After Satire dispute to Jan Böhmermann offing in Turkey a new press scandal: the ARD television correspondent Volker Schwenck sitting since six in a Abschieberaum at Istanbul airport
The Turkish authorities have set it off him unprecedented reasons Schwenck writes on Twitter. He suspect, however, that there was a problem because of his work as a journalist, next to his name was a note been.
As the SWR notifies the head of the Cairo office of the ARD from Egypt Coming have on a trip found the Turkish-Syrian border. As a SWR Speaker FOCUS Online said the journalist was not locked, could use the toilet and make calls. He is going well under the circumstances
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Merkel expressed
However, the sender, the measure of the Turkish authorities could not explain. Schwenck have always reported balanced on Turkey and the Kurdish conflict. The Foreign Office and the German Embassy in Turkey are already on. “Now we have to wait,” the SWR spokesman told FOCUS Online.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, meanwhile, expressed concern about the refusal of entry for the ARD correspondent Volker Schwenck in Turkey. The Foreign Ministry is in constant contact with all the necessary places and sat down also that the working capacity of the journalists will be quickly restored, Merkel said after a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday in Berlin. see the Federal Government “of course, also with some concern”
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The DJV demanded the immediate release of ARD correspondent. “The actions of the authorities against Schwenck is pure harassment, which is completely unjustifiable,” the DJV chairman Frank explained everywhere. He gave Chancellor Angela Merkel partly to blame for the incident. Now her consideration in the case Jan Böhmermann avenge said the DJV head.
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