In Turkey, you apparently aren't supposed to take photos of soldiers either.Of course, my oldest daughter, who was teaching in Turkey at the time, did anyway and this is what happened:
I was walking around downtown Istanbul while taking some pictures. I started at the Big Bazaar and made my way slowly to the city center. The view from atop with all the mosques is absolutely amazing. I slowly made my way to Sultanahmet. I didn't really have a plan or a guide other than to just walk until I got tired or bored. I made it up to the gate and took a few pictures of the fountain and the walls themselves. I know you aren't supposed to take pictures of soldiers, so I took a picture of a dog and managed to frame a Turkish soldier in the background (without it looking like I was taking one of him.) When I stood up, I saw a guy dressed in something dark. He had military shells across his chest, and an army looking hat. He was walking calmly and directly and no one seemed alarmed, so I waited until he passed me a little to take a picture. As I took the shot, I heard him yell at one of the soldiers. I looked over right as he shot the first one. The soldier went down, and I heard a second shot. Another soldier came running and at that point I booked it out of there. As I ran off, some locals grabbed me and moved me behind a building. For the next hour, we heard back and forth gun fire. Eventually, it died down when they got him. From there on out it was reporters, cops,and paper work. So.. in a nutshell, that is my brush with terrorism. The picture I took is all over the place, which is a little weird to see. (But, also really freaking awesome.) The photo she took, which wound up on all the news wires is here
http://nerdgirlrising.typepad.com/.a/6a ... 970c-800wiThey also put several photos of her in the papers over the next few days, calling her a hero, and she had media camped out in front of her apt for week.