ARD reporter detained at Istanbul Airport – THE WORLD

Turkish security forces have the ARD correspondent Volker Schwenck on arrival at Istanbul airport set . Reasons for the establishment were the television reporter not initially mentioned, shared his transmitter, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), with in Stuttgart. He was merely informed that there was a note on his behalf. Schwenck had been taken to a Abschieberaum the airport.

According to the SWR, the German Embassy in Turkey and the Foreign Ministry on the matter informed. Schwenck had come from the ARD Office Cairo and wanted to continue traveling via Istanbul to the Turkish-Syrian border. He wanted to speak with refugees from Syria. Now he is to be flown back to Cairo that evening apparently. Legally, he is probably not arrested, but only as set out why you have not robbed of his phone. However, on a telephone call the “world” he would not comment on the process.

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) said the federal government see the event “with some concern “. The Foreign Office and the German Embassy in Turkey sought a clarification. “Our colleagues in Ankara and Istanbul are in contact with the relevant Turkish authorities and the parties concerned,” the Foreign Office said in Berlin .

Schwenck himself wrote on Twitter:” There was a note on my behalf Bin journalist working “..? He has published a photo of the prohibition decision. As Middle East correspondent of ARD Schwenck had repeatedly reported on the Syrian Kurds. The assumption is now: These reports have displeased the Turkish government, which is why it has put him on a list of undesirable persons

“The ARD journalist must. . be released immediately press freedom is non-negotiable, the Chancellor, I see a duty now to immediately pick up the phone and make this clear -. in person, “said Frank Everywhere, the chairman of the German Association of journalists (DJV) the” world “. The actions of the authorities against Schwenck was “pure harassment, which is completely unjustifiable”. Everywhere was Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) partly to blame for the incident. Now her consideration in the case Jan Böhmermann avenge said the DJV head.

Last foreign journalists were harassed more frequently in Turkey. In September, two British journalists of the online magazine “Vice” in Diyarbakir were arrested. They came after a few days free again, while her translator spent four months in detention. Around the same time was the Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink, the only stationed in Diyarbakir foreign journalist deported.

earlier this year refused Turkish authorities three German journalists including the author of these lines, and a Norwegian colleague accreditation. And just last month had to withdraw “Spiegel Online” his longtime Istanbul correspondent Hasnain Kazim, because even the press card should not be extended.

For foreign journalists is coupled to the accreditation residence permit. get No accreditation, quasi come a deportation equal. In the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders, Turkey has 180 consideration Nations currently rank 149. The Turkish authorities had recently attracted international for indignation when they found the anti-government newspaper “Zaman” under state control.

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