Vladimir Putin is currently facing the most significant challenge to his leadership in the past twenty years. This arises from the actions of the leader of the paramilitary group known as Wagner, who appears to have initiated an insurrection. The Wagner leader has reportedly taken control of military facilities in two Russian cities and issued a warning that his forces would march towards Moscow.
In response to this sudden and alarming escalation of internal tensions, which have been brewing for several months, President Putin delivered a speech to the nation on Saturday. He declared that individuals involved in "treason" or planning armed rebellion would face severe consequences. Putin characterized the situation as a betrayal of the country and its people, referring to it as a "stab in the back."
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the militia group Wagner and once an ally of Putin, has played a prominent role in this escalating feud. Their dispute primarily revolves around the handling of the Ukrainian invasion, and Prigozhin's recent military actions have caught Moscow off guard, plunging the country into a state of crisis.
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I went to Jordan on 8th June 2023. They detained me at deportation center for 24 hours for no reason. They asked me a lot of questions, which was the procedure for all individual tourists as far as I understood. If you are going to Jordan alone, then give it up, don't go there, especially alone. Airport police interrogates you and suddenly for no reason thinks that you are a spy or some sort of threat to Jordan. 😄 I'm like: "How come?" The police have asked me questions like: "When do you go back? How many days are you going to stay here? Where do you stay?" etc. and they don't know the answers to these easy questions but, funny enough, they think they know that I'm a threat to Jordan. 😃 I wasn't until now but I'll dissuade people from visiting Jordan.
I went there, maybe to some degree to do some business like real estate and fruit exportation etc, but mainly to visit one of the 7 wonders of the world: Petra. But I was kept at the deportation center at Queen Aliya International airport at Amman. There were 17 arabs, mostly from Yemen, 2-3 turkish citizens, including me, and 1 guy from Georgia. Some detainees were being kept there for almost a week. There is no window at the deportation center. You are only let out of the room, or jail, when you want to go to WC, that's all. You don't know if it is night or day, you aren't allowed to see outside. You didn't commit any crime but that's how Jordan police and Hashemite kingdom think suitable for single tourists. There was no shower to clean yourself, some detainees there were smelling bad because they couldn't take showers for a week. They only provide you small amount of meal 3 times a day, just to make sure you don't die. They take all your technological devices, phones etc. You cannot get in touch with your family or lawyer. You need to beg the police just to take your phone for a minute. Wi-fi is not working well at the airport. Drinking water tastes horrible there. My friend said he drank water from the tap of water closet. What a shame for Hashemite kingdom of Jordan to treat some tourists like that.
Once in that deportation center I wanted to go out, not out of the airport but out of the jail to see the sun in the airport, but the police said me to go back into the room, or jail. I'm not allowed to see the sun, I'm and other tourists are only allowed to sit in the darkness. All we detainees thought: "What crime did we commit to be suitable for this kind of terrible treatment?" Sometimes there were other tourists passing on the corridors of the airport, even at that time police didn't let us out of the room, as if we are "the stain in the airport" or as if we making the airport dirty. I felt myself as a dog then. We are tourists and the people walking on the corridor were also tourists; we were the same, but Jordanian police wants to hide us - the deported tourists - from other "clean or safe" tourists. Shameful treatment. I thought the arab nation was known for their hospitality. In fact, there are some nice arab people I met at deportation, they were also detained there. Also, when I explained what happened to us, turkish tourists, to some Jordanian passengers on my way back to Turkey, they expressed sympathy and said sorry for the treatment. I think the Jordanian folks are good but I can't say the same thing for Jordan police and Hashemite kingdom, sorry.
I attach some photos from deportation center. Hygiene lacks there.
Also, my passport, my official belonging and my document, wasn't given to me back until I arrive at turkish airport and until police cancelled my exit stamp. I'm in my country (Turkey), I'm on my plane (Pegasus) and my passport was still on other hands. We - the deported, with my other turkish friend, allowed first passengers on the plane and let out the last passengers out of the plane. There was always a guide following us into the plane and out of it; he carried our passports from the police to the plane, and from the plane to the police. We turkish citizens treated this way even in our land Turkey just because secret service of intelligence of Jordan thinks we are threat to Jordan. After reading all these guess who is threat to Jordan? Of course, Jordanian police and their secret service of intelligence.
