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Turkey: Journalist Alican Uludağ, Deutsche Welle correspondent, arrested again
Alican Uludağ, a Turkish journalist working for Deutsche Welle—Germany's international public broadcaster—was arrested again in Ankara on July 21, 2026. He announced his own arrest on X, writing in German: "Ich werde festgenommen" ("I am being arrested"). According to his lawyer, he was taken into custody in the afternoon and brought to the Ankara prosecutor's office; the reason for the arrest was not disclosed. Uludağ had already spent 90 days in pretrial detention in early 2026. He faces charges including insulting the president and spreading false information.