Press watchdog demands Turkey free arrested Austrian journalist
8 years agoGerman journalist of Turkish origin Mesale Tolu gives a press conference with International press freedom watchdog "Reporters Without Borders" on September 3, 2018 in Berlin. Tolu, who was arrested in April 2017 on charges of membership of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), which is banned in Turkey as a terror organisation, spent months in pre-trial detention in Istanbul before being conditionally released in December 2017. But her travel ban was only recently lifted amid a thaw in relations between Ankara and Berlin. She arrived back home on August 26, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Kay Nietfeld / Germany OUT
Press watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday called for the immediate release of an Austrian journalist who has been arrested in Turkey on "terrorism" charges. Max Zirngast, a journalist…