German authorities are to deport a Turkish journalist, who was removed by security from a news conference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, for protesting Erdoğan, Sözcü newspaper reported.

#PressFreedom #Turkey & Germany: Turkish journalist and general secretary of the European Turkish Journalists' Association Adil Yigit, who lives in Germany and is a staunch critic of Erdogan ejected from Berlin news conference @CNN https://t.co/IxY6Um6kFi — Linda Hemby (@LindaHemby) September 29, 2018

Adil Yiğit, a Turkish journalist and the general secretary of the European Turkish Journalists' Association, had accreditation to the press conference in Berlin on Sept. 28, during Erdoğan’s three-day visit to Germany.

Yiğit was reportedly escorted out of the room by two men, for his T-shirt reading "freedom for journalists" and "freedom of the press for journalists in Turkey.”

THIS IS ERDOGAN ||



Right after Erdogan: “we need to respect to journalists” the journalist Adil Yigit was kicked out from the room during a press conference of Erdogan and Merkel in Germany.



Shame on Merkel, Erdogan does not have a shame already!



pic.twitter.com/hIfaMXwHwH — Frank S Wise (@FrankSW_TX) September 29, 2018

The 60-year-old journalist, who moved to France as a young man and sought political asylum, has been living for 40 years with a residence permit.

He recently applied to extend his residence permit in Germany, but his request was declined by the German authorities.

German authorities informed Yiğit that his status as an asylum seeker had been dropped since he had reacquired a Turkish passport in 2014. Yiğit was asked to leave Germany no later than Jan. 22, 2019.

JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME ||



Journalist Adil Yiğit says he wanted to show his solidarity with jailed journalists by wearing a shirt that demanded freedom for jailed journos in Turkey during a press conference of Erdogan and Merkel in Germany. pic.twitter.com/bqgg1Ua4lI — Frank S Wise (@FrankSW_TX) September 28, 2018

“The problems started when I acquired the Turkish passport. Being Turkish is really hard,” said Yiğit, who will appeal the decision.

“At a time when Erdoğan said harsh words against me, at a time when pro-government media has been targeting me, they want to send me to Turkey. Is this what they call German democracy,” Yiğit said.