BBC’s Mark Lowen was deported from Turkey

I only sent my family to say that I was happy to have happened to Turkey I had a living and returned to the house. Then the phone played on my hotel room.

“There is an urgent issue to discuss the person,” he said. “Can you go down?”

I came to find the three straight-dressed police waiting for me. They asked me from my passport and moved me away by trying to prevent me from moving.

I was in Istanbul for three days, anti-government protests, the arrest of the city may was arrested by Mayor Akram Imamoglu.

I first kept the police headquarters and seven hours. The participation of two colleagues was allowed and lawyers may come to speak. The atmosphere was usually sincere. Some police officers said they did not agree with a state decision. Someone hugged me and said he hoped for my freedom.

In 9.30, I moved to the cities of the cities of the guardianship of the foreigners of the Istanbul police. There, the chain I have to negotiate in my broken Turkish atmosphere from the sequence of smoking officers. I was a fingerprint and I made contact with lawyers or the foreign world.

During the early hours of Thursday, documents were presented to say that I was deported because he was “threat to public order.” When he asked for an explanation, it was a state decision.

I think a police officer, I think I said, I said that I would like to return to the future and show their cartridges. I decided politely, the version of the events will be given to the government to push the government.

I was transferred to the last place to the guardianship department of foreigners in the airport until 2.30. I put it in a room with a few series of hard chairs and I told you I could sleep there. Among the police officers who entered their teeth brushing, the planes set off and called on the morning prayer, did not sleep.

After seventeen hours from primary arrest, I was dragged to the waiting plane to go to London. On that night, after the work was made after the work, a statement said that a significant media was published in the world, the Turkish government did not have the right accreditation. I did not talk about any points in my arrest, and this was said that it was the next thing to justify my work.

I never treated any point during the exam. I knew that the BBC management and the British Consulate in Istanbul worked hard to release.

Thus, many of the Turkish government are violated, there is no such security network. When I live there as a BBC Istanbul correspondent between 2014 and 2019, Turkey was the biggest prisoner of the world’s largest journalist. Border correspondents listed in 180 countries in 180 countries in the Press Freedom Index. This recent protests have begun, eleven journalists are between two thousand or people who are taken into custody.

The latest riots Akram Imamoglu’s arrest, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, opinion polls can offer the opening of the president in the elections.

However, they grew up in a wider: a noise for democracy in a country in a country. Cracking on the media is the center of this trajectory because the government is gradually criticized or controversy. I caught an idea of ​​the first hand. Ended up for me with sorrow and insomnia. It was so bad for others.

Meanwhile, President Erdogan, protests to be fired as “street terrorism.” With the current environment of an ally in the White House and Turkey, which is the importance of everything from Ukraine to Syria.

The question continues to continue the largest demonstrations of the country, which is more than a decade or the long-term leader in Turkey can simply brush it. Those who go out on the street can be “sufficient” – but never write Recep Tayyip Erdogan.