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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turkey said on Thursday it rejected "prejudiced" foreign statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and ...

On 27 March, the Turkish authorities expelled British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist Mark Lowen, accusing him of ...