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Aside from a series of employment and visa bans on Turkish nationals, it ordered Russian travel agents to “suspend the sale to Russian citizens of products that envisage visiting the territory of the Turkish Republic” and ordered the government to roll out a ban on charter flights between the two countries. Turkey's little Russia-on-sea fear deepening political feud With the Turkish community in Russia reporting incidents of harassment since Turkey shot down a Russian jet near the Syrian border last month, members of Antalya’s 40,000-strong Russian expatriate community are hoping such hostilities won’t be repeated here. Others admit that the diplomatic spat has contributed to a quiet but growing fear in the community. “They said, ‘Stupid Russians, go back to Russia. It’s really nice that your plane crashed in Egypt. We hate you’,” Alina, a 29-year-old Russian expat, recalls of a recent encounter with a group of Turkish teenagers in Antalya’s city centre. There are some worries, I have to confess, because my family is in Russia and I [would] like my father and brother to come here with their families,” says Svetlana, a native Muscovite who moved to Turkey 13 years ago.

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