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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey: Belgian journalists held in SE Turkey |
| 2015-09-14 |
| [AA.TR] Turkish coppers briefly detained three Belgian journalists -- who planned to cross into Syria -- in southeastern province of Sanliurfa on Sunday. Security sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the journalists wanted to enter Syria to cover war-torn Kurdish-populated Kobani town near the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The journalists, Robin Rama Ekers, Jo Verstichel and Nicolas Becker, were freed after being questioned over observing the Kobani side from a house in Sanliurfa's border district of Birecik. Daesh turban group attacked Kobani in mid-September 2014, with the town turning into a scene of fierce festivities between Kurdish groups and the turbans. Kobani has been declared free from Daesh but the city was totally destroyed during the war and about 180,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees remain in Turkey. |
| Posted by:Fred |