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Mark Lowen

@marklowen

BBC News Correspondent and Presenter. Previously in Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade and lots in between. Dad. Heart belongs to a Portuguese. All views my own

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4 months ago

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement: