Turkish authorities arrest Al Arabiya reporter for covering Turkey's offensive
Saturday 12/October/2019 - 12:58 PM
Turkish authorities arrested on Saturday an Al
Arabiya correspondent for covering Turkey's offensive in northeastern Syria.
Zidan Zanklo was picked up in an armored vehicle by
Turkish authorities in an area on the Syrian-Turkish border. Zanklo, who is
Syrian, was told he has until Monday to leave to Istanbul.
His visa was also cancelled, and his work permit has
been confiscated.
Since it began on Tuesday, the Turkish incursion has
opened a new front in the eight-year Syrian civil war and drawn international
criticism. A war monitor gave a death toll of more than 100 so far and the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that almost 200,000 people had fled
their homes.
