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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

To be detained and deported from the country where I previously lived for five years and for which I have such affection has ...

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 ...

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

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 ...