Turkey: Dündar and Gül muzzled for investigative journalism
Philipp Filipovski
The editor in chief Can Dündar and his bureau chief Erdem Gül from the oppositional and secular newspaper Cumhurriyet were sentenced to jail by a court in Istanbul for spying and "divulging state secrets".
Can Dündar
Erdem Gül
In January 2014, the newspaper reported about a convoy of trucks close to the Syrian border. The risky truckload: Weapons and ammunition for the rebels fighting against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. It linked the seized trucks to the Turkish Security Service (MIT).
After publishing the delicate issues in May, Recep Tayyip Erdogan had publicly sworn that Dündar will pay a "heavy price".
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