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I wonder why they were charged with espionage
A reminder not to travel to shithole countries who will arrest people and use them as political leverage. Turkey, israel, Iran etc.
Turkey has ton of cheap tourism coming from Europe I hear, but they basically just take you from the airport to the hotel and you don't move from it.
Kinda reminds me of this guy who traveled to North Korea and ended up getting tortured into a brain damaged state and died shortly after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
Like come on. It's hard to feel sympathy for someone that does something that stupid. These guys aren't much different.