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Border Control in Bulgaria: At Least 10 Border Police Officers have Helped Migrants
"There are data on at least 10 border police officers involved in various schemes for illegal passage of migrants into Bulgaria". This was stated by the Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev in Plovdiv.
He also added that there are doubts about other colleagues, but they have no evidence about them.
Ankara dispatches two ministers to Pakistan for aid after flood disaster
The Turkish government is dispatching two ministers to Pakistan for an on-site inspection to further coordinate Türkiye's humanitarian assistance to the flood-hit country that claimed the lives of hundreds of people.
Election year in Turkey and Greece is a “whipping boy” for all contestants
2023 is an election year for Greece, Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus. And this is a "difficult moment" for Greek-Turkish relations, as diplomats and analysts emphasize, but also for the efforts to maintain tensions at a low point. But it seems quite the opposite is true.
Turkish Journalists Demand New State Advertising Law After Court Ruling
Photo Illustration: Pixabay/Engin Akyurt
"The Constitutional Court ruled that the sentences given by the Press Advertising Agency to newspapers violated the freedom of the press. We call on the Advertising Agency to act on this ruling and for parliament to change the law that leads to arbitrariness," the Journalists' Union of Turkey, TGS, said on Friday.
Op-ed: Greek-Turkish relations: What is the best solution in the final analysis?
By Alexandra Fotaki
The relationship between Greece and Turkey is a difficult one. It is not the only such, but in any event geography does not change.
If one follows the media over time on both sides of the Aegean one will get the impression that we are speaking of two peoples that view each other with fanaticism.
Türkiye to grow stronger to prevent threat of another coup: Erdoğan
The Turkish government will resolutely continue building a great, powerful Türkiye so the country does not face more calamities like the defeated coup attempt of July 15, 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 16.
Erdoğan made a speech at the Commemoration for July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day in Istanbul's Saraçhane district.
CHP leader vows to reopen Khashoggi case if party comes to power
Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has vowed that if his party comes to power in the upcoming elections, they will reopen the case of Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist who was killed on the premises of the Saudi Arabia's General Consulate in Istanbul, which was transferred to Saudi legal institutions.
Turkey’s First Anti-Immigration Party May Aid Erdogan in Elections
Umit Ozdag's anti-immigration Victory Party is critical of both the Turkish government and the opposition, but it may do more damage to the latter in elections next year in a potential repeat of what went on in Hungary in April.
Turkish Lawyers Urge Cancellation of ‘Cash-for-Citizenship’ Scheme
Turkish and Austrian passports in 2017. Photo: EPA/LISI NIESNER
The Bar Association said in a statement that citizenship "expresses a legal and political bond and commitment to the state", and that putting a financial value upon it "has made the concept of citizenship abstract and alienated it from its essence".
Ankara says Greek officials need permission to visit eastern Aegean islands, cites 953 Greek ‘violations’
After months of declarations from top Turkish government officials that Greece's sovereignty over a number of its islands in the eastern Mediterranean is contingent upon Athens demilitarising them, now Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has reportedly decided that he wishes to forbid Deputy Defence Minister Nikos Hardalias from visiting the said islands without Ankara's permission.