The Istanbul republican prosecution issued arrest warrants for 8 people within the framework of the investigation on Istanbul-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s murder, Hurriyet reports. It is reported that the suspects have been remanded in custody for being “members of an armed terrorist group” and “attempting to violate constitutional order”.
Over 800 Georgian citizens departed for European countries on the first day the visafree regime came into force, Sputnik News reports. Nearly 300 people from Tbilisi departed for Athens, Warsaw and Munich, and about 500 people departed for Budapest, Thessaloniki and Larnaca from Kutaisi International Airport.
Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau issued on Monday issued a travel warning for Middle Eastern countries bordering Daesh conflict zones, urging its citizens to refrain from traveling to Turkey, Jordan and Egypt, Israel’s Ynetnews reported today.
Georgian citizens are able to travel to almost all EU countries without a visa for 90 days every half a year starting March 28. The countries excluded from the visa-free travel regime are Ireland and Great Britain. The Georgian foreign ministry issued the latest clarification for its citizens on March 27.
In Moscow, the Turkish FM will have a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. According to reports within the framework of the issues to be discussed the Turkish side urged Russia to stop cooperation with the PYD – Syria’s Kurdish Democratic Union.
“Right now we are holding a referendum on April 16 and after that we could choose to do a second one on the (EU) accession talks and we would abide by whatever our people would say there,” Erdogan saying as quoted by Deutsche Welle.
A protest against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government has been organized in Switzerland, Deutsche Welle reports.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that as long as Germany and Netherlands call him dictator, he will continue calling them Nazis, Erdogan said in an interview with CNN Turk and Kanal D.
“It is no wonder that there is so much aggression in the air when diplomacy is seen to have achieved so little. A vacuum has been created which will be filled either by negotiations or by threats and potential military action. Another problem is that the other two Minsk Group co-chairs, France and the United States, have been seen to be too passive recently and that therefore the impression is created that Russia—and in particular foreign minister Sergei Lavrov—is the sole negotiator.”
Across Europe’s Turkish communities, where the film is being shown this week, audiences may well be dabbing their eyes and declaring: “That’s our boy!” President Erdogan’s spin doctors certainly hope so. There are four million registered voters outside Turkey and the referendum on April 16 — over boosting the president’s powers to near-Putin levels — is looking as if it could be a near-run thing.
