The conservative party, Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), has demanded concrete formulations for changes in the German citizenship law for its electoral program after Turkey voted in favor of a constitutional reform package on April 16. CDU politician Thomas Strobl said in a “Die Welt” piece on Wednesday that Germany should enforce consequences for …
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The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party made a declaration on the results of the referendum in Turkey, saying that voters of Turkish citizens living in Germany and using yes voting should return to Turkey. Alice Weidel, a member of AfD’s board of directors, indicated that the rate of “yes” votes from Turkish citizen …
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The majority of Turkish citizens living abroad supported the constitutional changes with the “yes” campaign garnering 75 percent of the vote in Belgium, 73 percent in Austria, 71 percent in the Netherlands, 65 percent in France and 63 percent in Germany. The voter turnout for citizens living abroad was 48 percent with 1.4 million having …
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When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its members were frightened enough they asked for and got extra police protection. The 42-year-old mosque was far from alone. The letter it received was one of 2,213 anti-Muslim bias incidents in the …
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The Turkish consulate general in Switzerland’s Zurich was vandalized Monday with different colors of paint, while graffiti reading “Kill Erdoğan” was written on a bus stop and a building near the mission. Consul General, Asiye Nurcan İpekçi, told Anadolu Agency that the attack happened in the afternoon. “Police arrived right after the incident and we …
The burka and full-face veil have no place in German society, the country’s interior minister has said. “We are an open society. We show our face. We are not burka,” Thomas de Maiziere wrote in a guest editorial for Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Days after the German parliament voted in favour of a limited burka …
Swedish police said Monday they suspected arson in connection with an overnight fire that damaged a Shiite mosque near the capital, Stockholm. The Imam Ali Islamic Centre in Jarfalla, a municipality north-west of Stockholm, said in a post on Facebook that about one-fourth of the building was destroyed. No one was injured in the blaze …
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A woman wearing a burqa was dragged off a London bus by armed police in a counter-terrorism operation that led to another young Muslim woman being shot just a few streets away. Footage shows a passenger, believed to be in her twenties, in full Muslim dress, screaming as a group of undercover officers pull her …
The number of hate crimes has nearly doubled following the Monday’s suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena, the police data showed. Police received 28 reports of hate crimes on the day of the attack, but the number rose to 56 by Wednesday. “It is important that we continue to stand together here in Greater …
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A Turkish man was severely beaten by a racist Dutch mob in Belgium for supporting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, reports said Monday. The incident took place in Neerpelt municipality near the Dutch border on May 21, when a Turkish man identified as Ali Fakıoğlu was intercepted by a mob after closing his restaurant at night, …
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