A few years ago, I was returning to Nigeria after a vacation in the US with my then one-year-old. Everything was fine until we landed at Turkey and @TurkishAirlines decided they'd keep us at the airport for the 10+ hours layover because of my Nigerian passport. 🧵>>>
A few years ago, I was returning to Nigeria after a vacation in the US with my then one-year-old. Everything was fine until we landed at Turkey and @TurkishAirlines decided they'd keep us at the airport for the 10+ hours layover because of my Nigerian passport. 🧵>>> https://t.co/XKHEQOTMBe
@Spotlight_Abby @TurkishAirlines I think the main issue here was maybe, the transit visa. If you had a transit visa to land in Turkey, I'm not sure this would have happened. Especially as you mentioned that Nigerians with UK passport were let through base on EU visa rule:
@PresstheirNeck @TurkishAirlines If I wanted, I could easily have gotten a visa on arrival with my US Visa, so it wasn't an issue of transit visa. It was an issue of reneging on contractual obligations.
@Spotlight_Abby @PresstheirNeck @TurkishAirlines Couple of years ago with a Schengen visa, 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 visa on your 🇳🇬 passport it makes the lay over and hotel stuffs easier. Don’t know about now sha, my experience then was is in year 2012 before I had another passport. Bottom line, our passport get as e be.