Tag Archives: Soylu

Less than 24 hours after the terror attack in Istanbul and Turkish authorities managed not only to capture the alleged bomber along with other suspects but also to involve Greece in the whole issue. “Istanbul terror attack suspect would have fled to Greece today if she had not been caught,” …

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Turkey claimed a suspected member of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), recently arrested in Istanbul, was trained in Greece. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed on a tweet on Monday that the arrestee was preparing a terrorist attack against the country after receiving training in Lavrio, in south-eastern Attica. Sevgili …

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Greece’s Migration Minister has denied Turkey’s allegations that 12 migrants froze to death in the land border between the two countries following deadly pushback by Greek border guards. Among the dead were reportedly also children. Earlier on Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu had posted on Twitter that 12 migrants …

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Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu resigned on Sunday night, citing his failure in successfully steering the country’s 31-province wide weekend curfew. Soylu’s resignation came an hour before the 48-hour curfew ended. “In a process carried out diligently and meticulously, the responsibility for all implementation of the weekend curfew to stem …

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Turkey ‘s Interior Minister Minister has threatened that “one million refugees” would travel to  Europe and said about the situation on Evros “this is only the beginning.” Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed on Saturday that 143,000 people have reached Greece since the opening of the borders to the EU. The number …

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Turkey will send all 1,200 ISIS terrorists of foreign origin arrested during the Syria operation back to their countries, Ankara said on Monday. “Turkey will send all detained foreign Daesh terrorists to their countries of origin even if their citizenship have been revoked, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced. Reiterating Turkey’s …

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Turkey’s interior minister on Tuesday refuted recent claims about the increasing number of migrants from Turkey to Greece and said “if the EU was concerned about Turkey as much as Greece, the problems may be solved.” Suleyman Soylu’s remarks came at a joint news conference ahead of a bilateral meeting …

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Turkish Interior Minister threatens the European Union with 30,000 refuges to leave Turkey per day and accused the EU for not complying with the Agreement. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu threatens to open the Izmir rout on the Turkish West coast and “see what will happen.” “Let’s open Izmir* now, let’s …

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Refugees and migrants flow from Turkey to Greece started to rise again. In last five days, a total of 566 people arrived to the Greek islands on boat coming form Turkey. Most affected are the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos. It is unclear whether the flow increase is due …

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