JOURNALISTS’ unions yesterday urged Turkey to drop charges against 18 of their colleagues accused of spreading “terrorist propaganda.”

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European wing the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have rallied behind the journalists, who work for the daily newspapers Cumhuriyet, Millet, Sok, Posta, Yurt, Bugun, Ozgur Gundem, Aydinlik and Birgun.

They were charged after publishing photos showing a militant from the outlawed Marxist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) pointing a gun at a prosecutor who was killed in a failed hostage rescue operation on March 31.