1st LD: Turkey issues travel warning for citizens visiting U.S.

ANKARA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Friday issued a travel advisory for citizens travelling to the U.S., urging them to consider increasing terror acts and arbitrary arrests of Turkish citizens.

"The U.S. has seen an apparent increase in terror attacks and violent incidents recently," the warning published on the ministry's website said.

The warning also pointed out the risk of "arbitrary arrests" of Turkish citizens, saying judicial decisions could be made by pre-established, unfounded claims and slander of the networks of U.S.-based Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of masterminding the 2016 coup attempt. Enditem