'Then, the phone rang': BBC's Mark Lowen on being deported from Turkey
At 9.30pm, I was moved to the foreigners' custody unit of the Istanbul police. There, the atmosphere hardened from a succession of chain-smoking officers, with whom I had to negotiate in my broken Turkish. I was fingerprinted and denied access to lawyers or any contact with the outside world.
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Swedish journalist who came to Turkey to cover Imamoglu protests arrested over old insults allegedly directed at ErdoganBy Akin Nazli in Belgrade The Ankara chief public prosecutor’s office has arrested Kaj Joakim Medin, a Swedish national who ...
Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrest and criticised what they call the erosion in press freedom in Turkey. View on ...
Turkish authorities detained and deported BBC correspondent Mark Lowen and arrested other journalists amid the largest ...
The mass protests in Istanbul aren't directed solely against the arrest of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. There's also growing ...
On 27 March, the Turkish authorities expelled British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist Mark Lowen, accusing him of ...
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