{"id":1228589,"date":"2022-10-19T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/turkey-embassy-delayed-my-visa-to-contest-int-pageant\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:02:56","slug":"turkey-embassy-delayed-my-visa-to-contest-int-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/turkey-embassy-delayed-my-visa-to-contest-int-pageant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Turkey Embassy Delayed My Visa To Contest Int. Pageant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fashion model and winner of Miss Aura Ghana 2022, Winifred Esi Sam, has revealed that the Turkey High Commission in Ghana delayed her visa to represent Ghana at this year\u2019s edition of the Miss Aura International in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ms. Esi Sam, she was supposed to represent Ghana at the event from September 10 to 20, but unfortunately she received her visa on September 20, therefore, she could not attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team reached out to the embassy several times and the excuse we were given was they have about 400 visa applications and that they are busy and can\u2019t check my visa application,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, \u201cI was not given the chance to represent Ghana at this year\u2019s Miss Aura International in Antalya, Turkey due to visa issues. I believe I am not the only victim who has been denied visa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Sam also said she stood a high chance of winning the Miss Aura International.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for the country and leaders to pay more attention to pageant queens and give them their maximum support as they represent the country internationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like the leaders and citizens to understand that a beauty pageant as a whole is unique and it is not only about the Beauty but also it cuts across Brain, Body, and Behaviour, these are called the 4B\u2019s elements,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong> BY Prince Fiifi Yorke\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Fashion model and winner of Miss Aura Ghana 2022, Winifred Esi Sam, has revealed that the Turkey High Commission in Ghana delayed her visa to represent Ghana at this year\u2019s edition of the Miss Aura International in Turkey. According to Ms. Esi Sam, she was supposed to represent Ghana at the event from September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7329,1571,8846,27673,16433,1467,320],"class_list":["post-1228589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-contest","tag-delayed","tag-embassy","tag-int","tag-pageant","tag-turkey","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}