DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Monday formally charged three employees of Vice News with having links to a terrorist organisation, the online news channel said, days after they were detained while reporting from the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Security sources and local media identified the three as two British reporters and their translator. Their arrest is likely to intensify concerns about press freedom as Ankara takes on a bigger role in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria and cracks down on Kurdish militants at home.
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