DN! US Journalist (1) on Plight of Kurds Deported from Turkey

Exclusive: US Journalist Deported from Turkey After Reporting on Plight of Kurds

Twenty-five-year-old American journalist Jake Hess was arrested in Turkey nearly two weeks ago and deported back to the United States over the weekend. Turkey accused him of allegedly having ties with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which Turkey and the United States classify as a terrorist organization. But Hess and his lawyer have maintained that Hess was targeted because of his writings. His recent articles for Inter Press Service have focused on Turkish soldiers deliberately starting forest fires, the depopulation of Kurdish villages, and Turkish-Iranian air strikes on Kurdish homes in northern Iraq.

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[turkumvedogruyum]

So, if you want piece and democracy, get a gun and start killing people? Oh, I am sorry. That's the American way of establishing democracy.

I was in the middle of the region as a commando. We didn't kill or hurt any Kurdish civilians. I actually took Kurds injured by the PKK to a military hospital. What Jack Aess does is similar to an Al Quida-loving-journalist coming to the US and interviewing the Al Quida members in the US.

Your name is StartLoving3. Just love people, and not terrorists.

[StartLoving3]

@turkumvedogruyum the resistance to the Nazis were terrorists, as were the Americans during the revolutionary war. What are you ranting at me for?

[holoti18]

@turkumvedogruyum It seems like you were born few days ago. Let me remind you that it is your turkish government who start killing innocent Kurds, just becuase they wanted human rights like Turks in Turkey. How you forgot that in Turkey the use of Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names were banned and Kurds were called "Mountian Turks". Do you remeber who are Ahmad Kaya and The Ugly Kings(Yilmaz Guney)? and wat happened to them after they claim they were Kurds? or Layla Zana?

[ranja1983]

fuck turkish and turkey

[glossypainting]

thanks Jake Hess you are a briliant jurnalist .

[glossypainting]

shame on terorist turks..we proud of you and appreciate you..thanks

biji kurdistan and pkk

[KurdTVCanada1]

Turks have to realize the money their government spends to oppress kurds and fight them could be used to civilize them and to get them out of the zoo and start being human . Are they stupid enough to think that in 2012 kurds through their culture and become Turks. Are they that dum.

[evomasterryan]

@turkumvedogruyum That's turkeys answer for every freedom lover in Turkey that the have links to PKK

[jotyar100]

turkey always been like this  never been good for any country around them but still America stay behind them you know why?? because america looking for profit and money who has got more america is there and when the talk about yeoman right no ones believe u r any more in the last fuck both of u turkey and america

[ekt8383]

The goverment of Turkey is ignorant!! it does not want to solve these problems, Turkey will never be accepted into the EU..

[bedangg]

There is no point to argue with turkish gays, they dont have brain.

[Instrumentish]

Biji P.K.K Free Kurdistan.

[kardobcho]

Speciall thnaks for this reprt to show the whole world what is happening to Kurds in Turkey

[DANYLE100]

pkk sind doch keine terroristen, es sind freiheitskämpfer!