Turkey demands that Greece bends again over the extradition request for eight Turkish soldiers. The Greek Supreme Court Thursday showed off their extradition to Turkey. The soldiers fled to neighboring Greece after the failed coup in July 2016.
The European Court of Human Rights receives a lot of complaints about Turkey. Especially after the failed coup in July, the number of complaints exploded. Compared to 2015, the number of complaints last year increased by 276 percent, said ECtHR Minister Guido Raimondi Thursday. 5363 complaints or over half of all new complaints concerned the coup attempt.
The Greek Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers to Turkey. Ankara demanded their extradition because they have participated in the bloody coup attempt in July. The newspaper Kathimerini reported that the Supreme Court judges rejected all eight extradition requests.
The Turkish military said Sunday in northern Syria certainly slain 65 fighters from Islamic State. That report Turkish military authorities Monday.
Turkish prosecutors have ordered the arrest of more than four hundred people in 48 provinces. It is according to TV station Habertürk among other things, 123 soldiers from the navy and 187 security officers. Meanwhile were arrested twelve persons.
The Turkish parliament has passed early Saturday morning approved a constitutional amendment that significantly expands the power of Tayyp Minister Recep Erdogan. However, the result was, 339 for and 142 against, not enough to make the bill straight into law. First, the people will have to decide in a referendum on the proposal.
One to reconcile the fiercest opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Turkish government finally seems a role for Assad after the war.
The presidents of France and Russia, Francois Hollande and Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday by telephone consultations on the conflict in Ukraine and Syria. Putin spoke among other things about the conference on Syria January 23 at the initiative of Moscow and Ankara will be held in Kazakhstan.
Turkish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for another 243 soldiers in the country after an investigation into the failed coup in July. It reports the state news agency Anadolu Wednesday.
The shooting at a nightclub in the Turkish city of Ankara during the New Year is professionally run. The bombing was also concerned intelligence. That said the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus Monday.
Turkey continues to believe that a united and peaceful Syria is impossible with Bashar al-Assad as president, but will wait and see what emerges from the planned peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana. That said, the spokesman of President Erdogan Friday.
Turkish President Erdogan stressed Friday that Turkish troops remain on the island of Cyprus. The ruling casts a shadow over the current discussions between the two sides in the war-torn island. That must reunite Cyprus after more than forty years.
Imams in Germany have collected information on suspected Gülen supporters. DITIB, the umbrella Turkish-Islamic association in Germany, on Thursday apologized for these activities.
The desire of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to come to a new presidential system, whereby he gets more power, is a step closer again. A majority of the Turkish parliament decided to allow a debate on the conditions for this constitutional reform in the night of Monday to Tuesday.
The Turkish government has decreed announced the resignation of another 10,000 civil servants, police officers and scientists. The decree that went Friday night, also allows Turks abroad to deprive nationals. Turks suspected of serious offenses such as aiding the coup in July and did not respond to return to the command to Turkey, can lose their citizenship.
The Turkish police have eighteen people arrested in connection with the bomb blast Thursday in the city of Izmir. In a firefight after the explosion of a car bomb in a parking lot at the courthouse in Izmir two suspected terrorists were slain.
Turkish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 380 businessmen suspected of financial support to the network of Fethullah Gulen. The authorities keep the spirit residing in the United States responsible for the failed coup attempt in July.
Turkish police on Thursday in the hunt for the perpetrator of the attack on the night club Reina in Istanbul again done a search, this time in the coastal town Selimpasa. According to Turkish media, several people were arrested, including several Uighurs.
Turkish warplanes and artillery have IS fighters 'neutralized.' By bombing positions of Islamic State in Syria 38, reports the Turkish army in a statement Thursday.
In Turkey, the state of emergency extended for three months until April 19th. The parliament voted in Ankara on Tuesday with the government's proposal.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim expects the next US administration to stop supplying arms to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. The United States should not allow Yildirim claimed that 'a terrorist organization' casts a shadow on cooperation with Ankara.
Turkey gives for the first time that it has blocked the website of the NOS. The website has since December 19 not to visit, but until now visitors got a message that the site could not be loaded. Since Friday, a report from the Turkish regulator BTK is shown that the site is blocked, the NOS report itself. That blockade has been ratified by the court in Ankara.
The Turkish Republic is 93 years after its establishment engaged in a 'new war of independence,' Erdogan said in his New Year's speech. 'The national unity, territorial integrity, institutions, economy, foreign policy, in short, all the elements that our state bail be sharply attacked,' he said.
A group of jihadists on Friday dismissed the latest file in Syria. The group calling itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and was previously known under the name of al-Nusra Front. The file was promulgated at the initiative of Russia and Turkey, according to the jihadists' only a perpetuation of the criminal regime 'of President Bashar al-Assad. The main objective remains that the military regime is overturned, said a spokesman for the group that previously belonged to the network of al-Qaeda.
NATO allies leave Turkey in its fight against Islamic State in northern Syria in the lurch, the Turkish President Erdogan said. In the battle for the town of al-Bab are NATO members nor other allies in the region even 'the slightest support' given, he said, according to the state news agency Anadolu.
Turkey hopes for a cease-fire in Syria for the new year. That Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavasoglu said Thursday.
Turkey and Russia have agreed on the terms of a file, which must go rapidly in virtually across Syria. The Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday that the intention is that the weapons as to rest on 29 December.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that he has evidence that the grants in Syria coalition supporting the US-backed terrorist groups including IS and Kurdish militias of the YPG and the PYD.
The Turkish authorities last week 1682 people arrested on suspicion of links to militant organizations. 516 of them were firmly put after interrogation, informed the Turkish Interior Ministry Monday.
When an attack of Islamic State in the Syrian town of al-Bab, according to the Turkish military Sunday least thirty civilians were killed and many others got injured. This was announced Monday.
