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Turkish asylum seekers allegedly being pushed back in small boats by Greece
World
December 16, 2021
Turkish asylum seekers allegedly being pushed back in small boats by Greece
Three Turkish nationals seeking asylum in Greece in September were allegedly tortured by plain-clothes Greek officials, who then illegally put…
Turkey will be in Athens in 5 hours in event of Greek missile attack: AKP official
Turkey
November 22, 2021
Turkey will be in Athens in 5 hours in event of Greek missile attack: AKP official
A senior official from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said Turkish forces will be in Athens in…
Islamist opposition party leader says he rejected Erdoğan’s offer to form alliance
Turkey
November 22, 2021
Islamist opposition party leader says he rejected Erdoğan’s offer to form alliance
Temel Karamollaoğlu, leader of the Islamist opposition Felicity Party, has said he turned down an offer from Turkish President Recep…
Russia’s Altai should be center of Turkic world on Erdoğan’s map: Kremlin spokesman
Politics
November 22, 2021
Russia’s Altai should be center of Turkic world on Erdoğan’s map: Kremlin spokesman
A map of the Turkic world presented to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader…
Turkey summons Bulgarian envoy over election interference claims
Turkey
November 21, 2021
Turkey summons Bulgarian envoy over election interference claims
The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Bulgarian ambassador to Turkey on Thursday after the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish…
Imam punished for contradicting Erdoğan’s accusations against Gezi protestors is suffering from kidney failure
Turkey
November 21, 2021
Imam punished for contradicting Erdoğan’s accusations against Gezi protestors is suffering from kidney failure
Fuat Yıldırım, the former deputy imam (müezzin) of İstanbul’s historic Bezmiâlem Valide Sultan Mosque during the 2013 Gezi protests who…
Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 110 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkey
November 21, 2021
Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 110 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 110 people due to alleged links to the Gülen…
No lasting recovery in sight for lira unless CB frees itself from Erdoğan: FT
Business
November 21, 2021
No lasting recovery in sight for lira unless CB frees itself from Erdoğan: FT
Investors and analysts have argued that there is little prospect of a lasting recovery for the lira unless Turkey’s central…
Snap election only way out of Turkey’s financial woes, jailed Kurdish leader says
Turkey
November 21, 2021
Snap election only way out of Turkey’s financial woes, jailed Kurdish leader says
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş has said that the only way out of Turkey’s financial troubles is holding a snap…
[Opinion] Europe loves the armed Kurds, not their civilians
Opinion
November 20, 2021
[Opinion] Europe loves the armed Kurds, not their civilians
During the last four decades, major EU countries have become the main supporters of armed Kurdish groups in Iran, Turkey,…