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### Viewing cable 04ANKARA4273, TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, JULY 16-31, 2004

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04ANKARA4273 | 2004-08-02 08:55 | 2011-08-24 01:00 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy Ankara

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    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 08 ANKARA 004273

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR G/TIP, G, INL, DRL, EUR/PGI, EUR/SE

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU
    SUBJECT: TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, JULY 16-31, 2004

    ¶1. (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public
    information campaigns, post provides as examples the
    following TIP press reports.  Text of articles not published
    in English is provided through unofficial local FSN
    translation or otherwise noted sources.

    ¶2. (U) Published July 28, 2004 by Turkey's Anatolian News
    Agency:

         TITLE: SECURITY FORCES INTERCEPT 137 MIGRANTS IN DIDIM
         BEGIN TEXT: DIDIM (A.A) - Security forces intercepted
         137 migrants in Didim town of western province of Aydin
         on Wednesday as they were trying to proceed to Sisam
         island of Greece illegally.       The migrants of
         Azerbaijani, Mauritanian, Algerian, Moldavian, Afghan
         and Somalian origin were taken into custody for
         violating Turkish borders and passport law.     They
         will be deported once the legal proceedings are
         completed. END TEXT.

    ¶3. (U) Published July 27, 2004 by Turkey's Anatolian News
    Agency:

         TITLE:  Ankara Police Department Morals Branch conducts
         operations in Ankara and Afyon.

         BEGIN TEXT: Four people involved in human trafficking
         and four others who were subjected to trafficking were
         detained.

         After receiving a tip by phone, the Ankara Police
         raided a house in the Seyranbaglari district of Ankara.
         Recep C., and two women were detained.  One woman was a
         foreigner and the other was a Turk of foreign origin.
         Police had already issued a warrant for Recep C. for
         human trafficking.

         During his interrogation Recep C. told the police that
         he "bought" foreign women for $2000 from Samil D. who
         is known as "Ahmet" in Antalya.  Later Recep C. talked
         to Samil D. on the phone and they agreed to meet in
         Afyon.  Three policemen accompanied Recep C. and they
         went in front of a store outside Afyon on the Antalya
         road.

         Police detained Samil D., Murat O. and Hakan K.  They
         had two Moldavian women accompanying them.  They, too,
         were detained.  Recep C., Samil D., Murat O. and Hakan
         ¶K. were sent to a prosecutor on charges of human
         trafficking.

         Three foreign women were turned over to the TNP
         Foreigners' Department.  The Turkish woman of foreign
         origin was released.  END TEXT.

    ¶4. (U) Published July 24, 2004 by Moldova's Chisinau
    Basapress in English:

         TITLE: Turkey Main Destination for Trafficked Moldovan
         Women

         BEGIN FBIS TRANSCRIBED TEXT: Chisinau, 24 July: The
         Moldovan Interior Ministry said that Turkey remains the
         main destination for traffickers in Moldovan women.

         According to ministerial accounts the Moldovan police
         have destroyed 37 channels of trafficking in persons in
         the first half of this year, of which 11 connected
         Moldovan networks with pimps and brothels in Turkey, 10
         in the United Arab Emirates, seven in the Russian
         Federation, four in Macedonia, and five in Romania.

         The Moldovan Interior Ministry announced that a Turkish
         national and a Russian citizen suspected of recruiting
         Moldovan women for the prostitution industry have been
         recently detained in Chisinau.   A court in Chisinau
         has sentenced the Turkish national to five years in
         prison for pimping.

         The police have filed 287 cases related to the
         trafficking in persons, including 28 cases related to
         recruitment of children for slavery.

         Neither the Moldovan government nor nongovernmental
         organizations have exact data regarding the number of
         Moldovan women forced into prostitution abroad.

         The International Organization for Migration had
         earlier said that over 1,200 victims of traffickers in
         human beings had been repatriated to Moldova in the
         past three years.   This year, 143 Moldovan young women
         returned home after years or months of slavery in
         Russia, Turkey or the United Arab Emirates. END TEXT.
         [Description of Source: Chisinau Basapress in English -
         - Independent news agency; carries economic and
         political reports from pro-Romanian positions]

    ¶5. (U) Published July 21, 2004 by Turkey's Anatolian News
    Agency:

         TITLE: TURKISH GENDARMERY ARREST 23 ILLEGAL EMIGRANTS
         IN IZMIR

         BEGIN TEXT:  IZMIR (A.A) - Turkish gendarmerie arrested
         23 illegal immigrants in Cesme in Izmir province,
         sources said on Wednesday.

         Security forces captured 23 Pakistanis who entered
         Turkey clandestinely en route to Greece.  They will be
         deported following legal proceedings, officials said.
         END TEXT.

    ¶6. (U) Published July 19, 2004 by Bishkek Public Educational
    Radio and TV in Russian:

         TITLE: Kyrganistan Border Guards Receive Security
         Training From Turkish Officers

         BEGIN FBIS TRANSLATED EXCERPT: [Presenter] Military
         exercises entitled "Border Security" started at the
         base of the Border Service's training center under the
         [NATO] Partnership for Peace program today.

         The maneuvers are being conducted in two stages.
         Georgia, Azerbaijan, Romania, Albania and Macedonia
         attended the first stage held in March. Tajikistan,
         Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are taking part in the second
         stage. A mobile group of Turkish officers is conducting
         the exercises.

         [Correspondent] For 10 days _Kyrgyz_ officers will be
         improving their skills in protecting the country's
         borders under the Turkish officers' supervision. The
         Turkish officers first taught our border guards
         computer skills and Internet use. They also taught the
         commanders how to distinguish genuine passports from
         forged ones.

         [Nuriddin Chomoyev] deputy chairman of the _Kyrgyz_
         Border Service] Border security will be considered as
         specific issues. These are border trespassing, human
         trafficking and drug trafficking. I think that during
         this seminar our officers will get profound theoretical
         knowledge and will put it into practice.

         [Correspondent] There are other issues on the agenda,
         which are regarded as pressing according to
         international standards. These are aspects of the
         national security system, protection and control of
         refugees and international terrorism. The mobile group
         of the Turkish armed forces held the first stage as far
         back as in spring.  END TEXT.

    ¶7. (U) Published July 19, 2004 by Turkey's news television
    NTV:

         TITLE: Prostitution rife in Turkey: Report

         BEGIN TEXT: One in every 350 Turkish women faces the
         threat of having to work in the sex sector or of being
         sexually exploited.

         July 19 - Though prostitution is legal in Turkey, most
         of the women working in the industry are not registered
         and many are forced to ply their trade against their
         will, according to a report released on the weekend.

         According to a study conducted by the Ankara Chamber of
         Commerce (ATO), there are approximately 100,000 women
         involved in the sex trade in Turkey, with the trade
         generating some $3.0 to $4.0 billion annually. However,
         the ATO report claimed that only 3,000 of the female
         sex workers were employed legally in Turkey's 56
         registered brothels, with another 12,000 registered to
         work outside the brothel system.

         The ATO report, entitled "Lifeless Women", claims that
         there could be up to 100,000 women involved in the sex
         trade, with at least 30,000 waiting to work in the
         brothels of Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara. Many of these
         women work on the streets, as they are not able to gain
         the protection of working in a registered brothel.

         There are an estimated 6,000 women working illegally as
         prostitutes in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir
         alone, the report said.

         There are at least 500 child sex workers in Istanbul
         alone, with some as young girls as 12 working as
         prostitutes, the report said.

         Most of the child sex slaves are primary school
         graduates. Sex workers are mostly driven to
         prostitution by their husbands (30 percent), and by
         their parents (10 percent).

         The ATO survey says that many sex workers are subject
         to abuse, oppression, and condemnation. Poverty is main
         reason that women enter prostitution, the report said.

         Apart from Turkish women in the sex industry the ATO
         report said there were sex workers from Ukraine,
         Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Belarus engaged in
         prostitution in the country. Unlike their Turkish
         colleagues, many of these women are well educated.

         Sinan Aygun, the chairman of the ATO, said that the
         spread of the unregulated sex market was due to a
         decade of lax administration on the part of state
         authorities.

         The best way to provide an alternative for women in the
         sex trade would be to offer them the chance to gain
         employment in other sectors, Aygun said. This would
         require the provision of education and assistance to
         the poor including social security in order to help
         women avoid being forces into prostitution, he said.
         END TEXT.

    ¶8. (U) Published July 19, 2004 by Turkey's Cihan News
    Agency:

         TITLE: 321 Thousand 805 Crimes Committed In Turkey In
         2003

         BEGIN TEXT: ANKARA (CIHAN) - A total of 321,805 crimes
         were committed in Turkey last year, according to a
         survey by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce.

         The number of crimes committed in the first five months
         of 2004 hit 143,924. The year-end prediction is
         350,000. There has been a remarkable increase in
         robbery, picking pocketing, purse snatching, car
         robbery, bank robbery, kidnapping, extortion, looting
         and vandalism, encroachment, arson, forgery, murder,
         violent assaults, rape, gambling, bribery, human
         trafficking, sexual exploitation and other crimes.

         In 2001, 299,589 crimes were recorded; in 2002, nearly
         296,000 crimes were recorded; and in 2003, 321,805
         crimes were committed in Turkey. Every two minutes, one
         malicious act is committed in Turkey.

         There has been an increase in economically motivated
         crime. In 2003, 152,505 such crimes were committed.

         According to the report, 135,898 crimes were committed
         in the three most populous cities: Istanbul, Izmir and
         Ankara. In Istanbul, 226 crimes were committed daily
         last year. In Ankara, 85 were committed daily and 62 a
         day were reported in Izmir.

         Last year, nearly 8,200 work locations were robbed in
         Istanbul. Ankara was the victim of 2,848 robberies and
         Izmir 2,871 recorded such events. The lowest number of
         robberies took place in Bayburt with 10.

         The largest increase was recorded in purse snatching
         which is currently being debated within the government.

         Most home robberies took place in Istanbul last year
         with 10,195. Istanbul was followed by Ankara with
         2,884. The lowest number of home robberies occurred in
         Tunceli with just 5 incidents last year.

         In 2003, 2,277 robberies took place in state buildings.

         Istanbul is a center for car robberies with 16,665 last
         year. Istanbul was followed by Izmir with 1,711. In
         2003, 24,616 cars were robbed across Turkey. The
         corresponding figure for 2002 was 20,095. No cars were
         robbed in Kars, Tunceli or Igdir.

         The most widespread crimes are pick pocketing and purse
         snatching. In 2002, 12,595 and in 2003, 12,793 pick
         pocketing and purse snatching incidents took place in
         Turkey. In the first five months of 2004, the figure
         stands at 6,333.

         Again Istanbul and Izmir top the listing in terms of
         snatching and pick pocketing. The numbers are
         successively 5,175 for Istanbul, and 2,430 for Izmir.
         Last year, no incidents of purse snatching or pick
         pocketing were recorded in the northern city of. Sinop.

         The latest trend is the robbery of antique carpets and
         similar historic pieces and precious artifacts from
         museums.

         Last year, 3,736 incidents of armed robbery were
         recorded in Turkey. Again Istanbul comes in first with
         1482 incidents and 295 incidents in Antalya. END TEXT.

    ¶9. (U) Published July 8, 2004 by Turkey's Anatolian News
    Agency:

         TITLE: `OPERATION ANKARA' IN US' LONG ISLAND ARRESTS
         TURKISH NATIONALS

         BEGIN TEXT: US federal, state and local law enforcement
         agents raided dozens of businesses within the
         northeastern state of Long Island on Tuesday and
         arrested dozens of people on money laundering and
         immigration charges, reported US daily Newsday
         yesterday. While seven suspects were charged with
         laundering, four others were cited for immigration
         violations. According to Newsday, some 57 suspected
         undocumented aliens were taken into custody during the
         raids, part of a crackdown called `Operation Ankara,'
         so named because most of the suspects are believed to
         be Turkish nationals. /All Papers/.  END TEXT

    ¶10. (U) Published July 7, 2004 by the Associated Press:

         TITLE: Long Island Sweeps Bring Charges Of Money
         Laundering, Immigration Violations

         BEGIN TEXT: GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Federal, state and
         local law enforcement agents raided dozens of
         businesses around Long Island on Tuesday and arrested
         people on money laundering and immigration charges.

         Arrest warrants were unsealed against 11 defendants.
         Seven were charged with laundering as much as $28
         million in proceeds from dozens of gas stations and
         mini-markets over several years. Four others were cited
         on immigration charges: One man was accused of re-
         entering the United States after being deported, while
         three others were charged with marriage fraud.

         "They are all part of the same organization," said
         Martin Ficke, special agent in charge for the U.S.
         Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau.

         He said the investigation was still in the early stages
         and more arrests were likely.

         During the raids, part of a crackdown called Operation
         Ankara, immigration officials also took into custody 57
         suspected undocumented aliens. There were suspicions
         that the aliens were smuggled into the United States
         and forced to work for the operators of the gas
         stations as repayment for entry into the country, Ficke
         said.

         The raids, which involved an estimated 200 law
         enforcement agents, also yielded massive amounts of
         documents and business records linked to the operation.

         The suspects were arraigned on various charges at U.S.
         District Court in Central Islip. Five of the seven
         defendants in the money laundering case were ordered
         held until a bail hearing on Thursday; the remaining
         two have yet to be arrested.

         Two of the four immigration violation defendants have
         been taken into custody; one was ordered held until a
         bail hearing Thursday and the other was released on a
         $50,000 personal recognizance bond, said Joseph Conway,
         the assistant U.S. attorney in the Central Islip
         office.

         The investigation was named Operation Ankara, after the
         capital of Turkey, because most of the suspects are
         believed to be Turkish nationals. Conway said the
         arrests were not related to terrorism.

         The money laundering charges are tied to a scheme
         called "structuring," said Joseph Foy, a spokesman for
         the Internal Revenue Service. The suspects made bank
         deposits of less than $10,000 to evade federal currency
         reporting requirements, prosecutors said. END TEXT.

    ¶11. (U) Published July 7, 2004 by Turkey's NTV News Station:

         TITLE: New York raids target alleged Turkish money
         laundering ring; Five of the seven Turks, considered by
         police to be the ringleaders of the group were
         arrested.

         BEGIN TEXT: July 7- New York police have conducted a
         series of raids of petrol stations around the city
         targeting what officials described as an organised
         Turkish crime ring involved in concealing millions of
         dollars and smuggling in illegal workers.  The ring
         allegedly controlled up to 140 petrol stations, mainly
         in the Long Island region, used in part as a front for
         their criminal activities, officials said.

         The group had hidden tens of millions of dollars in
         receipts and illegally smuggled workers into the
         country, the officials said. Five of the seven Turkish
         men wanted in connection with the ring were arrested in
         the raids. The other two may still be in Turkey,
         according to officials.

         "This is a big step in shutting down an organisation
         that has been responsible for smuggling immigrants into
         the country and collecting millions of dollars
         illegally," Laura Hedyweiller, the head of federal
         Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Long Island told
         reporters. END TEXT.

    ¶12. (U) Published July 7, 2004 by New York Newsday:

         TITLE: Gas stations raided in alleged crime ring
         BEGIN TEXT: Dozens are targeted as officials say
         Turkish organized crime ring hid millions in cash,
         smuggled in workers; By Robert E. Kessler
         Staff Writer; Staff writers Mitchell Freedman and
         Indrani Sen contributed to this story.

         Hundreds of federal agents and police yesterday raided
         dozens of Long Island gas stations allegedly controlled
         by a loosely organized network of Turkish organized
         crime figures, officials said.

         The ring concealed tens of millions of dollars in
         receipts and illegally smuggled workers into the
         country, the officials said.

         Among those arrested were five of seven key figures in
         the ring, which allegedly controlled more than 140 gas
         stations on Long Island, and more than 50 employees who
         are suspected of being illegal immigrants. The other
         two alleged leaders were still being sought and may be
         in Turkey, officials said.
         "This is a big step in shutting down an organization
         that has been responsible for smuggling immigrants into
         the country and collecting millions of dollars
         illegally," said Laura Hedyweiller, head of federal
         Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Long Island.

         The immigrants were being interviewed late yesterday to
         determine their status, Hedyweiller said. Many of the
         employees lived under arduous conditions, working 14-
         to 18-hour days and sleeping on cots in the gas
         stations as they paid off the $10,000 fees they were
         charged to be smuggled into the country, officials
         said.

         The agents also seized several current bank accounts
         containing $2.2 million at several branches on Long
         Island the gang allegedly used, officials said.

         The five people arrested were charged with
         "structuring" more than $14 million in the past three
         years, violating a law that makes it a crime to break
         down large cash deposits into multiple smaller deposits
         of less than $10,000. Cash deposits of more than
         $10,000 must be reported to the Internal Revenue
         Service under a law aimed at finding the profits of
         criminal enterprises such as tax evasion or drug
         dealing, said Joe Foy, a spokesman for the Criminal
         Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service.

         Arrested yesterday and charged with structuring were:
         Turhan Ak, 44, of 5 Miller Farm Dr., Miller Place;
         Ahmet Cayan, 32, of 95 Central Ave., Port Jefferson
         Station; Adil Bayat, 41, 4 Cobblestone La., Lake Grove;
         Yaha Bayat, 39, of 2 Wisteria Dr., Lake Grove; and
         Orhan Alparslan, 44, Rugby Dr., West Shirley.

         Still being sought were Sukru Akkaya, 42, also of 5
         Miller Farm Dr., Miller Place, and Mustafa Catalbas, 41
         of 9 Casey La., Mount Sinai.

         The raids were conducted jointly by the IRS and
         immigration enforcement, along with 100 Nassau and
         Suffolk police officers.

         Initial raids were carried out at three gas stations
         that officials said in court documents were cash
         collection points for the ring and where the leaders
         had their offices. They are a Citgo station at 1099
         Horseblock Rd. in Farmingville and two Delta stations,
         at 305 Union Blvd. in West Islip and 624 Broadway in
         North Amityville.

         Court documents filed by federal prosecutors Joseph
         Conway and Mark Lesko said cash from all the gas
         stations controlled by the ring was brought daily to
         the three collection stations. It was then broken down
         into amounts under $10,000 and deposited in several
         bank branches.

         Two of the principal bank branches where agents seized
         money yesterday were a Washington Mutual Branch in Port
         Jefferson and an HSBC branch in West Babylon. Spokesmen
         for both banks said they were cooperating with
         investigators.

         The structuring charges are the initial part of the
         investigation and officials are also looking into money
         laundering, tax evasion and smuggling charges, sources
         close to the investigation said.

         In one raid yesterday, a dozen unmarked cars filled
         with federal agents went into the Farmingville gas
         station and blocked all of its driveways. Agents
         swarmed out, seized two men and began to go through the
         station's records.

         A resident who gave only his first name, Scott, said he
         lived in the area for 14 years. "Seven or eight years
         ago, they really rebuilt the place," he said. "It was a
         dumpy little gas station before that."
         Scott said that at one point years ago, immigrants were
         living in trailers behind the gas station. "Good for
         them," he said of the federal officials.

         The five suspected ringleaders were arraigned before
         U.S. Magistrate James Orenstein at U.S. District Court
         in Central Islip and held without bail pending future
         hearings. If convicted of the structuring charge the
         defendants face up to 10 years in prison.

         Ahmet Cayan's attorney, John Andrews of Port Jefferson,
         declined to comment.

         A woman who identified herself as a family friend at
         the home of Ak and Akkaya declined to comment on their
         families' behalf. Relatives of the other suspects could
         not be reached for comment.

         Also arrested yesterday was a Yonkers woman, Natalia
         Sanchez_, 30, who was charged with staging marriages
         with four Turkish gas station workers so they could
         fraudulently obtain citizenship. Sanchez_ was released
         on $50,000 bail by Orenstein. The four people she had
         married are being sought, officials said.

         Staff writers Mitchell Freedman and Indrani Sen
         contributed to this story. END TEXT.

    ¶13. (U) Published July 6, 2004 by the International
    Organization for Migration:

         BEGIN TEXT: MOLDOVA - New Migration Information Centre
         - IOM has launched a new, multimedia summer campaign,
         as part of its Migration Information Project, to
         provide Moldovan citizens comprehensive information
         about going abroad and the dangers of trafficking.

         Working with the Moldovan Migration Department, IOM is
         creating the first ever Centre for migration
         information in Moldova.  The Centre opened with a
         website www.migratie.md  and a
         mobile information centre/minibus that will travel
         across Moldova.

         The Centre will also be closely linked with the
         national toll-free Hotline (0-800-77777) operated by
         the IOM partner NGO La Strada.  IOM personnel,
         Migration Department representatives and student
         volunteers will staff the migration bus.  They will
         distribute leaflets containing facts on countries of
         destinations, such as Italy, Portugal, Turkey and
         Russia, as well as details about obtaining visas, legal
         work and study opportunities and the dangers of
         trafficking. They will also be conducting interviews
         and gathering opinions about the needs for migration
         information.

         "With this project, IOM is providing reliable and
         objective information about legal opportunities for
         those who have decided to go abroad," said IOM Chief of
         Mission Marielle Sander-Lindstrom. "Our goal is to
         ensure that those who have decided to go abroad do so
         legally, protect themselves against those who offer
         fraudulent offers and most of all, guard against the
         dangers of human trafficking and exploitation."

         IOM and the Migration Department are launching the new
         Center with a nationwide promotion campaign.  With
         funding from the European Union, IOM has produced a 4-
         minute music video, "Undeva," by the rock band The
         Snails about a young girl who dreams of going abroad.
         Also with EU funding, IOM has created a 30-second
         public service announcement based on the video that
         promotes the hotline and website.

         The EU and the US Government are funding the campaign.
         Moldova National Television and Radio is the summer
         campaign's official media sponsor and will air the 30-
         second spot free of charge five times per day
         throughout July and will feature the "Undeva" video.
         Other sponsors include local radio and television
         stations, Patria Cinemas and Sun Communications.

         Form more information contact, IOM Chisinau, Tel:
         373.22.23 29 40 E-mail iomchisinau@iom.int.  END TEXT.

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