Global News Director of Agence France-Presse, Phil Chetwynd, denounces the detention of AFP photographer Yasin Akgul as "completely unacceptable." "He was just doing his job, and he needs to be released immediately," adds Chetwynd.
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00:00Well, the detention of Yasin Agul, the AFP photographer for more than 10 years in Turkey,
00:07is just completely unacceptable.
00:10He was a journalist carrying out his duties, covering the protests happening in Turkey
00:15at the moment.
00:16Over the course of the process, he's filed over 180 photos for AFP to clients around
00:22the world.
00:23He was just doing his job, and he needs to be released immediately.
00:28Well, this is a very worrying development, which we haven't seen in the past.
00:33Sometimes it happens that people are detained briefly, but the fact that Yasin has been
00:38held for a considerable period of time without justification would appear to us to be an
00:43escalation, and that is extremely worrying about the state of press freedom at this point
00:49in time.
00:50I would reiterate that AFP would demand that he is released as quickly as possible and
00:56returned to his family.