Food drops to Kurdish refugees

Title

Food drops to Kurdish refugees

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

16 Apr 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:02:10

Description

Stephanie West reports and interviews British Chinook helicopter pilots on the food aid missions to help Kurdish refugees at the Iraq-Turkey border. On the dangers of the missions and weather temporarily stopping missions. Interviews Flying Officer Dom Terrarchy(?) and Flight Lieutenant Angus Ross-Thompson.

Contributors

Stephanie West; Dom Terrarchy(?); Angus Ross-Thompson

Keywords

Humanitarian assistance; Pilots; Refugees; Ethnic groups; Turkey; Foreign aid; Political refugees; Iraq; Helicopters; Food aid; Kurds

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