Ahmet Davutoglu: Turkey scouring diplomatic cables from U.S. embassy in Ankara

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey is scouring diplomatic cables from the U.S. embassy in Ankara published by Wikileaks.org, and will be comparing them with its diplomats’ own versions of events covered, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

“All of the documents we’ve obtained are being examined down to every last comma,” Davutoglu told Turkish reporters after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on November 29. “We’re comparing them to our own notes, because those documents also have an Ankara version that has never been leaked and God willing, never will.”

Davutoglu said Clinton apologized to the Turkish government and to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the leaked documents, around 8,000 of which originated from the U.S. embassy in Ankara. The leaks are “a great misfortune in the history of diplomacy” and will have no effect on Turkey’s foreign policy perspective or positions of principle, he said, Bloomberg reported.