Reports have it that over 50 Nigerian students were yesterday apprehended in Turkey, allegedly on the orders of the Turkish government.
A source whose relative was among the detained students told ThisDay that “upon arrival at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, they were all escorted to a room and their passport confiscated by Turkish police.”
The detained Nigerians are mainly students of Fathi University, one of the private universities in Turkey. The school which is located in the metropolitan Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul, Turkey and was founded in 1996 with a relatively high rate of international students from 102 countries.