Turkey ramps up media clampdown due to coverage of protests
Turkey ramped up its clampdown on the media coverage of protests since the mayor of Istanbul’s arrest, deporting a journalist from the BBC and enforcing a 10-day broadcast ban on a TV channel, Al-Monitor via AFP reported on March 27th.
The curtailment comes after police detained 11 journalists from Turkey, such as an AFP photographer, who were covering the most severe protests on Turkey’s streets since 2013.
The protests started on March 19th following the arrest and imprisonment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, the Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Turkey deported the journalist because the country felt he posed “a threat to public order,” the BBC said.
Al-Monitor via AFP, BBC
