At 9.30pm, I was moved to the foreigners' custody unit of the Istanbul police. There, the atmosphere hardened from a ...

Mark Lowen was covering the protests in Istanbul when he was arrested and later deported back to the UK, the BBC has said.

This morning (27 March) the Turkish authorities deported BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen from Istanbul, having taken him ...

March 27 (UPI) -- BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen said Thursday that he was detained and ultimately deported while covering ...

Mark Lowen had been in Turkey for several days to report on the ongoing protests that were sparked by the Istanbul Mayor ...

Rights groups said the detention and deportation of the reporter, Mark Lowen, was part of an escalation in government ...

Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrest and criticised what they call the erosion in press freedom in Turkey. View on ...

A person in a Pikachu costume joined thousands of protesters taking the streets in Istanbul outraged over the arrest of their ...

BBC News chief Deborah Turness says "no journalist should face this kind of treatment simply for doing their job".

Turkish authorities detained and deported BBC correspondent Mark Lowen​ and arrested other journalists amid the largest ...

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