The authorities in Turkey on Saturday detained a journalist working for the BBC's Turkish language service in the southeast of the country, the broadcaster said. Hatice Kamer was detained while reporting on a mine disaster in the Kurdish-dominated Siirt region of the southeast that left 10 miners dead and six missing, BBC Turkce (BBC Turkish) said in a statement on its website.
It said that she had been looking to talk to relatives of the miners at the copper mine, which collapsed late on November 17. Rescue efforts are still continuing at the mine. There had been no explanation of the reason for her detention, it added, and no comment from Turkish officials. BBC Turkce said Kamer is a board member for the association of journalists in southeast Turkey. Dozens of journalists have been detained in Turkey under the state of emergency in the wake of the July 15 failed coup.
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