700.00(S)/8–250: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Offices 1
Infotel. In aide-mémoire handed Emb Ankara by Turk PriMin,2 Turk urges our present close collaboration be brought “to contractual stage” as link in security system, and that mil and econ aid “respond to exigencies of present hour”. Aide-mémoire requests US see to it that measures taken to examine and resolve question of Turkey’s admission Atlantic Pact system with minimum delay. PriMin told Emb orders for reorganization Turkey’s armed forces along lines our mil mission’s recommendations had been issued, and stressed urgency of completing mil airfields project. FonMin stated broader Turk-US mil and econ collaboration might in present emergency require additional US aid. Was agreed that analyses econ and mil needs wld be prepared by our ECA and mil missions respectively in collaboration with Turk authorities.
- Sent to London, Paris, and Moscow.↩
- Prime Minister Adnan Menderes handed the aide-mémoire to Ambassador Wadsworth during their conversation on July 30. The conversation was reported in telegram 44 from Istanbul, July 31; not printed, 782.5/7–3150. The aide-mémoire, dated July 29, was transmitted in French and unofficial English translation to Washington in despatch 62 from Istanbul, August 5: not printed, 882.10/8–550.↩