Gunman arrested after firing at prominent Turkish journalist

Turkish opposition journalist Can Dundar escaped a shooting on Friday outside a courthouse in Istanbul where he is on trial.

Police have detained the assailant. One journalist nearby was also wounded.

Dundar was outside the courthouse during a break as the court prepared to deliver its verdict in his trial for allegedly revealing state secrets in reports published in Cumhuriyet on alleged arms smuggling to Syria.

Journalist Erdem Gul, who is on trial along with Dundar, said the attacker shouted "traitor" as he fired.

Dundar, the Cumhuriyet newspaper's editor-in-chief was released in March after three months in detention, but still faced charges of revealing state secrets and espionage. 

Following his release, he vowed to expose the government's "crimes" when his trial begins.