URGENT: Press TV Correspondent Accused of Spying Killed in Turkey
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TEHRAN (FNA - Fars news agency)- Press TV correspondent in Turkey Serena
Shim, who was accused earlier this month by the Turkish Intelligence
Ministry of spying - probably due to her coverage of Ankara’s stance on ISIL
atrocities in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani and the recent protests in
Turkey - was killed in a car accident on Sunday.

The late Shim was in a passenger car with some other journalists and
reporters when the incident took place. The latest reports said another
passenger has also been badly hurt in the car accident.

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.

She 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.