TonyFromTheBronx
12-05-2010, 03:51 PM
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/154015.html
Turkey accuses US diplomats of spreading "slander" across the world, stressing that the unreliable information aims at damaging ties among countries.
Alleging to be exposing the United States diplomatic cables, Wikileaks has released thousands of documents, some leveling insult against a number of world statesmen, including Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"The unserious cables of American diplomats, formed from gossip, magazines, allegations and slander are spreading worldwide via the Internet," Reuters quoted Erdogan as saying on Sunday.
Turkey has been the second country to get most of the mentions in the documents following Iraq.
The releases claim that the respected Turkish leader lacks "vision" and "analytic depth" and reads "minimally."
"Are there disclosures of state secrets, or is there another aim?...," the Turkish leader asked.
"Is it carrying out a veiled, dark propaganda? Are there efforts to affect, manipulate relations between certain countries?" he queried.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also expressed doubt about the alleged exposition, saying that the US administration has "released" the material intentionally.
"The material was not leaked, but rather released in an organized way," he said on Monday in response to a question by a Press TV correspondent.
"The countries in the region are like friends and brothers, and these malicious acts will not affect their relations," the Iranian president said.
Turkey's Interior Minister Besir Atalay said on Thursday that Israel, as opposed to others in the Middle East, has benefited from the alleged US documents, AFP reported.
"It seems to us that the country which ... is not mentioned much, especially in the Middle East, or which this development seems to favor is Israel," he said. "This is how we see it in a way when we look in the context of who is benefitting and who is being harmed," Atalay said.
'WikiLeaks documents benefited Israel'
Iran slams Wiki-release as US psywar
Turkey accuses US diplomats of spreading "slander" across the world, stressing that the unreliable information aims at damaging ties among countries.
Alleging to be exposing the United States diplomatic cables, Wikileaks has released thousands of documents, some leveling insult against a number of world statesmen, including Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"The unserious cables of American diplomats, formed from gossip, magazines, allegations and slander are spreading worldwide via the Internet," Reuters quoted Erdogan as saying on Sunday.
Turkey has been the second country to get most of the mentions in the documents following Iraq.
The releases claim that the respected Turkish leader lacks "vision" and "analytic depth" and reads "minimally."
"Are there disclosures of state secrets, or is there another aim?...," the Turkish leader asked.
"Is it carrying out a veiled, dark propaganda? Are there efforts to affect, manipulate relations between certain countries?" he queried.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also expressed doubt about the alleged exposition, saying that the US administration has "released" the material intentionally.
"The material was not leaked, but rather released in an organized way," he said on Monday in response to a question by a Press TV correspondent.
"The countries in the region are like friends and brothers, and these malicious acts will not affect their relations," the Iranian president said.
Turkey's Interior Minister Besir Atalay said on Thursday that Israel, as opposed to others in the Middle East, has benefited from the alleged US documents, AFP reported.
"It seems to us that the country which ... is not mentioned much, especially in the Middle East, or which this development seems to favor is Israel," he said. "This is how we see it in a way when we look in the context of who is benefitting and who is being harmed," Atalay said.
'WikiLeaks documents benefited Israel'
Iran slams Wiki-release as US psywar