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My Turkish detention ordeal has made me even more determined to keep speaking out
Morning Star international editor STEVE SWEENEY explains how he was detained without explanation, branded a terrorist and deported after entering Turkey to report on local elections
Detention prison at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gockcen airport
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MY anticipated detention came shortly after my plane landed at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gockcen airport — named after Kemal Ataturk’s adopted daughter.
She is famous for being Turkey’s first female pilot. But what is glossed over is her role in using chemical bombs in attacks on Kurds during the massacre of Dersim in the 1930s.
A police officer grabbed my phone out of my hand and bundled me into a holding area next to their office. The tiny smoke-filled room was already packed when I arrived. The 18 men looked puzzled and surprised at my arrival — I was the only person of non-Turkish or Middle Eastern appearance.
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