Aid drops for Kurds

Title

Aid drops for Kurds

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

10 Apr 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:03:19

Description

George Matheson reports from Incirlik airbase in Turkey on the air drops of aid being made for the Kurdish refugees in the mountains in northern Iraq- Turkey border. Includes interview with Flight Lieutenant Rod Young on challenges of the terrain and weather and targetting.

Contributors

George Matheson; Rod Young

Keywords

Weather; Military aircraft; Humanitarian assistance; Ethnic groups; Air force; Turkey; Foreign aid; Political refugees; Iraq; Aerial operations; Food aid; Kurds; Incirlik airbase

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