🇹🇷 TURKEY
🔴 Journalist Arrests Spark Democracy Fears

🔸 AFP’s Yasin Akgul arrested after covering protests over Erdogan rival Imamoglu’s jailing.
🔸Akgul: The aim of the arrests is to send a message to journalists — “don’t film, don’t speak, don’t publish.”
🔸 7 journalists detained; 2,000 protest-related arrests since March 19.
🔸 BBC’s Mark Lowen deported; legal crackdown extends even to lawyers.

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