Bottomline, sounds like they are okay but got a good scuffing up.
2 VOA Reporters Attacked in Turkey
Three journalists — including two Voice of America contributing reporters — who were covering a bomb blast in the Turkish town of Midyat were attacked by a group of local residents Wednesday.
VOA Turkish contributing reporter Mahmut Bozarslan said after the attack that he was shooting video of the aftermath of a car bombing when a group of people demanded that he stop rolling his camera. The crowd reportedly threw stones at him and broke his camera. Bozarslan was hospitalized with multiple injuries.
VOA Kurdish's Hatice Kamer (R) reported being attacked in Midyat, Turkey, June 8, 2016.VOA Kurdish's Hatice Kamer (R) reported being attacked in Midyat, Turkey, June 8, 2016.
VOA Kurdish contributing reporter Hatice Kamer also was covering the bombing when she was asked by a group of people to stop filming. Kamer was attacked with rocks and sustained head injuries.
Kamer later told VOA that the attackers continued to beat her even after she fell to the ground. Bozarslan said despite police presence on the scene, journalists were not rescued from the angry crowd.
More: http://www.voanews.com/content/two-voa-reporters-attacked-turkey/3367995.html
No doubt, during the Cold War, VOA was a big propaganda outlet for the West; and likely, some of that exists today. There's even a book about American prop during the Cold War singling out the Voice of America.
In turn, this looks like all journalists were gone after and furthermore, it looks like the bombing that they were covering was aimed at the Kurds in a Kurdish area of town.
