INTRODUCTION
to the context in which Serena Shim was working
~ Press TV correspondent Serena Shim killed near the Turkey-Syria border ~
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~ She had received threats prior from the Turkish Intelligence ~
Serena was killed in a reported car accident when she was returning from a report scene in the city of Suruch in Turkey’s Urfa province. ~ Urfa province is near the Syrian border. ~ Serena Shim covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine. ~ On Friday, she told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency has threatened and accused her of spying and she fears to be arrested.
Shim was killed on Sunday as she was on a working mission in Turkey to cover the ongoing war in the strategic Syrian town of Kobani.
She was going back to her hotel from a report scene in the city of Suruç in Turkey’s Urfa Province when their car collided with a heavy vehicle. The identity and whereabouts of the truck driver remain unknown.
Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine.
On Friday, she told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency had 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, adding that she feared being arrested.
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.
Shim 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.
Press TV director: “Serena knew and told the stories how Ankara collaborated with terrorists”
Press TV news director Hamid Reza Emadi says the “suspicious death,” of the news channel’s correspondent in Turkey is a tragedy for “anyone who wants to get the truth.”
Emadi made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday following Serena Shim’s death across the border from Syria’s Kurdish city of Kobani, where the ISIL terrorists and Kurdish fighters are engaged in heavy battles.
“Serena told the stories,” Emadi said, referring to Turkey’s role in the crisis, including “how Ankara collaborated with those terrorists,” and “blocked Kurdish fighters from entering Kobani” to help tackle the ISIL.
On Friday, Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency had accused her of spying probably due to some of the stories she had covered about Turkey’s stance on the ISIL terrorists in Kobani and its surroundings, adding that she feared being arrested.
Emadi called the “car accident” version of Shim’s death an “infantile argument” by Turkey. “We are not going to buy that,” he noted.
“We believe that the Turkish government has to be held accountable before the international community. It has to find out exactly what happened.”
The news media director went on to say that Shim was an American national who died “under very suspicious circumstances” inside Turkey. “We are waiting to see whether the US government is reacting or asking Ankara for clarification.”
Shim will not return to her children in Lebanon just because she “criticized a certain country that is creating chaos in the region by supporting terrorists both inside Syria and Iraq,” Emadi said.
He further noted that “Press TV has every right to pursue the matter legally.”
In 2012, Press TV lost another correspondent, Maya Nasser, who was shot in the neck and the chest by a foreign-backed sniper in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Emadi slammed the “so-called” human rights organizations for refusing to condemn killing of journalists like Nasser. “Just because they reported the truth. They didn’t report what the US media wants them to report.”
Shim, a mother of two, covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine.
She was on a mission on the Turkish side of the border across the strategic town to cover the ongoing war there between the ISIL terrorists and Kurdish fighters.
Her car collided with a heavy vehicle upon return from a report scene in Suruç, a rural district of Şanlıurfa Province of Turkey.
The identity and the whereabouts of the truck driver remain unknown.
Shim said she was among the few journalists who had obtained stories about Takfiri militants’ infiltration into Syria through the Turkish border, adding she had gained access to images showing militants crossing the border in trucks belonging to the World Food Organization and other NGOs.
Emadi decried news blackout on Press TV correspondents’ death “by those who control mass media” saying, “That’s how they’re sending a signal to independent journalists like Serena Shim.”
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Family members doubt Serena Shim killed in a “normal car accident” (P.1)
Family members doubt Serena Shim killed in a “normal car accident” (P.2)
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SOURCE: PressTV Television
Nevaehwest posted on October 19, 2014
at https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/serena-shim-killed/
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our sincere condolence to the family of Ms Shim. She is in our prayers as are all the victims of this Turkish + goon insanity. the brave like Ms Shim + Maya Nasser,killed by the butcher god worshipers
We are saddened & and EXTREMELY ANGRY by ““We are waiting to see whether the US government is reacting or asking Ankara for clarification.”
What, Press TV? What the hell is this? US butcher god worshipers? wait for bloody fucking bitches + whores!
You have the moral right on top of everything else. She was EMPLOYED by you and least thee forgets – ask Rachel Corrie’s family about that disgusting repugnant US REGIME
com’on guys – WE WANT JUSTICE
http://aydinlikdaily.com/Detail/Martin-%E2%80%9CPress-TV-Reporter-Appears-To-Be-Victim-Of-CIA-Black-Op%E2%80%9D/4775#.VETybqPnZrA
Martin “Press TV Reporter Appears to Be Victim of CIA Black Op”
“Mrs. Shim most likely died as a result of her tireless pursuit of truth which is suppressed by media in the West. Mrs. Shim appears to be the victim of a CIA black op, most likely with the cooperation of Turkey who just recently accused her of being a ‘spy’ after she exposed Turkey’s assistance of ISIL,” Martin said.
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as re: WFP
OMG! where do you want us to start? we know that shitty org VERY WELL
– You can “smell the disease” as soon as you enter the WESTERN WFP offices and it is called CORRUPTION
Just go and look where the “diseased” WESTERN WFP bastards live – opulence would make you sick! they are more suited in kosher nostra gangs – luxury travels/high paid/ ………..
for what, one may ask?
IMPERIALISM, folks and spreading the satan US poison – filthy GMO shit
never in office
Press TV : We are asking you to hold TURKEY + THEIR GOONS RESPONSIBLE and take appropriate action
stupid barbaric thug erdy note this:
WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INSANITY IN OUR IRAQ & SURIYA & YOU HAVE KILLED Ms Shim are we are spreading this information, you shitty kosher nostra goon
and this is for our brave JOURNALISTS – Surkrahan brave persons we will not let erdy or anyone get away with this
From the archives:
“I salute and congratulate all the media workers [in Turkey] who speak out with courage regarding the developments in Syria. I particularly salute the journalists like you, who refuse to be silenced in the face of constant pressure and threats from Erdogan. Both you and I know that the majority of journalists in Turkey would have liked to come to Syria, but they have been threatened and prevented from doing so. Some others have paid / are still paying the price in prisons or through other means.”
[Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, interview with Yurt newspaper and Halk TV channel, October 2013.
The Turkish translation of the transcript (*) of the interview was originally published by SANA on October 4th, 2013.
Quote translated into English by Cem Ertür.]
(*) URL: href=”http:// syria360.wordpress.com/2O13/10/02/president-assads-interview-with-turkish-hawktvyurt-news-october-2-2013