{"id":27254,"date":"2010-11-29T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T07:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27254"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:47:39","slug":"wikileaks-documents-point-to-turkish-u-s-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/29\/wikileaks-documents-point-to-turkish-u-s-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks documents point to Turkish-U.S. tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked U.S. cable describes Turkish PM as having &#8216;little understanding of politics beyond Ankara&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>By Reuters<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27256\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27256\" title=\"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the inauguration ceremony of a Turkish Trauma and Emergency hospital in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010.  Photo by: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tayyip_wikileaks.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the inauguration ceremony of a Turkish Trauma and Emergency hospital in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010.  Photo by: AP\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the inauguration ceremony of a Turkish Trauma and Emergency hospital in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010.  Photo by: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>U.S. diplomats have cast doubts on the reliability of NATO ally Turkey, portraying its<\/p>\n<p>leadership as divided and permeated by Islamists, according to the German Der Spiegel magazine&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel, citing U.S. diplomatic documents released on Sunday by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, said advisers to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan were described as having &#8220;little understanding of politics beyond Ankara&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan has introduced sweeping liberal economic reforms in pursuit of Europan Union membership since his AK Party was first elected by a landslide in 2002. He denies accusations by secularists that he harbours secret Islamist ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel cited a cable as saying Erdogan had surrounded himself with an &#8220;iron ring of sycophantic (but contemptuous) advisors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has traditionally close relations with Washington, but ties have been strained of late, partly as a result of Ankara&#8217;s falling out with Israel over its invasion of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leaked diplomatic cables reveal that U.S. diplomats are skeptical about Turkey&#8217;s dependability as a partner &#8230; The leadership in Ankara is depicted as divided and permeated by Islamists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel&#8217;s website gave few details or direct quotations from the cables but said its magazine would provide a broader account on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>via WikiLeaks documents point to Turkish-U.S. tensions &#8211; Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked U.S. cable describes Turkish PM as having &#8216;little understanding of politics beyond Ankara&#8217;. By Reuters U.S. diplomats have cast doubts on the reliability of NATO ally Turkey, portraying its leadership as divided and permeated by Islamists, according to the German Der Spiegel magazine&#8217;s website. Der Spiegel, citing U.S. diplomatic documents released on Sunday by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":27256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4540],"class_list":["post-27254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}