A Turkish photographer kidnapped while covering the civil war in
neighboring Syria has been freed, Turkey’s state news agency said Sunday.
Bunyamin Aygun, who works for the
newspaper Milliyet, was taken hostage by radical Islamists late last year
during a reporting mission in the war-torn country.
He was freed on Sunday and will soon
return to Turkey, the Anatolia news agency said, citing Turkish sources.
Rights groups describe Syria as the
world’s most dangerous country from which to report.
Twenty-five journalists have been
killed since the start of the conflict in March 2011, according to Reporters
Without Borders (RSF), while more than 30 journalists are estimated to have
been abducted or detained.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is believed to be holding several foreign
journalists, as well as scores of Syrian activists.
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