WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: For this kind of press harassment to be taking place is very, very shocking. You deserve more than simply an apology from the officials in Istanbul where -- are you OK now, are you OK, Ivan?</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Wolf, and thanks for the concern. It's not -- in the grand scheme of things, I've been detained in countries like Iran and Russia, roughed up, my colleagues roughed up in other countries. The biggest issue is how Turkish journalists are treated in this country. According to the organization Reporters Without Borders, Turkey ranks 154 out of 180 countries, behind Iraq and Russia. Dozens of journalists over the course of the last year have been forced out of their jobs, fired, for challenging the Turkish government. Turkey was rated the world's worst jailor of journalists. In the last couple of months, more than a dozen of those journalists have been released. However, Turkey has shut down YouTube in this country, despite a constitutional court order, saying it is unconstitutional to shut down YouTube. Just about a week and a half before elections in March, the government shut down Twitter and only opened it afterwards. It is those kinds of signs as well as the repeated use of force that I see in the streets of this city every month against, for the most part, peaceful demonstrators that have really raised alarms for a country that, a few years ago, was moving closer towards joining the European Union and has been a long-term ally in the NATO military alliance -- Wolf?</s>BLITZER: Yeah, it's shocking a NATO ally would behave like this. Ivan thanks very much. You always do excellent, courageous reporting for us. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.
CNN Reporter Detained And Harassed in Turkey