Turkish daily to publish Wikileaks cables on Turkeya

Turkish newspaper said yesterday that it has linked up with online muckraker WikiLeaks to publish thousands of US diplomatic cables covering Washington's relationship with Turkey. Taraf said it reached a deal with WikiLeaks, which had sought cooperation with the liberal newspaper. Taraf said it did not pay WikiLeaks for the cables and that it will begin publishing 11,000 cables, most from the last decade, as of today. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition from Britain to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, told Taraf in an interview that Turkey is the second most-mentioned country in US diplomatic cables after Iraq, which is why they made this move to publish the cables with Taraf.