Mark Lowen
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Mark Lowen
@marklowen
BBC News Presenter and Correspondent. Previously in Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade & lots in between. Dad. Heart belongs to a Portuguese.
An airport queue
Joined December 2010
- In today’s @lemondefr: When #Trump received the leaders of #Estonia, #Latvia and #Lithuania, he began by blaming them for the war in Yugoslavia. It took them a few moments to realise he’d mixed up the Balkans and the Baltics. @SylvieKauffmann
- President Erdogan visits Marmaris, ravaged by wildfires, and chooses to throw out boxes of tea to locals as he drives by
- Just when you thought your jaw couldn't drop any further... Donald Trump releases a private message sent by NATO Sec General Mark Rutte - with a very big claim, and written, it would seem, in the most Trumpian language (NATO has confirmed to BBC it is genuine). What a world.
- OK so tonight might just be the best I’ve ever seen. Mesmerising doesn’t come close.
00:00 - As Matteo Salvini visits the Poland-Ukraine border, the mayor of Przemysl shows him the Putin-admiring T-shirt he proudly wore in Moscow. Not so simple for a leopard to change its spots. x.com/SimoneAlliva/s…
- İngilizler kaos planına destek çıkıyor! Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde CHP ve PKK da devrede ow.ly/lbj250CZF8g
- After @BorisJohnson was asked in parliament why Germany & Italy are doing better on Coronavirus than UK and replied the difference is "ours is a freedom-loving country", Italian President Mattarella tells reporters "we Italians love freedom too but seriousness is also dear to us"
- 📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:
