{"id":3407,"date":"2010-01-21T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2010-01-21T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:26:02","slug":"yemen-stops-issuing-visas-at-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/yemen-stops-issuing-visas-at-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen &#8216;stops issuing visas at airports&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yemen-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3408\" title=\"Yemen 'stops issuing visas at airports' \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yemen-airport.jpg\" alt=\"Yemen 'stops issuing visas at airports' \" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Yemen is to stop issuing visas to foreigners arriving at international airports, state media has reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move was to &#8220;halt terrorist infiltration,&#8221; Saba state media said.<\/p>\n<p>The change will affect Western visitors, including those from the US, Canada and Europe, who had generally been able to get visas at airports.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, apparently trained a Nigerian man charged over the failed bomb attempt on a US plane last month.<\/p>\n<p>There has been increasing pressure on Yemen to crack down on al-Qaeda in the wake of the 25 December plot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Yemeni defence ministry newspaper September 26, a military official said &#8220;granting visas to foreigners will take place only through the embassies of Yemen, and after consulting security authorities to verify the identities of travellers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is to &#8220;prevent the infiltration of any suspected terrorist elements,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Six airports in Yemen receive international flights, AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the US said there were concerns that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was expanding its recruitment efforts &#8220;to attract non-traditional followers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The US Senate foreign relations committee, in a report released on 21 January into al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia, said there were concerns about some Americans who &#8220;had disappeared and are suspected of having gone to al-Qaeda training camps in ungoverned portions of the impoverished country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen &#8216;stops issuing visas at airports&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,37,101],"tags":[4425,4424,911,4426],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-airports-in-yemen","tag-arabian-peninsula","tag-yemen","tag-yemen-airports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}