New York Times thanks Turkey for efforts for release of its four journalists

U.S. daily New York Times on Monday thanked Turkish government for intervening to help secure release of its four journalists detained in Libya.
"We’re particularly indebted to the Government of Turkey, which intervened on our behalf to oversee the release of our journalists and bring them to Tunisia," Bill Keller, The Times executive editor, wrote in a note to the newsroom.
The Libyan government released four New York Times journalists earlier in the day, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and opposition forces in eastern part of the country. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats and crossed safely into Tunisia in the late afternoon.
The journalists were Anthony Shadid, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting; two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have extensive experience in war zones; and a reporter and videographer, Stephen Farrell, who in 2009 was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and was rescued by British commandos.
Keller also said, "we were also assisted throughout the week by diplomats from the United States and United Kingdom."