Countries ban Iraqis flying to Belarus in echoes of 2017 'Muslim ban'

Turkey is blocking citizens of Syria, Yemen and Iraq from getting airline tickets to Belarus. The sweeping move conjures up memories of the Trump era “Muslim ban.”

Migrants gather around a fire near a barbed wire fence in a makeshift camp on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus November 11, 2021. Picture taken November 11, 2021.

(photo credit: Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS)

BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

NOVEMBER 13, 2021 22:34

Updated: NOVEMBER 14, 2021 13:55

Countries ban Iraqis flying to Belarus in echoes of 2017 'Muslim ban'

Turkey is blocking citizens of Syria, Yemen and Iraq from getting airline tickets to Belarus. The sweeping move conjures up memories of the Trump era “Muslim ban.”

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Countries ban Iraqis flying to Belarus in echoes of 2017 'Muslim ban'

Turkey is blocking citizens of Syria, Yemen and Iraq from getting airline tickets to Belarus. The sweeping move conjures up memories of the Trump era “Muslim ban.”

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