Our report for BBC TV on arrests in Turkey following the biggest anti-government protests in over a decade. Among those detained in dawn raids, Yasin Akgul, a highly experience photojournalist with the AFP.

Demonstrations right now in Kadıköy calling for the release of students and young people detained after attending protests in Istanbul.

Well-known investigative journalists Timur Soykan & Murat Ağırel were detained this a.m. in Turkey after a complaint by suspects in a money laundering case. Their homes were searched & their digital devices confiscated. FMA calls for their release because #JournalismIsNotACrime

Important investigation from Alex Crawford & team laying out evidence that contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza: news.sky.com/story/two-hour…

Gaza: Hamas rejects latest Israeli ceasefire plan channel4.com/news/gaza-hama…

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaking Easter truce channel4.com/news/russia-an…

Out walking and felt the ground shaking in Istanbul -

Reports of magnitude 6 earthquake in the Marmara region. Felt strong shaking in Istanbul followed by several tremors. Many have left their homes and come out on to the streets. People are understandably worried and wondering if it’s safe to stay indoors.

The Interior Minister says that officials are currently conducting field evaluations in order to determine if there is any damage after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that happened close to İstanbul and many other major provinces of Turkey's northwestern region.

AFAD: Silivri açıklarında 6.2 büyüklüğünde deprem oldu. Deprem İstanbul’da da çok net hissedildi. Telefonlar çekmiyor, GSM hatlarında sorun var. #Deprem #İstanbul

Scientists have long been predicting a powerful earthquake could strike Istanbul. Last year we made a documentary about how hundreds of thousands of the buildings in the city are unsafe and the complexities of trying to replace them: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

A vet who was operating on a cat when a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Istanbul ran out of the clinic with the animal and continued the surgery in the trunk of a car 💖

Istanbul governorship closes all schools for the next two days following today’s 6.2 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks.

The X account of Istanbul’s twice-elected mayor, Turkish opposition’s main presidential candidate and Erdogan’s top political rival — who has been jailed for nearly two months by the way — is suddenly blocked inside Turkey. Yep, just like that.

X received an order to restrict access in Türkiye to the account of the now-detained Mayor of Istanbul. While we have followed Türkiye’s order regarding the account, we strongly disagree with the order and are challenging the order in court. In the spirit of full transparency, we

The PKK has disbanded itself, ending its long, violent campaign against Turkey. But will it work? For the most part, yes. Here’s a rundown 🧵of key actors: • The PKK’s ailing founder Ocalan, who has been in jail for 26 years, will get house arrest in the sunny Turkish Riviera ✅

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law and supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/turk…

Emily Wither meets Syrian Alawites that have fled to Lebanon to escape sectarian violence. 🎧 A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling bbc.in/4kwFaW6

Israeli soldiers tell Haaretz.com they were ordered to shoot at Gazans gathered at aid-distribution sites: "It's a killing field, live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars... our form of communication is gunfire." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Israeli airstrikes on a crowd queuing for nutritional supplements in Deir Al Balah, in Gaza, have killed at least 15 Palestinians - eight of them children. The Israel Defence Forces told Channel 4 News that they had killed a member of Hamas who participated in the October 7th