Syrian refugees first started coming to Turkey in limited numbers in 2011. By January 2012, the number was close to 10,000
If you go to Ankara these days, all you hear are questions and speculations
“If the wall ends up orange, although the initial instruction was to make it red, we explain the reasons to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s advisors and they go back to inform him. But if we explain the same to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s advisors, they tell us to go back and paint it red, in line with the initial instruction. And in the end the wall is painted red.”
The European Commission has proposed to lift visa requirements for Turkish citizens, arguing that in view of the fast progress currently on show, Turkey could fulfil all necessary criteria by the end of June
When I tried to organize a workshop on EU-Turkey relations a few years ago, I was criticized by my colleagues, an academic working in southern Antalya’s Akdeniz (Mediterranean) University told me recently
When we invited more than 200 journalists from at least three dozen countries to the eastern province of Erzurum in 2012 for the yearly meeting of the Ski Club of International Journalists (SCIJ), I was a bit concerned about whether our colleagues would truly enjoy skiing in Turkey
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been the target of criticism for her policies in regards to tackling the refugee crisis
In 2009, 484,209 Turkish citizens applied for a simple Schengen visa and paid a total of 29 million euros. In 2015, 900,789 Turks applied for Schengen visas and paid 54 million euros
“This is by far the most important law that will affect the biggest number of people in Turkey that the government has endorsed in the last couple of years,” said Hakkı Can Yıldız, from Esin Attorney Partnership
