“I am leaving Turkey with a broken heart. I feel like the whole country is a scam,” a woman wrote on the platform Reddit. His text has been viewed and commented on tens of thousands of times as precious.
He reported several cases of fraud and threats during his three-day stay in Istanbul. The anticipation of the trip soon gave way to disillusionment and disappointment.
Woman feels betrayed in almost every situation on holiday in Turkey
In her lengthy text, the woman, who has family ties to the country, describes how she and her partner were repeatedly betrayed and threatened. She describes how an airport taxi tried to charge three times the price. The driver locked the doors and threatened to call the police. She also denounced excessive “tourist prices” in restaurants and the aggressive methods of street vendors.
In addition to the “shoe shiner trick,” there was also a theft in which the perpetrator reached directly into the woman’s partner’s pockets and stole the equivalent of 20 euros, the entire contents of his wallet. “This is my fault because I didn’t warn them, so I feel ashamed. He’s also the kindest person I know, so it feels even worse,” the vacationer wrote in her message.
I screamed because the tourist wanted to take a picture
The tourist was particularly shocked by the disrespect and threats she was subjected to. She then wanted to take a photo of a building where her grandfather worked. The security guard yelled at her and asked for money after she tried to use Google Translate to explain why she wanted to take a photo.