Merkel: Jailed correspondent in Turkey should be freed

German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for the release of a German newspaper correspondent who has been jailed as part of a crackdown on media in Turkey.

The situation is the latest diplomatic rift between the two countries.

Ira Spitzer reports from Berlin.

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