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 extremists’ threats to “kidnap and assassinate westerners and US citizens.” Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, reacted to the move by saying that Istanbul or capital Ankara were “not more unsafe than any US state.”
Tyrkland hefur gefið út ferðaviðvörun til borgara sinna í Bandaríkjunum þar sem þeir eru hvattir til að halda sig frá áframhaldandi mótmælum gegn sigri Donald Trump í bandarísku forsetakosningunum.
The country’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 “occasionally featured acts of crime and violence” and led to detentions being made by security officers, the Daily Sabah paper reported.“Based on demonstrators’ social media posts, it’s clear the demonstrations will likely continue for some time,” the statement stressed.
Ráðuneytið ráðlagði borgarbúum einnig að fylgjast með tilkynningum á eigin vefsíðu sinni og tyrkneska sendiráðinu á vefsíðu Washington, sem og þeim sem eru viðstaddir í bandarískum fjölmiðlum á staðnum.
