She noted that journalists have a role to be at the scene of incidents like the war zones to give the truth of what is going on hence as an organisation they felt the need to have such training that will assist them when they are in war zones.
TIKA’s vice president Rahman Nurdun noted that the training is life-saving and is important to journalists.
He said that they saw they need to partner with other institutions and assist journalists in having such training as most journalists lose their lives in war zones due to lack of skills.
“The bombs and the shootings you heard during the training sounds worse but they are the reality of what happens during wars and always remember to serve the truth when you are out there,”’ he insisted.
Turkish Police Academy Deputy Director Fatih Inal also added that the training is important to journalists as wars in the world do not end and it is the journalists' responsibility to be there to give the truth.
‘’Currently, the war in the Middle East especially Palestine and Israel has started and most victims of wars are children and women so be there to give the story, we pray that you don’t go to these areas of war but when you have to please use what we trained you about war zones,”’ he said.
Nurdun also stated that they are targeting more and more journalists from all over the globe to be trained in war-covering skills.
“’ Journalists are very important people they are the watchdog of the society and the skills that will be given to them through this training are very important hence we will recruit more and more of them for the training,’’ he said.
