Turkey Calls On Hong Kong To Lift Travel Warning

Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published September 19, 2018 | 12:04 AM

The Turkish deputy parliament speaker called on Hong Kong to lift the travel warning on Turkey.

ANKARA, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Sep, 2018 ) :The Turkish deputy parliament speaker called on Hong Kong to lift the travel warning on Turkey.

On Tuesday, Levent Gok received Yang Jianping, deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong.

Gok briefed Jianping on the July 15, 2016 defeated coup attempt carried out by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).

He said that Hong Kong had issued a travel warning on Turkey that is "incompatible with the spirit of tourism", adding that Hong Kong had also raised the warning level from yellow to red.

"[...] The coup plot that caused this warning has been completely defeated, and this [warning] has no sense anymore," he said.