Turkey Charges Three VICE News Reporters With Terrorism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the 93th Victory Day Anniversary at Ataturk Cultural Center in Ankara, Turkey, on Aug. 30, 2015.
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A Turkish court has formally charged three VICE News reporters with terrorism, a claim denied by the media network as “alarmingly false.”
British journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury were detained with another foreign colleague, while filming in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast on Thursday. The court in Diyarbakir on Monday arraigned the three on charges of terrorism, state-run Anadolu Agency said.