Turkish woman reporter fails in complaint over revealing picture

AFP/Yahoo ^ | 3/19/04

[martin_fierro]

Turkish woman reporter fails in complaint over revealing picture

ANKARA (AFP) - The Turkish press council has thrown out a complaint by a woman reporter over a newspaper picture showing her unwittingly revealing part of her underwear, on the grounds she that had violated press ethics.

Burcu Goksuzoglu, a reporter for the SkyTurk news channel, unintentionally revealed part of her underwear -- a g-string -- when she bent over to ask a question of a participant at a conference in Istanbul in December, the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper reported Friday.

She was shocked the next day to see a picture of herself in the revealing posture in Hurriyet, one of the largest selling newspapers in the country.

She got a second shock when the press council threw out her complaint, saying she broke press ethics because "a journalist on duty must refrain from methods and acts which might overshadow the respectability of her title".

Several women reporters condemned the decision.

[martin_fierro]

Don't get any bright ideas, Helen.

[LN2Campy]

you could have at least posted the pic of the Turkish babe...

[Billthedrill]

Egad! Warn a feller before you do that...

[martin_fierro]

You assume:

• She was a babe
• That the photo is on the Web somewhere (YOU try to find it)

[robertpaulsen]

My eyes!

[johniegrad]

I'm suprised you haven't posted it yet.

[petercooper]

this her?

[grobdriver]

unintentionally revealed part of her underwear -- a g-string

Jeeez.
How does one "unintentionally" reveal any part of a G-string?

[LN2Campy]

OUCH my eyes my eyes!!!

[grobdriver]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ErnBatavia]

Sheesh...talk about an antidote to wood.

[cake_crumb]

She got a second shock when the press council threw out her complaint, saying she broke press ethics because "a journalist on duty must refrain from methods and acts which might overshadow the respectability of her title".

Turkey's definitely turning into an Islamist country.

[HarryCaul]

Seems weird that Google doesn't turn up a single "Goksuzoglu" anywhere.

Bercu seems to be a common turkish female name, though.

[robertpaulsen]

You just didn't try hard enough.

"unintentionally revealed part of her underwear -- a g-string -- when she bent over to ask a question of a participant at a conference"

See? She's doing it wrong. Or right?

[correctthought]

If she just wore a burqua, this wouldn't have happened

[cake_crumb]

'Seems weird that Google doesn't turn up a single "Goksuzoglu" anywhere.'

Yep, I noticed. It asks if you meant "Oksuzoglu", then gives no results for that either. In fact, running "Turkey" though Google news search doesn't turn up any related stories. Wondering exactly when this incident happened.