Turkish authorities detained and deported BBC correspondent Mark Lowen​ and arrested other journalists amid the largest nationwide protests in a decade.

Turkey’s president has accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade.

By Huseyin Hayatsever, Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan SpicerANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "movement of violence" and that the main opposition party would be held accountable for injured police officers and damage to property.