Turkish journalists jailed for five years

  07 May 2016    Read: 1197
Turkish journalists jailed for five years
Two Turkish journalists were sentenced to at least five years in jail for revealing state secrets on Friday, just hours after a gunman tried to shoot one of them outside the courthouse in Istanbul, Anadolu agency reported.
Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, who was unscathed in the shooting, was given five years and 10 months. Erdem Gul, the newspaper`s Ankara bureau chief, was sentenced to five years.

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