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Not for a ticket originating in Africa is what they explained to me. For that, they require the account holder to visit in person with their original passport and pay the taxes in cash (no credit cards accepted).
That is strange. The Houston office just asked me to e-mail credit card authorization form and Turkish airlines miles and smiles form, both of which they provided to me, and copy of miles and smiles card. Doesn't matter whose account it is as long as you have written authorization. But maybe every office is different.
There might be issues with Africa. I've seen posts in Flyertalk about lots of fraud about Africa tickets in general so maybe that is the issue.