Posted on 08/31/2015 12:09:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The reporters were detained last week covering unrest in southeast Turkey which has raged as the government presses a military offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels.
They had earlier been questioned by prosecutors who ruled to take the case to court.
The four men, including the driver, had been held in police custody since their detention last week.
Reports said that they were arrested after police acted on a tipoff and confiscated the footage shot during their reporting. All have denied the accusations in the presence of their lawyers.
VICE News, an Internet-based channel which produces in-depth video reports, named the two British journalists in a statement as Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury.
It also said that while sources initially said they were detained for filming without government accreditation, they had then been "accused of supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS)."
A VICE News spokesperson said the journalists will "face unsubstantiated charges of terrorism".
The team had been visiting the region as the government wages a relentless campaign against PKK militants, with several local Kurdish officials arrested and accused of supporting declarations of self rule.
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They’d better take the “Midnight Express.”
I still say we should have split Iraq along ethnic lines and given those turkeys a Kurdistan right on their border as an extra special “thank” you for their last minute blocking of our troops access.
I agree. Iraq should be split up.
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