Ankara deports British journalists

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Two Vice News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, were deported from Turkey on charges of having links to the terrorist organization PKK.

The correspondent and cameraman were detained in Diyarbakır on September 1st. A Turkish court freed the two British journalists on September 3rd but kept their translator, Iraqi national Mohammed Ismael Rasool, in custody.