US journalist says he was denied entry to Turkey

April 25 2016 16:31:13

US journalist says he was denied entry to Turkey

ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency

A U.S. journalist said that he was banned entry to Turkey at Istanbul’s main airport on April 25.

Journalist David Lepeska was sent back to Chicago from Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport.

“Once you’re denied entry to a country is all your future writing on that place seen as suspect? I don’t hold it against you, Turkey,” he tweeted.

“Was just hurried onto a flight to Chicago after being denied entry at Istanbul Ataturk. This is not the last I will see of you, Turkey. My love for you is deep, thanks mainly to the steady stream of lovely lively people I met here. Be well, Istanbul,” Lepeska wrote in a caption of a photo he shared on his Instagram account.

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