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OT: Turkish woman reporter fails in complaint over revealing picture

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Mar 20, 2004, 1:37:07 AM3/20/04
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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.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20040319/od_afp/turkey_press_offbeat_040319171226


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