As tens of thousands of people flee to the Turkish border amid the renewed bombardment Idlib province by Russian and Syrian forces, Turkey has warned that it would not be able to handle a “new refugee wave” coming from Syria. Turkish President Recep Erdogan on Sunday warned that Europe would feel the impact of the new influx of migrants if the violence in northwest Syria isn’t quickly ended,... 

70,000 migrants have made it to the European Union from Turkey this year, according to a confidential EU report, prompting some to question whether the EU-Turkey refugee deal has fallen apart completely. The confidential EU report shows that the number of migrants and asylum seekers who’ve successfully crossed over into the EU from Turkey this year has nearly doubled in comparison to 2018, Die Welt... 

Ankara retains the option of shutting down the Incirlik Air Base used by US/NATO forces, in retaliation to any additional sanctions against Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. As well the air base, which is located in Adana, the Kurecik Radar Station in the Malatya province may also be closed, Erdogan said. The Kurecik base houses an early-warning radar installed by the US Army, which... 

USA has gone nuts, completely nuts!! At this point is there a single nation on Earth that is not “sanctioned” by America? Soon everyone will be “sanctioned” and soon America will find itself completely isolated with no friends with the exception of Israel of course and everybody will unite to sanction America instead… they act as if they are the daily bread of the world... 

It’s in the interest of Hungary for Turkey to move migrants into Syria rather than letting them flood into Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said during an interview on public radio. Turkey, which currently hosts close to three and a half million migrants, has threatened several times in the past few months to ‘open the gates’ and ‘flood’ Europe with migrants if the EU fails... 

Central Oslo was hit by a brawl between Turks and Kurds, because of the situation in Turkey and Syria. It started last Saturday with two demonstrations outside the Turkish embassy in Oslo. The two demonstrations consisted of people who were for and against Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria respectively. A rather peaceful pro-Turkey demonstration started at 1 pm, but two hours later a Kurdish counter-demonstration... 

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H. Res. 296 recognizing the Armenian Genocide and condemning Turkey’s “campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians…”: The historic vote was 405 to 11 and is seen as a rebuke to Turkey, which has spent nearly a century denying there was a genocide. Additionally,... 

A new survey has revealed well over half of the German population would like to see Turkey booted from the NATO over its recent military incursion into northeastern Syria. Of those surveyed, 58 percent reported wanting Turkey expelled from NATO while even greater numbers supported imposing economic sanctions and export bans against Erdogan’s government, Deutsche Welle reports. The survey, conducted... 

Turkish Police arrested four former fighters of Faylaq al-Rahman and a Turkish citizen who were trying to sell two rare, ancient, gold-plated Torahs in the northwestern province of Bilecik on May 8, the Russian TV network RT reported on May 11. The Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah said that Police had confiscated the two ancient Torahs during the arrest. According to the newspaper, the town ancient... 

Billboards displaying Quranic verses calling for Muslims not to take Christians and Jews as friends were spotted in the Turkish city of Konya earlier this week. Konya is well-known as Turkey’s most culturally conservative city. In last March’s local elections, Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) garnered more than 70 percent of the vote. “Do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies.... 

US President Donald Trump is “fully prepared” to use military force against Turkey if “needed,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has declared, qualifying the statement by insisting Washington prefers to use its “diplomatic powers.” “We prefer peace to war,” Pompeo told CNBC in a taped interview that aired Monday afternoon. But in the event that kinetic action or military action is needed,... 

With 2019 three quarters of the way through, fears of a second migrant crisis continue to grow as the number of migrant arrivals in Europe surpass the numbers seen in 2018. According to a report by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the amount of migrants who’ve sought asylum in Europe in 2019 has already surpassed last year’s figure by 10 percent, Die Welt reports. In its asylum trends... 

US fighter jets and gunship helicopters were sent to scare off Turkish-backed militants in northern Syria after they came “very close” to US troops at Ain Issa, the Pentagon said. Washington has also sent a complaint to Ankara. F-15 fighters and AH-64 Apache gunships were used in the “show of force” on Tuesday, an unnamed US official told reporters, after the militants “violated a standing... 

Turkey has now given Trump every reason to unleash the newly authorized sanctions, as Newsweek reports that American special forces troops have come under Turkish fire. According to the breaking exclusive: “A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.” It was “apparently by mistake,” the report adds. The... 

As Greece continues to struggle to accommodate the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who’ve recently have made their way from Turkey, its government said that it would call on the EU to impose sanctions on member states who refuse to accept a portion of the new arrivals. The Greek government contends that countries like Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, who continue to reject “mandatory”...