Heavy snowfall leaves passengers stranded in Istanbul Airport
Guardian, 26 Jan 2022
Europe’s busiest airport shut down in Istanbul on Monday as a rare snowstorm blanketed swathes of the eastern Mediterranean, causing blackouts and traffic havoc.
Flights were grounded for around 24 hours at Istanbul Airport, and hundreds of stranded passengers staged a protest asking for hotel rooms during the disruption
Snowstorm blankets eastern Mediterranean closing airports, schools and vaccination centres