In order to visit Jerusalem, 93 Turkish citizens were not allowed to enter the Palestinian territories, claiming "no visas" at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. After passport control even be collected from passengers for hours in a room and being left thirsty and hungry narrow mockery was sent back to Turkey.
The official of the private travel agency said that he had done it on the phone and yesterday morning a group of visitors from Istanbul to Tel Aviv arriving at 9.30 am local time stated that they were not allowed to enter Israel after visa control at the airport. to go to Jerusalem was blocked Muslims returned to Turkey.
Ignoring the claim that Turkish travelers waiting at Ben Gurion Airport came to Israel without a visa, the travel agency voiced that they had received a collective visa from the Israeli Consulate for those in the group as it was on previous Jerusalem tours.
The official underlined that the company not be able to leave Turkey without a visa, "Israeli tour companies bringing tourists to Jerusalem does not separate visa for each passenger. The visa certificate issued by the Consulate replaces the visa for all passengers. We also received a Hebrew visa letter for our passengers who joined our Jerusalem exchange, but 93 of our passengers were not allowed to enter Israel because they had no visas when they arrived here."
Himeyra Hacıibrahimoğlu, a 23-year-old graduate student who were not taken to Jerusalem, said that when they entered the passport point, their passports were gathered within 1-2 minutes without even checking.
Hacıibrahimoğlu said that Israeli police gathered the group like an office and said, "We went to a narrow room later. We stayed in that room for hours, we were hungry and thirsty. They did not give us any explanation, and they spoke as if they would make a mockery, saying, 'We will pass if we allow it, we will not pass it if we do not allow it.' Indeed this psychologically wasted us very much," he said.
Hümeyra Hacıibrahimoğlu, who underlines the way to see the Masjid al-Aqsa in order to visit Jerusalem, said: "These structures will not intimidate us. It was our first departure, but it will not be the last time we go. When our tour guide comes up and says, 'They say that you do not have a visa, they have deported you', all of us responded, 'We do not want our money back, definitely do not give back, bring us back here as soon as possible. Because we want to visit here and we do not want to go back without seeing '. We said that. It is very nice that all my friends are in this sensitivity. It should be visited, visible. Certainly do not intimidate these people, do not scare them, that's what they want to do, to frighten us, to intimidate us, to upset us. We were standing there very upright, not upsetting, not crying. I think we have taken a stance befitting Turkey."