{"id":2912,"date":"2016-02-26T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2016-02-26T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:26:14","slug":"turkey-release-two-opposition-journalists-revealed-ankaras-arms-supplies-rebels-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/turkey-release-two-opposition-journalists-revealed-ankaras-arms-supplies-rebels-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: release of two opposition journalists who had revealed Ankara&#8217;s arms supplies to rebels in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has released two prominent journalists after the country\u2019s top court ruled that their detention had violated their rights.<\/p>\n<p>Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gul, the paper\u2019s Ankara bureau chief, have been released pending their trial in March on espionage charges. They were arrested in November\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dundar and Gul were charged with aiding a terrorist organisation and jeopardising state security after Cumhuriyet published reporting and videos, which the newspaper said showed Turkish intelligence officials transporting weapons to Syria in 2014.<br \/>\nThe charges, which Dundar and Gul deny, carry a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for the Turkish authorities to \u201cdrop all charges against Can Dundar and Erdem Gul and to release the 30 other journalists still held behind bars\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>euronews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has released two prominent journalists after the country\u2019s top court ruled that their detention had violated their rights. Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gul, the paper\u2019s Ankara bureau chief, have been released pending their trial in March on espionage charges. They were arrested in November\u2026 Dundar and Gul were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,503],"tags":[874,489,273,875,155,323,876],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-and-oceania","category-latest-news","tag-delivery","tag-journalists","tag-opposition","tag-release","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-weapons-ankara-rebels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}