BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey

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

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Lowen had been in Turkey for several days to report on the ongoing protests that were sparked by the Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest last week.

Imamoglu - who is being held in jail on corruption charges he denies - is seen as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival.

He has been selected by his party as presidential candidate in the 2028 election.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the BBC said: "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."

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