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Turkish border guard at the International Ataturk Airport in Istanbul threw the passport of an Azerbaijani citizen on the floor and taking a service gun tried to point it at him. As the Baku resident Rahib Shukyurov told the Azerbaijani news portal "Vesti.az", he was returning from Antalya to Baku along with his wife and two little children.

At the airport Rahib together with his wife approached the window to pass the passport control, as the children's names were inscribed in the international passports of the parents. "As soon as we walked up to the window, the guard started to shout, forcing my wife and my children to move back behind the control line. My wife moved back with the pram, where our half-year-old daughter was sitting. And I was left standing with a two-year-old son in my arms. It was late, and the kid wanted to sleep and was crying in my arms. The border guard continued raising his voice on me, urging me to give the boy to my wife," Rahib tells.

In response, he told the border controls’ employee of the Turkish airport that his wife was standing with bags and a stroller and could not take the boy as well. In this connection, the guard said that it was not necessary to travel with children. "My son started crying even louder because of his shouts, and then the Turkish airport employee told me to "shut the baby." I stood up for my kid, and told he better check the passport, put a stamp and let us onto the board," Shukyurov said.

According to him, at this moment, the passport control officer threw R. Shukyurov’s passport which the Azerbaijani had presented him seconds ago under the table. "I told him, why are you throwing the passport of Azerbaijani citizen? In that way you manifest disrespect to the coat of arms of Azerbaijan. To which he replied that he did not care, that he doesn't give a hang for our passports and Azerbaijan," Rahib says.

He goes on telling and says that the employee of Istanbul airport ran out of the booth, took the service pistol out and tried to point it at him. At this moment in that chaos other border control and security service officers intervened, they started to calm their colleague down and did not allow him to use the weapon.