The incident comes during high tension between Myanmar and Turkey, which has lambasted the Southeast Asian nation for its treatment of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority. Last month Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Myanmar of incubating "Buddhist terror" and carrying out a genocide against the Muslim group. They are "under interrogation for flying a drone over the Hluttaw (parliament) building", said a statement published by Myanmar's Ministry of Information. The pair was working with well-known Myanmar journalist Aung Naing Soe, whose house in Yangon was searched by authorities on Friday night, according to local media. Several journalists have been arrested in Myanmar this year, fuelling fears of an erosion of the press freedoms which blossomed after the end of junta rule in 2011.

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 28, 2017 08:15 UTC