Thursday, February 25, 2016

Turkey: detained journalists expected to be freed, still face trial | euronews, world news

Turkey: detained journalists expected to be freed, still face trial

25/02 21:41 CET

Turkey’s supreme court ruled on Thursday that the detention of two prominent opposition journalists had “violated their rights.”

Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gul, the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, are facing trial, but are expected to be released from custody.

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