A problem at Sabiha Turkish airport between Turkish police custom and a Saudi family

شعب غبي وكاتلته العنصرية.. يعني لازم نحن نتعلم تركي لانه هي اللغة العالمية؟؟؟ المطار هو واجهة الدولة واول شي الشخص ياخذ انطباع عن البلد وعن شعبه.. وين اكو مطار بالعالم الموظف فيه لا يتكلم الانجليزية خصوصا اذا كان بلد سياحي بالدرجة الاولى؟؟ لكن العنصرية عامية على عينهم.. هذا الموقف حصلي من حوالي ١٥ سنة.. نفس الشي يتكلم تركي واني اجاوبه انجليزي.. ومرت السنين وهما على نفس الخيبة

You couldn't pay me to go back to Turkey especially Istanbul. I've never seen such arab-hating people in my entire life. It's pathetic.

same thing we always hear, for the past 15years, so when will arabs stop wasting money in Turkey ? it will end once the 330million arabs each experience it for himself or what ? I'm sure they boycotte Arab products, do we ? no معاملة بالمثل?

I want to start by saying that I absolutely love Turkey and have had great experiences during my many visits. However, your story reminded me of the one time I was at Sabiha Gökçen Airport for a transfer with a friend who was in intense pain. We needed to find a pharmacy, but none of the staff in customer service spoke a word of English and there was no pharmacy and we couldn’t leave the airport, it was a nightmare . While I am a big fan of Turkey, I am definitely not a fan of Sabiha Gökçen Airport or Istanbul airport that is huge for no reason and miles away from the city !

I was studying in uni in Istanbul for two years and have to say that it was the biggest regret in my life. They are such terrible people in such a beautiful country. I’ve never experienced more racism and prejudice than in Turkey. Even the staff treated me with contempt and would curse at me under their breaths.

For such a touristic city, very few people spoke English and many would be pissed at me if I didn’t speak Turkish even though I was trying to learn their language.

I would advise any self-loving person not to ever go to their hellhole of a country.

Terrible country, racist and hateful people. Let's see how well their economy would fare without our tourist money. When my mon and I had a layover in the airport in Istanbul, my mom, who was in a wheelchair, had to be made to stand up to pass through the detecting machine, and be yelled at by the control officer because my mom dared try support her walk by holding onto the machine.

I would never go there and I'll even avoid their airport when I can.

I dont know why us Arabs even visit these uncivilised countries. We have seen nothing but mistreatment and such from them since the ottoman days.

I agree I think it is a terrible situation. Mistreatment of foreigners in Turkey occurs not only to Arab people but everyone who is not Turkish. I read a story about some PoC from Canada who got arrested just because he forgot his ID. Turkey is currently undergoing crisis both economic and migrant crisis. If you look foreign in Turkey , you become an easy target. it is easy to for people tp hate you, and god forbid if you're from Arab countries. When I was there last year, I'm aware of the situation. So to minimise the risk I did some the following. 1. I don't speak Turkish but I learnt some important phrase like good morning, hello, thank you excuse me, and so on. They will know from our accent we're foreigner but since we made effort, it sounds polite to them and they understand our situation. Then if you stuck, use translator on your phone. 2. Always smile when you approach people. Arab always generous with smile, but then they stop this good habit when they go to foreign countries. Smile indicates that you're friendly person, it lower the tension for some people. 3. Dress well, it's better if u dress well in western attire. It's no secret some turks still look up to the West, and look down to the rest. 4. Last but not least always know that it's their country and we're guest there. It's important to behave in a way that's honoured and dignified. I know it is contradictory with the Arab manners when welcoming a guest.

Just came back from turkey a week ago & can’t agree more how rude turkish ppl are starting from the airport till the city. We also had a bit of argument with the airport staff & they threat with police. Very very rude ppl they don’t deserve the country they live in .

A lot of turks are intolerant bigoted assholes. I'll never go there unless the government does something about it. For a uniformed officer to use vulgar language like this... totally unprofessional and unacceptable (especially when they are trying so hard to be eUrOpEaNs

Well, let's be honest, saudi police does worse in saudi. what goes around comes around

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Honestly, been to turkey once for transit 2 days.. never going back there again in my entire life.

Can’t stand their arrogance and attitude and everyone either acts or can’t speak English.

You’re definitely right because I’m sure most of their money comes from tourism. The least they could do is have a little respect towards them.

Hands down the worse country I’ve come across and would never go back even if they paid me to

Each time i went to Türkiye i came across these “ European wannabes “ racists but they are far from being the majority, personally when iam ignored or discriminated against i leave the place for an other one , their is many backward no educated people everywhere, a lot amongst us ( even us arabs ) are “ white “ worshippers not only the Turks, I have seen this in several Arab countries mashreq andmaghreb.. i have people in my own extended family that have this inferiority complex towards westerners and would discriminate against an Arab or a Turk in favor of a “gammon “ individual any day .. and like me you know people like that around you … sabiha is most of the time overcrowded and i imagine that working there would play on the nerve of anyone.. and again there’s a lot of nice people in Türkiye

honestly i couldn't blame him. Have u seen us arabs? we hate each other. and u expect others not to hate us

I got banned from Turkey because they said I had overstayed my visa. I didn't and there was no one to make that argument because their officers selectively decide when they're able to speak English.

I refused to pay their extortion so I got banned for 5 years, trying to contact their embassy after 5 years to see if I can go to Turkey and it was such a shitshow. Even their embassy in Canada doesn't have English speakers. How in the hell is this country considered strong when they're so incompetent at the same time.

Anyways I switched my trip to Armenia and so far it's been decent. I enjoyed the country of Turkey 5 years ago but reading all these comments makes me think that it's a total shitshow. They are definitely a people that are obsessed with skin color.

It makes me sad when I hear Europeans constantly talk about how kind and hospitable they are because I dont hear the same from non white people. That goes to show you how selective they are in their hospitality.

There are lots of better countries to visit for Arabs. I would checkout Armenia although English is a bit of an issue here. I would also checkout Georgia, Greece, possibly Azerbaijan and also fellow Arab countries. Why not Oman, Tunisia, Morocco?

Sabiha has some good staff and some poor staff, but in what country do you expect to throw passports around and tell a customs officer to f7ck off without being dragged away?

Edit: are you saying it's the customs officer who started swearing and throwing passports? i.e. the border agent?

Mate if i did this in Australia, 100% I’d be in the slammer. No different elsewhere.

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