GERMANY: PEOPLE GATHER IN A COLOGNE STADIUM TO CELEBRATE A "PEACE FESTIVAL FOR KURDISTAN"

Record ID: 350306

  • Title: GERMANY: PEOPLE GATHER IN A COLOGNE STADIUM TO CELEBRATE A "PEACE FESTIVAL FOR KURDISTAN"
  • Date: 21st September 1996
  • Summary: COLOGNE, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 21, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV OF PEOPLE ARRIVING FOR FESTIVAL (2 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SV/CU BOOKSTALL (2 SHOTS) 0.26 3. LV/SV OF CROWDS IN STADIUM SINGING (6 SHOTS) 1.02 4. SLV/CU OF TV REPORTER AND BIG TELEVISION SCREEN IN STADIUM (2 SHOTS) 1.24 5. SV CROWD WATCHING 1.28 6. LV/S
  • Embargoed: 6th October 1996 13:00
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  • Location: COLOGNE, GERMANY
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  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA7GOTO6FD859K5NQGNFOQ5OZ5F
  • Story Text: INTRO: More than 50,000 people have gathered in a Cologne football stadium to celebrate a "Peace Festival for Kurdistan".

    -------------------------------------------------------------------- International guests, artists and politicians, attended the festival on Saturday (September 21). It was organised under the theme, "To end the war and reach a political solution in Kurdistan".

    Traditional folk songs from Armenia, Greece, Turkey and Kurdistan were performed to promote understanding and cooperation between nationalities of the Middle East.

    Hundreds of people paraded around the stadium carrying placards and huge photographs of political activists. Some waved symbols of PKK, the Kurdish Workers' Party, forbidden in Germany.


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