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WikiLeaks cables: Turkey let US use airbase for rendition flights
Turkey allowed use of Incirlik airbase as refuelling stop, US embassy cable reveals, after Turkish denials of involvement
Turkey allowed the US to use its airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey as part of the “extraordinary rendition” programme to take suspected terrorists to Guantánamo Bay, according to a US diplomatic cable.
US embassy cables: Turkey and terrorism
Cable dated:2002-11-15T12:40:00
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 ANKARA 008305
S/CT FOR REAP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/14/2012
TAGS: PTER, TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY: 2002 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
REF: STATE 201772
1. (U) CLASSIFIED BY DCM ROBERT S. DEUTSCH; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D)
US embassy cables: US-Turkey relations improve
Cable dated:2006-01-30T13:38:00
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 ANKARA 000331
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/27/2016
TAGS: MARR, MASS, MOPS, PREL, PGOV, TU, IZ, AF, RU
SUBJECT: SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT GENERAL HAGEE
REF: DCD PROFILER6 JAN. 19 EMAIL TO MAJOR CRAIG MILLER
Classified By: Ambassador Ross Wilson, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
US embassy cables: Turkey and terrorism
Cable dated:2002-11-15T12:40:00
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 ANKARA 008305
S/CT FOR REAP
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/14/2012
TAGS: PTER, TU
SUBJECT: TURKEY: 2002 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
REF: STATE 201772
1. (U) CLASSIFIED BY DCM ROBERT S. DEUTSCH; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D)
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US embassy cables: Turkey used as base to transport terrorism suspects
Cable dated:2006-06-08T06:52:00
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 ANKARA 003352
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
NOFORN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/05/2026
TAGS: MOPS, PREL, PARM, TU, IZ, IR, AJ, AF
SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 14 VISIT OF GENERAL SCHWARTZ TO TURKEY
Classified By: Ambassador Wilson for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
Wikileaks: Turkey granted US airbase access for extraordinary renditions
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
US Ambassador Cable Proves Torture at Turkish Military Base
Turkey deplores Europe’s ‘lack of vision’
from EUobserver.com – Headline News
Turkey?s foreign policy and mistakes
The day after III: The Cyprus peace dividend for Turkey and Greece
PRIO Cyprus Centre Paper, 1/2010, 54 p.
by Özlem Oğuz Çilsal, Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou and Fione Mullen
This study is the third in the series of Day After reports prepared by the all-female team that has come to be known as The Three Ladies. In our first report, we analyzed the commercial opportunities that could arise from the reunification of Cyprus and quantified the peace dividend for the key sectors that would benefit.
Baroness Ashton & EU foreign policy
Turkey is no ‘docile supplicant’ for EU accession, Erdogan warns
Emerging markets: Welcome to the ‘Bric ‘n’ Mitsk’
The man who coined the term Brics is adding four new countries ? Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey and South Korea
First there were the “Brics” – now there’s “Bric ‘n’ Mitsk.” Jim O’Neill, the economist who coined the term Brics to describe Brazil, Russia, India and China, is adding Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey and South Korea to the original four countries to create a new grouping of growth markets.
The Guardian: Turkey will become EU member sooner or later
Erdogan: Turkey Has Vigor the EU Needs Badly-Newsweek
Turkey in talks with France over NPP – New Europe
Paradoxes turcs
RIA Novosti (Russie), 17 janvier 2011
« Carrefours du futur » par Marc Saint-Upéry *
La Turquie du XXIe siècle est une énigme pour l?Occident. Avec un taux de croissance à peine inférieur à celui de la Chine et de l?Inde, elle est considérée par certains comme la seule réussite du Moyen-Orient et comme un exemple possible de démocratie islamique. D?autres craignent que cet ancien pilier des alliances occidentales ne soit en train de s?éloigner du monde civilisé.