Turkey on Friday released two journalists jailed for their reporting on the government’s alleged smuggling of arms to Syrian rebels, after the country’s highest court ruled that the detention violated their rights.
Turkish authorities detained Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gul, the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, in November over the publication of the controversial report. Prosecutors had sought life sentences for both men, on spying charges for revealing state secrets.
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