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Thursday, December 3, 1998 Published at 01:25 GMT


World: Europe

Turkey-Italy match ends in draw

Security at the match was tight


Correspondent Chris Morris: "Celebrations at the end of a tense day"
The Turkish side Galatasary and the Italian team Juventus have emerged with a one-all draw from a highly charged football match in the European Champions League.


[ image: Juventus player Jocelyn Blanchard runs for the ball]
Juventus player Jocelyn Blanchard runs for the ball
Juventus was one goal to nil ahead until the last few minutes when Galatasary equalised.

Turkey had put 20,000 police and troops on duty for the game, because of fears of violence stemming from Italy's refusal to hand over to Turkey the Kurdish separatist leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Correspondent Chris Morris says there was a deafening chorus of boos and whistles as Juventus first took to the field. There were no Italian fans in evidence.


[ image: Unprecedented measures: A tank parks]
Unprecedented measures: A tank parks
Thousands of fans briefly chanted slogans against the PKK Kurdish rebel movement.

The match was postponed last week because of security fears.

Italian Culture Minister, Giovanna Melandri, and the Foreign Trade Minister, Piero Fassino, accepted an invitation from the Turkish Sports Minister, Yuchel Seckiner to attend the match.

Anti-Italian sentiment

Italy's decision not to extradite Mr Ocalan, who was arrested in Rome last month, provoked an anti-Italian backlash in Turkey.

Turkey holds Mr Ocalan responsible for thousands of deaths in 14 years of conflict between the rebel PKK organisation and government security forces.



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