Cablegate: U.S. Diplomatic Ties With Mexico, Turkey Not Hurt By WikiLeaks
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The leaders of American allies' Turkey and Mexico said the "deplorable action" of WikiLeaks--as President Barack Obama called them--would not hurt their respective country's relationship with the United States.
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (Creative Commons)
Obama phoned both Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday morning to express his regret over the leak of some 251,000 diplomatic cables that reveal embarassing and minute details about America's under-the-table foreign policy dealings.
The pledge from both Mexico and Turkey to remain cooperative post-leak suggests WikiLeaks' effect on America's strongest relationships is negligible.
WikiLeaks cables have revealed that Turkey is among several countries near Iraq that are trying to interfere with the war-torn country, Iraq's president told US defense secretary Robert Gates. Other cables show Turkey may have helped al-Qaeda and that the pope as well as German's foreign minister didn't want Turkey to join the European Union.
Another cable criticized Erdogan and questioned the strength of an alliance with Turkey. Per Reuters:
U.S. diplomats cast doubts on the reliability of NATO ally Turkey, portraying its leadership as divided and permeated by Islamists and said advisers to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan had "little understanding of politics beyond Ankara.
Cables involving Mexico have been far less revealing, focusing on the nation's widely-reported problems stopping the proliferation of drugs and controlling the cartels behind them.
