BBC Turkish says reporter freed in southeast TurkeyISTANBUL -- Turkish authorities on Sunday freed a reporter for the BBC's Turkish language service in the southeast of the country after holding her for a day without explanation, the broadcaster said. Hatice Kamer was detained on Saturday while reporting on a mine disaster in the Kurdish-dominated Siirt region of the southeast that left 11 miners dead and five missing, BBC Turkce (BBC Turkish) said in a statement on its website. BBC Turkce added that there was still no explanation over why Kamer had been detained. BBC Turkce said Kamer had been looking to talk to relatives of the miners at the copper mine, which collapsed late on November 17. Kamer is a board member for the association of journalists in southeast Turkey.

Source: The China Post November 28, 2016 18:01 UTC