TURKEY/ UNITED KINGDOM: TURKEY SAYS IT HAS ARRESTED SEVERAL PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH TWIN TRUCK BOMBINGS ON BRITISH TARGETS IN ISTANBUL
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TURKEY/ UNITED KINGDOM: TURKEY SAYS IT HAS ARRESTED SEVERAL PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH TWIN TRUCK BOMBINGS ON BRITISH TARGETS IN ISTANBUL
- Title: TURKEY/ UNITED KINGDOM: TURKEY SAYS IT HAS ARRESTED SEVERAL PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH TWIN TRUCK BOMBINGS ON BRITISH TARGETS IN ISTANBUL
- Date: 21st November 2003
- Summary: (W4) ISTANBUL, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF BRITISH FLAG ON ROOFTOP 0.07 2. WIDE OF BRITISH CONSULATE SURROUNDED BY DEBRIS 0.10 3. WIDE OF FORENSIC EXPERTS IN WHITE SUITS AT SCENE 0.15 4. HIGH VIEW OF WORKERS STANDING AROUND DAMAGED CARS BURIED IN RUBBLE (2 SHOTS) 0.26 5. WIDE OF PARKED CARS BURIED UNDER RUBBLE 0.31 6. WIDE/ PAN OF NOTE LYING ON GROUND READING BRITISH CONSULATE GENERAL 0.39 7. CLOSE OF BRITISH CONSULATE PAPER 0.46 (EU) ISTANBUL, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. WIDE OF COFFIN OF KILLED SECURITY GUARD DRAPED IN TURKISH FLAG CARRIED TO MOSQUE BY MALE RELATIVES 0.57 9. VARIOUS OF WOMEN CRYING 1.10 10. WIDE OF WOMEN HUGGING AND KISSING COFFIN 1.20 11. SMV LITTLE GIRL CRYING ON COFFIN 1.25 12. CLOSE OF WREATH READING BRITISH CONSULATE 1.26 13. WIDE OF IMAM PERFORMING FUNERAL SERVICE 1.36 14. VARIOUS OF MEN PRAYING (3 SHOTS) 1.46 15. SMV WOMEN WATCHING 1.51 16. SMV COUPLE WATCHING, WOMAN CRYING 1.58 17. WIDE OF COFFIN BEING CARRIED PAST 2.05 18. CLOSE OF PHOTOGRAPH OF KILLED SECURITY GUARD SULEYMAN AYDOG 2.08 (W5) LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 19. WIDE OF MAN LOOKING AT COMPUTER WITH WEBSITE SHOWING ALLEGED AL QAEDA CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY 2.13 20. CLOSE-UP OF ALLEGED AL QAEDA CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY, IN ARABIC 2.13 21. CLOSE OF MAN'S HAND ON COMPUTER MOUSE 2.24 22. CLOSE OF COMPUTER SCREEN AND SCROLLING THROUGH ARABIC TEXT 2.37 (W6) ANKARA, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 23. WIDE OF DAMAGED HSBC BUILDING 2.41 24. WIDE OF HSBC BUILDING WITH LOGO 2.44 25. WIDE OF DAMAGE TO BUILDING 2.48 26. WIDE OF HSBC CORPORATE SPOKESPERSON AHMET ERLCIN TALKING TO MEDIA 2.52 27. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) HSBC SPOKESMAN AHMET ERLCIN SAYING: "Our international staff, our domestic staff are extending their full-hearted support and they will remain with us." 3.03 28. WIDE OF ERLCIN TALKING TO MEDIA 3.09 29. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) ERLCIN SAYING: "These kinds of terrorist attacks can happen in any corner of the world. It is not unique to Turkey, unfortunately. We hope all those attacks will immediately stop all over the world." 3.24 (W4) ANKARA, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 30. VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF BRITISH EMBASSY WITH SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 3.37 31. WIDE OF UNITED STATES EMBASSY 3.51 32. SLV SECURITY PATROLLING EXTERIOR OF EMBASSY 4.05 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: ISTANBUL AND ANKARA, TURKEY / LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Country: Turkey England United Kingdom
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- Story Text: Turkey buriess its dead from blasts, as statement
purporting to come from al Qaeda network claims
responsibility.
Turkey said on Friday (November 21) police had
arrested several people over twin truck bomb attacks on
British targets in Istanbul that killed 27 people,
including Britain's top diplomat in the city.
A statement purporting to come from a unit of Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network said it carried out Thursday's
(November 20) strikes on the British consulate and the
London-based HSBC bank, five days after two similar attacks
on Istanbul synagogues.
Crying mourners gathered at Istanbul's Aga mosque to
bid farewell to a young Turkish man killed in the attacks.
Relatives waited anxiously at one of Istanbul's main
hospitals for news of injured family members.
U.S President George W. Bush, on a state visit to
Britain, pledged his solidarity with Turkey, a key NATO
ally long promoted by Washington as a model of Islamic
democracy.
Headlines in Turkish newspapers reflected the sense of
shock in a nation still reeling from Saturday's (November
15) explosions at two synagogues.
Photographs showed dazed and bloodied survivors at the
scene of the blasts and the shattered HSBC and consular
buildings.
Thursday's twin bombings killed 27 people, including
British Consul General Roger Short, and wounded more than
400. HSBC said on Friday that not only was it going
t
o
remain in Turkey but employees have already returned to
work at other service centres, and none of its
international staff was to be evacuated from the country.
Britain has warned more terror attacks may hit Turkey
and security was stepped up at U.S. and British embassies
in the capital Ankara.
A statement apparently from a unit of Osama bin Laden's
al Qaeda network, the Abu Hafz al-Masri Brigades, and
published on the Islamist website Al Mujahidoun, said it
had carried out the latest attacks, but the statement could
not be independently authenticated.
The statement, in Arabic, said Turkey was targeted
because of its membership in the "crusader" NATO alliance
and its ties with the "Zionist entity" Israel.
A Turkish group called the Islamic Great Eastern
Raiders Front (IBDA-C) has also claimed joint
responsibility with al Qaeda for all four Istanbul attacks
and warned the network was planning more strikes against
the United States and its allies.
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