TURKEY: FUNERAL OF TURKISH SECURITY GUARD KILLED IN BOMBING AT THE BRITISH CONSULATE

Record ID: 358590

  • Title: TURKEY: FUNERAL OF TURKISH SECURITY GUARD KILLED IN BOMBING AT THE BRITISH CONSULATE
  • Date: 21st November 2003
  • Summary: (EU) ISTANBUL, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF COFFIN OF KILLED SECURITY GUARD DRAPED IN TURKISH FLAG CARRIED TO MOSQUE BY MALE RELATIVES 0.09 2. WIDE OF WOMEN CRYING 0.24 3. WIDE OF WOMEN HUGGING AND KISSING COFFIN 0.32 4. SMV LITTLE GIRL CRYING ON COFFIN 0.37 5. CLOSE OF WREATH READING BRITISH
  • Embargoed: 6th December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVA2AV1KF9BEZM5ZHKTHBIGNI49X
  • Story Text: Funeral takes place for Turkish security guard
    killed in Istanbul blast.




    Suleyman Aydog, a father of two, was honoured in a
    sombre
    ceremony at an Istanbul mosque on Friday (November 21), one
    day after two truck bombs killed 27 people and injured more
    than 400.

    Relatives carried his coffin draped in the Turkish flag
    to a
    local mosque where an imam led the funeral service.

    Suleyman had been working as a security guard at the
    British consulate for six years. He was in his
    mid-thirties. Also killed
    in the consulate bombing was British consul Roger Short.

    Elsewhere in Istanbul, relatives and friends continued
    burying their loved ones, one a young man in his twenties.

    The bombings at the British consulate and the Turkish
    headquarters of London-based bank HSBC came five days after
    similar coordinated truck bomb attacks on two synagogues in
    Istanbul that killed 25 people and wounded hundreds.

    Britain has warned more terror attacks may target
    Turkey, NATOs only Muslim member and one of Washington's
    closest allies despite its governments Islamist roots.

    Washington has long promoted Turkey as a model for a
    moderate Muslim democracy.

    The blasts cast a pall over U.S. President George W.

    Bush's talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London and
    left Istanbul, a city bridging Europe and Asia, shaken and
    fearful.
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