"On December 7 crew members of the special correspondent channel “Russia 1” were detained at the border with Syria, Hatay province in south-east Turkey at the time when they were sent to the neighboring province of Gaziantep" - said in a statement of Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Russian crew was taken to the police station and reported the decision to deport them from Turkey on the ground, it was said, "violation of the rules of activities of foreign journalists in the Republic of Turkey".