAY OUT. 2. (C) [...] | 2009-02-09 08:44:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MA |
09ANTANANARIVO92 | EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS MALAGASY SECURITY FORCES [...] (SBU) An Emergency Action Committee (EAC) Meeting, chaired by DCM Stromayer, was convened at the DCR, also the Alternate Command Center (ACC),on Sunday, February 8 to discuss the impact of Saturday's massacre at the Presidential Palace. In light of these events, the EAC met to review trip wire [...] | 2009-02-09 09:43:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC MP PGOV PREL PTER MA |
09ANTANANARIVO97 | NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE TO BEGIN SATURDAY? [...] (C) Summary. The National Consultative Conference (NCC) described in ref A could begin here this Saturday, February 14. Post is supporting this effort with funding and suggestions on participation, as well as supportive public diplomacy. We are preparing a press statement welcoming this br [...] | 2009-02-12 09:47:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | MA PGOV PREL |
09APIA7 | FIJI COUP 2009: A SAMOAN VIEW [...] Summary: Samoa, and those in Samoa, have a keen interest in Fiji, observing events there through a Polynesian prism-when a member of the Pacific family acts out, other family members can and should be the most critical, "outsiders'" criticisms are considered less valid (and perhaps also less v [...] | 2009-04-17 23:20:00 | Embassy Apia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI PINR WS |
09ASHGABAT100 | TURKMENISTAN: BURNISHING BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S REGIONAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A December 2008 article written by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs attributed the positive outcome of the October 2008 Bishkek Summit to President Berdimuhamedov's initiative and resourcefulness and portrayed Turk [...] | 2009-01-22 05:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ECON PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1006 | TURKMENISTAN: USAID SEMINAR ON LOCAL GOVERNANCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 5-6, 25 Turkmen parliamentarians, local government leaders and other officials participated in a USAID sponsored seminar on local governance. The Turkmen parliament is currently considering reforms to t [...] | 2009-08-10 11:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM TX |
09ASHGABAT1007 | TURKMENISTAN: DEPUTY FM DISCUSSES HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with Charge, Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev provided his commentary on the Turkmenistan section of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. While acknowledging that more needs to done to fight TIP, he took issue with the report's failure to recognize the [...] | 2009-08-10 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP PHUM SOCI SCUL TX |
09ASHGABAT1015 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UNODC AS OFFICIAL GICNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 11:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT1017 | TURKMENISTAN: UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES OF UN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 11, Fedor Klimtchouk, the Deputy Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA),briefed poloff on the Center's priorities, recent activities and plans for upcoming action. The Center has four priorities: fighting transborder crime, i [...] | 2009-08-12 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN ENRG ZK AF TX |
09ASHGABAT102 | STRAIGHT TALK BETWEEN TURKMENISTAN'S STATE [...] (SBU) Chairman of the State Counternarcotics Service (SCNS),Col. Murat Islamov, told UN Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) Project Coordinator, Ercan Saka, at an Imamnazar Border Crossing Checkpoint Project Steering Committee meeting on January 15 that Turkmenistan is not a narcotics smuggling [...] | 2009-01-22 08:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SNAR TX AORC |
09ASHGABAT1026 | TURKMENISTAN: REQUEST FOR RADIOS AND EQUIPMENT [...] DoD has an increased need for overflight of Turkmenistan in order to maintain the increased operational tempo in Afghanistan. The Government of Turkmenistan has informed State officials, that they cannot support US requests for increased overflight without an upgrade to their air traffic cont [...] | 2009-08-14 09:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS TX |
09ASHGABAT1037 | TURKMEN GOVERNMENT AGREES TO MOVE FORWARD ON [...] (SBU) On August 14, Post received the Turkmenistan Foreign Ministry's response to reftel letter and non-paper proposing the establishment of regular bilateral policy consultations. In its response, "the Turkmen side consent(ed) to arranging the high-level consultations between Turkmenistan a [...] | 2009-08-18 05:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1043 | TURKMENISTAN'S AGENDA FOR THE 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 31, Post received a circular diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan containing an explanation of the Turkmenistan Government's positions on issues to be considered during t [...] | 2009-08-18 09:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR PARM SENV UNGA UNHCR FAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1044 | IMPLICATIONS OF AFGHAN ELECTIONS FOR TURKMENISTAN [...] (S) On August 18, Post delivered reftel points on U.S. concerns regarding post-election instability in Afghanistan to the Turkmenistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post will report any substantive response septel. 2. (S) The strategic interest of the Turkmen Government in Afghanistan is th [...] | 2009-08-18 11:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1045 | AN IRANIAN UNESCO REPRESENTATIVE'S VIEW FROM THE [...] (C) On August 13, Public Affairs Officer hosted UNESCO Educational Program Officer, G. Reza Samarbakhsh for a discussion of joint programming opportunities. Samarbakhsh, an Iranian citizen, works out of the UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, but has oversight of UNESCO educational programs in Afg [...] | 2009-08-18 12:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX UNESCO |
09ASHGABAT1047 | TURKMENISTAN: INVITATION TO ATTEND PSI EXERCISE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 12:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP TX |
09ASHGABAT1049 | TURKMENISTAN GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO DENY EXIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOTX continues to create roadblocks for students traveling to Kyrgyzstan, including students of the American University in Central Asia (AUCA). The Minister of Education told parents and AUCA students on August 18 that the decision to not permit students to study in Turkmenis [...] | 2009-08-19 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT1052 | OVERVIEW OF TURKMEN ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkmen Government recognizes that it has an interest in Afghan stability. It provides humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, primarily to areas with an ethnic Turkmen population. It also delivers electricity, free of charge or on concessionary terms, and is developing the [...] | 2009-08-19 13:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1053 | TURKMENISTAN: NEW ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT WITH UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A six-year assistance framework agreement signed by the UN and the Turkmen government last week covers a broader range of areas for cooperation than the previous agreement, perhaps a further indication that the Turkmen Government is slowly opening up to the world. Although many [...] | 2009-08-20 12:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID UN TX |
09ASHGABAT1058 | VISIT OF GENERAL PETRAEUS TO TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 15, CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus visited Ashgabat for meetings with Turkmen government officials. The General met with the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the State Border Service, and the Deputy Chairman for Foreign Relations and Foreign Minister. Discussions [...] | 2009-08-21 10:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1060 | TURKMENISTAN: JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY HAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This week, officials from Japan's development agency made a trip to Turkmenistan for the first time in 10 years to discuss broadening cooperation. Their talks focused on a plan to modernize the port at Turkmenbashy, which would then become a point on the east-west transit corrid [...] | 2009-08-21 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECIN ELTN EWWT JA TX |
09ASHGABAT1070 | AUCA STUDENTS AND PARENTS FACE INCREASED PRESSURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Turkmen authorities are ratcheting up pressure on the students of the American University in Central Asia (AUCA) and their parents. Several parents have either been fired or forced to resign after publicly questioning Ministry of Education (MOE) officials. Additionally, the [...] | 2009-08-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT1074 | TURKMENISTAN RESPONDS TO LETTER FROM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Nor for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Hajiyev called in DCM on August 26 to discuss a letter Representative Joseph Pitts had sent to President Berdimuhamedov on the topic of religious freedom in Turkmenistan. Hajiyev said that w [...] | 2009-08-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PREL SOCI SCUL TX |
09ASHGABAT1079 | TURKMENISTAN: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE ON BULGARIAN [...] (U) Action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Post has been working with the Department, ACCELS, American University in Central Asia (AUCA),and American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) to transfer the AUCA scholarship students, who have been blocked by the Turkmenistan government from stud [...] | 2009-08-27 12:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1087 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN EXBS ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. From 1 - 7 August the EXBS Office supported the Department of Energy (DOE) Second Line of Defense (SLD) Portal Monitor Installation Project with site visits for equipment acceptance at Turkmenabat/Farap, Turkmenbashy, Artyk, Watan [...] | 2009-08-31 09:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG |
09ASHGABAT1088 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA REACTION TO AUGUST POST EVENTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: August saw media provide generally accurate and favorable coverage of U.S. Government-related events in Turkmenistan. Media accurately covered the CENTCOM delegation's August 15 visit to Turkmenistan, with most of [...] | 2009-08-31 10:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT110 | TURKMENISTAN: LOCAL BUSINESS COUNCIL MEETING TOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Resident Office Head, Neil McKain (please strictly protect),said that the head of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists is a "born entrepreneur" and that "he has the right instincts to help entrepreneurs" in Turkme [...] | 2009-01-22 13:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV EAGR TX AORC |
09ASHGABAT1104 | TURKMENISTAN: RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE LIMITED, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although Ukraine and Turkmenistan no longer see eye-to-eye on political priorities, Ukrainian companies are still active in Turkmenistan, especially in the construction sector. However, restrictions on civic organizations have isolated expat Ukrainians and those who now come to [...] | 2009-09-01 09:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD TX UP |
09ASHGABAT1105 | TURKMENISTAN: PROMISING RESHUFFLING IN STATE NEWS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 31, President Berdimuhamedov appointed two promising professionals to head the key state media print outlet "Neytralniy Turkmensitan (NT)" and main state news agency "Turkmen Dowlet Habarlary (TDH)." Th [...] | 2009-09-01 11:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1106 | MINISTER OF EDUCATION UNHELPFUL ON STUDENTS EXIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 31, CDA Richard Miles met with Minister of Education, Gulshat Mammedova, to discuss the ongoing imbroglio with students attempting to study at the American University in Central Asia (AUCA). The Minister was unhelpful and stuck to the now tired excuses of trying to pr [...] | 2009-09-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1108 | TURKMENISTAN: SOME TRANSPARENCY IN DRAFTING A NEW [...] (SBU) The Government of Turkmenistan has been working with the British Embassy and the German development agency Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) for the last year and a half to rewrite Turkmenistan's Criminal Code. This effort is part of a range of legal reforms that the Turkm [...] | 2009-09-01 13:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PGOV KCRM TX |
09ASHGABAT111 | TURKMENISTAN: EBRD EXPLAINS WHAT IS WRONG WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Resident Office Head, Neil McKain (please strictly protect),explained barriers in the domestic lending industry, such as bureaucracy and loan terms that are unprofitable for banks and untenable for borrowers. By offering [...] | 2009-01-23 07:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ECON EIND SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT112 | TURKMENISTAN: EBRD REVIEWS ITS STRATEGY -- IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) office in Ashgabat is focusing on the question "how much reform is enough" to validate additional cooperation in Turkmenistan, in the context of a strategy evaluation exercise currently underway. If allowed, the reside [...] | 2009-01-23 07:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN EIND EPET TX AORC |
09ASHGABAT1120 | TURKMENISTAN: "MAYBE" ON STUDENT EXIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev met with the Charge on September 3 to offer a response to Assistant Secretary Blake's letter regarding recipients of USG scholarships, who have been blocked from leaving the country. Hajiyev explained this all came about because Turkmenistan w [...] | 2009-09-03 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1122 | TURKMEN-AFGHAN JOINT BORDER TRAINING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 21, Turkmen and Afghan customs officials completed joint training, facilitated by the OSCE, in Ashgabat and Atamurat (formerly Kerki),a town in southeast Turkmenistan. This was the first ever joint training for Turkmen and Afghan customs officers. The course was aime [...] | 2009-09-03 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETTC PARM PREL PBTS OSCE AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1127 | TURKMENISTAN MOD EXPRESSES INTEREST IN ATTENDING [...] On September 4, a Turkmenistan Ministry of Defense official contacted post to ask for further details about the invitation to participate at the upcoming US-UAE hosted PSI Exercise Leading Edge 2010. He posed questions about the number and appropriate rank for proposed participants, who woul [...] | 2009-09-04 12:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP TX |
09ASHGABAT1130 | TURKMENISTAN: UZBEKISTAN TRYING TO BROADEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan is making every effort to expand its relations with Turkmenistan, both politically and commerically. They are looking for new opportunities for investment and trying to promote tourism to Uzbekistan. Despite their efforts, and the cultural ties between Uzbeks and Turkm [...] | 2009-09-04 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TX UZ |
09ASHGABAT1131 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UNGA 64 GOALS AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-04 13:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA TX |
09ASHGABAT1138 | TURKMENISTAN: KISS FROM A ROGUE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On September 6, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Ashgabat for his first visit to Turkmenistan, which has the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas. The short (less than 24-hour) visit, included a welcoming [...] | 2009-09-08 11:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT1147 | TURKMENISTAN: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met September 10 with Kyrgyz Ambassador Ashyrov to discuss the issue of students denied exit to study abroad. This problem has affected those wishing to study in Kyrgyzstan more than any other group of students, because more Turkmen study in Kyrgyzstan than in any other si [...] | 2009-09-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI SCUL EAIR TX |
09ASHGABAT1148 | TURKMENISTAN: KYRGYZ AMBASSADOR ON DENIAL OF EXIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met September 10 with Kyrgyz Ambassador Ashyrov to discuss the issue of students denied exit to study abroad. This problem has affected those wishing to study in Kyrgyzstan more than any other group of students, because more Turkmen study in Kyrgyzstan than in any other si [...] | 2009-09-10 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI SCUL EAIR TX |
09ASHGABAT1152 | TURKMENISTAN: AZERBAIJAN STRIVING TO IMPROVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to an Azerbaijan embassy official, the relationship between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is warming, but the Turkmen government is still cautious about embarking on joint projects. In addition, the Turkmen government continues to limit the activities of [...] | 2009-09-11 08:25:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON AJ TX |
09ASHGABAT1155 | TURKMENISTAN: OSCE CENTER READOUT ON ITS [...] (C) On September 9, OSCE Center in Ashgabat Political Officer and Acting Head of Center Anne Suotula gave Charge a readout on the Center's annual Statement to the OSCE Permanent Council, presented on September 3 in Vienna. According to Suotula, the statement highlighted new areas in the Cente [...] | 2009-09-11 10:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OCSE TX |
09ASHGABAT1170 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV BEING MARGINALIZED? [...] (S) SUMMARY: Changes in Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov's behavior and interactions with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers seem to indicate that he does not currently hold the first among equals position that he held even as late as early this year, and has been replaced as the "dean" o [...] | 2009-09-14 13:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR TX |
09ASHGABAT1175 | TURKMENISTAN: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 10:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC TX |
09ASHGABAT1176 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-15 12:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1182 | IRAN: WHERE TO GO FROM HERE? XXXXXXXXXXXX DIPLOMAT SHARES HIS PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: XXXXXXXXXXXX's advised in a recent conversation with Ashgabat Iran Watcher that the U.S. would be ill-advised to begin talks with Iran, that it would be great disappointment to Iranians who have found hope in President Obama's message of change. He called Iran's leadership "untrustwort [...] | 2009-09-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL TX UNESCO |
09ASHGABAT1183 | TURKMENISTAN: RELATIONS WITH TURKEY STEADY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov visited the Turkish tourist area of Antalya in late August on an unofficial visit, getting a view of how the Turkish have developed their tourist industry through private investment and partnership with international tourist agencies. The Government of Tu [...] | 2009-09-16 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EPET ETRD PREL TU TX |
09ASHGABAT1207 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HAILS PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmen State Media painted a positive picture of the short September 21 meeting between Secretary of State Clinton and President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. State TV led their programs with the meeting and a gr [...] | 2009-09-24 03:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1215 | TURKMENISTAN: VISIT OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SEEN AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yushchenko's visit to Turkmenistan provided a forum for signing high level agreements and resolving some outstanding working-level problems between Ukraine and Turkmenistan. Yushchenko attended opening ceremonies for a Ukrainian-built railway bridge and a statue of a Uk [...] | 2009-09-25 07:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TX UP |
09ASHGABAT122 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS USTDA REGIONAL DIRECTOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Director for Europe and Eurasia, Daniel Stein, visited Turkmenistan January 7-10. State media highlighted his visit and meetings at different GOTX ministries. The Turkmen St [...] | 2009-01-26 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO ETRD ECON TX |
09ASHGABAT1226 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN EXBS ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. EXBS was forced to withdraw the contract from Turkemngasgeophysics (TGG) for support of the DOE/SLD project due to continued problems. The contract officer with TGG continuously placed roadblocks in the way of a successful contr [...] | 2009-09-28 09:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG |
09ASHGABAT1228 | AUCA STUDENTS WAITING AND WORRYING IN TURKMENABAT [...] (C) On September 22, poloff met informally with six American University of Central Asia (AUCA) students during a drop-in visit to the American Corner in Turkmenabat, the capital of Lebap Province in eastern Turkmenistan. The students were recipients of scholarships from the Open Society Insti [...] | 2009-09-28 09:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT123 | TURKMENISTAN: INTERNEWS RECEIVES POSITIVE SIGNALS ON MEDIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings on January 22 with the Turkmen National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) and Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting, USAID/Internews received renewed confirmation of these entities' desire for [...] | 2009-01-26 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT1230 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON BUDGETARY TRANSPARENCY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-28 11:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1231 | TURKMENISTAN: NATO-SPONSORED SEMINAR FIRST STEP IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. NATO will hold a seminar on civil emergency planning methodology in Ashgabat, which is something of a breakthrough in its engagement with the Turkmen government. NATO's other Turkmen initiative, an assessment of a radioactive waster remediation project, is also queued up for impl [...] | 2009-09-28 12:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO TX |
09ASHGABAT1233 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON ENHANCED GICNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-29 09:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT124 | TURKMENISTAN: INL-FUNDED ENGLISH CLASS BRINGS [...] Post's INL Officer (Poloff) dropped in for the latter portion of the INL-funded English Language Training (ELT) Center's thrice-weekly language course on January 23. A local EFL instructor teaches a group of 12 mid-level law enforcement officials from several Turkmen government ministries, i [...] | 2009-01-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1244 | TURKMENISTAN REFUSES INCOMING GROUP OF PEACE CORPS [...] (C) Post received a diplomatic note September 29, stating that the incoming group of 50 new Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) should arrive fall 2010 rather than October 2, as had been planned. Earlier the same day, the Acting Peace Corps Country Director had received a call from MFA, saying that [...] | 2009-09-29 14:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SCUL TX |
09ASHGABAT1247 | REACHING OUT TO THE TURKMEN DIASPORA: A WORK IN [...] (SBU) Officially, there is a clear recognition within Turkmenistan that there is a Turkmen diaspora beyond the borders of the country, including both descendants of groups long departed from Turkmenistan and more recent emigrants. Efforts to reach out to this diaspora began only during the ear [...] | 2009-09-30 12:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP BTIO EAID OEXC OIIP PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL |
09ASHGABAT1252 | TURKMENISTAN: FOR BERDIMUHAMEDOV, PRAISE FROM ANY [...] (U) On September 26, on the front page of state-run newspaper "Neytralniy Turkmenistan," there was a photo of the certificate and medal that were presented to President Berdimuhamedov on September 24 when he was in the United States for the UN General Assembly. The certificate was for "faithf [...] | 2009-10-01 09:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX UN |
09ASHGABAT1254 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE PROSECUTORS MAINTAIN THAT [...] (C) Poloff met on September 28 with four representatives of Turkmenistan's Prosecutor General's office -- three senior prosecutors and the head of the International Relations section -- to discuss the upcoming visit of a G/TIP Program Analyst. She also provided copies of the Embassy's non-pape [...] | 2009-10-01 13:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1255 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT TURKMEN PRESIDENT'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov recent visit to the U.S. to attend the UNGA dominated all media outlets for a full week. Coverage was positive and extensive for each meeting and event, including special note of [...] | 2009-10-02 03:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1260 | TURKMENISTAN: STILL NOT ISSUING NEW PASSPORTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Turkmenistan has apparently not yet decided whether to enforce a law disallowing dual citizenship as they issue new foreign travel passports to Turkmen citizens. Those who only declared single citizenship on the application forms have received their new passport [...] | 2009-10-02 10:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL RU TX |
09ASHGABAT1263 | INDIA HOLDS MODEST EXPECTATIONS FOR RELATIONHSIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite positive reports in Turkmen newspapers about the Indian External Affairs Minister's trip to Turkmenistan, a contact at the Indian Embassy expressed frustration with the way of doing business in Turkmenistan and the results of previous projects. He noted that the Turkmen a [...] | 2009-10-02 12:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EPET PREL IN AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1265 | BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S "OPEN" PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 1, President Berdimuhamedov held his first "open" press conference with state-run and foreign media. The event was heavily controlled and, like most media events in Turkmenistan, designed to develop the President's image. Journalists were forced to repeat questions ha [...] | 2009-10-05 03:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1267 | OSCE CENTER HIGHLIGHTS POSITIVE COOPERATION WITH [...] (SBU) On October 1, the Head of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, Ambassador Arsim Zekolli, briefed representatives of OSCE-member country embassies on the activities of the Center during the past year. The briefing was based on Zekolli's Report to the OSCE Permanent Council on September 3, but al [...] | 2009-10-05 10:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OSCE TX |
09ASHGABAT1271 | TURKMENISTAN: A VISIT WITH A DASHOGUZ DEPUTY HAKIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 28, 2009 PAO met with a Dashoguz province Deputy Hakim (Deputy Governor) Gurbanjemal Atabayeva during a regional visit. The meeting was initially cold and reserved until talk turned to the recent visit by US Fulbright Scholar Melda Yildiz. Atabayeva expressed a des [...] | 2009-10-07 03:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT1273 | TURKMENISTAN: BACKING OFF ON THE CASPIAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE? [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) A number of international media outlets have recently cited President Berdimuhamedov's remarks regarding Turkmenistan's Caspian dispute with Azerbaijan, made during his October 1 press conference (Ref A). According to the [...] | 2009-10-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL EPET PGOV EINV AJ TX |
09ASHGABAT1277 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA HIGHLIGHT SEPTEMBER POST EVENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: During September, the Turkmen media provided generally accurate and positive coverage of Embassy activities. TV, print and radio outlets covered Embassy participation in the International Education Fair, the ceremony honoring the National Library with the award of an AFCP (Ambas [...] | 2009-10-08 12:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1280 | U.S. EDUCATORS DISCOVER REALITY OF TURKMEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nine professors and professional educators from different institutions of higher learning in the United States attended the International Education Conference held in Turkmenistan during September 8-10. Several met with Turkmen governmental officials or spoke with their counte [...] | 2009-10-09 03:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1285 | TURKMEN PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS MAIN FOREIGN POLICY TRENDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 1, President Berdimuhamedov held his first "open" press conference with state-run and foreign media, fielding questions on the results of Turkmenistan's participation at the 64th United Nations Gener [...] | 2009-10-09 12:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1286 | TURKMENISTAN: JAPAN HOPES TO REGAIN MOMENTUM IN [...] (SBU) Members of the Japanese-Turkmenistan Committee for Economic Cooperation visited Turkmenistan from October 4-8 and met with President Berdimuhamedov. Tetsuro Chida, Special Advisor to the Japanese Charge d'Affaires, told Poloff that the delegation included executives from Itochu, Komatsu [...] | 2009-10-09 12:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PREL BTIO ECON ETRD JA TX |
09ASHGABAT1292 | IRANIAN IMPORTER ON "HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS IN [...] (C) In an October 8 meeting with Iran Watcher, an Iranian ceramics importer shared his views on how to succeed -- despite the many well-known impediments -- as an entrepreneur in Turkmenistan. In a conversation in his office at the Iran Business Center, an attractive building dominated mostly [...] | 2009-10-14 09:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO IR TX PGOV PREL |
09ASHGABAT1293 | TURKMENISTAN: BOEING CONTRACT CANCELED BECAUSE OF [...] (C) Two Boeing representatives met with Charge on October 8 to relay the disappointing news that their 2008 contract with Turkmenistan Airlines had apparently just been canceled. The contract was originally for two airplanes, to be delivered in 2013. They had subsequently agreed, at the requ [...] | 2009-10-14 12:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1314 | TURKMENISTAN: TAJIKISTAN INTENDS TO INCREASE [...] (U) President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rakhmon, was in Turkmenbashi and Avaza on October 9-10 for a working visit with Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov. Turkmen state-run newspapers described the visit as building relations between the two "brotherly" neighbors, especially in the areas of trade [...] | 2009-10-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL TI TX |
09ASHGABAT1328 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE HYRDOCARBON AGENCY HEAD ASKS FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: After waiting since early August for an October 20 meeting to discuss potential cooperation on introducing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with funding from the USAID-Chevron public-private partn [...] | 2009-10-22 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT1330 | TURKMENISTAN: VICTIM RECOUNTS TRAFFICKING ORDEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: (C) Poloff and INL/G-TIP officer spoke with a Turkmen taxi driver who recounted a nightmarish, six-month stay in Turkey two years ago. During much of that time, he was homeless, and engaged off-and-on by employers who refused to pay him. Like many Turkmen, both men and women, who [...] | 2009-10-23 09:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PHUM PGOV PREL TX TU |
09ASHGABAT1333 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 64TH UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 12:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN TX |
09ASHGABAT134 | UNDP HELPS TURKMENISTAN DEVELOP CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently facilitated an inter-ministerial dialogue on climate change, aimed at helping Turkmenistan develop an official position on the issue. UNDP hoped to gain a commit [...] | 2009-01-27 11:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ENRG EPET SENV TX AORC |
09ASHGABAT1354 | GOTX RATCHETS UP PRESSURE OF TASP STUDENTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past two days, several students from the Turkmen American Scholarship Program (TASP) have reported increased pressure from the GOTX. The students, after being denied exit first to the American University in Central Asia (AUCA) and then to the American University in Bulga [...] | 2009-10-23 14:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT136 | CONSULAR NOTIFICATION IN TURKMENISTAN: PERPETUAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting to discuss the consular notification issues that arose in a recent deportation case, the Head of the MFA's Consular Department suggested that Turkmenistan's law enforcement agencies were unaware of all the requirements contained in the Vienna Convention. Specific [...] | 2009-01-28 05:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1373 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON MCC INDICATOR SCORECARD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-29 09:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TX |
09ASHGABAT138 | MICROSOFT/POLIMEKS DEVELOPING TURKMEN DICTIONARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post has learned that Microsoft, with support from Turkish construction firm Policom Istanbul (known locally as "Polimeks"),has apparently agreed to develop a Turkmen language dictionary and relevant software in cooperatio [...] | 2009-01-29 03:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON ETRD TX |
09ASHGABAT1380 | TURKMENISTAN: A LOOK INSIDE A TURKMEN EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: When Turkmen embassies produce reporting it generally does not get transmitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mainly because there is no advanced technology used to convey the information between Turkmen missions and Ashgabat, and reporting is considered secondary to attending [...] | 2009-10-29 11:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TX |
09ASHGABAT1383 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN EXBS ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. No progress was made in support of the DOE/SLD Program in our attempt to import radioactive test sources for use in calibrating the portal monitors. 2. Training Conducted During Reporting Period. a. EXBS facilitated the par [...] | 2009-10-30 07:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG |
09ASHGABAT1389 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 10:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA TX |
09ASHGABAT139 | ECONOMIST DESCRIBES BUSINESS INCUBATOR PROJECT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Fulbright alumna said that 70 current and aspiring entrepreneurs are taking part in her business incubator project, which offers classes in basic entrepreneurship and English. Alumni of U.S. programs such as Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX),International Visitor Progra [...] | 2009-01-29 07:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT140 | TURKMENISTAN: CENTCOM VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN COVERED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: USCENTCOM Commander General Petraeus made his first official visit to Turkmenistan January 15-16. State media highlighted the visit, especially the General's meeting with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdi [...] | 2009-01-29 09:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT1400 | TURKMENISTAN: USAID TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On September 10, USAID and its implementer, Project HOPE, held a conference to mark the completion of their second five-year tuberculosis (TB) program. From 2000 to 2009, this program cooperated with the Ministry [...] | 2009-11-02 09:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EINV TBIO SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1402 | HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO TEHRAN DISCUSSES "BURNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian Ambassador to Iran Gyorgy Busztin met October 29 with Charge to share his views on the situation in Iran. Busztin said the protests marked a turning point for the country, because the government lost legitimacy and people felt the power they had to promote change. He s [...] | 2009-11-02 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM IR TX |
09ASHGABAT1403 | TURKMENISTAN: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST ZATOKA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 28, Andrei Zatoka was given the maximum sentence of five years in prison for his involvement in an altercation on October 20. The victim in the case claimed that Zatoka attacked him after stepping on the man's foot and not apologizing. Zatoka and those close to him ma [...] | 2009-11-02 13:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV TX |
09ASHGABAT1406 | TURKMENISTAN: INFORMATION ON SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (C) In response to reftel inquiry about a U.S. security dialogue with Turkmenistan, while there is no formal dialogue, the USG does operate a military to military contacts program administered by U.S. Central Command. This program is essentially a list of events each fiscal year that differen [...] | 2009-11-03 12:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS TX |
09ASHGABAT1407 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL TX |
09ASHGABAT1415 | TURKMENISTAN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BUDGETARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) On November 2, post received a diplomatic note from the Turkmenistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to Ref B demarche that urged the Turkmen government to improve its budgetary transparency. BEGIN DIPLOMATIC [...] | 2009-11-04 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1418 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA HIGHLIGHT OCTOBER POST EVENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In October, Turkmen media provided generally accurate coverage of post conducted activities. At the beginning of month international media widely expressed U.S. concern over Turkmen government's efforts to prevent students from traveling to U.S.-linked schools. Also, internatio [...] | 2009-11-05 03:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1420 | TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIANS ON ZATOKA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Both the Russian government and the Russian embassy in Ashgabat have been fully engaged in trying to find a resolution to the case of environmental activist Andrei Zatoka. According to the Russian DCM, he has been in touch with both the Russian Presidential Administration and the [...] | 2009-11-05 13:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1427 | SEPTEMBER 29 VISIT OF ST. PERSBURG GOVERNOR [...] (C) Russian Embassy DCM Aleksey Demin briefed us November 5 on the September 29 visit of St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko. According to Demin, two construction contracts totaling $700 million were signed. One was for building bridges, roads,and highways in Ashgabat and Ahal provi [...] | 2009-11-06 13:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD TX RS |
09ASHGABAT143 | TURKMENISTAN: PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR ON HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Charge, Pakistan's Ambassador to Turkmenistan spoke in frank terms of his country's difficulties. He said he hopes that the U.S. will now pay more attention to resolving the war in Afghanistan, where he served as a diplomat both during the rule of the Tali [...] | 2009-01-29 12:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR PREL AF PK TX |
09ASHGABAT1443 | NOVEMBER 10 MEETING WITH DEPUTY CHAIRMAN SAPARLYEV [...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 10 Charge met with Deputy Chairman for Education, Health, Sciences, and Religion Hydyr Saparlyev. They discussed ongoing problems with TASP, the Peace Corps, and other educational exchange programs. Saparlyev indicated a desire to resolve the various problems while adh [...] | 2009-11-10 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1460 | TURKMENISTAN: VISITING IRANIANS DESCRIBE VISA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranians who wish to visit Turkmenistan face an array of bureaucratic roadblocks, including a stringent visa regime (most applicants are unsuccessful) and, once in the country, a burdensome registration process. Several recent visitors described these difficulties in conversations [...] | 2009-11-12 12:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PHUM PGOV PREL CVIS TX |
09ASHGABAT1461 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-13 07:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UNGA PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1463 | TURKMENISTAN: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS GRADUATE [...] Post's INL-funded English Language Training (ELT) program marked the end of its ten-month training course on November 6 with a graduation ceremony for 17 participating law enforcement officers. The Charge officiated, awarding certificates to all of the participants, and delivering remarks in w [...] | 2009-11-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1469 | TURKMENISTAN: UNDP WORKS TO BUILD ANALYTIC SKILLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project to develop analytic capacity among government employees in Turkmenistan seems to be making progress toward its goal of improving policy planning skills at the Institute of Strategic Planning and Economic Development. In a Novemb [...] | 2009-11-17 04:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP TX |
09ASHGABAT1471 | TURKMENISTAN: ASHGABAT HOSTS REGIONAL UN [...] (U) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held a three-day, regional conference on human trafficking in Ashgabat this week. OSCE and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) also sponsored the event, intended to promote cooperation and information and intelligence sharing between [...] | 2009-11-17 04:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM DPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG |
09ASHGABAT1477 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-17 13:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1479 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE TX |
09ASHGABAT1480 | TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: TURKMEN PUSH FOR JOINT [...] (C) Pursuant to a December 2008 MOU between the governments of Iran and Turkmenistan (reftel),Turkmenistan is reportedly anxious to expand cooperation with Iran in several key areas, including extradition, Iranian service of process formalities, and the resolution of border-related disputes i [...] | 2009-11-18 15:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1483 | TURKMEN FOREIGN MINISTER POSITIVE ABOUT RELATIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a November 16 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Krol, Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov provided his perspective on the current state of U.S.-Turkmenistan relations and the path ahead. He commented on our increasingly active political [...] | 2009-11-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX |
09ASHGABAT1485 | TURKMENISTAN: UN REGIONAL CENTER OUTLINES MOST [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting in Ashgabat with SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol, the Head of the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy, Ambassador Miroslav Jenca, talked about electricity and water resource problems, the conflict in Afghanistan, and border security. [...] | 2009-11-20 15:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PBTS PREL OSCE UN AF TX ZK |
09ASHGABAT1488 | MEDIA HIGHLIGHT DAS GEORGE KROL VISIT TO HEAD U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public distribution. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The official visit of Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador George A. Krol to Turkmenistan on November 16-18 received generally accurate and widespread media coverage. Ambas [...] | 2009-11-23 11:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1489 | MEDIA HIGHLIGHT DAS GEORGE KROL VISIT TO HEAD U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public distribution. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The official visit of Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador George A. Krol to Turkmenistan on November 16-18 received generally accurate and widespread media coverage. Ambas [...] | 2009-11-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1496 | EXBS: POST RESPONSE TO FY 2010 EXBS PROGRAM PLAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 03:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG |
09ASHGABAT15 | TURKMENISTAN: DELAY OF COMPLETION OF GAS PIPELINE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a recent statement released by the Turkmen state information agency, a detailed status report on the construction of the gas pipeline to China omitted mention of the long anticipated 2009 start of operatio [...] | 2009-01-06 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ECON PREL CH TX |
09ASHGABAT1500 | TURKMENISTAN: DAS KROL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 17, Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to discuss a variety of issues of bilateral interest, including Afghanistan, the Peace Corps, the former students at the American University of Central Asia, humanitarian overfligh [...] | 2009-11-24 09:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM ECON ENRG TX |
09ASHGABAT1503 | HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A BERDIMUHAMEDOV SCORNED [...] (C) SUMMARY. An Embassy contact conveyed a story from President Berdimuhamedov's life before he became a high-ranking government official. Apparently Berdimuhamedov tried to pressure a staff member at his dental clinic to enter into a relationship with him and when she scorned him, he fired h [...] | 2009-11-24 13:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TX |
09ASHGABAT1521 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: POLISH DIPLOMAT CALLS [...] (C) In a recent conversation with Iran Watcher, Polish Charge d'Affaires Robert Rokicki said that major changes in Turkmenistan's relations with Iran took place following President Berdimuhamedov's visit to Tehran eight months ago. Rokicki, who has been posted in Ashgabat since late last year, [...] | 2009-11-25 13:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL PINR IR TX |
09ASHGABAT1534 | IRAN: HUNGARIAN DIPLOMAT IN TEHRAN DESCRIBES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran Watcher spoke recently with a Hungarian Embassy officer based in Tehran, who described the growing frustration of Iranian business leaders with the government's policies. He said that more and more businesses cannot meet their obligations and are declaring bankruptcy. In his [...] | 2009-11-27 12:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT1535 | TURKMENISTAN: AN IDEALIZED VERSION OF THE MEJLIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials from the parliament of Turkmenistan described a very orderly process for drafting and passing laws. According to the description, all parties who have an interest in a law, from Ministries, to members of parliament, to subject-matter experts, to average citizens can make [...] | 2009-11-28 06:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT154 | TURKMENISTAN: U.S. ENTREPRENEUR AWARDED CONTRACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Due to President Berdimuhamedov's interest in cleaning up oil pollution located around the Avaza Tourist Zone on the Caspian Sea, an Amcit businessman has concluded a contract for cleaning up oil spills -- contingent, however, on a successful demonstration that his technology can [...] | 2009-01-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ESTH TX |
09ASHGABAT1540 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN EXBS ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. SLD Radiation Portal Monitors (RPM). EXBS has located a Turkmen agency, Turkmenstandards (English translation),which is responsible for regulations concerning the importation of radioactive test sources for the radiation portal [...] | 2009-12-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TX |
09ASHGABAT1541 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT ORGANIZED HARVEST [...] (U) Turkmenistan celebrated its annual harvest holiday on the last Sunday of November. The festival was a state-centric event, with the booths focused on promoting Turkmenistan's national industries. There were booths dedicated to sheep and wool products, Ahal-teke horses, cotton, and wheat [...] | 2009-12-03 11:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR PGOV PREL SOCI TX JA |
09ASHGABAT1542 | TURKMENISTAN: CENTRAL ASIAN DIPLOMATS ATTEND UN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) The Ashgabat-based UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) conducted a seminar on preventive diplomacy for junior-level diplomats from the five Central Asian countries on November 3-6. Th [...] | 2009-12-03 11:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN ZK TX |
09ASHGABAT1543 | IRAN: UNESCO DIRECTOR SHARES THE UPS AND DOWNS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a visit to Ashgabat this week, the Director of UNESCO's office in Tehran spoke of the challenges of cooperating with the Iranian government in several areas, including training journalists and the preservation of cultural heritage sites. He also described the reaction of hi [...] | 2009-12-03 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1546 | TURKMEN AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS MEET OFTEN BUT NO [...] (C) Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov's one-day working visit to Moscow on November 29 did not finalize a new gas deal between Russia and Turkmenistan. Berdimuhamedov officially announced his trip to Moscow two days before arriving in the Russian capital to meet with President Medvedev. Follo [...] | 2009-12-03 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PGOV PREL EINV RS TX |
09ASHGABAT1547 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH SPARKS [...] (C) During a trip to the Farap (Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan) border area on November 29-30, Iran Watcher stopped in at "Cafe Zaineb," a truck-stop/cafe frequented by transiting truck drivers from Iran and Turkey. There were few truckers, and no Iranians, present, due to the fact that the main road [...] | 2009-12-04 04:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1549 | TURKMENISTAN: PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 19, a technical advisor funded through the USAID-Chevron Global Development Alliance delivered a presentation on "The Role of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Encouraging Foreign [...] | 2009-12-04 09:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT1550 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE HYDROCARBON AGENCY SUBMITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 25, USAID received a detailed request for technical cooperation from the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources. The requested activities, which will be carried out within the fr [...] | 2009-12-04 09:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT1551 | TURKMENISTAN: DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ANNOUNCES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 23, USAID received a letter dated November 19 from Head of Mission- Turkmenistan for Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) announcing its intentions to end its operational presence in Turkmenistan. MSF had [...] | 2009-12-04 11:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EINV TBIO SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1566 | WILL TURKMENISTAN'S ENERGY EXPORTS TO TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan's electricity exports to Tajikistan might be affected by Uzbekistan's decision to withdraw from the integrated Central Asia power grid. In the winter, Turkmenistan exports electricity to Tajikistan by transiti [...] | 2009-12-07 05:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV PREL ZK TI TX |
09ASHGABAT1568 | TURKMENISTAN: AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY EXCHANGE [...] (U) Sensitive, but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) On November 27, Poloff met with the Rector of the Turkmen Agricultural University, Gurbandurdy Mammetgulyev, and Chary Taganov, Head of the Academics Department, to discuss the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) fund [...] | 2009-12-07 09:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PREL SCUL TX |
09ASHGABAT1574 | TURKMENISTAN: ASHGABAT-BASED UNAMA LIAISON [...] (SBU) The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is re-deploying some of its 1,000 staff out of Kabul after the October attack on the UN building. Mr. Asoka Rasphone, who worked for UNAMA for three years in Afghanistan, has now been deployed to Turkmenistan and will continue [...] | 2009-12-08 08:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF UN TX |
09ASHGABAT1603 | TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: From December 1-3, the PD Section co-sponsored with UNESCO, UNICEF, the Turkmen Academy of Sciences, and Ministry of Education (MOE) a three-day conference on education, science, and the use of information communication technologies (ICT) in these spheres. The conference was ope [...] | 2009-12-11 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1605 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA HIGHLIGHT NOVEMBER POST EVENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In November, media provided generally accurate coverage of post conducted activities. The graduation of Turkmen law enforcement officers from a U.S. Embassy sponsored-English language program was accurately highlighted on foreign websites. U.S. websites posted the Embassy statem [...] | 2009-12-14 03:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT1607 | TURKMENISTAN: STATELESSNESS MORE OF A PROBLEM THAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a recent conference on statelessness in Central Asia, participants from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan exchanged ideas on best practices for identifying people without citizenship documentation and for preventing future cases of statelessness. None of th [...] | 2009-12-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PREF SMIG SOCI UN ZK TX |
09ASHGABAT162 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDES POSITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 2, the Charge met with the Foreign Minister, Rashid Meredov, to discuss a list of pending bilateral issues, including the present imbroglio over the diplomatic bags. The Foreign Minister took the opportunity to recap 2008 achievements in the bilateral relationship, s [...] | 2009-02-02 13:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ADPM TX |
09ASHGABAT1624 | TURKMENISTAN: ROMANIAN RELATIONSHIP STRONGER [...] (C) On December 14, Poloff met with Romanian Embassy Political Officer Laurentiu Ciocan to discuss Romania's relationship with Turkmenistan. Ciocan described relations as limited, especially in the economic arena. There is only one Romanian company in Turkmenistan with Romanian employees -- [...] | 2009-12-17 08:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL MD RO TX |
09ASHGABAT1628 | TURKMENISTAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] The following paragraph is Embassy Ashgabat's submission for the 2009 country terrorism report (reftel). 2. Since the September 2008 violence in Ashgabat's Khitrovka neighborhood, the Turkmenistan Government has not reported any other violent incidents. The government maintains a military- [...] | 2009-12-18 08:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1630 | TURKMENISTAN: TURKISH ASSISTANCE PROMOTES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA) has a wide range of programs in Turkmenistan, including healthcare, education, law enforcement, agriculture, and tourism. The TIKA Turkmenistan country representative described the agriculture and tourism project [...] | 2009-12-18 09:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL SOCI TU TX |
09ASHGABAT1645 | TURKMENISTAN: DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS STILL [...] (SBU) We met December 21 with Tim Baerwald and Silvia De Weerdt, Head of Mission and Medical Coordinator, respectively, for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders). Baerwald and De Weerdt are in Ashgabat for a six week-period to try to conclude negotiations on an agreement on [...] | 2009-12-22 12:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT1646 | TURKMENISTAN: CHANGE IN VISA REGIME WITH [...] (SBU) On December 13, the day before the opening of the Turkmenistan-China pipeline, President Karimov of Uzbekistan had official meetings with Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov in Ashgabat. The presidents signed four documents, including a joint communiqu and a cooperation agreement betw [...] | 2009-12-22 14:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UZ TX |
09ASHGABAT1647 | TURKMEN AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS INAUGURATE NEW SCHOOL [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 22, President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev visited Ashgabat to hold bilateral talks with Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and to attend the opening ceremony for the new [...] | 2009-12-23 03:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI RS TX |
09ASHGABAT1656 | TURKMENISTAN: ANY GAS LEFT FOR NABUCCO? [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The commissioning of the Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Kazakhstan - China gas pipeline (ref A) and the recent Turkmen-Russian decision to resume gas supplies to Russia (ref B) triggered international media speculatio [...] | 2009-12-24 03:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PGOV EINV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT1657 | TURKMENISTAN TOUTS PARTICIPATION IN CIS SUMMIT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) President Berdimuhamedov on December 19 took part in a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) informal meeting in Kazakhstan, at Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev's dacha in the village of Akbulak. Turkmen media reported tha [...] | 2009-12-24 03:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ZK TX |
09ASHGABAT1662 | TURKMENISTAN: DECEMBER 25 MEETING WITH FM MEREDOV [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov requested a meeting with Charge on December 25. Meredov said Turkmenistan would welcome increased visits from U.S. officials, including from Congress and other cabinet departments. Regarding the upcoming Bilateral Forum, Meredov [...] | 2009-12-28 10:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT1665 | TURKMEN PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO JAPAN NOT A PANACEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmen media spent several days giving headline coverage to President Berdimuhamedov's recent visit to Japan. Although they painted the trip as successful, a Japanese Embassy official was more cautious, saying that the visit was more productive economically than politically. Eve [...] | 2009-12-29 09:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD PREL JA TX |
09ASHGABAT1669 | TURKMENISTAN: DESERT INSTITUTE OPEN TO SCIENTIFIC [...] (SBU) Poloff on December 29 met with the director of the Turkmenistan National Institute of Deserts, Flora, and Fauna, one of his deputies, and a deputy minister of the Turkmenistan Ministry of Nature Protection to discuss possible future joint projects that might fulfill the goals of Presiden [...] | 2009-12-30 07:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID OSCI SENV TSPL PREL PGOV UN TX |
09ASHGABAT1671 | TURKMENISTAN: NEARING END OF STUDENT SAGA? [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 09:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL TX |
09ASHGABAT1674 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GICNT AMENDED TERMS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-30 12:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT1675 | DRUGS IN TURKMENISTAN: BURN, BABY, BURN [...] (SBU) On December 24, Poloff attended a drug burning ceremony run by the Turkmenistan State Counternarcotics Service (SCNS) in cooperation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Turkmenistan conducts these ceremonies twice a year, and, according to government officials, burns all the [...] | 2009-12-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR SOCI UN TX |
09ASHGABAT172 | TURKMENISTAN: STATE COUNTER NARCOTICS AGENCY SAYS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) In a February 2 meeting, the acting director of the State Counter Narcotics Service (SCNS),Serdar Batyrov, told Political Officer and DEA Dushanbe Special Agent (SA) (currently temporarily assigned to Ashgabat) that hi [...] | 2009-02-04 05:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT178 | TURKMENISTAN CHARGES FEES FOR OVERFLIGHT [...] (C) Post has received a letter from the Turkmenhowayollary State Civil Aviation Service. The letter, dated January 28, claims that the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense owes Turkmenhowayollary $4,200 and 20,000 Euros for overflight of aircraft. Attached to the letter are 2 [...] | 2009-02-04 11:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR MARR MASS TX |
09ASHGABAT179 | UZBEK DIPLOMAT EXPLORES U.S. BUSINESS EXPERIENCE [...] (C) Uzbek Embassy Consul, Abdulmajid Dusimov (please protect),said in a meeting on February 3 that Uzbek Embassies are looking for successful examples of international investments, and that he wanted to discuss with Economic Officer the U.S. experience in Turkmenistan. Further clarification [...] | 2009-02-04 11:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EIND CVIS TX UZ |
09ASHGABAT181 | UNDP PLAYS UP ITS SPECIAL ROLE IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an introductory meeting with Charge on January 29, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative, Richard Young, and Deputy Resident Representative, Inita Paulovica, outlined current UNDP pro [...] | 2009-02-04 11:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT185 | UNHCR SEMINAR ON IMPROVEMENT OF TURKMENISTAN'S REFUGEE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 4, Embassy's Political Assistant attended a seminar on Improvement of Turkmenistan's Refugee Legislation held at the Turkmen National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR). The event was [...] | 2009-02-05 09:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNHCR TX |
09ASHGABAT188 | TURKMENISTAN'S TROUBLING DRUG ADDICTION PROBLEM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Summary: The fact that Turkmenistan suffers from a serious heroin addiction problem (10 percent of the population, according to the World Health Organization),is something that the Turkmen Government has barely begun to ack [...] | 2009-02-06 05:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL IR TX |
09ASHGABAT189 | TURKMENISTAN: INDIAN AMBASSADOR: MUSLIMS LOOK TO [...] (SBU) In a 4 February meeting with the Charge, India's Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Mohammed Afzal, emphasized that Muslims everywhere are "looking with great hope to President Obama" for a positive change in their relationship with the U.S. Speaking, "from my own perspective as an Indian Musl [...] | 2009-02-06 07:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT191 | TURKMENISTAN: JANUARY MEDIA REACTION, MIXED RESULTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In January, state media highlighted some Embassy events, but at times, omitted any mention of a U.S. role. State media were reluctant to cover donations of musical instruments to local schools, although anything [...] | 2009-02-06 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT195 | TURKMENISTAN: INVITATION TO SECRETARY OF ENERGY TO [...] (U) On February 4, post received the following invitation for the Secretary of Energy to attend a ministerial-level, Government of Turkmenistan-sponsored international energy transit conference in Ashgabat, April 23-24. The following is the text of the invitation, followed by information about [...] | 2009-02-06 13:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT197 | POLIMEKS IN TURKMENISTAN WOULD BE A HARD ACT FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The largest Turkish construction firm active in Turkmenistan, Polimeks, has set up a communications subsidiary -- Policom. The company's General Manager said that these companies begin work on projects without contracts, and made it clear that this is possible because Polimek [...] | 2009-02-09 12:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND EAID ETRD SOCI ECON TX TU |
09ASHGABAT198 | TURKMENISTAN: UNDP ENCOURAGES DONOR COORDINATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting, the local United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Deputy Representative mentioned her organization's "privileged access" to work with the Turkmen in some areas of Government reform. She contrasted this with the Turkmen Government's wariness about U.S. assis [...] | 2009-02-09 12:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID UNDP TX |
09ASHGABAT199 | TURKMENISTAN - AFGHANISTAN ELECTRICITY TALKS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 3-5, Afghanistan's Minister of Energy and Water Resources Mohammad Ismail Khan led a delegation to Ashgabat to discuss potential increased electricity exports to Afghanistan. After meeting with recent [...] | 2009-02-09 12:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT2 | : TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the area of military cooperation. Your visit to Turkmenistan follows the visit of Lieutenant General John Allen, Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command [...] | 2009-01-05 06:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET SNAR SOCI MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT20 | TURKMENISTAN: DECEMBER MEDIA REACTION - PRODUCTIVE STATE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: State media coverage of post events was positive in December. In fact, in some cases, such as holiday messages, the Embassy had a higher profile than other foreign missions in country. In one case, post was able [...] | 2009-01-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT201 | TURKMENISTAN: MEJLIS COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOCUSED ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent meeting with two Parliamentary Committee Chairmen revealed that the socioeconomic and international relations committees will be revising the laws on labor, customs, citizenship and emigration, but the timing for completing the revisions remained unclear. Little els [...] | 2009-02-09 12:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TX |
09ASHGABAT202 | TURKMENISTAN: DIPLOMATIC POUCH ISSUE RESOLVED [...] (C) On February 5, the Embassy was able to resolve a contretemps regarding the diplomatic pouch that had started two weeks before when the Customs Department at the Ashgabat airport started to insist that the Embassy send diplomatic notes in order to receive or send the diplomatic pouch. L de [...] | 2009-02-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AGMT ADPM TX |
09ASHGABAT204 | IRAN: TURKMEN SCHOLAR SEES CHANGES IN IRAN [...] (C) A prominent Persian language scholar with close ties to Iranian academics told Iran Watcher this week that he fears that vote-rigging, similar to what was alleged to have occurred in the 2005 Iranian Presidential elections, will determine the outcome of Iran's Presidential election in Jun [...] | 2009-02-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT205 | UNHCR HOLDS SEMINAR ON STATELESSNESS IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At a February 6 seminar for Government officials on the improvement of legislation on statelessness, a UNHCR expert explained the international legal framework of citizenship rights and prevention of statelessn [...] | 2009-02-10 05:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF UNHCR TX |
09ASHGABAT21 | TURKMENISTAN LAUNCHES NEW TV CHANNEL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan launched a new TV channel "Turkmen Owazy" (Turkmen Melody) on January 1. The channel runs 24/7, carrying various musical programming and represents a slight expansion in the cultural space and collabor [...] | 2009-01-07 12:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT218 | TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: WEAPONS FOUND HIDDEN IN IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) A Turkmen customs official told an Embassy LES on February 13 that an Iranian Embassy diplomatic container with AK-47's, sniper rifles and ammunition hidden in it had been discovered one week earlier at the Serdar Uli (Gaudan) customs point in Ashgabat, where vehicles and containers ar [...] | 2009-02-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET//NOFORN | IR PGOV PREL PTER TX |
09ASHGABAT23 | TURKMENISTAN: HOW MUCH WILL THE RUSSIANS PAY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: There has been no confirmation in Ashgabat that the 2009 price for gas sales to Russia has been set. Moreover, notwithstanding past Gazprom statements about paying "European prices" in 2009, practical considerations suggest that a figure in the USD 300 per tcm range would be exces [...] | 2009-01-08 05:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PREL RU TX |
09ASHGABAT235 | TURKMEN PREFERENCES MAY DETERMINE THE FORM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Longtime resident and EU TACIS program coordinator Michael Wilson,s contacts and knowledge of business activities in Turkmenistan give him a bird,s eye view of energy sector development. On February 11 he shared his perspectives on the dramas that are currently unfolding as th [...] | 2009-02-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV TX CH |
09ASHGABAT236 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: IRAN,S AMBASSADOR ON THE EVE OF [...] (U) The Russian-language "Neytralniy Turkmenistan" published an interview on February 11 with Iran's Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Mohammad-Reza Forqani. The interview focused almost exclusively on economic and trade topics, avoiding anything even remotely controversial such as the Iranian nucle [...] | 2009-02-17 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT238 | IRAN: TEHRAN PHYSICIAN COMMENTS ON EVERYDAY LIFE [...] (C) Iran Watcher recently met with a Turkmenistan-trained physician who has lived and worked in Iran for most of the last ten years. XXXXXXXXXXXX, originally from Ashgabat, has practiced medicine in Tehran since settling there with her husband, the son of a retired XXXXXXXXXXXX. They recently [...] | 2009-02-18 12:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT244 | TURKMENISTAN: AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN POLICY REVIEW [...] (C) On February 20, DCM discussed reftel policy review with MFA Americas Department Chief Serdar Bashimov. Bashimov seemed gratified that the United States was inviting Turkmenistan's input. He said such a review, which sought the views of regional partners, was a "wise and correct" approach [...] | 2009-02-20 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EAID NATO AF PK TX |
09ASHGABAT251 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-24 09:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA TX |
09ASHGABAT256 | READOUT FROM EMBASSY ASHGABAT LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Post,s Law Enforcement Working Group held its quarterly meeting on February 17, chaired by the DCM. DEA, POL/ECON (INL),DATT, RSO, EXBS and POL/MIL updated the group on their sections, activities in coordination with Turkmen law enforcement entities. DEA PRESENCE EXTENDED 2. (C) DE [...] | 2009-02-24 13:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT262 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT MAY BE AVOIDING U.S. AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bertling Amcit Logistic General Manager, a longtime Ashgabat resident, shared news he had heard about a potential new government policy on Italian and U.S. energy majors being kept out of the running on field development, and also shared his views on how to bring Turkmenist [...] | 2009-02-26 07:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV TX |
09ASHGABAT264 | TURKMENISTAN: FORENSICS OFFICIALS HAVE THEIR OWN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 13:07:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT268 | TURKMENISTAN: CASE NEW HOLLAND DISCUSSES [...] (C) Case New Holland's Business Director for Central Asia, Tom Davies (please protect),said in a meeting on February 10 that the company is planning to open a representative office in Ashgabat this year. He also confirmed that the contract decision-making process is taking longer and longer [...] | 2009-02-27 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND TX UZ |
09ASHGABAT271 | MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND DVELOPMENT OFFICIALS SAY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials from the Ministry of Economy and Development said that Turkmenistan has not been affected by the worldwide economic crisis, and furthermore, listed many "improvements" in the country's economic and busin [...] | 2009-02-27 12:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR EFIN EIND TX |
09ASHGABAT272 | GERMAN FIRM WORKING WITH TURKMENISTAN -- ALLEGEDLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German consulting firm Goetzpartners is advising the Government of Turkmenistan on economic development and strategic planning. Sectors of focus include tourism, textiles, education, and infrastructure. The German Ambassador claimed that he doesn't know anything about the ag [...] | 2009-02-27 13:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TRD SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT273 | TURKMENISTAN: REVIEW OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 13:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS IZ TX |
09ASHGABAT277 | OVERVIEW OF REFUGEE SITUATION IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the UNHCR Representative in Turkmenistan, refugees who arrived from Tajikistan during the 1990's have either returned home or been granted citizenship. Integration of the largely ethnic Turkmen [...] | 2009-03-02 12:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF UNHCR TX |
09ASHGABAT283 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: ENERGY WAS THE FOCUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ashgabat-based diplomats with close ties to the Iranian Embassy say that increased energy cooperation was the focus of talks between President Berdimuhamedov and Iranian leaders during a February 13-15 visit to Tehran. In addition to an energy pact, in which Iran reportedly agree [...] | 2009-03-02 12:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT284 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: ENERGY WAS THE FOCUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ashgabat-based diplomats with close ties to the Iranian Embassy say that increased energy cooperation was the focus of talks between President Berdimuhamedov and Iranian leaders during a February 13-15 visit to Tehran. In addition to an energy pact, in which Iran reportedly agree [...] | 2009-03-02 13:10:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IR PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT294 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: MORE ON BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S TEHRAN [...] (C) The Charge met March 3 with Polish Ambassador Maciej Lang, who offered further insight on the implications of President Berdimuhamedov's recent visit to Tehran (reftel). (NOTE: Ambassador Lang is a fluent Farsi speaker who has spent time in both Iran and Afghanistan and wrote a doctoral [...] | 2009-03-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT303 | TURKMENISTAN: WHY ENGLISH MATTERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: English Language programs continue to play a vital role in achieving Embassy Ashgabat's MSP goals of assisting civil society development and promoting democratic and economic reforms in a predominantly Muslim countr [...] | 2009-03-06 12:53:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT304 | TURKMENISTAN: DOWN AND OUT IN TEJEN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Poloff visited the town of Tejen (pop.52,000) this week to get a closer look at the place most people refer to as the "drug capital" of Turkmenistan. Located 200 kilometers south-west of Ashgabat not far from the Iranian bo [...] | 2009-03-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT311 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA COVERAGE OF EUR/ACE COORDINATOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daniel Rosenblum, Coordinator for U.S. Assistance in Europe and Eurasia visited Turkmenistan February 23-24, 2009, holding a number of meetings in Turkmenistan. State media inaccurately reported Rosenblum's title, which was then replicated in many outlets, including non-state [...] | 2009-03-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT315 | TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During an introductory meeting with the Charge on March 9, Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) Director, Shirin Ahmedova, highlighted the "positive and constructive" relations it enjoyed with USAID and [...] | 2009-03-10 09:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI KDEM TX |
09ASHGABAT320 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA REACTION ON FEBRUARY POST EVENTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In February, media provided generally accurate coverage of Post-conducted events. Embassy press releases played a large role in shaping the stories carried in state and non-state media. While one TV news program o [...] | 2009-03-11 11:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT323 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? IRAN [...] (C) The Iranian Minister of Oil, Gholam Nowzari, announced on March 5 that Iran may sue Turkmenistan for shutting off the supply of natural gas for three months last winter. According to Iran's Press TV, which first aired the story, Nozari said that Iran had created a special committee for tha [...] | 2009-03-12 10:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT326 | AUSTRALIAN PTROCHEMICALS FIRM TAKING A CLOSE LOOK [...] (C) An Australian trade delegation led by Australian Trade Commission Senior Commissioner for Russia and the CIS Dan Tebbutt told Economic Officer on March 10 that he observed, during a similar visit with Australian mining companies last year, that Turkmen officials from the mining sector wer [...] | 2009-03-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EMIN EPET PREL TX AS |
09ASHGABAT327 | TURKMENISTAN: CHAIRMAN OF PARLIAMENT DESCRIBES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mejlis (Parliament) Chairwoman Akja Nurberdiyeva described an ambitious agenda of legislative reform, including laws involving the economy, education, agriculture and the justice system. Revising legislation involves a wide-range of inputs from government agencies at various lev [...] | 2009-03-12 12:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT328 | ACCORDING TO TURKMENISTAN'S MINISTRY OF FINANCE, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to one of the top officials at the Ministry of Finance, Turkmenistan's exchange rate will remain fixed for at least the next year in order to maintain stability and confidence among foreign investors. S [...] | 2009-03-13 07:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN EPET ETRD TX RU IR |
09ASHGABAT33 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: BACKGROUND ON TEHERAN MOU -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Turkish diplomat told Embassy Ashgabat's Iran Watcher on January 8 that recent announcements of expanded cooperation between Iran and Turkmenistan are more about the need to address the flow of Afghan opiates from Iran into Turkmenistan than anything else. Hakan Chengiz, the T [...] | 2009-01-09 04:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR IR TX |
09ASHGABAT335 | TURKMENISTAN: MICROFINANCE APPEARS INCREASINGLY POSSIBLE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 27, Turkmenistan's first-ever conference on microfinance was organized in Ashgabat by the UN Development Program (UNDP). Titled "Microfinance - A Tool to Enhance Private Sector Development in Turkmenis [...] | 2009-03-13 15:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT338 | TURKMENISTAN: UNODC SEEKING U.S. SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Project Coordinator for Turkmenistan, Ercan Saka, met with Politial Officer yesterday seeking financial support from INL for a proposed project at Farap, on the Uzbek border. Under the proposal, which has a budget of one million USD and is divided [...] | 2009-03-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR UZ PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT339 | TURKMENISTAN: ITALY - TURKMENISTAN RELATIONS - [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to an Italian Embassy Moscow Counsellor, in Turkmenistan to advance the upcoming visit of a Deputy Foreign Minister, President Berdimuhamedov should visit Rome sometime in 2009. Hopefully, a Berdimuhamedov visit will give a kick start to bilateral relations, which the [...] | 2009-03-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT344 | TURKMENISTAN: NEWLY-ARRIVED AFGHAN DIPLOMAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A newly-arrived Afghan diplomat in Ashgabat recently shared his views about the current situation in Afghanistan. He stressed that there needs to be a focus on reconstruction, democratic government and an end to the interference in Afghan affairs emanating from Pakistan. Accordin [...] | 2009-03-16 13:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF TX |
09ASHGABAT350 | TURKMENISTAN: UNRESOLVED OVERFLIGHT FEES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan has banned the overflight of all USG aircraft not covered by our blanket overflight agreement until we pay overflight bills from 2007 and 2008. The U.S. Government does not pay overflight fees for state aircraft, but we may be able to resolve this issue with an "in-k [...] | 2009-03-17 13:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT351 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 06:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN AF TX |
09ASHGABAT352 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 06:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS TX |
09ASHGABAT365 | TURKMENISTAN: OVERFLIGHT CAP ISSUE RAISED WITH MFA [...] (C) DCM raised on March 20 the cap on the number of overflights of U.S. humanitarian flights transiting Turkmenistan's airspace to Afghanistan with MFA America's Department Director, Serdar Bashimov. She noted that with the ramping up of operations in Afghanistan, the two sides needed to disc [...] | 2009-03-20 12:19:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT370 | TURKMENISTAN: IRANIANS TRAVEL EN MASSE TO ASHGABAT [...] (SBU) Hundreds of Iranian tourists from the northern city of Mashhad have arrived in Ashgabat to spend part or all of the Nowruz holidays. Most made the 140-mile trip from Iran's second largest city by bus as part of one of several organized tour groups and are staying at the city's moderatel [...] | 2009-03-23 14:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT371 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GICNT WORKSHOP IN SOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 14:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT38 | TURKMENISTAN MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Minister of Communications, Resulberdi Hojagurbanov, said at a January 7 meeting with the Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Europe and Eurasia, Daniel Stein, that the Ministry has great interest in [...] | 2009-01-09 12:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECPS EIND TBIO TX |
09ASHGABAT390 | TURKMENISTAN: REGIONAL EXPERTS DISCUSS CENTRAL [...] (C) Carefully avoiding any reference to the term "conference," the UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy (Center) held a two-day seminar in Ashgabat on March 11-12 entitled "Central Asia and Global Challenges." Iran Watcher got a read-out from Armands Pupols, a Political Officer with the Center [...] | 2009-03-26 13:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN ZK TX |
09ASHGABAT40 | TURKMENISTAN: ECONOMIC POLICY PROJECT RECEIVES LETTER OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 6, 2009, the Country Coordinator of USAID's implementing partner for its Economic Reform to Enhance Competitiveness (EREC) project, BearingPoint, received an e-mail from Turkmenistan's Cabinet of Ministe [...] | 2009-01-13 05:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT401 | LONGTIME COMMERCIAL RESIDENT POSTULATES ON ROOTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A long-time Amcit commercial resident of Turkmenistan told a recent visitor that U.S. influence here has been curbed in part because of changes in U.S. policy over the last 15 years, but also because of the historical missteps of U.S. energy giants who abandoned difficult and c [...] | 2009-03-30 11:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT402 | TURKMENISTAN: MINI-DUBLIN GROUP MEETS IN ASHGABAT [...] (SBU) At a March 13 meeting in Ashgabat of Mini-Dublin Group members organized by the Italian Embassy in Moscow, representatives of the U.S.,French, UK, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Japanese and Russian embassies exchanged views with two officials of the State Counter-Narcotics Service (SCNS) on [...] | 2009-03-30 11:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT403 | TURKMENISTAN OFFICIALS THREATEN TO END OVERFLIGHT [...] (C) Turkmen State Civil Aviation officials informed DAO on March 29 that, starting April 27, the Government of Turkmenistan will deny overflight permission for all USG aircraft, including those currently covered by blanket overflight, if an outstanding bill for overflight fees is not paid by [...] | 2009-03-30 13:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT408 | TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met on March 30 with Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov to discuss several bilateral issues and to learn more about President Berdimuhamedov's recent visits to Iran and Russia. Charge briefed Meredov on the Interagency Policy Group's Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan a [...] | 2009-03-31 11:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT41 | TURKMENISTAN: USTDA MEETINGS WITH HYDROCARBON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings with the U.S. Trade Development Agency (TDA) Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia and Charge, Turkmenistan hydrocarbon sector officials agreed to consider further cooperation with TDA. Turkmengas will continue to develop onshore gas deposits itself, hiring ser [...] | 2009-01-13 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT413 | TURKMENISTAN'S OVERALL BUDGET FIGURE IS PUBLICLY [...] (SBU) The following is Post's response to reftel that requests information about Turkmenistan's central government budget. 2. (SBU) Is the central government expected to receive or is it already receiving U.S. foreign assistance funded using FY 09 funds? Yes, the Turkmenistan Government wi [...] | 2009-04-02 05:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT415 | TURKMENISTAN/UZBEKISTAN BORDER: ON THE ROAD WITH [...] (C) More than 40,000 Iranian truckers travel to or through Turkmenistan each year, the majority passing in either direction through the Farap border crossing on the Uzbek border. As night falls, dozens of drivers congregate at cafes and parking lots, or on the side of the road on either side [...] | 2009-04-02 08:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT417 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON USG CANDIDACY FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 11:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT421 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE REQUESTING SPECIFIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 11:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF TX |
09ASHGABAT436 | TURKMENISTAN: MARCH MEDIA REACTION - MEDIA PRAISE GROWING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In March, media favorably and accurately covered events reflecting U.S.-Turkmenistan cooperation in education and health care, and highlighted various U.S. visits. The visit by USAID Regional Director William Frej [...] | 2009-04-08 12:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT44 | TURKMENISTAN: DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER URGES MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 9 meeting with U.S. Trade Development Agency (TDA) Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia, Dan Stein, and Charge, Turkmenistan Deputy Foreign Minister, Wepa Hajiyev, expressed hope the Stein's visit would encourage more trade between Turkmenistan and the U.S. Hajiy [...] | 2009-01-13 11:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD ECON TX |
09ASHGABAT442 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON RESPONSE TO NORTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 12:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP KN TX |
09ASHGABAT458 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER,S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as a timely opportunity to advance our urgent military overflight issues, as well as to show continued support for U.S. investment in energy resource development, greater cooperation in education, and progress in human r [...] | 2009-04-09 13:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX |
09ASHGABAT46 | TURKMENISTAN'S SUPREME COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Supreme Council on Science and Technology officials said at a meeting with Dan Stein of the U.S. Trade Development Agency that they would welcome ideas on how to expand the national Internet network for educationa [...] | 2009-01-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG TRGY TBIO TX |
09ASHGABAT469 | TURKMENISTAN: OVERFLIGHT CAP AND THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: We have nearly reached the overflight cap of 1600 the Turkmenistan government imposed as a continuation of annual renewal of blanket overflight. While DAO will process requests for special flights (MEDEVAC, etc.),all other flights have stopped in order not to exceed the limit. [...] | 2009-04-10 14:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT477 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMMEDOV STAYS IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ashgabat's hosting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers meeting on April 10 was well-covered in regional press. Although a broad range of topics were on the agenda, it does not appear that the body came to any significant conclusions. Beginning with his opening remarks, Pr [...] | 2009-04-15 11:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD AORC PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT480 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: WAITING FOR RAPPROCHEMENT: [...] (C) In a conversation with Ashgabat Iran Watcher this week, the general manager of the local office of the construction company Iran Samen (GM) spoke hopefully about the possibility of U.S.-Iranian construction joint ventures in Turkmenistan in the future. Our contact, who has lived and worke [...] | 2009-04-16 10:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR ECON PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT483 | TURKMENISTAN-AFGHANISTAN MARCH 11 CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 11, USAID met with representatives of the Turkmenistan Ministry of Energy and Industry (MOEI) to continue consultations in support of the supply by Turkmenistan to Afghanistan of 300 MW of electric power [...] | 2009-04-17 08:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TX |
09ASHGABAT486 | FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV ASKS FOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 15, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher discussed bilateral and regional issues with Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov. The Turkmen would like to see President Berdimuhamedov visit the United States this November. Meredov asked for [...] | 2009-04-17 09:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR OVIP PBTS PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT489 | TURKMENISTAN: GICNT PLENARY SESSION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP PTER MNUC KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT494 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 13:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT495 | TURKMEN PRESIDENT IS MIGHTILY ANNOYED WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a wide-ranging and lengthy meeting with Assistant Secretary Boucher on April 15, Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov expressed his appreciation for U.S. efforts in Afghanistan as well as his satisfaction with the Administration's Policy Review on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Berdimu [...] | 2009-04-20 05:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ENRG ECON MARR OVIP RS TX |
09ASHGABAT497 | CENTRAL ASIAN WATER DISPUTES HEATING UP; PROSPECTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 16, Miroslav Jenca, the Head of Office of the Ashgabat-based UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, briefed Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher about the Center's work and conditions in the region. According to Jenca, t [...] | 2009-04-20 05:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN ENRG ZK AF TX |
09ASHGABAT498 | EDUCATION OFFICIALS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR COOPERATION, BUT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher's meeting with Turkmenistan's top two education officials successfully presented U.S. views and continued engagement in this area. Unfortunately, it also revealed the continued [...] | 2009-04-20 05:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL EAID KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT499 | RFE/RL'S TURKMEN SERVICE: "SALTY" INTERNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post's recent contact with RFE/RL's Turkmen service reveals an alarming dispute related to journalistic integrity within the organization. Post,s main point of contact with RFE/RL in Ashgabat believes he is being marginalized for his lack of "salty" reporting, and despite his sub [...] | 2009-04-20 10:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT516 | BERDIMUHAMEDOV TO HONEYWELL CEO: WE WANT CLOSER [...] (C) On April 22, Honeywell Director for Government Relations, Europe, Middle East and Africa Daniela Pandrea discussed Honeywell's business plans for Turkmenistan with DCM and poloff. She described the circumstances that led to Honeywell's CEO meeting with President Berdimuhamedov on March 9. [...] | 2009-04-23 08:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT518 | TURKMENISTAN: A/S BOUCHER VISIT DRAWS SIGNIFICANT MEDIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher visited Turkmenistan April 14-17, holding a meeting with President Berdimuhamedov, and meetings with other high-ranking government officials. The visit [...] | 2009-04-23 11:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT520 | HUMAN RIGHTS REFORM TO IMPLEMENT INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 15, the director of the National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights discussed Turkmenistan's efforts at human rights reform with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher. Duri [...] | 2009-04-24 06:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT521 | TURKMENISTAN: BORDER GUARDS APPRECIATIVE OF U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Krol met April 22 with Colonel Myrat Yslamov, head of the State Border Service(SBS). They discussed Afghanistan, U.S. cooperation with the SBS, and potential cooperation between Turkmen and Afghan border services, and Turkmen preparedness [...] | 2009-04-24 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT522 | TURKMENISTAN: DAS KROL'S MEETING WITH THE GRAND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 22, 2009, visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol, met with Grand Mufti, Rovshen Allaberdyev, and the Deputy Chairman of the Council on Religious Affairs, Nurmuhammet Gurbanov. The Mufti emphasized [...] | 2009-04-24 12:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT530 | CONSTRUCTION IN TURKMENISTAN: FOR MAJOR COMPANIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the local representative from Deloitte in Turkmenistan, Turkmen-owned construction companies register offshore in order to move money overseas and take part in the part of the lucrative construction industry reserved for foreign companies. Foreign companies that are [...] | 2009-04-27 04:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT533 | TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT DECLINES TO ATTEND GICNT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP PTER MNUC KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT536 | TURKMENISTAN: AFGHANISTAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-28 05:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PREL AF TX |
09ASHGABAT539 | TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV - LOVER OF QUIRKY [...] (C) On April 25, Boeing Turkmenistan Representative Serdar Gurz introduced Emboff to the Amcit founder of Aero Toy Store and Worldwide Aircraft Sales and his son, who were in Ashgabat on business. As it turns out, this was the pair's fifth or sixth visit to Turkmenistan. On this visit, the b [...] | 2009-04-28 07:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON TX |
09ASHGABAT541 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-29 09:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID ADB TX |
09ASHGABAT543 | TURKMENISTAN: OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO DASHOGUZ PROVINCE IS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: ECA Policy and Evaluation Director, Rick Ruth, visited Turkmenistan in early April to tour sites undergoing restoration thanks to support from the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation. During the visit to Das [...] | 2009-04-29 10:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PCUL PINR KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT546 | TURKMENISTAN: LEGISLATIVE REFORMS ARE A GOOD THING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 27, 2009, Professor of Law, and internationally recognized arbitration specialist, Dr. Murad O. Haitov discussed with Embassy Officer recent legislative actions adopted by the Turkmenistan Parliament. The acts cover a wide variety of issues from labor code to food safet [...] | 2009-04-30 03:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT55 | IRAN/TURKMENISTAN: POLISH AMBASSADOR'S PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland's Ambassador to Turkmenistan reports that Iran and Turkmenistan have not agreed on a price for natural gas sales to Iran and are waiting until Turkmenistan and Russia reach a similar agreement. He said that Iran not only hopes to gain a foothold in Turkmenistan's energy s [...] | 2009-01-14 12:45:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT550 | TURKMENISTAN: THY ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE ON TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 30 meeting with DATT, Turkmen State Civil Aviation officials asked for U.S. assistance in four areas, which would allow Turkmenistan to raise the blanket overflight cap: get the Afghanistan to expand the flight altitude range and routes for Turkmen civilian aircr [...] | 2009-04-30 11:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT556 | TURKMENISTAN: MFA NOT ABLE TO MAKE OVERFLIGHT [...] (C) During a meeting with Charge on April 29 regarding recent denial of overflight to U.S. VIP planes, Deputy Foreign Minister Wepa Hajiyev encouraged the Embassy to follow up with MFA's America's Department following a meeting between DATT and Turkmen State Civil Aviation (THY) officials, sc [...] | 2009-05-01 12:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT559 | TURKMENISTAN'S FINANCIAL SITUATION SOLID, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol met with Deputy Cabinet Chairman for Economy and Finance Tuvakmammet Japarov on April 22, and discussed the global financial crisis and its impact on Turkmenistan, goals for the national economy, and development plans. According to Japaro [...] | 2009-05-02 05:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EFIN TX |
09ASHGABAT560 | TURKMENISTAN: MEREDOV ADDRESSES OVERFLIGHT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Krol met with Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov on April 23 on the sidelines of the Turkmenistan government's two-day energy security conference. Meredov expressed his appreciation for U.S. comments on the conference draft, and said the government might p [...] | 2009-05-02 05:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS TX |
09ASHGABAT562 | TURKMENISTAN: EFFECTIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF DAS KROL AT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, George Krol, visited Turkmenistan April 22-24, 2009, holding meetings with government officials and heading the U.S. delegation at the "Reliable and Secure Tran [...] | 2009-05-04 06:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT564 | TURKMENISTAN: OIL AND GAS SECTOR OFFICIALS SHOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) representatives met on April 30 with six top oil and gas officials to answer questions and get government commitment to a two-day seminar on pipeline management. The appearance of the six officials in one meeting and their confirmation that th [...] | 2009-05-04 12:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX |
09ASHGABAT570 | TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV PROPOSES A TRIP TO [...] (C) After years of trying to get Deputy Chairman and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov to travel to Washington on his own, he has finally decided to do it. On May 4, he called in the Charge to say it was time for the two countries to meet at the level of Foreign Minister. He said that the lev [...] | 2009-05-05 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR TX |
09ASHGABAT572 | TURKMENSITAN TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY TO UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-06 09:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT578 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA REACTION ON APRIL POST EVENTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In addition to coverage of visits by Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher and DAS George Krol in April (Refs A and B),April saw media provide generally accurate and favorable coverage of numerous U.S. visitors and P [...] | 2009-05-08 04:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT600 | TURKMENISTAN: A REBORN PUSHKIN THEATER PUSHES BOUNDARIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ashgabat's resurrected Pushkin theater has on its own initiative begun to introduce audiences to a growing variety of international plays, some of which push the boundaries of what is generally acceptable in offic [...] | 2009-05-13 04:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT608 | TURKMENISTAN: UN CENTRE FOR PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A diplomat from the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy disputed press reports that the meetings of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea "broke down in bitter disagreement." He maintained that t [...] | 2009-05-13 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG SENV TX UN ZK AORC |
09ASHGABAT624 | "TIMING WAS RIGHT" FOR EUROPEAN INTERIM TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several European diplomats agree that the time was right for the European Parliament to adopt an interim agreement on trade and trade-related matters with Turkmenistan, especially since Europe's top priority is energy. While the interim agreement mentions benchmarks, it does [...] | 2009-05-15 11:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAGR EINV EPET ETRD TX EU |
09ASHGABAT625 | IRAN: HUNGARIAN DIPLOMAT SAYS IRAN STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visiting Hungarian diplomat from Tehran, accredited to both Iran and Turkmenistan, shared with us his latest impressions of both living and working in Iran. These included his frustration with trying to get an accurate picture of economic conditions there, as well as trying to [...] | 2009-05-15 11:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT629 | TURKMENISTAN: FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN THE ISOLATED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Recently thought of as a disease of the turn of the last century, tuberculosis (TB) has once again reared its ugly head. While, in modern times, TB is mostly associated with HIV infection in developing countries, [...] | 2009-05-19 03:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EINV TBIO SOCI KZ |
09ASHGABAT647 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 08:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV TX |
09ASHGABAT648 | TURKMENISTAN: STATUS OF ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Oil and gas sector development in Turkmenistan is making progress, albeit slowly. There has been no change in the policy of barring foreign companies from onshore PSAs, but the door appears to be open rega [...] | 2009-05-26 08:43:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EPET TX RS |
09ASHGABAT65 | HOW THINGS WORK (OR DON'T) -- INSIGHTS INTO THE [...] (C) Churchill once described Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Turkmenistan remains a black box behind a translucent window. You kind of see something, but you're not sure. You have your hand on something, but what is it? All of this makes observing and working in [...] | 2009-01-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EPET ETRD TX |
09ASHGABAT662 | TURKMEN MINISTRY OF TRADE: TRADE VOLUME WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a productive meeting, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Claudio Lilienfeld exchanged ideas with Vepa Garriyev, the Head of the International Directorate of Turkmenistan's Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations. Very little time was spent discussing the re [...] | 2009-05-28 11:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EIND EINV ETRD TIFA TX AZ AF ZK |
09ASHGABAT663 | TURKMENISTAN: RUMORS OF VISA TROUBLES AS CITIBANK [...] (C) The Relationship Manager of Citibank's Central Asia and Transcaucasia Department, Sinan Tan (please protect),said in a meeting on May 14 that he was meeting with representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Vneshekonombank, Senagatbank, and Turkmenbashybank. [...] | 2009-05-28 11:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN CVIS EXIM TX AZ TU |
09ASHGABAT664 | TURKMENISTAN: DAUSTR LILIENFELD DISCUSSES TIFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for South and Central Asia, Claudio Lilienfeld, visited Turkmenistan as part of a five-country tour through Central Asia to discuss the future of TIFA -- the U.S. Government's Trade and Investment Framework Agreement with the five Centr [...] | 2009-05-29 01:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAGR ENRG EFIN EIND EINV ETRD EPET SOCI |
09ASHGABAT665 | TURKMENISTAN: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON VOTING FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-29 05:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV TX |
09ASHGABAT666 | TURKMENISTAN SEES NEUTRALITY AS PART OF ENERGY DIPLOMACY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 21, state-controlled newspaper "Neytralny Turkmenistan" published an op-ed by a Turkmen MFA official outlining the main objectives, directions, and energy diplomacy component of Turkmenistan's foreign polic [...] | 2009-05-29 07:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PREL PGOV EINV TX |
09ASHGABAT668 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN EXBS ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. From 1 to 9 May the EXBS Advisor was in Uzbekistan as part of his regional responsibilities. b. On 14 May EXBS Advisor conducted an introductory meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Bekiyev Ybrayim, First Deputy Commander of the St [...] | 2009-05-29 10:32:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG |
09ASHGABAT672 | TURKMENISTAN: LOCALS RECOUNT LIVES MARRED BY DRUG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In conversations with Iran Watcher, two Turkmen women candidly described how addiction to heroin and opium, the drugs of choice for Turkmenistan's addicts, has affected members of their own families and communities. The two women, of differing socioeconomic backgrounds, both a [...] | 2009-06-01 10:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT675 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA TX |
09ASHGABAT676 | TURKMENISTAN: POINTS ON LETHAL TRANSIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-01 13:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL RS TX |
09ASHGABAT681 | TURKMENISTAN HAS MI-17 HELICOPTERS; STILL CHECKING ON [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution 2. (SBU) On June 2, Post informed the Turkmenistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) about reftel request to support Government of Pakistan forces with additional Mi- 17 helicopters. Post also asked for MFA assistance to arran [...] | 2009-06-02 12:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SMIG PARM PK TX |
09ASHGABAT687 | IRAN ELECTIONS: FOR THESE MASHHAD TRUCKERS, IT'S [...] (C) In conversations with Iran Watcher near the Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan border last week, a dozen or so Iranian truckers, most coming from the northern city of Mashhad, voiced strong and nearly unanimous support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's upcoming presidential election. We spoke with d [...] | 2009-06-03 10:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT694 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT STATES HIS INTENT TO [...] (C) Summary. The first meeting between President Berdimuhamedov and newly appointed Special Envoy for Eurasia Energy Morningstar went quite well. Prospects for the American energy companies were explored and Berdimuhamedov made clear his intent in expanding cooperation with the United Sta [...] | 2009-06-05 05:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET EINV TX |
09ASHGABAT696 | TURKMENISTAN: ISRAEL TO OPEN EMBASSY "SOON" [...] (S) The Israeli Ambassador to Central Asia and the Caucasus (currently based in Jerusalem),Shemi Tzur, said in a meeting with Charge on June 4 that Israel was planning to open an embassy in Ashgabat "very soon" -- in July or perhaps even sooner -- in part due to Foreign Minister Avigdor Libe [...] | 2009-06-05 12:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PREL EINV PTER EPET ETRD SNAR TX IS AJ KZ |
09ASHGABAT720 | TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA REACTION ON MAY POST EVENTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat maintained a high profile in state media during the month of May. Post organized events such as USAID's 15th anniversary celebration of partnership with Turkmenistan in early May, a one-week tour [...] | 2009-06-09 09:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT721 | TURKMENISTAN: UN CENTER FOR PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of the UN Center for Preventive Diplomacy, Ambassador Miroslav Jenca, plans to brief UN and U.S. officials on the activities of the Center during an upcoming visit to the U.S. The Center is working on some ideas to promote stability in Afghanistan and high-level regio [...] | 2009-06-09 10:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR SNAR UN TX AF |
09ASHGABAT722 | TURKMENISTAN: EFFECTIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. Secretary of State's Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard L. Morningstar visited Turkmenistan May 29, 2009, holding meetings with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and high-ranking government off [...] | 2009-06-09 10:52:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX |
09ASHGABAT733 | IRAN ELECTION UPDATE: TRUCKERS INDICATE SUPPORT [...] (C) Conversations with Iranian truck drivers held in and around Ashgabat on June 10 demonstrate that support for candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi is growing among working class Iranians. Iran Watcher spoke with transiting drivers representing various geographic areas and ethnic groups and found [...] | 2009-06-10 12:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT734 | TURKMENISTAN: PURPOSE OF MEREDOV'S VISIT IS TO [...] (C) On June 10, the Charge met with Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov to discuss Meredov's upcoming visit to Washington. Meredov confirmed that he will depart Ashgabat on June 22 and travel to Washington via Frankfurt. His arrival in Washington will be in the early afternoon on June 22. He w [...] | 2009-06-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV TX |
09ASHGABAT735 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 05:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL EU NATO PGOV PHUM KDEM TX |
09ASHGABAT737 | TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: ASHGABAT RESIDENT RECOUNTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 11:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT739 | TURKMENISTAN: BOEING DEAL IN THE HANDS OF [...] (C) Deputy Chairman for Transportation and Communications, Nazarguly Shagulyev, said in a meeting with the Charge on June 11 that Turkmenistan has not signed the contract for a pending deal with Boeing Company for three 737 aircraft because Turkmenistan wants to review the financial details c [...] | 2009-06-11 11:30:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAIR MARR MASS MOPS TX |
09ASHGABAT741 | NATO LIAISON PESSIMISTIC ABOUT COOPERATION WITH [...] (C) On June 10, visiting NATO Liaison officer, Evan Tracz, painted a negative picture about NATO-Turkmenistan cooperation for a group of political officers from the Polish, German, UK, Turkish and U.S. Embassies. The reason for Tracz's meetings with Turkmen officials was to solicit their rene [...] | 2009-06-11 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO TX |
09ASHGABAT742 | TURKMENISTAN ANNOUNCES BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced via diplomatic note on June 9 that the "Books, a Means of Collaboration and Progress" trade show will take place on September 28-30 under the auspices of the Turkmen State Publication Service. The conference will cover topics such as Turkmenistan's li [...] | 2009-06-11 13:16:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD SCUL TX |
09ASHGABAT751 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON 2009 GICNT PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 12:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT753 | SABIT COORDINATOR BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The coordinator of the Central Asia office of the U.S. Department of Commerce Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program met with Turkmen government officials to promote the program. She focuse [...] | 2009-06-12 13:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR EAID ECON EFIN EIND EPET SOCI |
09ASHGABAT754 | LEAHY VETTING FOR GOTX NATO-RUSSIA [...] Per reftel, Post was asked to conduct a human rights review for the nominees listed below to attend the USG-funded NATO-Russia Counter- Narcotics Training 22 June-26 June 2009, Turkmenistan. 2. Post has reviewed its files and finds that as of June 12, 2009, it possesses no credible informa [...] | 2009-06-15 06:48:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SNAR TX |
09ASHGABAT757 | IRAN POST-ELECTION: [Source removed] CALLS [...] (C) In a conversation today with Iran Watcher, a [Source removed] in Ashgabat labeled the announcement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in Friday's presidential election a "coup d'etat," and called Iran's incumbent President "another Pinochet." [Name removed] said that based on calculations from Mo [...] | 2009-06-15 13:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR TX PGOV PREL PHUM |
09ASHGABAT76 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF THE WAAD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 10:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR LE TX |
09ASHGABAT761 | TURKMENISTAN: MEJLIS COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post's PAO had a friendly and open meeting with the Chair of the Mejilis (Parliament) committee on Education, Science, and Culture. The discussion revealed that the committee has a massive portfolio of issues, bu [...] | 2009-06-17 10:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO ECA TX |
09ASHGABAT762 | IRAN: SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI REPORTEDLY CALLS IN [...] (C) Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met with presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi on June 15 to discuss the presidential election results and recent unrest involving Mousavi's supporters, according to Polish Ambassador to Turkmenistan Maciej Lang. Lang, who is a fluent Farsi speaker and pr [...] | 2009-06-17 11:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | IR KDEM PHUM PREL TX |
09ASHGABAT763 | TURKMENISTAN -- A NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY FOR U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although Turkmenistan's population is small, the country's wealth -- due primarily to its natural gas deposits -- makes it a potentially attractive market for U.S. businesses. Obstacles include a restrictive visa regime, lack of rule of law, bureaucracy and corruption. Despit [...] | 2009-06-17 13:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EIND EFIN TX |
09ASHGABAT764 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON GICNT UPDATED MODEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC TX |
09ASHGABAT768 | UNICEF OFFICIAL DISCUSSES TURKMEN RELUCTANCE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A UNICEF official said that Turkmenistan lacks the motivation to supply education statistics necessary to be considered for Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funds. In addition, Turkmenistan's gross domestic product per capita income most likely puts it in the middle-inco [...] | 2009-06-18 12:20:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SOCI TX |
09ASHGABAT769 | TURKMENISTAN: AVAZA NATIONAL TOURIST ZONE OPENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov officially opened the Avaza National Tourism Zone on June 15, accompanied by the government, the diplomatic corps, businessmen, and international journalists. "Avaza" consists currently of two hotels. Although plans are for an artificial ri [...] | 2009-06-18 12:28:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON TX |
09ASHGABAT77 | TURKMENISTAN: ANNOUNCEMENT OF RATIFICATION OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 10:03:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09ASHGABAT78 | KAZAKH AMBASSADOR'S VIEWS ON TURKMENISTAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with the Charge, Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Turkmenistan touched upon his country's improving relations with Turkmenistan, ongoing negotiations about Caspian Sea boundaries and drug trafficking routes through Central Asia. He analyzed the Turkmenistan governm [...] | 2009-01-16 10:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KZ TX |
09ASHGABAT790 | TURKMENISTAN: INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (SBU) In preparation for the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Post highlights the following areas in which the Government of Turkmenistan fails to implement its OSCE commitments with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Improvement in many of these areas would [...] | 2009-06-24 05:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI KIRF OSCE KDEM TX |
09ASHGABAT801 | TURKMENISTAN: AGRICULTURE TRAINING FACILITY AT [...] (C) The General Manager of the official distributor of John Deere and Case New Holland equipment in Turkmenistan, IPC Agri, said in a conversation on June 25 that he and a Case New Holland official discussed shipment of donated equipment with the Ministry of Agriculture three weeks ago. Case [...] | 2009-06-25 12:18:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EIND EAGR TX |
09ASHGABAT805 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1874 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 12:38:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN TX |
09ASHGABAT806 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 12:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PARM PREL KNNP TX |
09ASHGABAT809 | TURKMENISTAN: LUKASHENKO VISIT FOCUSED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Lukashenko's recent visit to Turkmenistan focused on enhancing bilateral commercial relations. The relationship is particularly important to Belarus, given large Turkmen purchases of Belarus tractors and trucks and the mammoth potash fertilizer project that was just k [...] | 2009-06-29 10:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EMIN PREL PGOV BO TX |
09ASHGABAT817 | EXBS: TURKMENISTAN EXBS ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. From 1 to 6 June the EXBS Advisor was in the Republic of Georgia for the world-wide EXBS Advisor's Conference. b. On 8 June, EXBS Assistant Batyr Hommadov resigned without notice. c. From 17 - 24 June EXBS Assistant from Uzbe [...] | 2009-06-30 11:08:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG |
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