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January 29, 2008
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Sibel: US press stays away from any stories critical of Turkey
Kurdishaspect.com By Karwan Simek
In a recent interview with blogger Luke Ryland, the now well-known FBI whistleblower and activist, Sibel Edmonds, said that the U.S. media has failed to cover her story and others because the press tends to stay away from any stories critical of Turkey. Edmonds implied that such avoidance is a result of Turkey's strong lobbyist activities in the United States. These comments come after she recently offered to provide classified information to any major American media outlet about her case regarding various scandals involving U.S. officials if the exchange were to be conducted in an unedited interview. Now, after failing to gather interest from the U.S. press, Edmonds has begun disclosing some of the information to the U.K. Sunday Times.(1)(2)(3)
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year old Turkish-American, is a former translator for the FBI who was incidentally fired after raising allegations of security lapses in the FBI translator department. The Sunday Times revealed that Edmonds has evidence of one well-known senior official in the US State Department who is being paid by Turkish agents and who sold information on nuclear technology to various buyers including Pakistan. Sibel Edmonds has been prevented from disclosing any of the information she came across five years ago by the U.S. government after the Department of Justice dismissed her case on the basis of national security. Experts have named her "the most gagged women in U.S. history."
Now, after exhausting nearly every other avenue available for Sibel Edmonds to reveal her case and the evidence supporting it, she has turned to the media. Despite her willingness to reveal classified information while still being under the U.S. government's special-invoked gag order, the U.S. press has failed to act. The U.S. media has remained quiet on the issue and Edmonds explained in the recent interview with Luke Ryland, that this was due to the activities of the Turkish lobby.
"Turkey's army of lobbyists in DC are very effective. The US press tends to stay away from any stories critical of Turkey, I would say even more than Israel," Sibel explained. She said these reasons in addition to various U.S. agencies warning journalists of reporting on what they claim is a "highly sensitive covert national security operation" have resulted in a media blackout in the United States regarding her case.
Other journalists have similarly noted in the past that any news critical of Turkey hardly appears in the U.S. news media. Edmonds' case is one of the most important among them.
The full interview with Sibel Edmonds can be found on Luke Ryland's
(1) For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets. Sunday Times. Jan 6, 2008
(2) FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft. Sunday Times. Jan 20, 2008
(3) Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe. Sunday Times. Jan 27, 2008
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