Cablegate: Leahy Vetting: Request for Department Review Of

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DEPARTMENT FOR DRL/PHD, PM/ISO, PM/RSAT, L/PM AND EUR/SE

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: MARR PREL PGOV TU
SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF
TURKISH IMET CANDIDATES - TRAVEL SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER
21, 2009

1. This is an action request. See para. 2.

2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidates for an
International Military Education and Training (IMET)
sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that
Department conduct a name check on these candidates in
appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and advise Post
whether any derogatory information was found.

3. Candidates to attend the Regional Security Threats
Seminar in Bucharest, Romania 09/21/09-09/24/09:

Name: Yavuz Ozdemir
Title: Police Chief Superintendant
Unit: Deputy Head of the Anti-Terrorism Department
Organization: Turkish National Police
DPOB: 10/09/1968-Samsun

Name: Samih Teymur
Title: Police Chief
Unit: Turkish Institute for Police Studies
Organization: Turkish National Police
DPOB: 01/20/1970-Erzurum

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