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PASS TO SPAS/POL: HAITHAM AL-MUSSAWI 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL TU
SUBJECT: NOMINATION FOR APRIL 2-13 TRAINING COURSE 
 
REF: STATE 4727 
 
Adana wishes to nominate Hamza Ulucay to participate in the FSN 
political training course.  Mr. Ulucay's skills in political 
analysis, drafting and translating are superb; he would become 
even more valuable to us if he had the knowledge of and 
experience with the organization of the Department and the 
inter-agency process.  In addition, Adana's contributions to the 
annual Human Rights Report and Religious Freedom Report are 
critical and Mr. Ulucay would benefit from interaction with DRL 
personnel responsible for those reports. 
 
Mr. Ulucay is a natural leader of the FSNs in Adana and he will 
share his experiences with younger members of our staff, 
including Adana's PD and Economic FSNs, both of whom have been 
hired in the past two years.  Mr. Ulucay is expected to continue 
working at post, and will use the training, for five to ten more 
years.  Furthermore, I am certain that during the training FSNs 
from other posts could benefit from Mr. Ulucay's extensive 
experience. 
 
Mr. Ulucay has had a few brief visits to the U.S., including a 
trip to be honored as FSN of the Year, but has not received any 
formal training there.  To our knowledge, Adana has never sent 
an FSN to participate in political training at FSI. 
 
NAME: Hamza Ulucay 
 
GRADE FSN-10/11 
 
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 27 years 
 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ABILITY: Very good. The nominee completed the 
Online Writing Lab Course PY212 Advanced Writing/American 
Studies offered between February 7 - April 29, 2005. 
 
TIME SPENT IN THE UNITED STATES: 10 days in Washington in May 
1992 to receive his Foreign Service National of the Year Award. 
10 days in Washington and Florida to translate for a Turkish 
Business Delegation who attended the March 1996 American Turkish 
Council Meeting. Three weeks in California and Washington to 
translate during a training program designed by California State 
University in August 1996 for seven elected Irrigation Union 
leaders from Sanliurfa. 
 
EXPERIENCES IN HANDLING CRISIS: Mr. Ulucay was instrumental in 
contacting Kurds who were fleeing from Iraq to the Turkish 
border as a result of Saddam's use of chemical weapons in 1988 
and interviewing victims about their experiences. Before the 
1991 Gulf War, he went to the border to assist American citizens 
and Embassy personnel fleeing Iraq and Kuwait, and traveled 
extensively to help coordinate the U.S. response to the Kurdish 
refugee crisis. He served as translator for Secretary Baker and 
other officials in Northern Iraq, served as liaison and 
translator during the three-week search for American tourists 
kidnapped by insurgents, and served as translator for Madame 
Albright during her November 1999 OSCE visit to Istanbul. He 
served as translator and liaison for the American experts who 
probed the Avian Flue Outbreak in Eastern Turkey in January 
¶2006. He also served as liaison and coordinator between the 
Turkish and American officials in the evacuation of 1700 
American nationals fleeing Beirut in 2006. 
 
PREVIOUS TRAINING IN THE UNITED STATES: None 
 
GREEN