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Turkey promises harsh retaliation after Netherlands bars ministers
March 12, 2017 By Faith Matters

Turkey promises harsh retaliation after Netherlands bars ministers

Turkey told the Netherlands on Sunday that it would retaliate in the “harshest ways” after Turkish ministers were barred from speaking in Rotterdam, as a row over Ankara’s political campaigning among Turkish immigrants escalated. President Tayyip Erdogan said “Nazism is still widespread in the West” after the Netherlands joined other European countries worried about political […]

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Turkey asks Germany for help with Gulen crackdown
August 20, 2016 By Faith Matters

Turkey asks Germany for help with Gulen crackdown

Turkey’s government has sent German authorities requests for 40 searches and three extraditions linked to supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the U.S-based Muslim cleric it blames for last month’s attempted coup, magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accuses a network of schools, charities and businesses led by Gulen, and built up in […]

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