Amir was insulted airport for 19 hours

Amir Arman, from Kalmar, booked the trip to Istanbul four months ago, waiting for a holiday in ten days.

The idea was to meet his girlfriend in the countryside, but he never even had to leave the airport.

The barometer was the first to report the event. When Amir first arrived at passport control at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, Turkish civilian police took the lead and began asking crucial questions.

– I said I'm Swedish, but then they asked me "where do you really come from?". It's in my mind that I was born in Iran, so I figured I'm a priest, says the 34-year-old.

After that, the police took Amir's passport and cell phone. He claims that he then had to sit in a courtroom for two hours before moving into a prison room where he would be kept overnight.

Shared room with twelve people

In the prison, which he described as between 40 and 50 square meters, twelve other people were shared on toilets.

One of them should also have been a Swedish citizen, says Amir, and another should have been a 10-year-old boy who had been injured with his father.

– It was not cool somewhere. I could not sleep when everyone had gone to bed. I never knew why they were holding me back and I could not call my mom or girlfriend, I knew I was worried.

"I was getting more and more stressed by what was happening, and every minute and hour it was getting worse.

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Notifications are gone

He was detained for 17 hours before being informed of his expulsion from the country. Amir sits on a flight back to Arlanda, and that is only when he landed when he retrieved his passport and his cell phone.

At the same time, the Swedish police discovered that his mother had reported his disappearance while he was away.

"I have tears in my eyes right away when I heard him.I know my mother is worried even when I'm in Sweden and I do not answer the phone, and I know that She was worried about this trip and I had some help calling her and my sister, they just cried on the phone, "Amir said.

Several similar cases

Amir tells us that he went to Turkey several times but that he had never been expelled in this way before. He says that he still has no explanation on why he was stuck at the airport, but he thinks it's because of what he's saying. He wrote in social media.

"They swept my social media, which I criticized Erdoğan (Turkish president), and I'm sorry, so I think it has to be done," he said.

Paul Levin, director of the Turkey Studies Department, told the barometer that Amir's experience was not the only one of its kind.

"I recently heard a similar case – it was a woman and a Swedish courier who was arrested at the airport in Turkey.They looked at her social media and I think she was has been fired, but I can not go into detail, "he said.

Expert: "should be careful"

Amir never contacted the Swedish authorities when he was locked. Buster Mirow, press secretary of the Foreign Ministry, points out in the barometer that he is breaking international rules.

"Second, the border police will inform the Swedish Embassy and, secondly, the detained person will have the opportunity to call the Swedish Embassy," he said.

Paul Levin adds that it is appropriate to refrain from traveling to Turkey by mail.

– If you have been active on social media and have shared publications that can be interpreted as being PKK-friendly, this poses a potential risk. I'll be careful, he says.