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1988 Jan 5 - 1988 May 12
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2458
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad (Prime Minister's visit to Turkey, April 1988: administrative arrangements)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 220
Any docs withheld? 15

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88 Jan 5 Tu Major PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 002 to FCO (1013Z) ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister") [Ozal welcomes visit 7-8 April] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jan 6 We Major PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister to Turkey") [MT concerns that her programme might be restricted on Friday "given that Turkey is a Muslim country"] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Feb 25 Th Major PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [programme "now in a very acceptable shape"; "I am not at all sure that the PM has a burning ambition to convert an Istanbul audience to her politico/economic philosophy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 2 We Major PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [points made by UKA on programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 4 Fr Major PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute for MT ("Your Visit to Turkey") [MT's speech at dinner with Ozal] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 8 Tu Major PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Third Bosphorus Bridge") [press aspects] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 8 Tu Major PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [draft agenda "rather more elaborate" than MT is used to, with "a particularly Turko-centric list of subjects"] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 17 Th Major PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Programme") [draft, with Turkish Government views] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 18 Fr Major PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [MT "determined to go" to cemeteries on other side of the Bosporus] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 19 Sa Major PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Turkey: Programme") [MT decision to vary programme so as to visit Commonwealth War and Florence Nightingale Cemeteries, at DT's suggestion] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 21 Mo Major PM's Tours Abroad: FCO briefing for No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [interview with Turkish television] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 21 Mo Major PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 143 to FCO (1620Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Programme") [Turkish comments on programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 24 Th Major PM's Tours Abroad: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speeches") [drafting changes, including new paragraph on the Middle East] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 25 Fr Major PM's Tours Abroad: Powell minute for MT ("Visit to Turkey: Speech at Turkish Government Dinner") [FCO toning down draft on Turkish expectations of EC membership; CDP urges a more upbeat but still non-committal formula] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 28 Mo Major PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey: Speeches: EC/Turkey") [Howe worries about striking the right note; CDP response] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Mar 17 Th Major PM's Tours Abroad: Woolley minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [Cabinet Secretary surprised not to be consulted on free travel issue] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jan 18 Mo Minor PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Turkey") [agrees 'Scenario 2' arrangements, on assumption full programme possible on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jan 26 Tu Minor PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 38 to FCO (1455Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [Turkish suggestions] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jan 27 We Minor PM's Tours Abroad: UKE Ankara telegram 41 to FCO (0735Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey") [Turkish suggestions on programme] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Feb 15 Mo Minor PM's Tours Abroad: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit to Turkey" - revised programmes) [lack of time for change of clothes; visit to a sewage plant after Topkapi and Aya Sofia "seems a bit of a let-down"] [declassified Dec 2016]