Daily cost of intelligence: one million USD

U.S. ambassador in Ankara Francis Ricciardone gave some interesting data while replying to criticisms that Turkey's fight against terrorism was not supported enough. The ambassador said intelligence was the most important cooperation area between Turkey and the United States. Ricciardone noted that the daily cost of the resources provided by his country was more than 1 million USD and the annual cost of the assistance was around 400 million USD.