Ships carrying hundreds of evacuees from Lebanon reach southern Turkey

(11 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 10 October 2024
1. Various of people boarding Turkish navy ship TGC Sancaktar to be evacuated from Lebanon
2. Wide of people on camp stretchers inside ship
3. Various Sailor looking out of window on bridge
4. Various of ship leaving Beirut harbor
5. Various of people sleeping
6. Eyup Sabri Kirgiz, Turkish national being evacuated
7. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Eyup Sabri Kirgiz, evacuee:
"The place where we live is a place called Ayn El Remmaneh (suburb of Beirut.) This is the border of Dahiyeh, the place that is getting bombed. In other words, for the last week or two, inside our house we felt all those bombs that have been dropped continuously. No sleep or anything. We just sit until the morning. You can only sleep when the drones go away. It is impossible to sleep with that drone sound anyway."
8. Various of Kirgiz with his three pets: two dogs and a turtle
9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Eyup Sabri Kirgiz, evacuee:
"I’ll see what the situation is like in a week, 10 days. I’ll wait for things to calm down a bit. After that, if I think it’s no longer dangerous, I’ll go back. Because I love this place (Lebanon) so much."
10. Various of people sleeping
11. Various of Dilber and Ahmad Taleb
12. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Dilber Taleb, evacuee:
"We came from Australia to Lebanon on vacation to visit my husband’s family. We also came so they could meet their grandchild. But then this happened."
13. Various of Dilber Taleb feeding her son, Khaldun
14. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Dilber Taleb, evacuee:
“We were in Northern Lebanon so there was no problem in our area. There was no bombing or anything. But of course, you’re anxious every day. When you are under stress, you worry whether something will happen, whether they will block the road or bomb something. That’s why he wanted to leave Lebanon as soon as possible."
15. Dilber and Ahmad Taleb
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Taleb, evacuee:
"My parents, they are the only Lebanese (nationals). They’re not Turkish citizens or Australian citizens like us. So they have to stay here, and they can’t leave the country as well. They have to work, they have to afford the expenses of living here. But I hope in the future I can take them with us, maybe to Turkey or to Australia because we can’t stay living with this stress, especially because we can’t trust the Israeli army. They’re attacking everywhere, as we see in Gaza, in Palestine."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
MERSIN, TURKEY – 11 October 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
17. Various of passengers disembarking
18. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Goncagul Udigwe, evacuee:
"Right now I am extremely happy that we are reunited (with Turkey) safe and sound. I am in my own land, I feel safe, I feel at peace. But of course, I feel very sorry for those who have to stay there (in Lebanon) because they are not in a good situation at all. They sleep on the sidewalks, in cars. So it’s very difficult. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’ve never experienced anything like this in my own country."
19. Various of evacuees at the dock, on buses
STORYLINE:
Eyup Sabri Kirgiz was among the hundreds of people to be evacuated from Lebanon aboard two Turkish navy ships on Thursday as Israel’s invasion of the country and war with Hezbollah continues to escalate.

In addition to his wife and two children, Kirgiz made sure to insist on taking his two dogs and the family’s pet turtle, Coco.

The Associated Press was the only non-government media that was invited aboard the vessels to cover the evacuation operation.

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