ANKARA — A Turkish journalist says she and three colleagues were briefly detained at the border with Syria after angering the local governor with questions about possible infiltrators from Daesh group. Cumhuriyet newspaper said Wednesday its reporter, Pinar Ogunc, was detained a day earlier at the border town of Akcakale, along with journalists working for the Turkish daily Evrensel and Germany's Die Welt. They were covering the Daesh loss of the Syrian town Tal Abyad to Kurdish forces. Ogunc said they were taken to a police station after asking Gov. Izettin Kucuk if IS militants could pose a threat to Turkey. Kucuk's office denied that he ordered the journalists arrested for asking questions. It said they were submitted to an identity check because of “sensitivities” at the border region. — AP
