Shim's death sad for all truth seekers

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. 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.”