Recent street violence against the diplomatic presence of Turkey, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia triggered strong condemnation, as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad becomes increasingly isolated.
Following the suspension of Syria's membership in the Arab League, thousands of al-Assad supporters attacked embassies, targeting Turkey in particular. In addition to the Turkish Embassy in Damascus, the Turkish Consulate in Aleppo and the honorary consulate in Latakia were also targeted
On Sunday, Ankara strongly protested Syria as it evacuated 68 people, the families of its diplomatic staff in Syria. Turkey used the same method when the Libyan crisis escalated, gradually completing the evacuation of Turkish citizens from the North African country.
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Turkey Firm Against Any Assault on Iran
Turkey is against any military strike on Iran, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Saturday, warning that any speculation risked destabilizing the region.
"We do not think it is right even to talk of possible military intervention in the region," Davutoğlu said at a press conference before his departure to Serbia for a formal visit. "We are against such intervention and believe it would create more instability."
Davutoğlu said Turkey could not accept even "the slightest chance of any military intervention" in the region.
"Not only this or that country, the whole region must be free of nuclear weapons. It is unacceptable that countries suspected of having nuclear weapons cause new tension in our region," he said.
His comments come amid speculation that Israel could launch a strike on Iran with President Shimon Peres warning last weekend that an attack was becoming "more and more likely." Tehran responded by threatening to hit back against any attack or even the threat of military action.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, meanwhile, made its hardest-hitting assessment yet about Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive.
"It is necessary to eliminate nuclear weapons not only in this or that country, but in the whole region," Davutoğlu said.
The Turkish foreign minister also called on both Iran and the United Nations atomic agency to be "clear and open" in their allegations and responses.
"Allegations by the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran's answers to those allegations should be crystal clear. We cannot afford ambiguities and unnecessary tensions on this issue," Davutoğlu said.
Davutoğlu said talks between Iran and Western countries should resume at once over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. He also said Turkey supported the contents of a letter sent by the European Union's High Representative Catherine Ashton to Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
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New Charter Will not Solve All Problems
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek said people should not anticipate too much from the new constitution because not all of Turkey's problems arise from the current constitution.
"It is incorrect to expect that the constitution will solve all of the problems," Çiçek said in a state-run TRT interview Sunday. "Current problems of Turkey do not derive from the constitution. The constitution is important, but the idea of 'the [new] constitution equals zero problems' is wrong. This is fooling ourselves."
Çiçek said he does not lean toward the calls of the opposition for democratic reforms to be carried out simultaneously with the drafting of the new constitution.
"If we bring the issues other than its task to this commission, we cannot maintain this process efficiently. We said we should finalize it by the end of 2012," Çiçek said. "It's not true to consider the new constitution will finalize all of the problems in Turkey. This would make our task more difficult. The constitution provides capability to produce solution to the legislation."
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U.S. Congress Approves Gunship Sale to Turkey
The United States Congress formally approved the sale of three U.S.-made AH-1W attack helicopters from the U.S. Marine Corps inventory to the Turkish Army.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA, the Pentagon's arms-selling body, notified Congress on Oct. 28 of its intention to sell three AH-1W Super Cobra gun ships, made by the U.S. Bell Helicopter Textron, to Turkey, whose Army uses these gun ships effectively against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been waging a violent campaign in the country's southeast.
In the event of no opposition from the Senate, Congress' upper chamber, arms sales to NATO partners become automatic in 15 days. The deadline was Nov. 12 for the Super Cobra deal; it passed without a Senate veto.
Before notifying Congress officially, the DSCA makes informal pre-consultations in the Senate to see if any senators plan to veto an arms deal. It notifies Congress of a planned sale only after it becomes almost certain that the deal will face no obstacles.
Some members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congress' lower chamber, have voiced opposition to the Turkish deal, but representatives do not have the veto power of senators.
The deal is worth $111 million. Three helicopters are expected to be sent to Turkey in the next few months and be ready for combat before the summer, when the PKK usually launches its usual attacks.
Turkey had acquired 10 such helicopters in the 1990s, but only six remain operational.
In recent years, Ankara has been asking Washington to transfer more AH-1Ws, but the United States rejected earlier Turkish requests, saying its Marine Corps was using all 170 AH-1Ws in the war in Afghanistan.
This time, a positive U.S. response was prompted by Ankara's decision last month to host an X-band radar on its soil as part of a planned NATO shield system to counter potential ballistic missile attacks from rogue states. The U.S. administration proposed the sale from its Marines' present inventory.
Toward the end of next year, Italy's Agusta Westland, which has a multi-billion dollar contract for joint production of 50 T-129 attack helicopters with Turkish Aerospace Industries, is expected to begin deliveries to the Turkish Army.
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U.S. Deployed Predators to Incirlik, Davutoglu Says
The United States has deployed four MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to Turkey's southern airbase of İncirlik as part of efforts to continue Iraq-related surveillance of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said late Saturday.
The Predators will enter service against the PKK by Nov. 22, the Anatolia news agency quoted Davutoğlu saying.
Under a November 2007 agreement between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former President George W. Bush in Washington, the U.S. military has been sharing electronic intelligence on the PKK's activities inside Iraq, obtained by the Predators, with its Turkish counterparts. The Turkish military has conducted several air operations against the PKK targets in Iraq based on such information.
Under an agreement with the Iraqi government, the U.S. will fully withdraw its military forces from that country before the year's end. As a result, it has deployed the four anti-PKK drones, formerly based in Iraq, at İncirlik, Davutoğlu said.
These four Predators are distinct from the drones Turkey has asked to purchase from the U.S. In early 2009, Turkey requested to buy four MQ-1 Predator surveillance drones and two armed versions of the UAV, the MQ-9 Reaper, from the U.S., but Washington still has not responded.
Separately, Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım said Sunday that Turkey would soon be able to locally produce all of its major arms systems.
"We will soon see Turkey among a small number of countries after the U.S. and Israel that can manufacture UAVs that have strategic capabilities," Yıldırım said at a ceremony in the eastern town of Erzurum, according to the Anatolia news agency.
He was referring to the Anka drone, designed and being produced by Turkish Aerospace Industries, or TAI. TAI recently completed a successful first flight test on the Anka and plans to complete the manufacturing stage next year.
"In 2023, which marks the 100th anniversary of our republic, we will together reach our target to become a Turkey that designs, manufactures and exports its own national weapons, guns, tanks, helicopters, aircraft, UAVs and satellites," Yıldırım said.
Yıldırım said Turkey has become a modernization center for many countries' F-16 fighter aircrafts.
"In 2002, our defense industry exports totaled only $247 million. Last year we exceeded $1 billion," he said. "In three or four years we will exceed $5 billion."
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Turkey Evacuates Families of Diplomats in Syria
Families of Turkish diplomats returned to Turkey after the country decided to evacuate them following violent protests that involved hundreds of Syrian government supporters who attacked the Turkish embassy Saturday in Damascus, as well as its chief consulate in Aleppo and honorary consulate in Latakia.
"The Turkish ambassador in Damascus, and other diplomatic personnel, will remain on duty," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the Turkish Embassy after the Arab League voted to suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against the Syrian regime over its failure to end crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Pro-government demonstrators gathered outside the embassy in the evening as their numbers quickly reached to a thousand during the one-and-a-half-hour demonstration. They chanted anti-Turkey slogans, hurled rocks and tried to force their way in through the main gate of the embassy compound.
Turkey's Chief Consulate in Aleppo and the country's honorary consulate in Latakia were also attacked in simultaneous demonstrations.
No embassy or consulate staff was hurt in the violent protests.
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Ankara Issues Diplomatic Note to Damascus after Consulate Attacks
Ankara issued a diplomatic note to Syria on Sunday to communicate its concern about Saturday's attacks on its embassy in Damascus, as well as consulates in other cities, which were carried out by roughly 1,000 pro-regime supporters who hurled stones and bottles at the embassy building.
"It is, without a doubt, significant for the attacks to target Turkish missions in a stronger and more intensive fashion and for this to have happened in the immediate aftermath of the decision by the Arab League [on Saturday]," a written statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. "It is a matter of honor and responsibility" for a host country to protect members of foreign missions., the statement read.
The ministry also issued a warning to Turkish nationals not to travel to Syria unless absolutely necessary due to difficulties in establishing public order, while also urging those currently in Syria to be cautious and remain in contact with Turkish missions at all times.
The attacks came on Saturday evening when around 1,000 pro-regime protestors gathered in Damascus to avenge the decision by the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership and employ economic sanctions in response to its failure to fulfill its promise and stop its crackdowns. The mob attacked the Turkish embassy with stones and bottles until Syrian police intervened to stop, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday. The protestors also targeted French, Qatari and Saudi Arabian missions in the country. No casualties were reported.
Hours after the assaults, accompanied by minor attacks against Turkish consulates in Aleppo and Latakia, Turkey decided to pull out the families of embassy personnel in Damascus, as well as some members of non-essential staff at the mission, Anatolia reported, citing diplomatic sources.
In a separate note released on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry hailed the decision of the Arab League to suspend Syria as a sensible and timely step that displayed the seriousness of the situation in the country.
"It has been disappointing for Turkey, like everybody else, to see that the Syrian regime has, up to this day, failed to fulfill the pledges it made on Nov. 2 in line with an agreement it reached with the Arab League," the ministry said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu hailing the decision by the Arab League, whose officials he maintains in close contact with on developments in Syria, said the league had made the right move and Turkey was in full support of the decision.
"We were hoping for the league's initiative to be successful," Davutoğlu told reporters from Serbia, noting that the Arab League was engaged in talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the bloodshed, but the al-Assad regime had failed yet another opportunity to fulfill its promises. "The Syrian regime should perceive this as a clear message that the legitimacy of an administration that uses violence against its own people comes under question everywhere."
Whether the suspension of Syria's membership pushes Syria's oppositional council, which has managed to organize itself in Turkey, to the surface and earns them recognition remains unknown. Davutoğlu highlighted that both Turkey and the chief of the Arab League have remained in contact with the Syrian National Council, or SNC, will continue to have talks with the group throughout November after which Turkey will consult with the league again and decide on the next move.
Syrian opposition gathered in Turkey on a number of occasions until it was able to come up with a council to speak for the demands of the Syrian people, as Turkey reiterated that it was a democratic country and such peaceful gatherings were welcome to take place in the country, much to the dissent of al-Assad and his supporters.
"Just as our efforts found no answer from the Syrian regime, the efforts of the Arab League extended in goodwill were met with no responses," Davutoğlu said, clarifying exhaustion with the al-Assad regime and noting that the league's move showed that the body's stance on the Syrian issue was becoming clearer. The Turkish foreign minister also announced that a Turkish-Arabic Forum, to be held in Morocco on Nov. 16, will unite foreign ministers from many countries, as the debated next moves will be further clarified.
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Turkey Calls for Unity Against Syrian Regime
Recent street violence against the diplomatic presence of Turkey, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia triggered strong condemnation, as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad becomes increasingly isolated.
Following the suspension of Syria's membership in the Arab League, thousands of al-Assad supporters attacked embassies, targeting Turkey in particular. In addition to the Turkish Embassy in Damascus, the Turkish Consulate in Aleppo and the honorary consulate in Latakia were also targeted
On Sunday, Ankara strongly protested Syria as it evacuated 68 people, the families of its diplomatic staff in Syria. Turkey used the same method when the Libyan crisis escalated, gradually completing the evacuation of Turkish citizens from the North African country.
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Turkey Firm Against Any Assault on Iran
Turkey is against any military strike on Iran, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Saturday, warning that any speculation risked destabilizing the region.
"We do not think it is right even to talk of possible military intervention in the region," Davutoğlu said at a press conference before his departure to Serbia for a formal visit. "We are against such intervention and believe it would create more instability."
Davutoğlu said Turkey could not accept even "the slightest chance of any military intervention" in the region.
"Not only this or that country, the whole region must be free of nuclear weapons. It is unacceptable that countries suspected of having nuclear weapons cause new tension in our region," he said.
His comments come amid speculation that Israel could launch a strike on Iran with President Shimon Peres warning last weekend that an attack was becoming "more and more likely." Tehran responded by threatening to hit back against any attack or even the threat of military action.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, meanwhile, made its hardest-hitting assessment yet about Iran's suspected nuclear weapons drive.
"It is necessary to eliminate nuclear weapons not only in this or that country, but in the whole region," Davutoğlu said.
The Turkish foreign minister also called on both Iran and the United Nations atomic agency to be "clear and open" in their allegations and responses.
"Allegations by the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran's answers to those allegations should be crystal clear. We cannot afford ambiguities and unnecessary tensions on this issue," Davutoğlu said.
Davutoğlu said talks between Iran and Western countries should resume at once over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. He also said Turkey supported the contents of a letter sent by the European Union's High Representative Catherine Ashton to Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
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New Charter Will not Solve All Problems
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek said people should not anticipate too much from the new constitution because not all of Turkey's problems arise from the current constitution.
"It is incorrect to expect that the constitution will solve all of the problems," Çiçek said in a state-run TRT interview Sunday. "Current problems of Turkey do not derive from the constitution. The constitution is important, but the idea of 'the [new] constitution equals zero problems' is wrong. This is fooling ourselves."
Çiçek said he does not lean toward the calls of the opposition for democratic reforms to be carried out simultaneously with the drafting of the new constitution.
"If we bring the issues other than its task to this commission, we cannot maintain this process efficiently. We said we should finalize it by the end of 2012," Çiçek said. "It's not true to consider the new constitution will finalize all of the problems in Turkey. This would make our task more difficult. The constitution provides capability to produce solution to the legislation."
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U.S. Congress Approves Gunship Sale to Turkey
The United States Congress formally approved the sale of three U.S.-made AH-1W attack helicopters from the U.S. Marine Corps inventory to the Turkish Army.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA, the Pentagon's arms-selling body, notified Congress on Oct. 28 of its intention to sell three AH-1W Super Cobra gun ships, made by the U.S. Bell Helicopter Textron, to Turkey, whose Army uses these gun ships effectively against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been waging a violent campaign in the country's southeast.
In the event of no opposition from the Senate, Congress' upper chamber, arms sales to NATO partners become automatic in 15 days. The deadline was Nov. 12 for the Super Cobra deal; it passed without a Senate veto.
Before notifying Congress officially, the DSCA makes informal pre-consultations in the Senate to see if any senators plan to veto an arms deal. It notifies Congress of a planned sale only after it becomes almost certain that the deal will face no obstacles.
Some members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congress' lower chamber, have voiced opposition to the Turkish deal, but representatives do not have the veto power of senators.
The deal is worth $111 million. Three helicopters are expected to be sent to Turkey in the next few months and be ready for combat before the summer, when the PKK usually launches its usual attacks.
Turkey had acquired 10 such helicopters in the 1990s, but only six remain operational.
In recent years, Ankara has been asking Washington to transfer more AH-1Ws, but the United States rejected earlier Turkish requests, saying its Marine Corps was using all 170 AH-1Ws in the war in Afghanistan.
This time, a positive U.S. response was prompted by Ankara's decision last month to host an X-band radar on its soil as part of a planned NATO shield system to counter potential ballistic missile attacks from rogue states. The U.S. administration proposed the sale from its Marines' present inventory.
Toward the end of next year, Italy's Agusta Westland, which has a multi-billion dollar contract for joint production of 50 T-129 attack helicopters with Turkish Aerospace Industries, is expected to begin deliveries to the Turkish Army.
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U.S. Deployed Predators to Incirlik, Davutoglu Says
The United States has deployed four MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to Turkey's southern airbase of İncirlik as part of efforts to continue Iraq-related surveillance of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said late Saturday.
The Predators will enter service against the PKK by Nov. 22, the Anatolia news agency quoted Davutoğlu saying.
Under a November 2007 agreement between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former President George W. Bush in Washington, the U.S. military has been sharing electronic intelligence on the PKK's activities inside Iraq, obtained by the Predators, with its Turkish counterparts. The Turkish military has conducted several air operations against the PKK targets in Iraq based on such information.
Under an agreement with the Iraqi government, the U.S. will fully withdraw its military forces from that country before the year's end. As a result, it has deployed the four anti-PKK drones, formerly based in Iraq, at İncirlik, Davutoğlu said.
These four Predators are distinct from the drones Turkey has asked to purchase from the U.S. In early 2009, Turkey requested to buy four MQ-1 Predator surveillance drones and two armed versions of the UAV, the MQ-9 Reaper, from the U.S., but Washington still has not responded.
Separately, Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım said Sunday that Turkey would soon be able to locally produce all of its major arms systems.
"We will soon see Turkey among a small number of countries after the U.S. and Israel that can manufacture UAVs that have strategic capabilities," Yıldırım said at a ceremony in the eastern town of Erzurum, according to the Anatolia news agency.
He was referring to the Anka drone, designed and being produced by Turkish Aerospace Industries, or TAI. TAI recently completed a successful first flight test on the Anka and plans to complete the manufacturing stage next year.
"In 2023, which marks the 100th anniversary of our republic, we will together reach our target to become a Turkey that designs, manufactures and exports its own national weapons, guns, tanks, helicopters, aircraft, UAVs and satellites," Yıldırım said.
Yıldırım said Turkey has become a modernization center for many countries' F-16 fighter aircrafts.
"In 2002, our defense industry exports totaled only $247 million. Last year we exceeded $1 billion," he said. "In three or four years we will exceed $5 billion."
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Turkey Evacuates Families of Diplomats in Syria
Families of Turkish diplomats returned to Turkey after the country decided to evacuate them following violent protests that involved hundreds of Syrian government supporters who attacked the Turkish embassy Saturday in Damascus, as well as its chief consulate in Aleppo and honorary consulate in Latakia.
"The Turkish ambassador in Damascus, and other diplomatic personnel, will remain on duty," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the Turkish Embassy after the Arab League voted to suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against the Syrian regime over its failure to end crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Pro-government demonstrators gathered outside the embassy in the evening as their numbers quickly reached to a thousand during the one-and-a-half-hour demonstration. They chanted anti-Turkey slogans, hurled rocks and tried to force their way in through the main gate of the embassy compound.
Turkey's Chief Consulate in Aleppo and the country's honorary consulate in Latakia were also attacked in simultaneous demonstrations.
No embassy or consulate staff was hurt in the violent protests.
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Ankara Issues Diplomatic Note to Damascus after Consulate Attacks
Ankara issued a diplomatic note to Syria on Sunday to communicate its concern about Saturday's attacks on its embassy in Damascus, as well as consulates in other cities, which were carried out by roughly 1,000 pro-regime supporters who hurled stones and bottles at the embassy building.
"It is, without a doubt, significant for the attacks to target Turkish missions in a stronger and more intensive fashion and for this to have happened in the immediate aftermath of the decision by the Arab League [on Saturday]," a written statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. "It is a matter of honor and responsibility" for a host country to protect members of foreign missions., the statement read.
The ministry also issued a warning to Turkish nationals not to travel to Syria unless absolutely necessary due to difficulties in establishing public order, while also urging those currently in Syria to be cautious and remain in contact with Turkish missions at all times.
The attacks came on Saturday evening when around 1,000 pro-regime protestors gathered in Damascus to avenge the decision by the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership and employ economic sanctions in response to its failure to fulfill its promise and stop its crackdowns. The mob attacked the Turkish embassy with stones and bottles until Syrian police intervened to stop, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday. The protestors also targeted French, Qatari and Saudi Arabian missions in the country. No casualties were reported.
Hours after the assaults, accompanied by minor attacks against Turkish consulates in Aleppo and Latakia, Turkey decided to pull out the families of embassy personnel in Damascus, as well as some members of non-essential staff at the mission, Anatolia reported, citing diplomatic sources.
In a separate note released on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry hailed the decision of the Arab League to suspend Syria as a sensible and timely step that displayed the seriousness of the situation in the country.
"It has been disappointing for Turkey, like everybody else, to see that the Syrian regime has, up to this day, failed to fulfill the pledges it made on Nov. 2 in line with an agreement it reached with the Arab League," the ministry said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu hailing the decision by the Arab League, whose officials he maintains in close contact with on developments in Syria, said the league had made the right move and Turkey was in full support of the decision.
"We were hoping for the league's initiative to be successful," Davutoğlu told reporters from Serbia, noting that the Arab League was engaged in talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the bloodshed, but the al-Assad regime had failed yet another opportunity to fulfill its promises. "The Syrian regime should perceive this as a clear message that the legitimacy of an administration that uses violence against its own people comes under question everywhere."
Whether the suspension of Syria's membership pushes Syria's oppositional council, which has managed to organize itself in Turkey, to the surface and earns them recognition remains unknown. Davutoğlu highlighted that both Turkey and the chief of the Arab League have remained in contact with the Syrian National Council, or SNC, will continue to have talks with the group throughout November after which Turkey will consult with the league again and decide on the next move.
Syrian opposition gathered in Turkey on a number of occasions until it was able to come up with a council to speak for the demands of the Syrian people, as Turkey reiterated that it was a democratic country and such peaceful gatherings were welcome to take place in the country, much to the dissent of al-Assad and his supporters.
"Just as our efforts found no answer from the Syrian regime, the efforts of the Arab League extended in goodwill were met with no responses," Davutoğlu said, clarifying exhaustion with the al-Assad regime and noting that the league's move showed that the body's stance on the Syrian issue was becoming clearer. The Turkish foreign minister also announced that a Turkish-Arabic Forum, to be held in Morocco on Nov. 16, will unite foreign ministers from many countries, as the debated next moves will be further clarified.
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