Turkey has no black list of foreign journalists that the country is not allowed. That has a source within the Government said to the German press agency dpa.
When a reporter the country not in may, "than it is not to his opinion or his news coverage ', according to the Government source.
In our country is the fuss arose about the arrest in Turkey of the originally Turkish columnist Ebru Umar. Said it would they are arrested because they had critical tweets sent over Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is not the first time that a journalist gets into trouble in Turkey.
Arrest the Dutch journalist Fréderike G last year arrested when she followed a group of activists in the border area with Iraq, and was accused of supporting a terrorist organization.
Recently several journalists were denied access to the country, such as David Lepeska, a freelance journalist for the New York Times and The Guardian, and photographer for Bild Giorgos Moutafis, and became the press accreditation of the journalists of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten and the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Moutafis would have been told that he was on a black list, but it was never confirmed that there is actually such a list exists. That is now so by the Government denies.
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