Blog: Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 19

Prosecutors renew detention of Die Welt's Turkey correspondent
A prosecutor in Istanbul yesterday renewed for another week the detention of Deniz Yücel, Turkey correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, his employer reported. Police detained the journalist on February 14, but was first reported only on February 17. According to press reports, the journalist is detained as part of an investigation into leaks of emails between Turkey's energy minister and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son-in-law, Berat Albayrak.