US embassy cable - 04ANKARA6865

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 ANKARA 006865 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR G/TIP, G, INL, INL/CTR, DRL, EUR/PGI, EUR/SE 
DEPARTMENT FOR VALERIE KWOK USAID E&E/ECA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM, PHUM, PGOV, SMIG, PREF, KWMN, TU, TIP IN TURKEY 
SUBJECT: TIP: GOT PUSHING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PROTOCOLS 
WITH SOURCE COUNTRIES 
 
1. (U) During a visit to Ankara led by US Embassy Chisinau in 
November (septel), a Moldovan anti-TIP government delegation 
heard high-handed criticism from Turkish interlocutors about 
Moldova's failure to respond to a GOT-proposed anti-TIP 
protocol (para 3).  The draft protocol, according to MFA DDG 
for Consular Affairs and TIP Task Force Deputy Director 
Haldun Otman, is the first step in establishing direct 
police-to-police and prosecutor-to-prosecutor communication 
in cross-border human trafficking cases. 
 
2. (U) COMMENT: Otman has repeatedly asserted to us that the 
MFA first offered through diplomatic channels draft protocols 
to source country Embassies in Ankara (including Azerbaijan, 
Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, 
and Ukraine) on November 20, 2003, and again in February 
2004.  We have confirmed that the embassies of Belarus, 
Egypt, Georgia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine have received 
the draft protocol.  According to Otman, only Minsk and Kiev 
have reached official agreements with Ankara on a TIP 
protocol.  Until source countries agree on a formal anti-TIP 
protocol with the GOT, Otman and Security Director Mehmet 
Terzioglu, have repeatedly told us that direct law 
enforcement cooperation is "inappropriate". END COMMENT. 
 
3. (U) BEGIN TEXT OF GOT-PROPOSED DRAFT PROTOCOL: 
 
PROTOCOL 
BETWEEN 
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY AND THE 
GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 
ON THE COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF TRAFFICKING IN 
HUMAN BEINGS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE AGREEMENT ON 
FIGHTING AGAINST INTERNATIONAL ILLICIT DRUG 
TRAFFICKING, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND OTHER 
ORGANIZED CRIME 
 
Pursuant to the cooperation in the field of trafficking in 
human beings of the "Cooperation Agreement between the 
Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of 
the Republic of Moldova on Fighting Against International 
Illicit Drug Trafficking, International Terrorism and other 
Organized Crime", the Government of the Republic of Turkey 
and the Government of the Republic of Moldova hereinafter 
(are) referred (to) as "Parties"; 
 
Deeply concerned by the fact that trafficking in human 
beings, which constitutes one of the transnational organized 
crimes and is spread out every other day in the world and in 
our region, provides huge profits to organized crime networks 
and is also related to narcotics and arms trafficking, as 
well as smuggling of migrants; 
 
Realizing that trafficking in human beings can be coped with, 
through timely and effective international cooperation; 
 
Emphasizing the importance of providing judicial, 
humanitarian, psychological and medical assistance to victims 
of trafficking in human beings, facilitating their return to 
their countries and assuring their reintegration and taking 
the necessary measures in arresting the perpetrators and 
creating public awareness; 
 
Recognizing the importance of the efforts in stopping the 
trafficking in human beings by bringing to light the crime 
networks; 
 
Stressing the need to strengthen the cooperation and 
coordination between the Republic of Turkey and the Republic 
of Moldova in combating trafficking in human beings; 
 
Have agreed, to promote measures, in accordance with their 
respective national legislation and procedures with a view to: 
 
1.  Completing the necessary national legal infrastructure in 
the field of trafficking in human beings and taking the other 
necessary administrative and institutional measures; 
2.  Establishing a regional network between the 
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in the countries which 
face this problem: 
 
3.  Supporting the victims of trafficking in human beings, 
following the establishment of the conditions by the Parties 
in the framework of humanitarian, psychological and medical 
care; 
 
4. Ensuring the victims to testify in the framework of the 
national legal systems of the Parties, in order to arrest the 
perpetrators and protecting these victims; 
 
5.  Creating public awareness in the relevant institutions on 
trafficking in human beings; 
 
6.  Creating awareness, in their respective countries, among 
the persons traveling abroad and might be subject to 
trafficking in human beings; 
 
7.  Designating point of contacts in their respective 
countries, where information on victims of trafficking in 
human beings will be collected and which will coordinate the 
issue of trafficking in human beings and sharing the 
collected information with the other Party; 
 
8.  Training of law enforcement agents in combating 
trafficking in human trafficking in human beings, organizing 
joint training programmes, exchanging experts of each country 
and increasing cooperation opportunities; 
 
9.  Providing cooperation between the scientific and academic 
institutions, exchanging experts of each country in order to 
share experience and knowledge; 
 
10.  Tasking the competent authorities in the two countries 
with the implementation of this Protocol. 
 
This Protocol shall enter into force upon notification in 
writing by both Parties to each other that they have 
completed their national procedures. 
 
Each Party may propose amendments to the present Protocol, 
Amendments shall enter into force upon their acceptance by 
all parties in accordance with the provisions of the above 
mentioned paragraph. 
 
Each Party may give notice of withdrawal from the Protocol by 
written notification to the other Party. 
 
In witness wherof (sic) the undersigned, being duly 
authorized thereto by their respective Government, have 
signed this Protocol. 
 
Done at ......., this ........ 
 
FOR THE GOVERNMENT 
OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY 
 
FOR THE GOVERNMENT 
OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 
 
END TEXT OF DRAFT PROTOCOL. 
EDELMAN