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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Two Turkish CNN journalists arrested while broadcasting live outside IDF headquarters
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice have detained two Turkish CNN journalists in Tel Aviv who had been broadcasting live outside the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters.
The pair, a reporter and cameraman working for the outlet’s Turkish-language news channel, had been filming near the site today, after Iran launched another missile barrage at Tel Aviv and other areas of central Israel.
During the live broadcast, two men who appear to be soldiers approach the men and seize the reporter’s phone.
Police say they received a report about two suspects equipped with cameras, recording in real time to a foreign media channel.
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When officers ordered them to identify themselves, the reporters presented expired press ID cards and were detained for interrogation, the agency adds.
Burhanettin Duran, who heads the Turkish government’s Directorate of Communications, calls the arrests an attack on the press and says that efforts are underway to secure the journalists’ release.
The Times of Israel Community.