Travel Warnings: Turkey and the United States told citizens to stay away

The United States warned tourists: Turkey is not safe. Turkey warns its tourists: The United States is not safe.

The United States warned tourists: Turkey is not safe. Turkey warns its tourists: The United States is not safe.

Washington deemed it unsafe for Americans citizens to remain in Turkey, following extremistsโ€™ threats to โ€œkidnap and assassinate westerners and US citizens.โ€ Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, reacted to the move by saying that Istanbul or capital Ankara were โ€œnot more unsafe than any US state.โ€
Turkey has issued a travel warning to its citizens in the US, urging them to stay away from the ongoing protests against Donald Trumpโ€™s win in the American presidential election.

The countryโ€™s foreign ministry urged the Turks to avoid the rallies, undertake necessary security measures at home and work, as well as immediately inform the police in the case that they might become victims of racist abuse or an attack.The special alert applies to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, Oakland and Portland, where one person was injured in an armed attack on Saturday.The statement by the ministry warned that anti-Trump gatherings โ€œoccasionally featured acts of crime and violenceโ€ and led to detentions being made by security officers, the Daily Sabah paper reported.โ€œBased on demonstrators’ social media posts, it’s clear the demonstrations will likely continue for some time,โ€ the statement stressed.



The ministry also advised citizens to follow announcements on its own website and the Turkish Embassy in Washingtonโ€™s web page, as well those present in local US media.

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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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