Turkey worked for release of Japanese reporter after Abe's meeting

Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday the country's intelligence officials were instructed to work toward the release of a freelance Japanese journalist held captive in Syria after a request for cooperation was made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September."During the meeting in New York between President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan and Prime Minister Abe, Abe once again...asked for Turkey's assistance," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with Kyodo News."This time it worked and our intelligence did its best," the Turkish minister said.Abe visited New York in September to a…READ FULL ARTICLE