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| Hundreds of Turkish officials seek asylum in Germany |
| 2017-10-14 |
| [DW] Some 600 senior-ranked ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , according to a Berlin newspaper. The number highlights the growing uncertainty in the country. Germany's Funke media group, which includes the Berliner Morgenpost, reported Saturday that the more than 600 asylum applicants comprised 250 persons with Last year's coup attempt, blamed by ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , was followed by the arrests of 50,000 people in Turkey and 150,000 sackings and suspensions in the military, public and private sectors. The Berliner Morgenpost said it had obtained the figures from Germany's Interior Ministry, which last month said 196 Turks with diplomatic passports had been granted asylum in Germany. That count did not include members of Turkey's military, including NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... attaches, who have also sought asylum. Judicial independence at risk Strains have emerged in the traditional good relations between Ankara and Berlin over the German government's refusal to extradite asylum seekers, outrage over Turkey's prosecution of dozens of detained German citizens, including journalists, and Erdogan's April referendum to expand his powers. The Berliner Morgenpost quoted the executive director of the German Association of Judges, Sven Rebehn, as saying that hardly any judicial independence remained in Turkey to exercise controls over Erdogan. "Thousands of judges and state attorneys have been dismissed and some taken into detention. They have been replaced by government-allied jurists, who are appointed after crash courses," he said. "As a result, an effective, constitutional legal control of the Erdogan regime through an independent judiciary is largely inconceivable. It's to be feared that the Erdogan: EU must make up its mind In a speech to his Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday, Erdogan demanded that the EU at its Brussels summit next week make a decision on Ankara's longstanding bid for accession to the 28-nation bloc. "Still they string us along. But we will be patient. We say: It will be not us, but you who leaves the ring," Erdogan told his AKP executive. Germany is home to some 3 million people of |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 There are indications that Turkish spies who work for the German government as e.g. translators or security personnel are leaking confidential information on these asylum seekers to the Turkish government / ruling party. Some asylum seekers have reported that immediately after they contacted German government authorities to apply for asylum their names and whereabouts in Germany were published by Turkish media close to Erdogan. Link in German. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-10-14 11:42 |