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The Turkish Coast Guard Command rescued 14 asylum seekers on Friday who were pushed back by Greek authorities, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a Turkish security source, regional Coast Guard .
وقالت السلطات التركية الاثنين، إنها احتوت أكثر من 130 حريقاً، ولا تزال جهود مكافحة الحرائق مستمرة.
وأظهرت مقاطع فيديو مؤثرة خلال عطلة نهاية الأسبوع، إجلاء السياح من المنتجعات الشاطئية بالقوارب، بمشاركة سفن خفر السواحل التركية في عمليات الإنقاذ.
وأظهرت صور الأقمار الصناعية غابات شاسعة محترقة بعد أن التهمت النيران ما يقرب من 100 ألف هكتار (250 ألف فدان).
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وقالت وسائل إعلام تركية إن رجال الإطفاء استأنفوا، الإثنين، عمليات إطفاء الحرائق بالطائرات والمروحيات في بلدتي مرماريس وكويجيز بجنوب غرب البلاد.
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NOT GOING WELL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used a visit to (northern) Nicosia on Tuesday to repeat his provocative claim that talks on the future of Cyprus can only happen between “the two states.” He came to mark the 47th anniversary of his country’s invasion of Cyprus, in yet another move that will complicate Turkish relations with the EU. Turkey doesn’t have “another 50 years to waste,” Erdoğan said. Nektaria Stamouli has the report.
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DEBATING THE RULE OF LAW
POLAND’S SUMMER SHOWDOWN: The European Commission on Tuesday issued an ultimatum to the Polish government, led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party: It must comply with an EU Court of Justice ruling from last week that found Warsaw’s disciplinary procedures for judges violate European law. Poland must implement the decision and end the operations of its Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court by August 16, C
THE AEGEAN SEA, on board a Turkish Coast Guard Command patrol boat It’s impossible to distinguish the water from the sky in the black depth of night. With a storm approaching, two little black boats filled with hopes and dreams, bobbing around, remain invisible in the darkness, until horrified faces emerge under the coast guard’s powerful light. An elderly woman looks like her life has just flashed before her eyes; the young children have that haunting thousand-yard stare.
This is how 20 people from Afghanistan were found helplessly drifting without an engine, a light or life jackets, in two flimsy rubber life rafts in the northern Aegean waters. Thermal imaging had helped locate them after an email from the Hellenic Coast Guard of Greece was sent to the Turkish capital of Ankara, informing them about “two boats NOT UNDER COMMAND … with numerous persons on board” in Turkish waters, southeast of the island of Lesvos, Greece.