Press TV reporter Serena Shim assassinated by Turks?

[TonyGosling]

Turkish Intelligence service, MIT is accused of killing three journalists since Kobani, last one was Serena Shim


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The Turkish government is preventing some journalists from reporting the developments in the border region. The Turkish intelligence agency has now accused our correspondent Serena Shim of spying.



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Family members of Press TV correspondent Serena Shim, who's been killed in southern Turkey near Syria, say they doubt her death was a normal car accident.
Serena’s family made the remarks during a visit by the news network’s Beirut Bureau team. They refused to give statements on camera, but said they suspected the Turkish authorities were somehow responsible for her death. Serena's folks also said they would legally pursue the matter.

[TonyGosling]

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.

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Analyst Asks Turkey to Launch Transparent Probe into Death of Press TV Reporter
Analyst Asks Turkey to Launch Transparent Probe into Death of Press TV Reporter



TEHRAN (FNA)- A political analyst called on Turkish authorities and international community to transparently and independently investigate the suspicious death of Press TV's correspondent in Turkey, Serena Shim.
“Everybody is casting suspicion and is casting a lot of skepticism about the way she died,” said Ibrahim Moussawi, a political analyst from Beirut, in an interview with Press TV on Sunday night.

“Because the whole event has happened on the Turkish soil, the Turkish authorities should be held responsible to give a very detailed and transparent investigation first,” the analyst added.

They should also give “a very detailed, transparent, frank and direct account of what happened,” he further noted.

She was killed because of “her work in order to cover the truth”, the analyst said, adding, “The authorities have to do everything possible in order to come out with a very transparent investigation ... that they could give to her family, to Press TV and to all journalists.”

“We should press forward for other NGOs in order [for them] to have their own independent investigation as well,” he added.

Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, was killed on Sunday as she was 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 Şanlıurfa Province when the car carrying her collided with a heavy vehicle. The identity and whereabouts of the truck driver remain unknown.

Shim 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 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.