A new attack against the Reuters journalist came yesterday at the heels of the assault on the DIHA reporter Journalism is a dangerous job in dictatorships like Turkey. It was only last week that reporters and photographers of DIHA, a news agency that has the most correspondents and network in the Kurdish region of Turkey […]
A new attack against the Reuters journalist came yesterday at the heels of the assault on the DIHA reporter
Journalism is a dangerous job in dictatorships like Turkey.
It was only last week that reporters and photographers of DIHA, a news agency that has the most correspondents and network in the Kurdish region of Turkey were threatened by the police. In a video that went viral the police scream threats to the photographer who promises not to record when ordered to stop taking videos. However the Turkish police, wanting to show the power of the Turkish state pulls his gun, catches the videographer by the throat and puts the gun to the reporters head. When bystanders ask the cops to calm down he turns on them screaming, “Don’t tempt me!”
A new attack against the Reuters journalist came yesterday at the heels of the assault on the DIHA reporter. In the Kurdish town Diyarbakir, reporting on the demonstration against the government imposed curfew in another Kurdish town, Sur, Faruk Yuce was attacked and arrested by the police. He was beaten by the police during his arrest.
Although other journalists tried to intervene and showed proof of Yuce’s journalist credentials, police arrested him anyway, saying his crime was recording the demonstration with a cell phone.
Sendika.Org News (Mehmet Bayram)
