Turkey Arrests Deutsche Welle Reporter for ‘Insulting President’

A Turkish court has formally arrested Alican Uludag, a correspondent for the Turkish service of Germany’s state-funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle, on a charge of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Uludag, 40, was detained by security forces in Ankara late on Thursday and later transferred to Istanbul to give a statement, DW said on its website. An Istanbul court subsequently ordered his arrest pending trial.