TURKEY: AID TO THE KURDS SUFFERS DELAY AS SITUATION WORSENS AND PRIME MINISTER MAJOR DENIES CLAIMS THAT ALLIES INCITED KURDS TO REBEL
Record ID:
899106
TURKEY: AID TO THE KURDS SUFFERS DELAY AS SITUATION WORSENS AND PRIME MINISTER MAJOR DENIES CLAIMS THAT ALLIES INCITED KURDS TO REBEL
- Title: TURKEY: AID TO THE KURDS SUFFERS DELAY AS SITUATION WORSENS AND PRIME MINISTER MAJOR DENIES CLAIMS THAT ALLIES INCITED KURDS TO REBEL
- Date: 4th April 1991
- Summary: ANKARA, TURKEY (APRIL 4, 1991) (VISNEWS) KOUCHNER CHATTING (ENGLISH) WITH TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER AND AIDES
- Embargoed: 6th July 2005 15:13
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- Location: ANKARA, TURKEY/UNITED NATIONS/LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
- City:
- Country: Usa Turkey United Kingdom
- Topics: Conflict,General
- Reuters ID: LVA9PGBQ12W3B1GBXMVMORHOAESL
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Story Text: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday (April 4) that more Kurdish refugees who have fled from Iraq will die before emergency aid gets through.
Despite offers of help from throughout the world, the aid agencies said it will still take days to solve the difficult problem of supplying the refugees with food and shelter.
Britain's government gave six million pounds sterling (11 million United States dollars) and aid agencies were sending essential supplies, including blankets and tents to be sent to Turkey on Friday.
Dominic Byrne of the Save the Children Fund said in London that were problems of getting supplies to the refugees in inaccessible and remote areas and political problems of moving them across borders.
British Prime Minister John Major denied Kurdish claims that the Allies forced them into their present plight by encouraging them to fight against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's troops. He said a civil war had been going on in Iraq for some considerable time.
But Kurds demonstrateD and staged a hunger strike in London, insisting that the West was responsible for their plight.
French cabinet minister Bernard Kouchner arived in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday to discuss possible aid for the Kurds.
He said that food and other humanitarian supplies were ready to be shipped from France.
France has sent 50 tonnes of powdered milk and 30 tonnes of medicines and the German Red Cross was donating 500,000 marks (300,000 dollars) in money and supplies for Kurds who had reached refugee camps in south-eastern Turkey.
Turkish ambassador Mustafa Aksin said at the United Nations that, ideally, Turkey would like to see the council take a resolution which would ask Iraq to stop the repression which is driving hundreds of thousands of people across the borders, creating a problem of security and "upsetting the balance of peace in the region." Germany was trying to organise a European Community aid package for the Kurds and the issue was on the agenda of an extraordinary EC summit on Monday in Luxembourg. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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