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Old July 22nd, 2009, 03:49 AM posted to aus.politics,alt.travel.canada,rec.travel.air,rec.travel.australia+nz
Robert Cohen
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Default Free accomodation in Turkey, just say 'Israel'

On Jul 21, 5:15*pm, B J Foster wrote:
"After his passport was stamped exiting Turkey, Mr Kees was stopped on
the Syrian side by border guards.

He endured two hours of questioning about his travel plans.

'They didn't like the look of me – they were asking me about my
occupation and where I was going', he said.

'I mentioned Israel and my taxi driver threw down my bags and left'.

Syrian authorities are reluctant to grant travellers entry if they have
previously visited or are intending to travel to Israel.

Mr Kees was sent back to the Turkish side of the border.

He said a Turkish border guard then failed to stamp his passport upon
re-entry, making him an illegal immigrant. He was arrested three days
later as he tried to fly out to Jordan and was locked up in an Istanbul
detention centre.

He ate just two meals over the next four days and drank dirty water.

'The cells were about 8m by 4m and the lights were always on', he said.

'There was a bin, benches to sleep on – that was it – it was pretty scary'.

After three days cut off from contact with family and Australian
authorities, Mr Kees was able to borrow a mobile phone from an Iranian
inmate".http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/...014090,00.html


If some tourists could--as an explicit angry retort--cancel
reservations, the Turks
would surely think twice before so miserably treating a tourist, same
as any country should be concerned about alienating tourists
especially during a recession if not depression

When an American teenage girl was ALLEGEDLY raped-murdered in Aruba,
there was a U.S. tourist boycott
because the authorities ALLEGEDLY would not charge a prominent judge's
(or attorney's) son, whom seemingly
many months later ALLEGEDLY confessed to a "friendly" undercover
investigator


 




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