15 August 2010
Turkey deported American journalist Jake Hess who was detained on Thursday in Diyarbakır.
Hess appeared before court today and Diyarbakir District Attorney issued a deportation order for him.
Hess, who is an US citizen, refused assistance offer from US authorities.
Jake Hess was based in Diyarbakir and his reports were mostly being published by a leftist opposition news agency called IPS.
Hess wrote his last article from Suleymaniye on 4 August in which he was mentioning the Turkish bombardments on civilians and the displaced people.
In his article of 13 July Hess also wrote about the forest fires started by the Turkish soldiers in the Kurdish region. He also wrote that while the Turkish authorities are not taking any actions to extinguish the fire they also prevent the locals from doing so.
In his report in May he also wrote that torture is still common in Turkey and he gave voice to the victims.
It was known that the Turkish authorities were disturbed by the reports written by Hess and eventually the police arrested him on Thursday before his house.
ANF NEWS AGENCY
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