(15 May 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Istanbul - 15 May 2022
1. Wide of demonstrators waving flags, holding up signs and chanting UPSOUND (English) "Stand with Ukraine!"
2. Mid of demonstrator holding up sign reading (English) "Help Ukraine" and chanting UPSOUND (Ukrainian) "Glory to SSU! (Security Service of Ukraine)"
3. Mid of protesters
4. Mid of protesters holding up sign reading (English) "Ukraine is Mariupol" and poster showing a London subway during WW2 and a children's hospital basement in Kyiv, protesters chanting UPSOUND (English) "Silence is killing!"
5. Wide of Aliya Huseynova speaking through megaphone
6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Aliya Huseynova, demonstrator and member of Ukrainian diaspora in Turkey:
"We call on international human rights organizations to react to the fact that Russia is trying to destroy the defenders of Mariupol, who can no longer even hold a gun. For our warriors, captivity is more terrible than death without water or medicine. They never surrender. Today Azovstal is the greatest wound of humanity and on Earth."
7. Mid of protesters chanting UPSOUND (Ukrainian) "Chernihiv is Ukraine!"
8. Mid of protesters holding up signs reading (English) "Save Mariupol", "Kherson is Ukraine" and chanting UPSOUND (Turkish) "Turkey, don't be silent. Take care of your brother!"
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Abraham Ischen, Ukrainian demonstrator:
"The problem is that we cannot get the exact numbers from the occupation zones. For example, my family is living in the occupation zone, for example, my friends are asking 'how is your family?' I am just telling that 'they are okay' but 'they are okay' means they are now living. They are now living. So, it is, in Ukraine the situation is like that. The meaning 'okay' means, how people are living (alive). That's tragic. That's tragic."
10. Mid of protesters holding up sign reading (English) "Save Mariupol"
11. Mid of protesters
12. Wide of demonstrators holding banners and flags
STORYLINE:
Dozens of demonstrators in Istanbul joined a protest on Sunday against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and the siege by Russian forces of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Chanting slogans of support for Ukraine, the protesters called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide assistance with the plant's evacuation.
Aliya Huseynova, a member of Ukrainian diaspora in Turkey, also called on human rights organizations and world governments to recognize the dire humanitarian situation in the plant and offer help to its defenders.
A few hundred troops are left in the sprawling steel plant, and for the past 80 days and nights they have prevented Russian forces from taking full control of the port city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said authorities were negotiating the evacuation of 60 severely wounded troops at the steelworks.
Another demonstrator Abraham Ischen told the Associated Press that his family remains in the conflict zones, where an exact number of casualties is difficult to get.
When being asked about his family's situation he can only say that they are alive.
Turkey's presidential spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said his country had offered to evacuate wounded Ukrainian soldiers and civilians by ship from Azovstal, according to official state broadcaster TRT.
Kalin said Russian and Ukrainian officials had not given Turkey a clear answer regarding the evacuation plan, but that it was still on the table
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