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Reported Nuclear Trafficking Incidents Involving Turkey*
Selected Abstracts: 1993-1999

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The 18 incidents are listed reverse chronological order.
CNS cannot confirm the veracity of these reports.

1999

28 May           "Customs Seizes Radioactive Uranium at Rousse Check Point"
2 February      "Turkish Secret Services Confiscate Enriched Uranium"

1998

7 September    "Eight Persons Caught Smuggling Nuclear Materials"
1 July               "Security Teams Seize Smuggled Nuclear Material; Six Captured"

1997

26 May           "Police Seizes 850 Grams Of Uranium Dioxide In Bursa"
1 April            "Turk Police Arrest Three For Smuggling Heavy Metal"
4 March          "509 Grams of Raw Uranium Seized"

1996

March            "Turkish News List, Internet News Group"
March            "20 Kg Of Uranium Confiscated In Turkey"
26 January      "The Amigos of the Nuclear Mafia"
22 January      "The Amigos of the Nuclear Mafia"

1995

24 May           "Romania Police Seize 'Red Mercury'"

1994

19 October     "Azeri Detained In Turkey With Uranium For Sale"
19 July            "Seven Detained in Turkey With Uranium Haul"
22 April          "Turks Detain Three People For Uranium Smuggling"

1993

27 November  "Uranium-Smuggling Incidents Reported: 3 Georgians Arrested"
5 October       "Iranians Were Buying Low-Grade Uranium, Turks Say"
March             "The Real Threat Of Nuclear Smuggling"

* For sources and further details, see Sandi Arnold, "Factsheet on Reported- Nuclear Trafficking Incidents Involving Turkey, 1993-1999," July 1999, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

This selection is based on Turkish-, Russian, and English-language open-source reports and information in the International Nuclear Proliferation Database and the Newly Independent States Nuclear Trafficking Database of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.  Access to these is only available by subscription. For subscription information click here.

Sandi Arnold, Michael Barletta, and Diana McCauley, July 1999.
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies,
 Monterey Institute of International Studies


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