Journalism under threat in Turkey, says AFP photographer

Journalism under threat in Turkey, says AFP photographer

Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for Agence France-Presse who was arrested this week after covering the huge protests rocking his native Turkey, said after his release on Thursday that the profession is…

Yasin Akgül, who has been working with Agence France-Presse for ten years, had been arrested at his home in Istanbul earlier this week.

AFP journalist Yasin Akgul leaves jail, but lawyer says charges remain

AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who was arrested this week covering Turkey's worst unrest in more than a decade, was freed Thursday from an Istanbul jail, AFP correspondents said, though his lawyer said the charges against him remain.Akgul was detained in a pre-dawn raid at his home Monday and remanded in custody by an Istanbul court a day later. He was charged with "taking part in illegal rallies and marches", drawing outrage from rights groups a…

Since the beginning of the protest movement last week following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, President Erdogan's main rival, the Turkish authorities have arrested more than 1,400 people, including journalists. Eight of them were released on Thursday 27 March.

The authorities, faced with demonstrations of an unprecedented scale over the past 12 years, ordered the release on Thursday of eight journalists arrested for covering banned rallies. The BBC denounces the expulsion of one of its journalists.

Journalism under threat in Turkey, says AFP photographer - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Yasin Akgül, a photojournalist for Agence France-Presse who was arrested this week after covering the huge protests rocking his native Turkey, said after his release on Thursday that the profession is under threat in the country, Agence France-Presse reported. In an interview, Akgül, 35, who spent four days in custody, condemned a push “to make it impossible” to bring images of the protests to the world, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces g…