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FG, Turkey may clash over Nigerian students’ arrest

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A diplomatic row may be brewing between Nigeria and Turkey following the arrest and deportation of some Nigerian students from Istanbul by the Turkish police.
Rukkaya Usman, one of the Nigerian students deported from the country, said the Turkish government did not give a reason for the action.
Usman, a final year student of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Melikseh, told TheCable on Saturday that she arrived in Turkey at 8am on September 26, but that she was detained at the airport for about 10 hours after which she was placed on a plane and flown back to Nigeria.
 
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