Istanbul: It's never been more useful to monitor Turkey's south-eastern border: refugees cross in, Islamic State fighters cross out, and Russian jets being shot down. Yet doing reporting from the border is fraught with danger, as one of Turkey's most celebrated journalists discovered when a front-page scoop on the issue landed him in jail. On Thursday a court in Istanbul ordered that Cumhuriyet newspaper's editor-in-chief Can Dundar, and Erdem Gul, the Ankara bureau chief, be jailed pending trial on charges of political and military espionage. Their crime: publishing images which allege to show...
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