ISIL is recruiting in Ankara, Turkey

[eridani]

NYT Reveals Threats Against Turkish Reporter as Pro-Government Media Turn Her Into Target

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/25984-nyt-reveals-threats-against-turkish-reporter-as-pro-government-media-turn-her-into-target

he New York Times revealed Sept. 19 that its reporter Ceylan Yeğinsu, who wrote a striking story on the recruitment efforts of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) at the heart of the Turkish capital Ankara earlier this week, has been receiving “messages that threaten her safety.”

After her report was published, Yeğinsu not only received strong reactions from officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but was also targeted by the pro-government media, with a number of newspapers publishing her picture on their front page in a bid to trigger public outrage.

The executive director of the New York Times, Dean Bacquet, expressed concern about Yeğinsu’s safety, adding that the American broadsheet acknowledged that the picture accompanying the story of Erdoğan with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu during Friday prayers was misleading.

“Despite this published correction, some Turkish authorities and media outlets have mounted a coordinated campaign to intimidate and attack the motives of the reporter who wrote the story. She has been sent thousands of messages that threaten her safety,” Bacquet said in a written statement Sept. 18.

[CJCRANE]

1. There's a video on YouTube of a couple of ISIS fighters openly taking the tram in Istanbul.

It seems like these guys are protected opposition.

[Diclotican]

2. eridani

eridani

And this is an ally of the US no less - and a NATO member... I guess it is time to reconsider the use of Turkey both as a memberstate of NATO - and as a allied state to the US no less...

Diclotican

[eridani]

3. I agree--and we should probably reconsider NATO as well

There has been way too much mission creep.

[flamingdem]

4. They are at home in some border cities in Turkey and are healing in their

hospitals and shopping at their stores.

Turkey is implicated but it's not that wise for them to poke the hornets nest either since Isis is so popular in Turkey.