Deporting Tourists
Moldovo is currently deporting Turkish Tourist for no reason.
Even we have return ticket flights, true hotel reservations and enough money people still getting deporting...
May i ask why?
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Government response: A Moldovan government spokesperson stated in July 2025 that decisions to deny entry are made by border police officers based on risk assessments, and not by politicians. However, this did not provide a specific reason for the deportations of Turkish nationals.
The title of this thread shocked/shook me so hard, I had to click on it.
@deneme56聽 So sad this is happening.聽 But 鈥渨hy?鈥
@SimCityAT聽 鈥渞isk assessment鈥 must be the answer
Which did not cure me from the shock&shake (because, like you said: 鈥渢his did not provide a specific reason for the deportations of Turkish nationals鈥).
So I googled it, and found out about:
The deportation, in 2018, of 7 Turkish-nationals, teachers and/or managers at the private 鈥淥rizont鈥 high-school (chain) 鈥 previously known as 鈥淟iceul Moldo-Turc鈥 鈥 in Moldova.
One article, in BalkanInsight dot com 鈥 which pleads completely in their favor 鈥 details the case of one of them: Mujdat Celebi.聽 He taught at- and was the financial director of- the Orizont high school in Durle葯ti.聽 The same article states: 鈥淎ll of them were accused of financing terrorism and having links to the movement led by the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen鈥.
Per Wikipedia:
聽 聽 鈥淕眉len was an influential neo-Ottomanist鈥 who, at first, worked hand-in hand with the Turkish president (Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an), until they split around the 2013 鈥渃orruption scandal鈥.聽 In 2015 Turkey placed G眉len on its 鈥渕ost wanted terrorists list鈥.聽 Given that he resided in the United States since 1999, astoundingly well-connected there and world-wide, the Turkish extradition request did not touch him.聽 Yet it resulted in U.S.鈥揟urkey tensions centered on him.聽 Do you follow??
聽 聽 He lead the 鈥淕眉len movement鈥, with 鈥渕illions of followers鈥 in Turkey and world-wide.聽 He conducted his neo-ottoman activism from his secluded abode in Pennsylvania.聽 If you followed so far, then here it comes:
聽 聽 G眉len鈥檚 best-concealed and most influential venue consists of the network of schools he (through his followers) established, first in Turkey, then extensively world-wide.
Long story short, the deportation of the 7 Turkish teachers was caused by legal charges against them in Turkey, whereas while awaiting political asylum in Moldova, they engaged in subversive Islamic indoctrination of their pupils in the country who offered them refuge.聽 The extradition was a joint Turkish and Moldovan Action.聽 But only Moldovan authorities were taken to task by such as AI and ECtHR [via their g眉len connections].聽 Because who was going to fire Erdo臒an!?!聽 And the Moldovans should have first initiated proper notifications and court procedures [thus giving said connections time to intervene].
It is sad the Orizont students had to go through this.聽 And that many of them still don鈥檛 know what they were saved from.
To understand, one needs more than the basic notion of MoldoRomanian-Turkish relations history.聽 Why g眉lenists target Moldova even more than other places.聽 And how come that through and from Turkey scores of shady entities target Moldova for traffic [of drugs, humans and organs, among other items].聽 Which had marred Moldova for decades.聽 Or for fast passage to and from Ukraine and/or Russia / the war zone.聽 Who KNOWS, knows.聽 Who doesn鈥檛 KNOW, writes comprehensive articles on the human rights of neo-ottomans.聽
How about the human rights of the Moldovans?
The only way to keep danger out of Moldova, is to deny it entry.聽
On reddit, under 鈥淎 tourist from Turkey鈥, someone posted: 鈥渁 lot of russian shady stuff goes through Turkey and that's the reason they do it?鈥.聽
Articles on tourist websites and posts on tourist forums amount to the same.聽 The 鈥減assport officer鈥 checks, asks, and on that basis decides who gets the 鈥渂ackground security check鈥.聽 Which takes minutes to hours.聽 They deny entry means they found a flaw.聽 If they are under security alert, they鈥檒l be a lot stricter.
By the way: have you seen the warning on Travel dot State dot Gov: 鈥淓xercise increased caution when traveling to T眉rkiye due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions鈥
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