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Turkey Escalates Media Crackdown Over Protest Coverage

Protesters at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Thursday to support Istanbul's arrested mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (Credit: AFP)

Turkey on Thursday stepped up a crackdown on media coverage of mass protests since the arrest of Istanbul's popular mayor, deporting a BBC journalist and imposing a 10-day broadcast ban on an opposition TV channel.

The moves came after police detained 11 Turkish journalists, including an AFP photographer, who were covering the worst street protests to hit Turkey since 2013.

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