Foreign journalists targeted so that like #Soma, locking-down of all Turkey cannot be heard

Turkey is calling a halt to the Soma mine rescue operation after two more bodies are found, bringing the final death toll to 301.

On terrible occasions, leaders must not only be physically present, they must say the right words, and mean them
Disasters can shake governments and sometimes bring them down, if the issues they raise of preparedness, regulation and empathy are not squarely faced and answered in a way people find satisfactory, even in the extremity of their grief. New Orleans and Fukushima were both examples of how not to do it, and it now looks as if the tragedy of Soma in Turkeywill fall into the same category