Turkey- Delegation from Turkish opposition party detained in Israel
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >A delegation from Turkey’s far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) was detained at Israel’s Tel Aviv airport early on May 5 the party and CNN Türk have reported.
“Israeli police have detained our deputy leader lker Kayalolu and other party members for interrogation for an hour and a half” read a tweet posted on the BBP’s official account while adding that party leader Mustafa Destici refused to go through passport control before the other party members arrived.
The delegation was released after Israeli police took their testimonies.
The entire BBP delegation was currently on a plane to Turkey Turkish Foreign Ministry officials told Hürriyet Daily News. The same officials however weren’t yet able to confirm whether there was a detainment or if the incident was a routine passport check.
The BBP members who arrived in Jerusalem on May 1 and visited the Al Aqsa Mosque were due to arrive in Istanbul at 1:30 p.m.
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