ISTANBUL: A French journalist arrested while covering a pro-Kurdish protest in Istanbul is facing the threat of deportation from Turkiye and was transferred to a migrant detention center on Wednesday, his lawyer told AFP.
Raphael Boukandoura, who works for various French publications including Liberation and Courrier International was detained late Monday at a protest over a military operation targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
Boukandoura, 35, has lived legally in Turkiye for at least a decade and holds an official press card.
The journalist was transferred to a detention center for migrants, his lawyer Emine Ozhasar told AFP.
“The file is being registered,” she said, adding that there was no decision made yet and that it might be postponed until Thursday.
