Documents disclosed by WikiLeaks will not seriously affect the U.S. Turkish relations, reads the article by Dogu Ergil posted on Today’s Zaman website. Meanwhile, “the unpublished ones still have the possibility of souring relations between the two countries”, he added.

“The general impressions coming from the texts are that the U.S. is pressuring Turkey to support it in all policies, especially those concerning Iran, and that Turkey is maintaining a more independent stance on a variety of issues,” the article reads.

The author mentions that disclosed secret cables could “please any Turkish nationalist who opposes the incumbent Justice and Development Party foreign policy for being too obedient to the US and the EU.” He brings as an example a long cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in Ankara to Washington concerning meeting between U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and his Turkish counterpart Feridun Sinirlioglu.