Thursday, September 2, 2010

My reporting on the Kurds landed me in a Turkish prison

Independent, Opinion
By Jake Hess
August 31, 2010
 
I bumped into a local journalist friend on a recent afternoon in Diyarbakir, the unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan. "This is Turkey," he said wearily when I asked if the police were still harassing him because of his work. "If the police didn't bother us [journalists], we'd think something was wrong." Full Text