Turkey on Thursday hit back at a Greek court’s decision to grant political refugee status to two Turkish officers who fled to Greece after a 2016 failed coup, accusing Athens of protecting “terrorists.” A group of eight Turkish officers escaped to neighboring Greece after the July 2016 attempted overthrow of ...
Turkey’s deputy prime minister on Friday slammed as “wrong” a ruling by the Constitutional Court that two veteran writers arrested in the wake of the failed coup should walk free as their rights had been violated. Sahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan had been accused — in separate cases — of ...