Turkish court rules to release jailed opposition lawmaker

A Turkish court on Thursday ruled to release a jailed opposition lawmaker after having sentenced him to more than five years for disclosing government secrets, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.

Enis Berberoğlu, the lawmaker from the Republican People's Party (CHP), was sentenced in February on charges he gave a newspaper a video purporting to show Turkey's intelligence agency trucking weapons into Syria.

On Thursday, Turkey's court of appeals ruled Berberoğlu's sentence should be suspended, Anadolu said.