Germany plans to deport a Turkish journalist wearing a T-shirt with a slogan calling for freedom for Turkish media during a joint press conference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, media reported on Sunday.
Adel Jagit, 60, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that he was to leave the country by January.
"There must be a connection between the two, there is no other possible explanation," he said.
The journalist, who says he has been living in Germany for 36 years, wore a shirt with the words "Freedom for journalists in Turkey".
The security men accompanied the journalist outside the office of the chancellor in front of Erdogan.
"At the press conferences of the adviser, we do things the same way as in the Bundestag: there are no demonstrations or slogans for political issues," Merkel's spokesman Stephan Zebert said on Twitter later after widespread criticism of the incident.
Yeget wrote a column for the leftist German newspaper Taz, which also published a Turkish newspaper opposed to Erdogan on its website criticizing the Turkish government.
"Of course I am afraid for my safety if I are expelled," he said. "In Turkey, journalists are silenced."
Since the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, the Turkish government has imprisoned thousands of alleged enemies of the Turkish state, including many journalists, academics and human rights activists.
