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.

Rights groups said the detention and deportation of the reporter, Mark Lowen, was part of an escalation in government pressure against independent journalism. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from ...

Mark Lowen had been in the country to report on widespread protests over the arrest of Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. The BBC said authorities had accused Mr Lowen of "being a threat to public ...

Correspondent Mark Lowen had only been in the country for several days to report on the unrest sparked by the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu on corruption charges when he was detained. Mr Imamoglu ...

Almost 1,900 people have now been detained amid the largest anti-government protests in the country in more than a decade.

BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been deported from Turkey after being arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday, the BBC has said. Lowen had been in Turkey for several days to report on the ongoing ...

This morning (27 March) the Turkish authorities deported BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen from Istanbul, having taken him from his hotel the previous day and detained him for 17 hours.

Turkey's Communications Directorate has said that BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen was deported due to a lack of proper accreditation, denying that the decision was related to his coverage of ...

The journalist was deported on Thursday morning from Istanbul, after being accused of ‘being a threat to public order’, according to the BBC.

BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen has been deported from Turkey after being detained for around 17 hours, the corporation has said. On Wednesday, the Turkish authorities took Mr Lowen from his hotel.