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US reiterates Turkey travel warning, citing detention risk (detention risk from Turkey)
Stockholm Center for Freedom ^ | June 29, 2018 | SCF

Posted on 06/30/2018 9:45:04 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

The United States on Thursday warned its citizens against travelling to Turkey, citing a nationwide crackdown that has led to the arrest of thousands of people, including US passport holders.

“Reconsider travel to Turkey due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions,” the State Department said, retaining a travel warning already in place.

US citizens had also been subject to travel bans that prevented them from leaving the country, the State Department said on its website. “Under the State of Emergency, security forces have detained tens of thousands of individuals, including US citizens, suspected of affiliation with alleged terrorist organizations based on scant or secret evidence and grounds that appear to be politically motivated,” it said.

“Do not travel to the areas along the Turkey-Syria border and the southeastern provinces of Hatay, Kilis, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Diyarbakir, Van, Siirt, Muş, Mardin, Batman, Bingöl, Tunceli, Hakkari, and Bitlis due to terrorism,” added the statement.

It also noted that the US government has very limited ability to provide emergency services to US citizens traveling in southeastern Turkey, as the US government restricts its employees from traveling to the region.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: detention; statedepartment; us; warns
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To: Texas Fossil

21 posted on 07/01/2018 5:13:17 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Texas Fossil

With friend like this, we don’t need enemies. We need to toss them and find another military staging area.


22 posted on 07/01/2018 5:57:21 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

agree


23 posted on 07/01/2018 7:00:49 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: akalinin

Nobody wants to be in a Turkish Prison.

Unfortunately, many in the US are clueless about how bad they are.


24 posted on 07/01/2018 7:02:06 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: I want the USA back

Correct.


25 posted on 07/01/2018 7:02:37 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
Erdoğan wants to reestablish Ottoman glory with a new Muslim Caliphate. He would love nothing more than to be its head.

Putin wants to reestablish Soviet glory, with a new Russia occupying the area the Soviet Empire once held. He realizes that he must embrace Russian Orthodoxy, in order to do so.

Both men have acted to crush any religious expression that doesn't conform to their vision. In concert they are marching toward the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

26 posted on 07/01/2018 8:34:28 AM PDT by Yulee
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To: Texas Fossil
I went to school with a number of America born Aremenian kids who grandparents barely survived the Armenian genocide of 1915. Some of them didn't and these kids parents hated Turks.
27 posted on 07/01/2018 11:50:01 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Mark17
I once worked for an Armenian builder who lost most of his family in the Armenian Genocide in 1915. Only he and an older brother were somehow smuggled out, through British controlled Iraq. The man had a hatred for Turks like nothing I'd ever seen.
28 posted on 07/01/2018 11:55:09 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa
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I spent two semesters as a visiting professor at Marmara University in Istanbul. Granted, that was almost twenty years ago, but I did not find that to be the case. My students were fully equal to those I taught in the U.S., and the Turks I met on a daily basis outside the university were very friendly. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay there. Things may be different now, of course.

29 posted on 07/01/2018 4:16:06 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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To: JoeFromSidney
Get to know some Armenians, who happen to be the first people in history ever to fight for the religion of their choice, Christianity. The HATE Turks.
30 posted on 07/01/2018 4:41:51 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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The man had a hatred for Turks like nothing I'd ever seen.

Not surprising.

31 posted on 07/01/2018 5:29:04 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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