At least 50 Nigerian students studying in Turkey were arrested in Istanbul and detained for 11 hours on alleged order of the Turkish government following the July 15th failed military coup in the country.
Most of the detained Nigerians, mainly students of Fathi University and Meliksah University were made to sign deportation documents.
Narrating her ordeal in a telephone call from THISDAY, one of the Nigerian students deported, Rukkaya Usman, said they were treated like criminals before the Turkish authorities repatriated them back to Nigeria.
Usman is a final year student of Political Science and International Relations at Meliksah University, one of the schools shut down in the wake of the failed coup.
The Turkish authorities had said the affected schools were terrorist schools because they have links with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, whom the Turkish government had accused of being the mastermind of the coup.
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