Written by German television comedian Jan Böhmermann in response to Turkey’s arrests and prosecution of government-critical journalists and other censorious activities, Defamation Poem has now been banned in Germany. Jan Böhmermann sparked a free speech powder keg with his “Defamatory Poem,” broadcast
Granting visa-free access to 75 million Turkish citizens will expose Europe to higher risk of transnational terrorism, claims a new European Commission report. The warning comes as the former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, expressed grave concerns over
Contents: Western nations agree to lift arms embargo on Libya to fight ISIS; ISIS continues to grow in Libya in size and effectiveness
The number of migrants who have been sent back from Greece to Turkey is far lower than planned, sparking new fears the controversial European Union (EU)-Turkey deal could be close to collapse. Since the deal was reached on 20 March,
The United States government is cutting off millions of dollars worth of aid and is launching a probe into a network of NGO’s, companies, and employees in Turkey that have colluded to overcharge the U.S. government for basic aid it is providing to Turkey, as it settles thousands of Syrian refugees.
Violent protests broke out in Bangladesh after Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged on war crime charges, including genocide, rape, and torture linked to the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Just when you thought the government’s record on open door mass migration couldn’t get any more appalling, we’ve seen the bombshell news this week that the situation is even worse than we thought. According to the official figures, migration into
The dispute between Ankara and Brussels over Turkey’s anti-terror law has become the “Achilles heel” of the landmark mideal designed to stop illegal migration into Europe, Turkey’s minister for EU affairs said on Friday. Volkan Bozkir told Reuters in an
Contents: EU-Turkey migrant deal unravels over brinksmanship on both sides; More refugees now reaching Europe via Italy than via Greece; Italy rescues 800 migrants from Mediterranean Sea, many of them from Syria
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ratcheted up the pressure on Europe over a landmark migrant deal on Thursday, accusing the bloc of setting new hurdles for visa-free travel and threatening Ankara may go its own way if they failed to agree.
(Reuters) – Within sight of a razor wire fence guarded by Macedonian police, 35-year-old Iraqi migrant Saima Hodep rolls dough with an old steel water pipe outside her tent, in preparation for customers for her unleavened bread. Saima is one
(Reuters) – Urgent measures are need to address overcrowding and poor living conditions in refugee and migrant camps in Greece, Europe’s top rights watchdog warned on Wednesday. The Council of Europe, which brings together 47 countries, said some facilities were
“If I wanted to kill him, I would have,” the gunman responsible for an assassination attempt against newspaper editor Can Dündar last week said of his attack, hours before Dündar was sentenced to five years in prison for publishing a report unfavorable to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said yesterday he wanted Turkish citizens to be granted visa-free travel within the European Union (EU) by October at the latest. In a deal negotiated in March between Turkey and the EU it was agreed that
Four so-called ‘refugees’, ostensibly fleeing war and persecution, have attempted to swim back to Turkey from Greece shortly after arriving in Europe. The migrants, reported to by Moroccans, attempted the swim this Monday. They had been staying in Souda, one
The greatest threat to the West is Islam. Look at every country where Islam is dominant and you will see a total lack of freedom and democracy. Islam and freedom are absolutely incompatible. And yet, we are importing it into
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Turkish warplanes have renewed airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq, Reuters has learned from military sources.
Contents: Arab countries seek to overturn the century old Sykes-Picot agreement; Syria: A victim of colonial politics; Palestine: Sykes-Picot and Balfour Declaration left a ‘savage legacy’; Lebanon: Survived Sykes-Picot largely intact
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) stands against “any terrorist group” that attacks Turkey, a Pentagon spokesperson indicated to Breitbart News.
A restaurant in Cologne, Germany, selling a special burger named after Turkey’s President Erdoğan has closed because the owner could not guarantee his employees’ safety in the face of threats and intimidation. Jörg Tiemann, manager of the ‘Urban Burgery’ restaurant, told the Bild newspaper
The European Union (EU) is secretly planning to pull the plug on its migrant deal with Turkey amid increasing concern over the country’s commitment to the plan. German tabloid Bild reports that EU leaders have been working on a “plan
AMMAN (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged rival jihadist fighters in Syria to unite or risk death but again decried fellow Sunni Muslim militants Islamic State as “extremists” in an audio recording posted online on Sunday.
Contents: London elects Sadiq Khan as mayor, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western city; Turkey’s Erdogan threatens EU: ‘We’ll go our own way, you go yours!’; Turkey says it will meet other EU requirements for lifting visa restrictions
Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran’s biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized
Turkey has announced that the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will be present at the official opening ceremony of a controversial new mosque in the Netherlands at which 2,500 people will be praying.
Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, was on trial for authorizing a report seen as unfavorable to Turkey’s ruling government. On Friday afternoon, an assailant ran towards him, shooting and shouting the word “traitor!” as Dündar was walking out of the courthouse.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday, Turkey would not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a deal to curb migration, and declared: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. His fiery speech
Contents: With Turkey already in chaos, Erdogan forces PM Davutoglu to resign; Davutoglu’s resignation may complicate the EU-Turkey migrant deal; Syria and Russia continue ‘Grozny Model,’ killing women and children in Aleppo refugee camp
Following a week that has seen multiple fistfights erupt in the Turkish Parliament, minority party co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has threatened to take his Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and form a separate governing legislature.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced that his Justice and Development Party (AKP) will be holding a congress to elect a new leader, and he will not be seeking to stay in his post.
The European Commission yesterday unveiled its proposal to give visa-free travel in the European Union (EU) to Turkey’s citizens, if it meets the five remaining benchmark conditions as a “matter of urgency”. The proposal from the Commission was presented to the European Parliament and
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has dismissed suggestions that Turkey could join the European Union anytime soon, telling MPs that Turkish accession is not “remotely on the cards,” despite telling the Turks in 2010 that he was their “strongest possible advocate.”
Contents: Britain will accept thousands of child refugees from European camps; European Commission threatens to fine countries that won’t accept migrants; Many in Asia oppose an Obama apology for 1945 nuking of Hiroshima
The U.S.-backed Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria is aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a terrorist organization, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told a Senate panel, echoing Turkey’s position on the relationship between the two groups.
With 978 Turkish imams operating in 900 mosques, German politicians are showing increasing concern over foreign influence over the country’s Islamic places of worship. With almost all funding coming from Turkey and Saudi Arabia, members of the Christian Social Union
Contents: Reader question on Iran and Iraq’s Muqtada al-Sadr; European Commission expected to recommend visa-free travel for citizens of Turkey
The European Union will be unable to fully track the movement of some 127 million people from Turkey, Ukraine and other countries travelling to the bloc because not all nations have computerised border systems. Around 250,000 tourists in the EU
The European Commission will on Wednesday give conditional backing to visa-free travel for more than 80 million Turks as the EU tries to save a controversial deal with Ankara to solve the migrant crisis. Brussels is also set to announce
Sky News reports on the results of an “exclusive investigation into leaked secret Islamic State files,” which reveals that ISIS has been actively colluding with the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. According to Sky News, one major instance of
