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Old Jan 23, 2024 | 8:19 pm
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Originally Posted by neflyer13
So a couple of points: overall lounge is great as usual. However:

1. No Coke or Pepsi products at all. Was told “it will be a long time before they return”

2. I asked for a suite and qualified based on layover time (6 hours), class (business) and flight length of one leg on transfer (9 hours 5 mins). However destination was not on some kind of list so sat for 45 mins as lady tried to get her supervisor to “call Turkish”. Eventually I went and got someone from front desk who after 10 minutes of discussion solved it…
Reportedly TK and the parliament offices substituted Coke and Pepsi as boicot from the government to companies that support Israeli. I did notice in my last two visits in December and January that there are just locally branded soft drinks, none of the Turkish alternatives are sugar free. Mindblowing

Last edited by palermo; Jan 24, 2024 at 1:54 am Reason: typo
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