American journalist Turkey no longer allowed in

- An American journalist who works and lives in Turkey is no longer in the country after a visit to Italy. Freelancer David Lepeska, who wrote told the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Foreign Affairs and a number of other publications, received from immigration officials at the airport in Istanbul that his visa had placed a travel ban,, '. After waiting for more than twenty hours Lepeska announced via Twitter that he only took the plane to Chicago.

A Turkish official said Lepeska did not have a press card or journalists visas, nor was employed by a media company. It's not a matter of persbreidel but procedures, he said.,, People who follow the proper legal channels, not have to deal with such problems. ''

Permanent foreign correspondents in Turkey should be requested from the office of the premier accreditation.