Photo: DPADozens of German lawmakers on Friday called on Turkey to release a journalist for the Die Welt newspaper who is being held on terrorism-related charges. The journalist "had reported - like numerous other journalists from international media - on emails that the leftist Turkish hacker collective RedHack had acquired from the private email account" of Albayrak, Die Welt said at the time. "Among other subjects, the emails concerned control of Turkish media groups and influencing the public by means of fake users on the messaging service Twitter," it added. A spokesman for the German foreign ministry said the government had "not the slightest information" suggesting that Yucel had violated his journalistic duties. In June 2015 he was detained with three other journalists covering the seizure of a Syrian border town by Kurdish forces.

Source: The Local February 25, 2017 11:54 UTC