AFTERMATH OF FAILED COUP : TURKEY GOVT. DETAINS 50 NIGERIAN STUDENTS

More than 50 Nigerians studying in Turkey have
been reportedly arrested by the Turkish police
over their alleged involvement in the failed
military coup which took place in the country on
July 15th.
According to Thisday , the detained Nigerians
are mainly students of Fathi University, one of
the private universities in Turkey.
A close relative of one of the students said
“Upon arrival at Ataturk International
Airport in Istanbul, they were all escorted
to a room and their passport confiscated
by Turkish police. When they enquired
why they were clamped in a dirty room,
the police said they are students of a
terrorist organisation. They offered to
transfer them to government schools but
on the condition that we will pay same
fees as private universities,”.
The Fathi University is among the 2099 schools,
dormitories and universities shut down in the
wake of the July 15th failed coup in Turkey.
The Turkish authorities said the schools and
universities were terrorist schools because they
have links with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen,
whom the Turkish government had accused of
being the mastermind of the failed coup
attempt. It would also be recalled that the
Turkish Ambassador in Nigeria Hakan Cakil, had
requested the Federal government to close
down 17 Turkish schools in Nigeria for alleged
links to the Hizmet movement, a request which
was turned down.





Source :LIB
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE