Turkey: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering country

Sputnik’s Turkish bureau chief Tural Kerimov was denied entry into Turkey after arriving at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Wednesday. The move came less than one week after authorities shut down Sputnik’s news services in the Turkey. SOT, Tural Kerimov, bureau chief of Sputnik Turkey (Russian): “Today I arrived in Istanbul around 00:40h by Aeroflot flight 2134. During passport control, the border guards detained me for 10 minutes and after that escorted me to the department of security check of the arr