Turkish riot police had allegedly detain CNN’s İstanbul correspondent Ivan Watson and his crew in the middle of a live report in Taksim Square on the first anniversary of Gezi protests.
“Turkish police detained me and my crew in the middle of a live report in Taksim Square. One officer kneed me in the butt,” Watson said in his tweet. However, there were reports that the CNN crew were not formally detained but prevented from going on air.
The İstanbul Police Department released a statement regarding the incident, stating that Watson did not have his passport with him and he there were no procedures taken after he went to collected and declared his passport to the police officers.
Today is May 31, the first anniversary of the anti-government protests that lasted more than a month last year in every city of Turkey, which started initially as a sit-in protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's plan to build a shopping mall on Gezi Park in İstanbul, and the tension that occurred during the protests remains in place, if not stronger.
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