The Turkish military sought to acquire a large amount of U.S.-built weaponry, from armed unmanned aircraft to attack helicopters, to support its ongoing counterterrorism campaign against Kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq, according to classified State Department documents released this week. In an October 2009 secret cable to Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow, U.S. ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey outlined Ankara's desire to procure a number of the Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to...
