Turkey leaves Italian journalist free

About two weeks after his detention, an Italian journalist was released by Turkey.

Del Grande was arrested on April 9 near the Syrian border. He was in Turkey to interview Syrian refugees for a book about the war in Syria and the terrorist organization IS.

The 34-year-old journalist was detained without charge and spent several days in hunger strike. He is also active as a human rights activist and writes on his blog 'Fort Europe' about the situation of refugees in the Mediterranean.