- Title: Turkey: material law security
- Date: 20th October 1979
- Summary: 1. troops and police searching people and checking i.d. 2. house and car (disregard). 3. crowd and police and troop scenes 4. formation of army troops standing by to assist 5. searching and holding back crowd 1. exterior of faculty of minerals a istanbul technical univ scene of conf 2. pm bulent ecevit arrives and is cheered 3. front row delegates and ecevit 4. ecevit speech opening conf (see transcript in english) 5. tourism minister alev coscun speech. he criticizes western news agencies for deliberately one sided coverage of islamic countries and accused them of ignoring many important stories and development and reporting only such things as catastrophes etc. 6. delegates listen thru interpreters (earphones etc) 7. delegates seated near agency i.d. plates. 1. rap of tfsc (turk cyprus) 2. various other and empty chair for rplo agency, wafa, whose delegate was expected later. Initials note scenes of first 100 feet of ??? were shot before i knew what was happening. it looked like a mass arrest or search but turned out to be security measures for a congress of tob-der, a leftist teacher assn. result is not story on own merits but i suggest film be held till 24 oct when parliament debates extension of martial law. this will make suitable intercut sh wijg how military backs up police in efforts to avert terrorism Good coverage though ??? sound Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 4th November 1979 12:00
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- Location: istanbul
- Country: Turkey
- Reuters ID: LVA8CCPHQJXZ0RO132M6B40XN202
- Story Text: Description not available
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