May 27, 2012
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Norwegian professor denied entry into Turkey
27 April 2010 / AP, OSLO
The chairwoman of a Norwegian civic commission monitoring human rights in Turkey said Sunday she had been denied entry into the country for political reasons.
Kariane Westrheim told The Associated Press she was detained at the airport in İstanbul on Saturday and put on a plane back to Scandinavia. She said Turkish officials gave no clear answer as to why she couldn’t enter the country, but accused her of “supporting separatists” and being “very critical toward Turkish politics.” “They told me, ‘you will never, never, never enter Turkey again’,” she said. Westrheim, who was traveling to Turkey to attend a women’s rights conference, is the chairwoman of the European Union’s Turkey Civic Commission, an organization that monitors Turkey’s compliance with EU’s accession criteria. She is also a professor at the University of Bergen and has published research about the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey’s conflict with the Kurds.
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