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Sunday, October 24, 2010
EMRE KIZILKAYA
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet
The nearly 400,000 secret documents related to the war in Iraq that were leaked online Saturday include numerous links to Turkey, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks said Friday, adding that more are waiting for translation.
According to one document, dated Feb. 25, 2006, a person caught carrying a false passport in Hsalbah, located south of Habur, told the American soldiers who detained him that he was working with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
“We were trained in PKK camps in the ... [name censured] mountains on how to attack Turkey. I am here to gather information for a propaganda article that will be published in a newspaper. I am responsible for PKK propaganda,” the man said, according to the document. The American soldiers’ report said that as the captured man’s life could be at risk due to “his ... [name censured] dialect,” he was not turned over to the Iraqi police, and the “file was closed.”
The approximately 392,000 secret documents published Saturday by WikiLeaks followed the site’s release in July of 77,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan. The latest leak includes evidence that the U.S. military knew of incidents of torture perpetrated by members of the post-Saddam Hussein Iraqi government but did not investigate them.
Another document in the latest batch related to Turkey, which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discussed at a press conference Friday, said “Turkish-citizen freedom fighters” were among the people caught by the U.S. “LAR” task force Nov. 17, 2004. According to the report, these insurgents were mostly seen around the towns of Tikrit and Bakuba.
Another document said insurgents who orchestrated the explosion of a bridge near Baghdad “were financed by Turkey.”
A gun found in an insurgent’s house on Aug. 8, 2009, was marked “Made in Turkey,” according to one document, as were the wires used by insurgents to construct a homemade bomb, according to another document, this one dated July 29, 2008.
Some of the reports used coded language. A March 20, 2006, report, for example, read: “Plenty of water has come from Turkey. A big wave will attack Baghdad within four hours. People are expanding the irrigation channels.”
More documents to come
Assange also said Friday that WikiLeaks was in need of Turkish-speaking volunteers to translate other documents in its possession that are related to Turkey.
“We also have plenty of documents related to Turkey’s EU membership [negotiations],” Assange said. “We must be very careful while assessing them and the documents must be translated literally.”
EMRE KIZILKAYA
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet
The nearly 400,000 secret documents related to the war in Iraq that were leaked online Saturday include numerous links to Turkey, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks said Friday, adding that more are waiting for translation.
According to one document, dated Feb. 25, 2006, a person caught carrying a false passport in Hsalbah, located south of Habur, told the American soldiers who detained him that he was working with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
“We were trained in PKK camps in the ... [name censured] mountains on how to attack Turkey. I am here to gather information for a propaganda article that will be published in a newspaper. I am responsible for PKK propaganda,” the man said, according to the document. The American soldiers’ report said that as the captured man’s life could be at risk due to “his ... [name censured] dialect,” he was not turned over to the Iraqi police, and the “file was closed.”
The approximately 392,000 secret documents published Saturday by WikiLeaks followed the site’s release in July of 77,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan. The latest leak includes evidence that the U.S. military knew of incidents of torture perpetrated by members of the post-Saddam Hussein Iraqi government but did not investigate them.
Another document in the latest batch related to Turkey, which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discussed at a press conference Friday, said “Turkish-citizen freedom fighters” were among the people caught by the U.S. “LAR” task force Nov. 17, 2004. According to the report, these insurgents were mostly seen around the towns of Tikrit and Bakuba.
Another document said insurgents who orchestrated the explosion of a bridge near Baghdad “were financed by Turkey.”
A gun found in an insurgent’s house on Aug. 8, 2009, was marked “Made in Turkey,” according to one document, as were the wires used by insurgents to construct a homemade bomb, according to another document, this one dated July 29, 2008.
Some of the reports used coded language. A March 20, 2006, report, for example, read: “Plenty of water has come from Turkey. A big wave will attack Baghdad within four hours. People are expanding the irrigation channels.”
More documents to come
Assange also said Friday that WikiLeaks was in need of Turkish-speaking volunteers to translate other documents in its possession that are related to Turkey.
“We also have plenty of documents related to Turkey’s EU membership [negotiations],” Assange said. “We must be very careful while assessing them and the documents must be translated literally.”
