Turkey: independent TV shut down as Cumhuriyet editors released
Turkish journalists Erdem Gül and Can Dündar have been released from jail. The editors from the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet had been arrested 3 months earlier accused of spying and intentionally revealing state secrets after they alleged that the Erdogan-government tried to ship arms to Syria to support of Islamist fighters.
On the day of Gül’s and Dündar’s release, independent Turkish broadcaster IMC was stopped from broadcasting for a day. The TV channel was accused of spreading “terrorist propaganda” and shut down by the government to investigate the allegations. The break in transmission came while IMC was airing a live interview…
