A prominent Turkish opposition journalist was shot at on Friday just moments before a verdict was to be given in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets.<br /><br /> The assailant is said to have shouted “traitor” before firing two or three shots at Can Dundar outside the court in Istanbul during a break in proceedings.<br /><br /> Dundar, the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet daily newspaper, was unharmed and the shooter was detained.<br /><br /> However one of the bullets reportedly grazed a reporter covering the trial.<br /><br /> “I don’t know who attacked me,” said Dundar. “But I know very well those who are targeting me. It’s normal that a journalist who has been a target for months lives through such an event. I hope that those targeting me will learn a lesson from this.”<br /><br /> Dundar was later sentenced to five years and ten months for publishing footage purporting to show Turkish state intelligence transporting weapons into Syria in 2014.<br /><br /> Erdem Gul, the newspaper’s Ankara bureau chief was given five years.<br /><br /> Both
