Turkish journalist imprisoned for publishing footage on Turkey’s state intelligence agency ferrying weapons into Syria
The prominent Turkish journalist Can Dündar has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, shortly after surviving an attack by a gunman who attempted to shoot him outside a courthouse in Istanbul, reports The Guardian.
According to the source, Dündar, editor-in-chief of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, and fellow journalist Erdem Gül, its Ankara bureau chief, were acquitted on charges of trying to overthrow the government, but convicted of publishing secret state documents.
Dündar and Gül could have faced life in prison had they been found guilty of attempting to topple the government by publishing footage that purported to show Turkey’s state intelligence agency ferrying weapons into Syria in 2014.