In new blow to media freedoms in Turkey, a court on Thursday ordered two prominent opposition journalists jailed pending trial over charges of willingly aiding an armed group and of espionage for revealing state secrets for their reports on alleged arms smuggling to Syria.
Two editors from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper face lengthy jail sentences for alleging that Ankara’s intelligence agency was supplying weapons
WikiLeaks Slams Prosecution of Turkish Reporters for Arms Convoy Coverage
Sputnik International
The prosecution of two Cumhuriyet newspaper journalists byTurkey after the publication of photos of trucks transporting weapons to Syrian opposition groups is wrong, the WikiLeakswhistleblowing website said Thursday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier on .
Two prominent Turkish journalists were arrested yesterday (26 November) on charges of assisting terrorists, CNN Turk said, after they published footage that purported to show the state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria.
Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1Q24ssh
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