The Turkish authorities did not allow the wife of the chief editor of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, to leave the country. Dilek Dündar was at the International Airport in Stambul, where her passport was confiscated, and she was banned to travel to Germany, reports the Anadolu.

Can Dündar wrote in Twitter: "They took my wife as a hostage. Those are jungle laws; but neither me nor my wife, who covered me with her body to protect from the gun, are not afraid of them.” 

On May 6, a gunman attempted to shot Dündar near the court building in Istanbul, but his wife and his lawyer managed to disarm the attacker, reports the DW

Earlier, Can Dündar and his colleague Erdem Gul were charged of espionage and disclosure of state materials. After they had published in Cumhuriyet about   secret deliveries of weapons from Syria to Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally filed a suit against Dündar. After three months of investigation Dündar and Gul were released based on the ruling of the Constitutional Court.

In May, they were sentenced to 6 years’ of imprisonment, but they appealed the verdict. Dündar was also fined in the amount of 29 thousand Turkish Lira (9 euros) for insulting Erdogan. In early July Dündar announced his decision to resign.