Two British journalists and their translator have been formally charged by a Turkish court with terrorist offences, in a case that is raising more concern among human rights groups about press freedom in the country.<br /><br /> Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendelbury of Vice News, and the translator, a local journalist, were arrested last week in Diyarbakir.<br /><br /> They had been in the southeast filming clashes between Kurdish militants and the police.<br /><br /> Their lawyer said when he saw them, they asked him why they had been detained. They denied any wrongdoing. <br /><br /> “I told them they were detained after a tip-off,” the lawyer, Poyraz Oral, said.<br /><br /> A fourth man, the group’s driver, was reportedly allowed to go free.<br /><br /> In a statement, the Diyarbakir chief prosecutor said: “Although the suspects were not involved in the terrorist organisation’s hierarchy, it was decided that they were arrested for helping the organisation willingly”. <br /><br /> Security sources told Reuters the three were in close contact with the ban
