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A correspondent and filmmaker for BBC World was detained by police at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport for five hours and then deported on June 29.
“Yesterday, I was detained in Istanbul airport, searched, interrogated then deported, reasons my reports for the BBC,” wrote Jiyar Gol on his Twitter account on June 30.
YEREVAN. – A camera of the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent was broken and confiscated during clashes in Sari Tagh district of Yerevan (photos).
Some people dressed like civilians tried to use force against the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent.
To disperse the protestors in Sari Tagh, the policemen attacked and threw smoke grenades at them. Dozens of protesters were injured, journalists were also affected. Numerous people were detained. Police continue detentions in the district: the vehicles are stopped and searches are conducted in the houses.
YEREVAN. – Media representatives have suffered injuries as a result of the police operations in Sari Tagh neighborhood of Yerevan’s Erebuni district on Friday
Radio Liberty announced that its journalists Karlen Aslanyan and Hovhannes Movsisyan have been subjected to battery by plainclothes men. А1+ journalist has suffered burn injuries. An explosive blasted under the feet of the CivilNet journalist and operator in Sari Tagh, as a result of which they have suffered injuries. 1in.am journalist Mariam Grigoryan and operator Davit Harutyunyan have also been injured in Sari Tagh.
To disperse the protestors in Sari Tagh, the policemen attacked and threw smoke grenades at them. Fire has sparked in the territory, probably above the gas pipeline. According to the preliminary information, there are wounded.
The situation is extremely tense also in Khorenatsi street, where large crowd of people have gathered. Turning to the protestors, Deputy Colonel Ayvazyan announced that the assembly is unlawful and urged to stop it. The police started attacking shortly.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Press TV correspondent in Turkey Serena Shim, who was accused earlier this month by the Turkish Intelligence Ministry of spying – probably due to her coverage of Ankara’s stance on ISIL atrocities in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani and the recent protests in Turkey – was killed in a car accident on Sunday.
The late Shim was in a passenger car with some other journalists and reporters when the incident took place. The latest reports said another passenger has also been badly hurt in the car accident.
Press TV said Shim has been killed near Turkey-Syria border. Shim was killed in car accident as she was returning from report scene, the English-language TV channel said.
As heavy clashes rage on in and around Kobani, the Ankara government is preventing some journalists from reporting the developments on the ground in the border region.
Press TV correspondent Serena Shim said on Friday that Ankara has accused her of spying probably due to some of the stories she has covered about Turkey’s stance on the ISIL terrorists in Kobani and its surroundings.
Shim said she was among the few journalists obtaining stories of militants infiltrating into Syria through the Turkish border, adding that she had received images from militants crossing the Turkish border into Syria in World Food Organization and other NGOs’ trucks.
“I think it’s definitely because of the reporting about Syria,” Shim said, pointing to her reports about “the so-called Free Syrian Army going in [Syria] and catching these Takfiri militants and getting their passport stamps and getting first-hand information that they were actually inside while Turkey was still hiding this.”
The Turkish government alleges that “I am spying and that I am working with the Turkish opposition but it’s only logical that I would speak with the Turkish opposition just the same way I would speak with other parties … because that’s my job,” she added.
She flatly rejected accusations against her, saying she was “surprised” at this accusation “because I have nothing to hide and I have never done anything aside my job.”
Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
Turkey has been accused of backing ISIL militants in Syria.
Presstv The Turkish intelligence agency has accused the Press TV correspondent in Turkey of spying probably due to her coverage of Ankara’s stance on ISIL atrocities in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani and the recent protests in Turkey.
As heavy clashes rage on in and around Kobani, the Ankara government is preventing some journalists from reporting the developments on the ground in the border region.
Press TV correspondent Serena Shim said on Friday that Ankara has accused her of spying probably due to some of the stories she has covered about Turkey’s stance on the ISIL terrorists in Kobani and its surroundings.
Shim said she was among the few journalists obtaining stories of militants infiltrating into Syria through the Turkish border, adding that she had received images from militants crossing the Turkish border into Syria in World Food Organization and other NGOs’ trucks.
“I think it’s definitely because of the reporting about Syria,” Shim said, pointing to her reports about “the so-called Free Syrian Army going in [Syria] and catching these Takfiri militants and getting their passport stamps and getting first-hand information that they were actually inside while Turkey was still hiding this.”
The Turkish government alleges that “I am spying and that I am working with the Turkish opposition but it’s only logical that I would speak with the Turkish opposition just the same way I would speak with other parties … because that’s my job,” she added.
She flatly rejected accusations against her, saying she was “surprised” at this accusation “because I have nothing to hide and I have never done anything aside my job.”
Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
Turkey has been accused of backing ISIL militants in Syria.