TURKEY: HALIDA IZETBEGOVIC, WIFE OF MOSLEM BOSNIAN PRESIDENT ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, ADDRESSES PROTEST RALLY IN ISTANBUL, OVER ALLEGED WESTERN INACTIVITY OVER BOSNIAN-SERB ATTACKS ON BIHAC

Record ID: 442392

  • Title: TURKEY: HALIDA IZETBEGOVIC, WIFE OF MOSLEM BOSNIAN PRESIDENT ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, ADDRESSES PROTEST RALLY IN ISTANBUL, OVER ALLEGED WESTERN INACTIVITY OVER BOSNIAN-SERB ATTACKS ON BIHAC
  • Date: 4th December 1994
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (DECEMBER 4, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. TOP VIEW CROWD AT RALLY 0.03 2. SCU CHILD ON MAN'S SHOULDERS WAVING FLAG 0.08 3. GVS DEMONSTRATORS SINGING AND CHANTING (2 SHOTS) 0.21 4. SCU CHILDREN WITH PLACARD 0.26 5. GV DEMONSTRATORS 0.31 6. GV HALIDA IZETBEGOVIC, WIFE OF BOSNIAN PRESIDENT, ADDRESSING RALLY (SERBO-CROAT) 0.40 7. SCU CROWD WITH EFFIGY OF BOSNIAN SERB LEADER RADOVAN KARADZIC 0.45 8. GVS PROTESTERS BURNING EFFIGY OF KARADZIC (2 SHOTS) 1.09 9. GVS MONEY BEING COLLECTED FOR BOSNIA (2 SHOTS) 1.13 10. CU COLLECTORS COUNTING MONEY 1.24 11. GV CLOTHES BEING COLLECTED FOR BOSNIA 1.30 12. GV RALLY 1.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 19th December 1994 12:00
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  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVA198UP91AYIFY5T0ZYLY45Z62X
  • Story Text: Halida Izetbegovic, the wife of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, called on the West to do more to help the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina when addressing a rally of 15,000 people in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday (December 4).

    The rally was held to protest against alleged lack of action by western countries to help Bosnia as Bosnian Serbs attack the northwestern Bosnian enclave of Bihac.

    Halida Izetbegovic made her appeal as Turks gathered to make donations of money and items of clothing to various organisations working in Bosnia.

    The demonstrators chanted anti-United States and anti-Western slogans and burned an effigy of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

    Former Turkish chief of staff General Dogan Gures has said that Turkey has sent arms to Bosnian Moslems in violation of an international arms embargo imposed on all parties in the Bosnian conflict, Associated Press news agency reported.

    About two million Bosnians live in Turkey. They started arriving after World War II when the Balkan states came under Communist rule.

    Turkey has sent 1,500 troops to Bosnia to participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations there.

    Halida Izetbegovic lives in Istanbul with her daughters.


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