Young French journalist Loup Bureau, detained in Turkish prison for 51 days, is on a flight to Paris where he will land at today's 8: 40.
Christophe Deloire of Reporters Without Borders wrote it on Twitter: "Loup Bureau is on board AF1391 flight, which departed from Istanbul at 6: 13 (05: 13 now Italian) and arrives in Paris at 8: 40 according to Air France" . Bureau, who worked for TV5 and Arte, was arrested at the end of July by Turkish security forces at the Iraqi border because he found photographs and texts of interviews with militants from the PKD and the accused be part of the Kurdish-Syrian People's Protection Units, considered "terrorist" by Ankara.
The announcement confirms what his lawyer, Martin Pradel, had anticipated in a post published on Twitter: “We are happy to announce the release of the journalist Loup Bureau. He will be expelled from Turkey shortly ”.
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