VZCZCXRO9252
PP RUEHGI RUEHMA RUEHROV
DE RUEHNJ #0103 0841013
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 251013Z MAR 09
FM AMEMBASSY NDJAMENA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6815
INFO RUCNFUR/DARFUR COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHAK/AMEMBASSY ANKARA PRIORITY 0004
RUEHTRO/AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI PRIORITY 0578
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
RHMFISS/HQ USAFRICOM STUTTGART GE PRIORITY

UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000103 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR AF/C, AF/SPG, NEA/MAG, AND EUR/SE 
NSC FOR GAVIN AND HUDSON 
PARIS FOR POL - DELIA AND KANEDA 
LONDON FOR POL - LORD 
ADDIS ALSO FOR USAU 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV LY SU TU ODIP CD
SUBJECT: TURKEY PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN CHAD, PERHAPS 
LATER THIS YEAR 
 
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A TURKISH EMBASSY IN CHAD? 
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¶1.  (U) Visiting Turkish AMB-Designate to Chad Omur Solendil 
told AMB March 24 that Turkey was planning to open an Embassy 
in Chad, perhaps before the end of this year. A political 
decision had been made in Ankara, Solendil said, but now the 
funding issue had to be worked out. 
 
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INCREASED TURKISH PRESENCE 
IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 
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¶2.  (U) Solendil said that the Chad Embassy was part of a 
broader effort to increase Ankara's diplomatic presence in 
Sub-Saharan Africa.  Solendil, who is resident in Tripoli and 
accredited there, said that the Chad Embassy was one of 12 
additional African posts that the Turks were planning to 
open.  Slated for establishment at about the same time as the 
embassy in Chad would be embassies in Mali, Tanzania, Ghana 
and Cameroon. 
 
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COMMENT 
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¶3.  (SBU) A Turkish Embassy here would be useful if Ankara 
were to lend its weight to  encouraging reduction in 
Chad-Sudan tensions, a solution in Darfur, and continued 
Libyan engagement to those ends. 
 
¶4.  Tripoli minimize considered. 
NIGRO