DHAKA: A Turkish photographer kidnapped while covering the civil war in neighbouring Syria has returned home after being freed from weeks in captivity, his newspaper said on Monday.

Bunyamin Aygun, who works for the newspaper Milliyet, was taken hostage by radical Islamists in mid-December during a reporting mission in the war-torn country.

He was freed on Sunday and entered Turkish territory accompanied by eight members of the National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), Milliyet said, The Straits Times publishes this report on Monday.

‘Every night, I had the same dream that I was being freed. I cannot believe that I am free now. It feels like a dream,’ he was quoted by the daily as saying.

BDST: 1644 HRS, JAN 06, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor