Canadian journalist flying from Yerevan not allowed into Turkey after criticizing Azerbaijan

I was blocked from entering Turkey. Canadian journalist Neil Hauer wrote in social networks.

“I flew to Istanbul airport from Yerevan with a tourist purpose. At passport control I was taken aside, informing me: “You are blacklisted.” I was detained for 16 hours and deported back,” he wrote.

Notably, this came after his post about the ethnic cleansing committed by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.

In particular, he wrote: “COP29 is dedicated to achieving harmony and international cooperation. It is hard to imagine how this could have taken place in this year’s host country, Azerbaijan, which committed ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh last year.”