(5 Mar 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Istanbul - 5 March 2023
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
1. Various of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arriving at St. George’s Cathedral
2. Various of Dendias lighting candles
3. Dendias walking into church service
4. Various of clergy singing
5. Various of congregation
6. Various of clergy singing
7. Dendias listening
8. Various of clergy singing
9. Various of Dendias alongside Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at service
10. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch:
"Today we express the sympathy and condolences of our mother church and from all of us, her servants, towards the respected Greek people, for the tragedy of Tempe."
11. Various of congregation
12. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch:
"And we believe that these meetings (referring to Dendias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu) and companionship and cooperation, built unity and trust amongst the two neighbouring, allied people."
13. Clergy walking out of cathedral holding portraits
14. Various of Bartholomew I and Dendias walking out of cathedral
15. Wide of Dendias, Bartholomew I and Cypriot Orthodox Church Archbishop Georgios (centre right of screen)
16. Bartholomew I, Georgios and Dendias among crowd leaving
17. Various of Dendias, Bartholomew I and Georgios in meeting
STORYLINE:
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited Istanbul on Sunday and attended a service at the Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St. George.
During the service, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I expressed condolences over Greece’s deadliest train crash, which killed at least 57 people on Tuesday.
He also said Dendias’ visit to Turkey following the catastrophic earthquakes last month built “unity and trust.”
Dendias’ visit was part of a new round of so-called “earthquake diplomacy” between the two uneasy allies, whose relations have often been frosty.
Something similar happened in 1999, three years after the two countries almost went to war over two uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea.
On Friday, Dendias tweeted he would be attending the services for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey as well as those of the railway crash in Greece.
The Feb. 6 earthquake and strong aftershocks that struck Turkey and Syria have killed around 50,000 people — the vast majority in Turkey.
AP Video shot by: Mehmet Guzel
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