I know this is super hard to read. That’s the problem with this stuff. If you zoom in and concentrate, you can make it out.
In this cable, Laurence Steinhardt, US ambassador to Turkey, expressed concern about the number of relief agencies representatives now operating in Turkey. He argued that competition for rescue work was creating a problem–driving up the price of potential refugee ships, since the ship owners can pit relief organizations against each other.
Between this situation and Joel Brand’s appearance in Istanbul, Ira Hirschmann started to plan his return to Turkey.
