Turkey journalist Dundar escapes shooting, attacker held

Turkish opposition journalist Can Dundar escaped a shooting on Friday outside the courthouse in Istanbul where he is on trial on charges of revealing state secrets. Brandishing a pistol, the attacker fired several times before being detained by police. Dundar, the editor-in-chief of leading Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet, was unharmed.

Dundar was outside the courthouse during a break as the court prepared to deliver its verdict in his trial for allegedly revealing state secrets in a newspaper story. The assailant fired twice or three times in front of the cameras of media who had crowded outside Istanbul's main courthouse during the closed door trial