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From Our Own Correspondent

Turkey’s clampdown

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, the US, El Salvador, and Georgia.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.3

Hello, today at the White House, a press conference with Hyundai executives is interrupted amid

0:12.5

revelations about a security lapse in a high-level messaging group.

0:17.1

We hear from relatives of the Venezuelan detainees who've been deported to El Salvador by Donald Trump,

0:24.3

after he invoked an 18th century law.

0:28.0

In Chauvila, the village, which is home to the billionaire and founder of the Georgian Dream Party,

0:34.0

handouts are plentiful, but elsewhere in Georgia it's a different story.

0:38.9

And finally, from South American strongmen to Hollywood superstars,

0:43.4

Hard Talk Stephen Sacker reflects on his most memorable encounters over the years.

0:49.4

But first, the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul last week

0:52.6

and the main rival to President Recep Tayyip

0:55.4

Erdogan has sparked outrage in Turkey and led to some of the worst unrest the country has seen

1:01.1

in a decade. Ekrem Imamolu was detained on corruption charges last Wednesday and then formally

1:08.2

charged on the same day he was due to be selected as the

1:11.3

2028 presidential nominee for the Republican People's Party, or CHP.

1:17.0

He described his arrest as a black stain on our democracy.

1:21.5

More than 1,800 protesters had been detained since the protests started.

1:26.9

And there's been a crackdown on the media,

1:29.3

which also included a BBC correspondent being detained and deported. Emily Wither has been in

1:35.5

Istanbul. The night after the mayor, Eklem Imamoli, was detained, a cacophony of cutlery

1:42.0

echoed through the hills of my neighbourhood.

1:49.6

I knew at that moment that frustration at Mr. Imammoli's arrest and subsequent imprisonment was being felt not just on the Istanbul streets, but above them too, in the thousands of apartment

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