What I Learned in a Turkish Jail With Women From al Qaeda and ISIS
PRISONERS
The Kafkaesque true story of Turkey, ISIS, the CIA, and me.
This is the last chapter in a series of articles about the author’s experiences in Turkish prisons and the people she met there, from a NASA scientist to a member of the so-called Islamic State.
On day 17 of my incarceration, two lawyers and a translator (hired by the Committee to Protect Journalists) visited me. “They really seem to think you’re a CIA agent,” the translator started. “This is hard to ask, but…do you have any ties to the CIA? The FBI? Mossad?”
I had to laugh. “No,” I said. “Never.”