A Turkish asylum seeker jailed for 17 months has disappeared barely hours after being dropped into the Evros River by Greek border security. Umit Sakir has been missing for one week after being left in the Evros River marking the Greek-Turkish border, an eyewitness has said. Sakir’s family also says…

A Turkish woman is suing the Greek state over allegations police returned her to Turkey when she tried to claim asylum in Greece. Greece is a signatory to the European Convention on Refugees, which makes it illegal for asylum seekers to be refused or returned to countries where they are…

Amnesty International has warned Greece that its plan to install a 2,7 km long barrier off the coast of Lesvos would put the lives of asylum seekers at risk. Greece’s six-month-old conservative government announced its barrier plan between Turkey and the Greek island on Wednesday as part of its promise…

The Turkish government on Wednesday condemned an Egyptian police raid on the Cairo office of Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu (AA) news agency. Four Anadolu employees, one of whom is a Turkish national, were detained in the raid, AA reported. The reason for the raid and detainment was immediately unclear. Ankara “strongly…

The joint call for a ceasefire came following a meeting in Istanbul between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, where the two had earlier attended the inauguration ceremony of the new TurkStream gas pipeline. Turkey and Russia’s ceasefire announcement comes days after the Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish troops are being deployed in Libya. In a question and answer session with journalists that was broadcast on CNN Turk and Kanal D, Erdogan said: “Our soldiers are leaving [for Libya] now.” Erdogan’s comments that troops were being deployed follows…

Zubeyir Koculu-Euronews / Lesvos “I fled the Syrian Civil war in 2012 and moved to Turkey. Some Turks did not accept us where I lived for 7 years. They attacked us and our homes. While I was walking in a local bazaar, the Turkish police deported me to Idlib. I…

“We are Turkish political asylum seekers. We fled persecution in Turkey and crossed Evros [River] on May 4 at 5am. We are hiding near Nea Vyssa in fear of push-back. We urge the United Nations and Greek authorities to protect us from being pushed back.” These were the last words…