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Turkey deports British academic accused of terror propaganda
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A British scholar in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... says he is being deported from Istanbul after being found with invitations to Kurdish New Year celebrations. Chris Stephenson, a computer sciences lecturer at Bilgi University in Istanbul, says he was detained Tuesday at a courthouse where he had gone to support three scholars charged with making terrorism propaganda. Stephenson told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that security guards found Nawroz invitations in his bag and then police detained him. Stephenson said moments before his departure Wednesday from Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport that there was "no offense, no trial, just an administrative decision to deport me after 25 years of residency in Turkey." There was no immediate comment from Turkish officials. Britannia’s Foreign Office said it was providing assistance to a Brit who was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Tuesday. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-17 |
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