A Turkish journalist being tried on terrorism charges survived an apparent assassination attempt outside the courthouse

The former editor in chief of one of Turkey's leading opposition newspapers, Can Dündar, survived an apparent attempt on his life outside of the courthouse where he is being tried on charges of revealing state secrets.

Video of the moments after the attempt was captured by one of the many cameras waiting outside the courthouse, where Dündar was on a break awaiting the court's verdict: 

Dündar's highly publicized arrest last year was widely condemned by civil rights and press freedom groups around the world. Both he and Cumhuriyet's Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, were detained after Cumhuriyet reported that a weapons shipment had been seized at the Turkish border, presumably bound for rebels in Syria. 

Erdogan has led a forceful crackdown on the opposition Gülen movement since at least 2013, accusing its supporters of running a "parallel structure" to his government and arresting journalists and publications deemed sympathetic to its cause.

Many took to Twitter to denounce the inflammatory rhetoric that had turned Dündar into a "target":

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