TWO leading Turkish journalists imprisoned for exposing the government’s covert aid to Syrian terrorists were freed yesterday after three months behind bars.

Daily newspaper Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara correspondent Erdem Gul were greeted by a mass of supporters as they emerged from a prison van.

They were released from remand at Silivri prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul, at about 3am after the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that their rights to personal liberty and freedom of expression were violated.