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John Baird expresses concern over report of CBC journalist arrested in Turkey
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he has called the Turkish ambassador and expressed concern over reports a CBC journalist might have been detained in Istanbul.
A tweet sent from journalist Sasa Petricic’s account just before noon said “Arrested.”
Petricic has been in Turkey covering the country’s biggest anti-government protests in years.
CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson says the broadcaster cannot confirm whether Petricic has been detained.
Thompson says CBC is trying to determine what happened.
Turkey has experienced nearly two weeks of protests that began in Istanbul after a violent police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in by activists objecting to a development project.
The protests have since spread to dozens of other cities and are shaping up as the biggest test yet in the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted government.
Activists say 5,000 people have been injured or seriously affected by the tear gas and four people have died in the protests.
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