Turkish Opposition Leader Says Extradition Treaty With China Should Hinge on Xinjiang Probe
Selçuk Özdağ of the Future Party said ratifying it without one would be a “disgrace” to Uyghurs.
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Selçuk Özdağ of the Future Party said ratifying it without one would be a “disgrace” to Uyghurs.
Last Updated On: Jan 10 2021 01:48 Gmt+3 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a serious threat to the stability of the European Union and the wider region, German Kurdish lawmaker Helin Evrim Sommer told Ahval. Sommer, an MP for Die Linke (the Left Party), said that her party has called for sanctions on Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), but rejected general economic sanctions that would affect the people as well. “If the EU does not want to completely lose its political credibility, it should apply sanctions,” she said. Turkey continued its natural gas explorati...
Afraid of Turkey? It seems the Athenian elite are Search for: The mini-war with Turkey is just around the corner if “Greece does not leave aside its begging syndrome”, as Professor George Margaritis noted on SLPress a few months ago. At the same time, Greece must stop invoking international law, as if it were the uncle from America! Turkey also invokes international law. Why am I saying this? Greece could invoke international law everyday since it is 100% on its side, but because we know the deficits of international institutions and as we are constantly threatened militarily, if necessa...
Last Updated On: Dec 18 2020 01:33 Gmt+3 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seemed unusually calm in the days leading up to last week’s European Union summit, in which the bloc’s leaders were to discuss sanctions against Turkey. “The EU's proposed sanctions on Turkey would not be a major problem for us,” Erdoğan told reporters on Dec. 9, before flying to Azerbaijan. He most probably knew, after a series of behind the door chats, or intel, that what his government faced was a paper tiger. And he was right. To hell with the critics, whining that he was turning more dictatorial by every ...
The Turkish Diaspora in Europe Integration, Migration, and Politics Getty/Andreas Gebert Members of the Turkish community stand in front of the Oberlandesgericht courthouse with a large Turkish flag, 2018, in Munich. Sam Hananel Introduction and summary More than 5 million people of Turkish descent live in Europe outside Turkey itself, a human connection that has bound Turkey and the wider European community together since large-scale migration began in the 1960s. 1 The questions of immigration, citizenship, integration, assimilation, and social exchange sparked by this migration and the e...