Ethnic groups in Turkey

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said yesterday that he no longer trusts the international community, which is a guarantor of the Brussels agreement, and not just Albanians, on the issue of the formation of the Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO).

1.5 million people left Albania between 1990 and 2017. This is the data of the National Statistical Institute in Tirana, quoted by BGNES. In the last 6 years alone, 317,000 have left their homeland. Their number in the past year is 40,000, which is 15,000 more than in 2016.

Turkey has for years been embroiled in turmoil, which has only intensified after the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016.

Antagonism between the country's Kemalists and Islamists has escalated into an all-out confrontation. Meanwhile, the ultranationalist party can be seen swinging between the two camps.

Four have been injured, while the local police had to use tear gas to break the fight up, RT is reporting.

The incident happened when a group of Kurds, protesting and shouting "Erdogan fascist," was attacked by Turks who were waiting to board a flight to Istanbul.

Kurdish people who live in Greece shouted slogans on Tuesday during a protest in central Athens against the Turkish offensive targeting Kurds in Afrin, Syria. Kurdish protesters, accompanied by some leftists, gathered in Syntagma Square, decrying Turkey's intervention in the war-torn country as "barbaric" and headed for the Turkish Embassy, which was being guarded by riot police in vans.

Turks and Kurds took part in a mass fight at a German airport, Nova TV reported. The cause of the riots was Ankara's offensive against the Kurdish detachments in Syria.

Kurds made a demonstration against Turkey's military campaign that began last week. At Hanover airport they carried banners of Kurdistan and northern Syria.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is the government that has come closest to solving Turkey's Kurdish problem. It is also the government that has helped bring the prospect of an "independent Kurdish state" closest to reality, though obviously this is an unintended consequence of its mistaken policies.

Armenians who were leaving the Narlı Kapı Church in Constantinople on Sunday were stoned by a group of children who chanted “Death to you,” the artigerçek news website reported on Monday.

What has been happening in Turkey recently is no longer a matter of political criticism and disagreement, it is now simply a matter of despair and sorrow. It is beyond politics. It is no longer a matter of rights and wrongs but a matter of the survival of sanity and emotional wellbeing, which are under serious threat. We should acknowledge that this is beyond politics. 

Albanian increasingly see France as their preferred destination to seek asylum in a time where their first destination of choice, Germany seems determined to reject almost every request coming from Albanian citizens.