1.5 hours, without sacks on our heads!

Yalcin Dogan, a veteran journalist who was in that team, says that “I am thinking; what if the man would have fired? We would be all blown up with the car!””

Dogan says, “We felt almost relieved of being kept under custody for 1.5 hours by the American soldier under a 50-degree sun, after being ordered to climb down our car.

“Me, Ozdemir Ince, Faruk Balikci, Ferit Aslan and our driver made a narrow escape from death, in Baghdad “ Dogan says.

After being kept under the sun for a while, the Turkish journalists were rescued by two diplomats from the Turkish Embassy. In fifteen minutes, the American soldiers returned the ID cards and cameras of the crew and then demanded the films in the camera. However there were no films, because that was a digital camera. Then the soldier checked all the pictures in the camera and erased all pictures belonging to troops.

“Our return from death and one-and-a-half hour detention has thus ended” Dogan says.

Meanwhile the United Nations issued a warning to the people, telling them not to come close to an American soldiers in Baghdad, for their life.