Violent push-backs, shootings, arbitrary detentions: Amnesty International denounces the treatment by Turkish and Iranian authorities of Afghans trying to leave their country in a report released today. “Iranian and Turkish security forces illegally and repeatedly forcibly repatriated Afghans trying to cross their borders to safety, notably by illegally opening fire on men, women and children,” […]
Tag: Turkey
The Turkish CEO of Thodex who blew it with 2 billion dollars was arrested in Avlona, Albania
Faruk Fatih Ozer, the Turkish businessman wanted by Turkish authorities on charges of masterminding a mega-cryptocurrency scam, has been arrested in Albania and is expected to be extradited to Turkey, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday. Ozer, the 28-year-old CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, is accused of one of the biggest financial frauds in […]
M. Weber speaks of K. Mitsotakis’ determination towards Erdogan: ‘We will not be blackmailed by those who are outside our borders’
In his statements to journalists, at the headquarters of the Union of Foreign Correspondents in Rome, the president of the European People’s Party, Manfed Weber, referred to the need to observe solidarity in immigration, but also to respect European borders. In more detail, the president of the EPP, responding to a question from APE-MPE, emphasized: […]
Erdogan attack: Greece attacked NATO by ‘locking’ our F-16s with S-300s
“Greece is not our equal or an interlocutor, neither politically, nor economically, nor militarily,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proving once again that Greece is a strong card in his effort to fan and promote the nationalist sentiment of his party’s base ahead of the 2023 elections. Continuing his incendiary speech, on the occasion […]
Erdogan loses more than 10 percentage points in Polis, Ankara and AKP strongholds in Pontus
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is losing voters in the country’s major cities. Compared to the 2018 elections, the AKP’s vote share has fallen by more than 10 percentage points in Istanbul, the capital Ankara, Bursa, the industrial heartland of Kocaeli and the Pontic cities of Trabzon and Rizunda, […]
Heavy shadow of uncertainty in Turkey ahead of elections
By Kostas Raptis Down but not out: Down but not out kid. He is at the present time, according to an analysis published in the American The National Interest by Sinan Djidi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Tayyip Erdogan, ten months (at most) before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. Uncertainty surrounds […]
Erdogan in an anti-Greek delirium – Athens’ responses to Turkey’s rhetorical and de facto détente
By Dimitris Gatsiou They are under the microscope of the Greek capital the new rhetorical crowns of the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who unfolds his anti-Hellenic delusion, constantly adding…points to his neo-Ottoman outbursts. Athens, in the face of the revisionist “dreams” of the leadership of its eastern neighbor, is sending out messages of […]
Erdogan’s anti-Hellenic delusion – Athens’ responses to Turkey’s détente
By Dimitris Gatsiou They are under the microscope of the Greek capital the new rhetorical crowns of the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who unfolds his anti-Hellenic delusion, constantly adding…points to his neo-Ottoman outbursts. Athens, in the face of the revisionist “dreams” of the leadership of its eastern neighbor, is sending out messages of […]
Akar Challenges: In the Aegean, the bad neighbor keeps harassing us
Hulusi Akar launched a new attack on Greece on the occasion of the alleged harassment of Turkish aircraft by Greek S-300s, during his speech at the Turkish Ministry of Defense. Akar said at a military event that Turkish aircraft flying on various missions in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean were locked by the radars of […]
Out of bounds Erdogan: Greeks are just as vile as they were 100 years ago when they burned our cities
Another reference to Greece on the occasion of the whole story was made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, true to the misanthropy that Turkish nationalism emits, chose to highlight the fact that “our nation threw the infidels into the sea”, praising the operation of the Turkish forces during the Destruction of Smyrna, in […]