Ece Aydın, reporter at BirGün and Yol TV, has been released early morning after being detained last night while reporting from Istanbul Courthouse hostage crisis.
“Thanks all my friends who supported me. I am well and at home =),” she wrote on Twitter at 4am local time.
One of bianet’s former interns in 2011, Aydın has been detained along with 4 individuals after an operation aimed to resolve the hostage crisis.
Kept in courthouse police headquarters for a while, Aydın has been sent to Şişli Etfal Hospital for routine screening and released afterwards. (EA/BM)
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