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### Viewing cable 04ANKARA4148, TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, JULY 1-15, 2004

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04ANKARA4148 | 2004-07-28 09:43 | 2011-08-24 01:00 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy Ankara

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 08 ANKARA 004148

    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 TIP IN TURKEY
    SUBJECT: TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, JULY 1-15, 2004

    ¶1.   (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP
       public information campaigns, post provides as examples the
       following TIP press reports published in daily newspapers
       and circulated nationwide.  Text of the articles (originally
       published in Turkish) is provided through unofficial local
       FSN translation.

    ¶2. (U) Published July 14, 2004 by Tajik News source Khujand
    Leninabadskaya Pravda in Russian:

         TITLE: Tajikistan: Poverty Pushing People To Slave
         Labor, Paper Reports

         BEGIN FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT: Khujand Varorud in Russian
         on 14 July in an article entitled "Slaves of the new
         civilization" reported that Tajik nationals are
         forcibly exploited as labor or sex slaves in some
         foreign countries and poverty drives people to this.

         "Our country's citizens are often forcibly exploited as
         slaves or a free labor force (sometimes for paltry
         wages) in the steppes of Kazakhstan and on the expanses
         of Russia.   And young women are becoming the objects
         of sexual exploitation in the United Arab Emirates,
         South Korea, Turkey and China.  It is quite possible
         that forcible exploitation also exists in the country,
         but open trade is not yet an issue.  The cause of all
         this is material dependence which pushes people to
         agree to slave labor in the search for a piece of
         bread," the article said.

         The first deputy prosecutor of northern Soghd Region,
         Izzatullo Muhammadiyev, said in his interview to the
         newspaper that organized criminal groups were arranging
         trafficking in women.

         "Law-enforcement agencies of the country have
         established that some criminal groups under the guise
         of tourism and shopping tours together with residents
         of other Central Asian states take our women abroad,
         where, taking away their documents or making them
         financially dependent, force them to be engaged in
         prostitution.  During the investigation of a number of
         criminal cases we found out that they take girls out of
         the country mainly under false passports, changing
         their names, nationality and age, as well as concluding
         fictitious marriages.   In 2003, according to data
         presented by tourist organizations, 138 women and girls
         left the country on tourist visas, 91 of them to Dubai
         city, 45 to China and two to Iran.   Seven women took
         abroad with themselves their teenage daughters aged
         from 14 to 17 years," Muhammadiyev said.

         The deputy prosecutor also added that the region's law-
         enforcement bodies were operating actively in this
         field.

         "Last year, 415 loose women were detained as a result
         of checks carried out by staff of the Soghd Region
         police directorate.   The region's law-enforcement
         agencies are conducting very active and successful work
         in this area.   Sixty people, including 12 people for
         human trafficking who were members of organized
         criminal groups, have been sentenced for crimes in this
         area," he said. END TEXT.

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

         TITLE: President Sezer Meets Romanian President
         Iliescu; SEZER: ''WE REACHED CONSENSUS TO DEVELOP
         COOPERATION''

         BEGIN TEXT: BUCHAREST - Turkish President Ahmet Necdet
         Sezer, on an official visit to Romania, said on
         Thursday that he and Romanian President Ion Iliescu
         reached consensus to promote existing cooperation in
         bilateral, regional and international issues.

         Following their tete-a-tete Sezer and Iliescu chaired
         meetings between their respective delegations. Later,
         they held a joint press conference in which Sezer noted
         that bilateral relations and cooperation were
         significantly developed between the two countries
         during the last 15 years.

         There was not any political problem between Turkey and
         Romania, Sezer stressed.
         Noting that economic and commercial relations were at a
         very good level, Sezer said that Turkey was the biggest
         trade partner of Romania in the region. He stated that
         trade volume was increased to nearly 2 billion U.S.
         dollars last year.

         According to official data, Turkish businessmen's
         investments in Romania amounted to 418 million U.S.
         dollars, he noted.

         Underlining that Turkey was very pleased over Romania's
         participation in NATO Summit held in Istanbul on June
         28th and 29th, 2004, Sezer said, "I believe that we, as
         two allied countries, would maintain the solidarity and
         close contacts, contributing this way to the safeguard
         of global and regional peace and stability."

         President Sezer stressed that his visit also helped to
         boost bilateral relations that had roots deep in
         history. Recalling that Turkish Prime Minister Recep
         Tayyip Erdogan had given Romanian Prime Minister Adrian
         Nestase a replica of King Stefan of Romania's sword,
         which is currently exhibited at the Topkapi Palace in
         Istanbul, during his visit to Romania last May, Sezer
         said that the sword would now be exhibited temporarily
         at the National Arts Museum in Romania.

         Meanwhile, sources said that during his meeting with
         Romanian President Iliescu, President Sezer expressed
         his pleasure seeing Romania as a NATO ally.

         Sezer also briefed Iliescu on the latest developments
         on the Cyprus issue and asked for the support of
         Romania which is a non-permanent member of the UN
         Security Council, for the lifting of restrictions and
         embargoes imposed on the Turkish Republic of Northern
         Cyprus (TRNC), sources said.

         They added that the two leaders also discussed
         terrorist organization PKK/Kongra-Gel issue. President
         Sezer said that PKK carried out activities in Romania
         form time to time and asked that Romania took necessary
         measures against such activities.

         Sources added that the two leaders decided to initiate
         efforts to open a Turkish Culture Center in Bucharest,
         recalling that a Romanian Culture Center was already
         opened in Istanbul.

         ILIESCU: 2004 WILL BE TURKEY YEAR FOR ROMANIAN ECONOMY

         Describing bilateral relations as ''brilliant'',
         Iliescu said Sezer's visit to Romania was a follow-up
         of ''high level dialogue'' between the two countries.

         Iliescu said new fields of cooperation were probed in
         their bilateral meetings with Sezer.

         He expressed his appreciation for the successful
         organization of NATO Istanbul Summit, stating that
         important decisions were taken about NATO's future.

         Iliescu said NATO member Romania wanted to join forces
         with Turkey and other member countries to contribute to
         the strengthening of the Alliance in north of the
         Balkans and the Black Sea.

         He added Romania's full membership to NATO enhanced the
         cooperation between the two countries, stressing that
         it also contributed to the security and stability in
         the region.

         Iliescu said they also had the opportunity with Sezer
         to discuss the situation in Europe.

         Romanian President said they ''hailed'' the legal
         reforms in Turkey, stating that this would contribute
         to Turkey's bid to meet Copenhagen criteria.

         Iraq, Cyprus question, and other regional issues were
         also discussed at the meeting, Iliescu said.

         Pointing to the importance of economic relations
         between the two countries, Iliescu said they call 2004
         as ''Turkey year'' for Romanian economy and stressed
         that the volume of bilateral trade between the two
         countries would reach 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2004.
         Iliescu said he and Sezer discussed cultural relations
         like establishment of a Romanian university in Turkey.
         "International terrorism, non-proliferation of weapons
         of mass destruction, drug and human trafficking were
         also discussed at the meeting," Iliescu noted.

         Iliescu said relations between Turkey and Romania
         constituted an example for "good neighborhood". END
         TEXT.

    ¶4. (U) Tbilisi Rustavi-2 Television in Georgian on July 6,
    ¶2004.  [FBIS Translated Text]
         TITLE: Georgia: Turkish 'Captives,' Human Trafficking
         Victims, Escape From Abkhazia
         BEGIN TRANSLATION: [Presenter Nino Shubladze] Victims
         of human trafficking in Abkhazia: Three Turkish
         captives crossed the Inguri bridge [between breakaway
         Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia] to this side today.
         These people have escaped after two months of
         captivity by an Abkhaz separatist group. They were
         kept in the village of Kochora and forced to work in
         difficult conditions. The Turkish captives were given
         food only once a day and subjected to physical abuse.
         They lived as slaves.

           Now the victims are at the Gali District security
         department [subordinated to Georgia-backed government
         of Abkhazia in exile]. They are demanding release of
         other captives who remain on the territory of
         Abkhazia. According to them, 22 other people who need
         help are still in Abkhazia. [Video shows two men
         getting in a car, a group of people around a table]

         [Man, captioned as Ali Konja, Turkish citizen, in
         Turkish with Georgian translation superimposed] Many
         others also wanted to leave, but they turned back
         because they were scared. I feel terrible and I pity
         those left there. We were lucky that we had hidden a
         mobile phone and managed to contact the [Turkish]
         consulate.

         [Another man, captioned as Sertan Dilek, Turkish
         citizen, Georgian translation superimposed] We were in
         very difficult conditions. They assigned watchmen to
         us, and we were unable to contact anyone. They also
         took our documents away. Every day, they would take us
         to work in [the village of] Akarma and [the town of]
         Tqvarcheli. We were treated like slaves.

         [Gia Jikia, the chief of the Gali District security
         department, interviewed] The security ministry of
         Abkhazia [in exile] has more than once obtained
         information that foreign citizens were taken to
         Abkhazia under false promises. In fact, they are
         forcing them to work and treating them as slaves.

         [Description of Source: Tbilisi Rustavi-2 Television
         in Georgian -- Leading commercial TV station known for
         its aggressive reporting and critical attitude toward
         the country's central and regional authorities. The
         company's web site (www.rustavi2.com) claims that
         broadcasts reach "around 84 percent of the country's
         population".] END TRANSLATION.

    ¶5. (U) Published Friday, July 2, 2004 by Transitions Online
    (TOL), a Czech nonprofit organization established with
    financial and professional support from the Open Society
    Institute's (OSI) Internet program and the Media
    Development Loan Fund (MDLF):

         TITLE: Moldova's Battle Against Human Trafficking
         by Lauren Gard

         BEGIN TEXT: Moldova's efforts to crack down on
         traffickers are under funded, the crime is
         underreported, and the victims are misunderstood.

         Editor's note: This is the first in a series of
         articles by students in the University of California at
         Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, written in
         collaboration with TOL correspondents.
         Irina slides six snapshots across the table in a sunlit
         lawyer's office in northern Moldova. "I used these
         photos to put him behind bars," she says.

         One image shows the slim 21-year-old in a tank top and
         shorts lounging on a flowery futon. "This was the
         apartment in Turkey," she says. In another, she's on a
         boat in the Mediterranean Sea, her hands full of small,
         iridescent fish. "I was with a client in this one."

         Irina, a redhead with a pixie haircut and catlike,
         sparkling green eyes, stares silently at a photo of her
         Turkish captor. He stands casually by a dock in black
         pants and a white button-down shirt, smoking a
         cigarette. His dark eyes seem to gaze back at her.

         "He gave me these photos so I would have a memory of
         him," Irina says, with a thin smile. "He was stupid. I
         knew what town he was in. I knew the street, the
         apartment."

         "He" is Medmed Cara, the man who forced Irina to stay
         with him in Turkey for several months while he beat her
         and earned thousands of dollars by selling her to
         clients for sex.

         When Irina made her way back to Moldova five months
         ago, she got in touch with the Center for the
         Prevention of Trafficking in Women, a legal aid group
         set up in 2001 by the Moldovan Association of Women
         Lawyers to assist trafficking victims. The lawyers at
         the center's office in Balti, Moldova's second-largest
         city, have become Irina's closest allies. They helped
         her bring the case against the man in the snapshots. In
         March, he was found guilty of trafficking.

         "Tomorrow his sentence will be handed down," Irina
         says, gathering up the photos. "He'll get 10 to 20
         years."

         'A PERSONAL PROBLEM FOR THE GIRLS'

         Irina's case is one of more than 50 that the anti-
         trafficking center has handled here in Moldova, a tiny
         country of 4 million people with a largely agricultural
         economy--often described as the poorest country in
         Europe--sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine. The
         number of cases represents a fraction of the total
         number of Moldovan women who have been taken abroad,
         some willingly, most not, to work as prostitutes or sex
         slaves in the last decade.

         According to many estimates, since the mid-1990s more
         than 200,000 Moldovan girls and women have been
         trafficked to the Balkans, Western Europe, Russia,
         Turkey, and Dubai. Shortly after his appointment last
         year as the Organization for Security and Cooperation
         in Europe's ambassador to Moldova, William Hill told
         the BBC that Moldova had become "the largest supplier
         state in all of Europe" for trafficking victims.

         Punishing traffickers is a difficult--and new--
         challenge for law enforcement authorities in Moldova.
         Before 2001, the country had no laws against sex
         trafficking, and before 2003, none mandating minimum
         prison sentences for traffickers. Convicted traffickers
         simply paid a fine and walked away.

         Even now, court cases against traffickers are the
         exception, not the rule. Police units are underfunded
         and overwhelmed by the immensity of the problem. Unlike
         crimes like murder and theft, victims of this type of
         crime are rarely willing to talk. Some traffickers pay
         their victims to keep quiet, but most don't need to be
         bribed; they simply won't go to the police, much less
         appear in court. There is a huge fear of ruining their
         own reputation or that of their family.

         "It makes it difficult to build a case because they
         keep it all inside," says Irina's lawyer, Nelly
         Babcinschi. "They're very damaged. And it's hard for a
         girl to make a statement in court because her lawyer,
         her trafficker's lawyer, the judge, and her parents may
         all be there."

         Cracking down on traffickers is becoming more important
         to the Moldovan government, but it is still not a
         priority. A national anti-trafficking plan was adopted
         in November 2001, but it was two years before a
         committee of government ministers, state prosecutors,
         and representatives of local and international
         nongovernmental organizations was formed.
         The issue briefly gained a foothold in the public's
         mind when three international sex-trafficking
         conferences took place during the same week in March in
         Chisinau. No less than the OSCE has stepped in to help
         the government implement an anti-trafficking program,
         but if not for the efforts of small nonprofits, funded
         primarily by foreign governments like the United States
         and Sweden, observers say little would be achieved.

         Svetlana Rijicova, one of only two psychiatrists in
         Moldova who counsels trafficked girls, says the future
         looks bleak. "For the moment the government has no
         money to support anti-trafficking organizations," she
         says. "It's not a priority. It's perceived as just a
         personal problem for the girls."

         Nonprofits have focused primarily on educating girls in
         the most at-risk age group, those aged 18 to 24, and on
         forming alliances with agencies abroad to help bring
         trafficked women back. An estimated 80 percent of women
         who are trafficked knew the risks before it happened to
         them.

         "Of course I knew about it," Irina says, "but I never
         thought it would happen to me."

         Until now, Irina hasn't shared her story with anyone
         outside her lawyer's office or the courtroom. "I love
         and trust my friends, but I won't tell them because I
         don't think they can help. It's better to keep my
         feelings inside than to walk down the street and have
         people point and say, `There's that girl who was a
         prostitute in Turkey,' " she says, staring at a cup of
         black tea growing cold on the table before her. As for
         her widowed mother, who lives in a village 30
         kilometers away, "It would kill her if she knew."

         SOLD INTO SLAVERY

         Before she fell into Medmed Cara's hands, Irina was
         working as a seamstress for a Turkish pajama company in
         Balti, earning $40 a month. That's less than the
         average national wage of $56, but not bad for someone
         in Moldova who has only finished 10th grade. But it
         didn't go far. When her landlady told her about a
         bartending job in Turkey, she agreed to go. The
         International Organization for Migration (IOM)
         estimates that half of Moldovan women who are
         trafficked knew the person who "recruited" them.

         "I wanted to be rich," Irina says. "I wanted to buy my
         mom an apartment in Balti."

         Irina lied to her mother and told her she was going to
         Moscow to work, as many people in her village had done.
         Instead, she took a minivan to Ukraine, and from there
         took a ship to Istanbul. She was met at the dock by
         Cara, the man in the photo, who took her by boat to the
         popular resort town of Fethiye.

         "I refused to work as a prostitute," she says. "So he
         beat me and then raped me while a client waited outside
         in his car. He made me shower, and then I went with the
         client." Cara beat her and forced her to have sex with
         him every night after that. After two weeks, she tried
         to run away but failed. The brutal beating that
         followed knocked one of her teeth out.

         Irina decided that the only way to survive was to
         convince Cara that she loved him. The strategy worked,
         the fist-and-belt beatings lessened. Several months
         after her arrival in Turkey she called a neighbor in
         Moldova in order to speak with her mother, who has no
         phone. "She asked why my Romanian was so bad," Irina
         remembers. "I spoke only Turkish there, had no one to
         speak Romanian with." The client who let her use his
         phone said he was very sorry that she'd gotten into
         such a bad situation. Then he had sex with her.

         When her visa expired in November, Cara sent Irina back
         to Moldova with $150 in her pocket and a promise that
         he would soon follow.

         Back home, she waited and began forming a plan to
         involve the police. Law enforcement authorities are
         notoriously untrustworthy in countries where corruption
         is rampant, like Moldova. Sometimes when a girl reports
         that she has been trafficked, their response is to sell
         her back to her traffickers and pocket the money. In
         Irina's case, though, the police listened, especially
         once she told them that she had photos.

         When, true to his word, Cara came after Irina, he moved
         into her mother's house and insisted on sharing her
         bed. "My mom thought he was a boyfriend from Moscow,"
         she says. "She didn't like him. He complained all the
         time that our food wasn't spicy enough. He told her we
         were getting married. And what could I say?"

         WARNINGS GO UNHEEDED

         In a riverside village 150 kilometers east of Glinjeni,
         60 teenagers slouch in wooden chairs in a school
         auditorium. Their attention is focused on a television
         on the stage, which is showing a movie of a teenage
         girl from an unnamed former Soviet bloc country who
         jumps at an offer to travel to Sweden with her handsome
         new boyfriend. Once there, she is locked in an
         apartment, beaten, and repeatedly sold to male clients
         to be raped. The 2001 movie, Lilya 4-Ever, by Swedish
         director Lukas Moodysson, is being shown as part of a
         public education campaign by UNICEF, the IOM and the
         anti-trafficking group La Strada, with the help of a
         $100,000 grant from the U.S. State Department. The film
         ends with a desperate Lilya leaping to her death off a
         freeway overpass.

         As the credits roll a few nervous laughs can be heard
         in the cold auditorium. Ana, a college student dressed
         in neat slacks and a sweater, looks out at the young
         faces. She offers some basic information about
         trafficking, then asks if anyone in the room knows
         someone who has been trafficked.

         "My friend's mom went to Italy," a girl says, prompting
         a burst of laughter.

         "Are there any other possibilities to make a living
         other than going abroad?" Ana asks.

         "Yeah," one boy calls out, "become a prostitute here!"
         More laughter.

         "The problem is that Moldovan girls from rural areas
         are stupid. And traffickers know it," offers Oxana, 16.

         "Families can't afford to buy food and clothing. They
         would rather risk dying abroad than die here," another
         says.

         The students say they liked Lilya 4-Ever, but can't
         ever imagine being in Lilya's shoes. "There must be
         someone who would help you," one says. Before they
         leave, Ana hands out pamphlets promoting La Strada's
         trafficking hot line, which receives 250 calls a month,
         some from girls who have been trafficked to other
         countries and are desperate for help. Despite heavy
         promotion of the telephone hot line after screenings of
         the film--which has been shown in Chisinau and in
         dozens of village schools since January--the number of
         calls hasn't increased. The IOM says it is showing the
         film in an attempt to get people talking about
         trafficking, to create "a more common discourse,"
         according to Allan Freedman, IOM's deputy chief of
         mission. A pamphlet handed out at screenings reads: "We
         want this film to strengthen safeguards and inspire
         educators, social service workers, local authorities,
         and all of us on the battle's front lines."
         After the film a dozen girls gather in the chilly
         hallway to talk about their dreams for the future. Many
         have parents working abroad and have to care for
         younger siblings. Most say they dream of leaving
         Moldova. "There is no future in this country," says
         Aliona, 16, who has not seen her mother in a year.
         According to the IOM, more than 55 percent of
         trafficked women have children.
         Irina had never heard of the IOM before she went to
         Turkey, and she isn't one of the 1,200 women the
         organization has brought back to Moldova since 2001.
         She's never seen Lilya 4-Ever. Some at the IOM consider
         that a good thing, since the film's graphic depiction
         of life as a sex slave would likely summon up painful
         memories.

         LIFE GOES ON

         After lunch Irina pulls on her faux fur-lined coat and
         steps outside. She's craving a cigarette, but she walks
         a half-mile down the dirt road before pausing in the
         sheltered entrance of an abandoned building to light
         one. "Good village girls don't smoke," she says with a
         laugh.

         Further along the road, Irina stops in front of the
         house of a man she dated for two years before she was
         trafficked. She chats easily with his parents, who are
         working in the front yard, and pets their timid new
         pony. "I still love him," she says later, watching a
         few chickens skitter across the road. "But I can't tell
         him what happened because then the whole village might
         find out. So I can't be with him."

         Irina lowers her voice slightly as she walks. "I had an
         abortion here when I came home," she says, shoving her
         hands deep in her pockets. "I couldn't stay overnight
         because my mother might have found out, but I went back
         for checkups." During her four months in Turkey, almost
         none of the hundreds of men who had sex with her used
         condoms. She says Cara earned $25,000 by selling her to
         as many as 10 clients a day, seven days a week, at a
         rate of $25 an hour.

         In the center of town, Irina stops at a new Italian
         sportswear factory. "It's like the factory I used to
         work in," she says. Several of her friends labor in its
         fluorescent-lit rooms, cutting fabric and stitching
         paisley-patterned bathing suits decorated with plastic
         dangling hearts. It's chilly enough inside to need a
         thick sweater. The smell of body odor competes for
         attention with the staccato buzz of the machines. A few
         middle-aged women pump pedals and slide material along
         the narrow tables, but it is mostly young girls who
         hover behind the machines, their long hair pulled back
         in loose ponytails.

         "We prefer the younger girls, 16, 17, because they have
         no bad habits to unlearn," the factory's accountant
         says. "They are malleable and will do what we want them
         to do." In her statement there is the echo of
         traffickers, who are targeting younger and younger
         girls. The International Catholic Migration Commission
         estimates that 30 percent of trafficking victims are
         minors. The actress who stars in "Lilya 4-Ever" looks
         no older than 16.

         Although the education campaigns, film screenings, and
         government commissions have yet to make a noticeable
         dent in the problem, the battle against traffickers is
         not as one-sided as before. There are new laws--if
         Irina had been trafficked two years ago, her trafficker
         would be in Turkey now, a free man--and there are
         groups that provide legal assistance. If Irina hadn't
         been able to turn to the anti-trafficking center for
         help, more girls may have wound up in Medmed Cara's
         bed.

         Three weeks after Cara followed her to Moldova, Irina
         put her plan into action. In her pigeon Turkish, she
         offered to help him recruit some local girls. "He told
         them they would work as prostitutes but they still
         wanted to go," she says, shaking her head. "They just
         wanted money, and they trusted him."

         On a cold January day, as Cara and his newest
         acquisitions--two teenagers--drove toward Chisinau, the
         police were waiting. They stopped the car and arrested
         Cara. At his trial, Irina testified against him. Then
         she prayed. And made plans. She decided to move into a
         shelter for trafficked women in Chisinau and to study
         massage therapy.

         On 2 April, Irina learned that Cara had been sentenced
         to 10 years in a Moldovan prison. He is now a prisoner
         in a foreign land, just as Irina was. "If he had been
         free he would have killed me," she said, recalling the
         way Cara had looked at her during the trial. When she
         testified, she said, she stared him in the eye, and
         felt relief. "He must have felt the same way I did when
         I was in Turkey."

         With additional reporting by TOL correspondent Angela
         Sirbu.  END TEXT.

      ¶6. (U) Published Wednesday, June 30, 2004 by Cumhuriyet
      Newspaper:

         TITLE: GUL, POWELL LEND SUPPORT TO ANTI-TRAFFICKING
         EFFORTS

         BEGIN TEXT: Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and US
         Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday attended a
         signing ceremony between the Istanbul Municipality and
         the Foundation for Developing Human Resources paving
         the way for a future shelter for victims of human
         trafficking at Istanbul's Hilton Hotel. Stating that
         both the Turkish and US governments supported the
         shelter project, Gul thanked Powell for attending the
         ceremony. Gul added that Turkey appreciated NATO's anti-
         trafficking measures as important international steps.
         Powell also emphasized that the US placed great
         importance on the fight against human trafficking and
         that it was encouraging all countries do all they can
         to tackle this problem. END TEXT.

    ¶7. (U) Published Tuesday, June 29, 2004 by CihanNews:

         TITLE: Gul And Powell Attend Opening Ceremony At
         Shelter For Victims Of Human Trade

         BEGIN TEXT: ISTANBUL (CIHAN) - Turkish Foreign
         Minister, Abdullah Gul and US Secretary of State, Colin
         Powell attended the opening ceremony between the
         Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Human Resource
         Development Association (IKGV) to build a shelter for
         people who were victims of human trade.

         Gul made a statement before the signing ceremony and
         said he is happy to provide help to these people but
         the struggle against such crimes is difficult. Gul
         added that collaboration against these crimes and the
         development of new strategies is necessary.

         Powell also made a statement and he said that, "Turkey
         has taken a big step in the struggle against human
         trade. All governments in the world must collaborate on
         this issue." Also Powell thanked to Turkey for its
         leadership on this topic.

         Consultancy services for legal, psychological and
         medical assistance will be offered. END TEXT.

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