TURKEY: AMERICAN BLACK LEADER LOUIS FARRAKHAN VISITS TURKEY AT INVITATION OF NECMETTIN ERBAKAN'S WELFARE PARTY

Record ID: 244314

  • Title: TURKEY: AMERICAN BLACK LEADER LOUIS FARRAKHAN VISITS TURKEY AT INVITATION OF NECMETTIN ERBAKAN'S WELFARE PARTY
  • Date: 18th February 1996
  • Summary: ANKARA, TURKEY (FEBRUARY 18, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV NATION OF ISLAM LEADER LOUIS FARRAKHAN WITH SON, MUSTAFA FARRAKHAN BEHIND HIM, TAKES SEAT FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 0.06 2. GV FARRAKHAN SEATED WITH INTEPRETER 0.11 3. GV OFFICIALS SEATED 0.13 4. GV ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA AHMED BAGHDADI IS INTRODUCED BY FARRAKHAN (ENLGISH) 0.26 5. GV FARRAKHAN INTRODUCES INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE WHOSE HEADQUARTERS ARE IN ACCRA, GHANA; HIS SON, MUSTAFA FARRAKHAN, WHO IS SECURITY CHIEF, AND REVEREND ALBERT SAMSON (ENGLISH) 1.02 6. GV FARRAKHAN SEATED WITH OFFICIALS AROUND HIM 1.10 7. MV FARRAKHAN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.33 8. CUTAWAY CAMERAMAN 1.37 9. MV FARRAKHAN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.01 10. CUTAWAY REPORTER WRITING 2.02 11. MV FARRAKHAN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.43 12. CUTAWAY CAMERAMAN 2.49 *13. GV PAN FARRAKHAN WALKS ALONG WITH WELFARE PARTY LEADER NECMETTIN ERBAKAN, SURROUNDED BY OFFICIALS 2.55 12. FARRAKHAN SEATED AT TABLE EATING WITH ERBAKAN 3.07 *NOTE: POOR QUALITY ON THIS SHOT TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 4-5, LOUIS FARRAKHAN: "ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA BROTHER ALI BAGHDADI. YOU CAN STAND A LITTLE BETTER THAN THAT. THANK YOU. OUR INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE HEADQUARTERED IN ACCRA, GHANA. STANDING BEHIND ME IS MY SON MUSTAFA FARRAKHAN WHO IS OUR CHIEF OF SECURITY. STANDING TO MY LEFT IS THE REVEREND ALBERT SAMSON, WHO IS THE ONLY MINISTER ORDAINED BY THE REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 7: LOUIS FARRAKHAN: "I AM NOT A POLITICAN. I AM A FREE BLACK MAN AND I GO WHEREVER I PLEASE ON THIS EARTH AND I SPEAK TO WHOM EVER I PLEASE AND I DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER TO ANYONE BUT GOD. AND I BELIEVE GOD IS PLEASED WITH ME SO I CARE NOT WHO IS DISPLEASED." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 9, LOUIS FARRAKHAN: "WE REALLY MUST BE CAREFUL OF THE MISUSE OF NAMES IN REFERRING TO OTHER LEADERS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT. I WAS VERY PRIVILEGED TO BE IN IRAN, IN IRAQ AND IN SYRIA AND I DONT THINK THAT I MET ONE DICTATOR." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 11: LOUIS FARRAKHAN: "AND I AM SURE THAT THERE ARE AMERICANS WHO HAVE VISITED THE SOVIET UNION WHEN IT WAS REFERRED TO AS THE EVIL EMPIRE AND THEY ALSO SPOKE TO THE LEADERS OF THE SOVIET UNION, AND THEY WERE RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND NO ONE HAD ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT. WHY SHOULD ANY ONE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT MY VISIT AS A MOSLEM TO MOSLEM COUNTRIES, SPEAKING TO MOSLEM LEADERS ABOUT RECONCILING THEIR DIFFERENCE ONE WITH ANOTHER AND EVEN RECONCILING THEIR DIFFERENCES WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 4th March 1996 12:00
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  • Location: ANKARA, TURKEY
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  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVAA59A22HLMQBR08PTD86I2HDGX
  • Story Text: American black leader Louis Farrakhan visited Turkey at the invitation of Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare Party on February 18.

    At a news conference in Ankara, Farrakhan, who heads the Nation of Islam movement in the United States (U.S.), answered questions about the U.S. State Department's criticism of his recent visits to Iran. Iraq and Libya.

    Farrakhan said he was not a political leader but a free black man who could travel wherever he wished and meet whom he wished. He said he had been on a mission of reconciliation when he had visited the three nations.

    The State Department had objected to Farrakhan's remark in Baghdad that Washington's policies were leading to "mass murder" of Iraqi people. Earlier it had accused Farrakhan of "cavorting with dictators" in Libya and Iran.

    Accompanying Farrakhan on his visit to Turkey at the invitation of the Islamist Turkish party was the black leader's son, Mustafa. Farrakhan introduced his son as his security chief.


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