journalists are on their way back to germany after the government of turkey refused to renew their press passes the journalists were not given any reason for the decision their media organizations do intend to appeal it germany's foreign minister has also criticised the decision thomas from the berlin delhi takesh legal and wasn't from german public t.v. say they see no legal grounds for the denial of their press accreditation in turkey . and here's what they had to say just before leaving istanbul. before you think this means some uncertainty for other members of the press it appears the goal here is to influence reporting there has already been a chilling effect asserted on the turkish media there's hardly any critical reporting at least in the state media of its now it appears the government would like to achieve the same with the international media but i cannot imagine they will succeed. needs to be said that our situation is a luxury in comparison to what our turkish colleagues are dealing with more than