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Three journalists from Russian news agency Sputnik released after being questioned in Ankara
Three employees of news outlet Sputnik in Turkey have been released following questioning by Ankara police. Contact with the journalists had been lost after they went to the authorities due to harassment by Turkish nationalists.
The journalists’ release was reported by a Sputnik correspondent on Sunday. The released journalists were met with applause from a group of supporters who had gathered outside the Hall of Justice.
According to the official report on their interrogation, Turkish prosecutors did not find any wrongdoing on the journalists’ part.
The staffers were assaulted by Turkish nationalists on Saturday and went missing after turning to Ankara police for help. They had been presumed detained, yet the law enforcement in Turkey’s capital denied any knowledge of their whereabouts, according to RT and Sputnik editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
The news agency was also targeted in Istanbul; Mahir Boztepe, the head of Sputnik’s Turkish branch, was detained, and its office has been searched.
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