Germany rejects 5,040 Turkish asylum applications
Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has rejected the asylum applications of 5,040 Turkish citizens out of 8,547 applications made by Turkish...
Turkish couple attempting to flee to Greece arrested for ByLock use
A couple has been arrested by a court and charged with ByLock use after attempting to flee to Greece in a bid to escape...
US dismisses Turkish PM Bozdağ’s remark on Gülen-US judiciary links, calls it ‘absurd’
US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert has dismissed a question about remarks of Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ, who on Monday claimed the...
EU’s Hahn says urgent need for negative trend in Turkey to be reversed
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Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, said on Tuesday that there is an urgent need for the negative trend...
Commerzbank: Turkey’s official growth figures questionable, possibly politically influenced
Germany’s second-largest bank, Commerzbank, has said Turkey’s official growth figures released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) are more than questionable and may have...
Israel warns its citizens against travel to Turkey
The Israeli authorities on Monday issued a travel warnings urging Israeli travelers to avoid places where they would be prime targets for jihadist militants,...
Life sentence demanded for NSU member accused of murdering 8 Turks
Federal prosecutors demanded a life sentence for Beate Zschäpe, a member of the right-wing neo-Nazi extremist group National Socialist Underground (NSU), accusing her of...
Turkish Deputy PM says US judiciary has become tool of Gülen movement plan
Referring to an arrest warrant from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York for former Turkish Economy Minister Mehmet Zafer...
German FM says Berlin has halted arms exports to Turkey
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday that Germany has halted major arms sales to Turkey due to the worsening human rights situation...
Mayor of Turkey’s capital city prays Harvey and Irma hurricanes continue in US
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Melih Gökçek shared from his Twitter account on Tuesday the level of economic damage caused by Harvey and Irma hurricanes...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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