Documents appearing to have been stolen from Isis’ border authority Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Thursday 3 March 2016 41 comments Anyone passing into Isis territory undergoes stringent checks to weed out potential spies Details of more than a dozen British Isis members are among 22,000 recruits reportedly revealed in a cache of leaked documents […]
Epigraph: “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive anew; gradually, however, it attracts, it astonishes, and, in the end forces admiration.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Source: […]
Mar 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) has started discussing the scope of socio-economic rights that migrants could be entitled to in hosting countries. It also determined that “migrants”, as distinguished from “migrant workers”, is the correct term to […]
Source: BBC European Union leaders are holding a key summit with Turkey in Brussels on ways of dealing with Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War Two. The EU is pressing Turkey, through which many migrants transit, to take some back in return for $3.3bn in aid. Turkey is […]
Source: BBC Migrant crisis EU migration: Crisis in seven charts Migrant crisis: Have EU promises been kept? In depth report Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum? European Union […]
Source: Al Jazeera Police using tear gas and water cannon raided the headquarters of Turkey’s largest-circulation newspaper, hours after a court placed it under the management of trustees. Police set […]
Source: BBC European Council President Donald Tusk is due to visit Greece and Turkey as he tries to find a common approach to Europe’s worsening migration crisis. Mr Tusk has […]
By Reuters – Feb 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES ANKARA — A DNA report from a suicide bombing that killed 29 people in the Turkish capital Ankara last week suggests the main perpetrator was Turkish-born, not Syrian as initially stated by the government, a senior Turkish security official said on […]
Source: The Local Imam Yakup Aynagoz, whose salary is paid by Turkey and who was until now an imam at the Ahi Evran mosque in St Veit an der Gölsen in Lower Austria, was ordered to leave the country within seven days after his visa was not extended. The controversial […]
By Reuters – Feb 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES ANKARA — Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Wednesday when a car laden with explosives detonated […]
Global Post: KILIS, Turkey — The town of Kilis, a busy little place just a few miles from the Syrian border, is where many refugees fleeing the horror of war are first able to breathe a sigh of relief. In the courtyards of its cafes and restaurants, they drink tea without fear […]
Turkey ditches religion from IDs as it eyes EU membership Turks will no longer be required to display their religion on national identification cards as part of the country’s attempts […]
By Reuters – Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES People and Civil Defence members carry a dead body removed from a destroyed Medecins Sans Frontieres-supported hospital hit by missiles in Maarat Numan, Syria, on Tuesday (Reuters photo) ISTANBUL/ANKARA — Turkey is asking allies including the United States to take part […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish forces’ armoured vehicles patrol at the southeastern town of Nusaybin, Turkey, near the border with Syria, where Turkish security forces are battling militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), on Sunday, a day after Turkish media reports said a […]
By Katrin Kuntz, Onur Burçak Belli and Emin Oezmen (photos) Emin Ozmen/ DER SPIEGEL The civil war is escalating in southeastern Turkey, with the government pledging to stamp out militant Kurds. Young Kurds, who used to hurl stones and Molotov cocktails, are now fighting on the front lines in several […]
By Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, René Pfister and Christoph Schult AP Angela Merkel has held six meetings with the Turkish government in the hopes of forging a solution to the refugee crisis. But with most of the leverage in Ankara, progress has been slow. Worse yet, Berlin’s plan has split […]
Source: CNN CNN)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had no shortage of harsh, withering words for enemies involved in the bloody civil war in neighboring Syria. Now, he’s turning his verbal barrage on a key NATO ally: the United States. Erdogan ripped into Washington on Wednesday, claiming it’s responsible for […]
Feb 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Turkey is using the ongoing build-up of Syrians fleeing fighting around Aleppo, on the Syrian side of its border to achieve three objectives. The immediate objective is to maintain Ankara’s recently adopted policy of allowing Syrians to enter Turkey only if they […]
By AFP – Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this February 5, 2016 file photo, Syrians walk towards the Turkish border at the Bab Al SalamA border gate, Syria (AP photo) PARIS — The siege of Aleppo has taken the West even further from achieving its key goals […]
TENSIONS WITH TURKEY FEB 8, 2016 – 19:46 The last major incident between Kurdish and Turkish groups took place in Bern last September (Keystone) Authorities in Zurich broke up an unauthorised demonstration by a group of Kurdish activists with tear gas and rubber bullets on Monday. The group was protesting […]