May
A leading German-Turkish politician said on Sunday he has received numerous Islamophobic letters and death threats in recent weeks, ahead of European Parliament (EP) elections on May 26. Haluk Yildiz, the leader of the pro-immigration Alliance for Innovation and Justice (BIG), said the letters were sent by some unknown persons and included xeonophobic insults and […]
May
Dutch politicians of Turkish descent running in the European Parliament (EP) elections in the Netherlands are facing death threats as an outcome of rising anti-Muslim sentiments in the country. Anti-Muslim and xenophobic sentiment has been spreading around the Netherlands and the rest of Europe in recent years and has been effecting the European Parliament elections […]
Apr
Among Germany’s nearly 4.5 million Muslims, around 3 million are of Turkish origin. Almost 90 percent of imams in Germany are educated outside the country. The majority of them come from Turkey. The German Islam Conference, convened by Germany’s interior minister since 2006, set a goal last November to address the education and financing of local imams. […]
Mar
A giant in BMW’s Facting Garching move near Munich had banned Turkish staff from speaking Turkish. 7 workers from 50 different nations who worked in the factory banned the ban from Turkey. According to the newspaper Bild, workers on the barrier from speaking Turkey were even in social areas. The factor was only allowed to […]
Mar
A group of Turkish entrepreneurs have lost a High Court case which they brought against the Home Office over a change to immigration rules last year. The Alliance of Turkish Businesspeople had brought the judicial review challenge claiming the Home Office had acted unlawfully in imposing additional requirements on Turkish business people and their dependants […]
Mar
The law banning Turkey’s nationalist “Grey Wolves” salute in Austria came into force on Friday. In December 2018, the Austrian parliament accepted the law banning symbols of “extremist organizations” in the country to block terror propaganda. People violating the law in public areas may be fined up to €4,000 ($4,553) or given a-month prison term […]
Feb
A confrontation took place on Friday between young people and police in front of a school in Lokeren. The incident took place at the Lokeren Technical Arena. Police have been called by the school’s management, says Het Laatste Nieuws. According to the newspaper, four police officers went with a dog to the scene and asked the youth […]
Feb
In their latest move to strip minorities of their rights and provoke xenophobia in the Netherlands, the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders presented a draft bill to the Dutch parliament to strip dual citizens of their right to vote and stand for election. Wilders also shared the draft bill from his […]
Jan
Authorities investigating death threats sent to a prominent German-Turkish lawmaker suspect that they were written by police officers, German media reported on Wednesday. Seda Basay-Yildiz, who represented families of victims killed by a neo-Nazi terror cell, received serious death threats in recent months, after she criticized the constant failure of the intelligence and police to resolve the […]
Jan
Just as Germany closes a chapter in the National Socialist Underground (NSU) saga, a new incident shows the far-right threat is far from over in the country. Seda Başay Yıldız, a German lawyer of Turkish origin for victims of the NSU gang, received a fax, this time signed “NSU 2.0,” containing insults and death threats, […]
