May 9, 2017
A pair of British tourists in Istanbul were turfed out of their Airbnb apartment by seven police officers during a dramatic dawn raid in a dispute over whether the company had the right to rent out the property. The two friends had their passports confiscated and were forced to sign a declaration in Turkish that they did not understand to get them back. After more than an hour’s interrogation, they were given ten minutes to leave the flat before being dumped on the streets…