TURKEY: THOUSANDS OF TURKS PROTEST ITALY'S DECISION TO RELEASE KURDISH GUERRILLA LEADER.

Record ID: 639641

  • Title: TURKEY: THOUSANDS OF TURKS PROTEST ITALY'S DECISION TO RELEASE KURDISH GUERRILLA LEADER.
  • Date: 22nd November 1998
  • Summary: ANKARA, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 21, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN: (NIGHT PIICTURES) CARS PASS BY THE ITALIAN EMBASSY IN ANKARA AS PEOPLE WAVE FLAGS 0.07 2. SV/MV: PEOPLE SHOUTING SLOGANS (2 SHOTS) 0.16 ANKARA, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 22 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 3. GV/PAN/MV: (DAY PICTURES) CARS PASSING THROUGH PEOPLE CARRYING FLAGS IN FRONT OF THE ITALIAN EMBASSY (2 SHOTS) 0.26 4. MCU: WOMAN CARRYING HER DEAD SON'S PHOTO 0.29 5. GV/PAN: CROWD DEMONSTRATING IN FRONT OF ITALIAN EMBASSSY/ VANS DRIVE PAST (2 SHOTS) 0.41 6. MCU: ANOTHER MOTHER CARRYING HER DEAD SON'S PHOTO 0.46 ISTANBUL, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 22 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 8. MV: MARTYR MOTHERS ASSOCIATION IN TAKSIM SQUARE/ WOMAN ADDRESSING CROWD (2 SHOTS) 0.50 9. CU/MCU: VARIOUS OF MOTHERS CARRYING PHOTOS OF THEIR DEAD SONS (6 SHOTS) 1.17 13. SV: WOMEN MARCHING 1.25 14. SV: MAN CARRYING WREATH TO TATURK MONUMENT 1.32 15. MV: WREATH BEING LAID 1.37 16. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (TURKISH) HAMZA ARSLAN, BROTHER OF A MARTYR, SAYING "The United States that handed the PKK leader and Italy that accepted him, just like (with reference to Turkish sayings) 'Hold the hunting dog and let the rabbit run', and now the same United States that forces Italy to hand him back to us, will give an account for all." 1.50 17. GV: PEOPLE MARCHING TO ITALIAN CONSULATE 1.57 18. MV: SECURITY AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE CONSULATE 2.02 19. GV: DEMONSTRATORS ARRIVING AT ITALIAN CONSULATE 2.08 20. CU: CONSULATE SIGN ON WALL 2.13 21. GV: SECURITY AT EMBASSY 2.18 22. GV/MV: ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG TURKS MARCHING TO THE CONSULATE (2 SHOTS) 2.30 23. TV: CROWD IN FRONT OF THE CONSULATE (2 SHOTS) 2.40 24. GV: CONSULATE FLAGS 2.46 25. SV: PEOPLE LOOKING AT ITALIAN GOODS IN SHOP WINDOW 2.51 26. GV/TILT: VERSACE SHOP IN NISANTASI DISTRICT WITH A BLACK WREATH HANGING IN WINDOWS 2.56 27. GV: BENETTON SHOP WITH TURKISH FLAG HANGING OUTSIDE 3.00 28. GV/CU: BLACK RIBBON HANGING IN BENETTON SHOP WINDOW (2 SHOTS) 3.10 29. CU/GV: ITALIAN FLAG IN SHOP WINDOW WITH BLACK CROSS THROUGH IT (3 SHOTS) 3.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th December 1998 12:00
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  • Location: ISTANBUL AND ANKARA, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVA1CC583SFMCB51TCKNG555E3GF
  • Story Text: Thousands of Turks have taken to the streets throughout
    Turkey to protest against Italy's decision to release Kurdish
    guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan as the Turkish government hit
    back by barring Italian firms from any Turkish defence
    tenders.

    A popular movement of protests and boycotts of Italian
    products continued throughout Turkey on Sunday (November 22)
    as thousands took to the streets with flags to protest against
    the Rome's Court of Appeal's decision to overrule Turkey's
    request for Ocalan's arrest.

    In Ankara thousands of people staged a protest outside
    the Italian consulate.Waving Turkish flags the protesters
    shouted anti-Italian slogans and watched as cars drove by as
    part of a drive-by protest.

    In Istanbul hundreds of women took to the streets to
    protest against the Italian court's decision.Women from the
    Association of the Martyr Mothers brandished photos of their
    sons who they claim were murdered by Ocalan.They listened as
    protest leaders condemned Italy's decision.Protesters also
    laid a wreath at Ataturk's Statue in Taksim as members of the
    Young Turks Association marched to the Italian Consulate
    shouting slogans.

    In central Istanbul Italian shopkeepers demonstrated their
    support for the protesters by hanging black wreaths and
    ribbons in their windows.One shop placed a large black cross
    over Italian flags.

    The Italian court on Friday released the Kurdistan Workers
    Party (PKK) leader but ordered he remain in Rome in case
    Germany seeks his extradition.An arrest warrant for Ocalan
    was issued in Germany in 1990.

    Ocalan is kept under house arrest in Rome exclusively
    because of a warrant issued by Germany.

    Ocalan is Turkey's most wanted man, charged with the
    murder of over 30,000 people.


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