Turkey jails journalists over Charlie Hebdo cover

Two Turkish opposition journalists have been jailed for two years for publishing French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's controversial cover featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

Turkey jails journalists over Charlie Hebdo cover

Two Turkish opposition journalists have been jailed for two years for publishing French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's controversial cover featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said an Istanbul court convicted Cumhuriyet newspaper columnists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya of stirring up "hatred and enmity".

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