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Turkey Releases Two Journalists Arrested for Alleged Ties With Terrorists

© AP Photo / Lefteris PitarakisAn armed Turkish police officer secures a road leading to the U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015
An armed Turkish police officer secures a road leading to the U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Two VICE News journalists from the United Kingdom, who were arrested by Turkish police, did not have the proper media credentials to film the clashes.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Two VICE News journalists from the United Kingdom, arrested on charges of aiding a terrorist organization, have been released, Today’s Zaman newspaper reported Thursday.

Masked members of YDG-H, youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), sit next to their weapons in Silvan, near the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, August 17, 2015 - Sputnik International
Two British Journalists Detained in Turkey After Filming Army, PKK Clashes
Correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury were detained on August 27 in the southwestern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, while filming clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey.

According to the Turkish government, the journalists did not have the proper media credentials to film the clashes.

Media reports suggested that the two British men had been charged with helping the Islamic State militant group and been moved to a distant prison in the country.

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