TURKEY: TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN SAYS ATTACKS ON SYNAGOGUES IN ISTANBUL ARE AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE

Record ID: 217800

  • Title: TURKEY: TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN SAYS ATTACKS ON SYNAGOGUES IN ISTANBUL ARE AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE
  • Date: 15th November 2003
  • Summary: (W8) ISTANBUL, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 15, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV/SV TURKISH PRIME MINISTER TAYYIP ERDOGAN ARRIVES AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE / CAMERAS (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. MCU (Turkish) TURKISH PRIME MINISTER TAYYIP ERDOGAN SAYING: "As we have been saying before, terror does not have a race, a nation or a religion. Today we are saying the same thing again an
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  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVADBARS5GW86N5Z2E9EF42DBAXH
  • Story Text: Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan says Saturday's
    attacks in Istanbul are an international issue.




    After returning from a visit to Cyprus, Turkish
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a news conference
    at Istanbul airport on Saturday (November 15).

    Erdogan told journalists that Turkey is always against
    terror.

    "Terror does not have a race, a nation or a religion,"
    he said.

    Like the Turkish Interior minister before him, Erdogan
    said the attacks had international significance.

    "These attacks go far beyond a domestic issue, I think
    this is a very international issue, and I think our
    security departments will find the source of the attacks
    soon," he said.

    After the news conference, Erdogan went to Istanbul's
    Taksim hospital to visit victims injured in the attacks.

    Erdogan is expected to visit the bomb sites and other
    hospitals together with the Turkish and Israeli foreign
    ministers on Sunday (November 16).

    A search and rescue crew from Israel came to Istanbul
    to help collect body parts.

    "We are here to collect the body parts in a honourful
    way, also according to the religious requirements, but also
    according to the professional requirements," a member of
    the group explained.


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