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The Court in Strasbourg Stopped Bulgaria from Returning an Iranian Citizen with a Death Sentence
The European Court of Human Rights stopped the Bulgarian authorities from returning to Iran a man sentenced to death there. This happened after the Bulgarian lawyer Sofia Razboinikova asked the institution to impose temporary measures and the court granted the request.
Police arrest two people for alleged human trafficking
Authorities have arrested two people for allegedly smuggling 35 migrants across the Aegean Sea using an unusual itinerary that brought them to a wildfire-afflicted island close to the mainland.
Food prices keep growing
Alarming data emerged for Greece from Eurostat's final data for June's European Union-harmonized consumer price index: Last month Greece recorded the highest monthly increase at 3.3% in prices in the food category not only in the eurozone, but throughout the European Union. In fact, the increase recorded in food prices in June compared to May was even higher than that in Turkey.
Ankara condemns Quran desecration in Sweden
Ankara has issued a strong condemnation against the recent "vile attack" on Islam's holy book, the Quran, near the Iraqi embassy in Sweden.
Erdogan claims ‘Western Thrace’ was ‘main issue’ he raised with Mitsotakis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that the "problems of Western Thrace" was the "main issue" he raised with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at their meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius on Wednesday.
Erdogan’s difficult equation in NATO
The upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11-12 is a first opportunity for Greece and Turkey to pick up the thread of bilateral relations again. The preceding four years started badly, with the sharp increase in refugee and migrant flows in the summer of 2019, and got even worse with the signing of the Turkey-Libya (GNA) maritime deal in November of the same year.
Turkey to Probe ‘Provocative’ Social Media Posts on French Protests
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"An ex officio investigation has been started against social media accounts saying that similar events may also happen with refugees living in our country," the prosecutors' office said in a statement.
Frontex seeks answers from Greece on alleged ‘pushbacks’ of migrants
The European Union's border agency is seeking "clarifications and information" from Greece's coast guard on two alleged cases of migrants who crossed by boat being illegally deported back to Turkey, a European official said Friday.
Polish president says EU should help its members more with migration
The European Union gives more support to countries outside the bloc like Turkey to help them deal with migration than it gives to its own members, the Polish president said on Friday.
Two arrested in Thessaloniki for migrant trafficking
Two individuals, a lawyer and an interpreter, were arrested at the port of Thessaloniki in northern Greece following the discovery of four migrants and refugees inside a small truck that had arrived from Turkey.
Council of Europe: Turkey’s Prison Population Rises Beyond 300,000
Turkish soldiers stand guard in front of the Silivri Prison in Istanbul, where many journalists and political prisoners are held. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU
145 migrants stranded on an Evros river islet rescued
Authorities said they rescued 145 migrants found stranded Thursday on an islet on the river that runs along the northeastern land border with Turkey.
Police said that the 70 men, 45 women and 30 children were all in good health and identified as Syrians or Kurds. Greek authorities launched the rescue after being alerted to the migrants' presence by a nongovernmental organization.
Descendants of Bosnian and Armenian Migrants Keep Ancient Ways Alive in Albania
Kapidani is cataloguing any documents that he can find about his ancestors. "We've collected documents and testimonies from the elders, aiming to reconstruct their trip by land and sea," Kapidani told BIRN.
Back in the 1870s, Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the most culturally diverse parts of the Balkans, was mired in a multisided conflict.
Bulgaria: Police Action against Trafficking Network that Transported Migrants from Turkey to Western Europe
The Bulgarian police took down a human trafficking network from Turkey through Bulgaria to Western Europe.
Five people were detained on the territory of Haskovo. The organizer of the trafficking ring, a Syrian, and four Bulgarian citizens, complicit in the criminal activity, were detained.
According to BNT, the Syrian has humanitarian status in Germany.
Pomak leader warns of growing Turkish influence
As we walked through the narrow streets of Xanthi in northern Greece, we often heard Turkish being spoken in conversations. We sat at a cafe and talked about the community Imam Ahmet represents, the 40,000 Pomaks who are constantly trying to find their voice as a minority within a minority.