Lack of integration programmes leading to ghettoisation
As the government announced tough new measures this week to curb illegal migration, the need for effective, long-term integration programmes for refugees and asylum seekers...
Syria
Turkey says it has largely agreed Idlib ceasefire details with Russia
Turkish and Russian officials have largely agreed details of a ceasefire deal in Syria’s Idlib region, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday, the...
Turkey’s Erdogan threatens retaliation if Syria truce is broken
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his country will not shy away from even stronger military action in northwest Syria’s Idlib region if last...
Turkey says 2016 migrant deal with EU needs to be updated
Turkey said on Tuesday a 2016 migration deal with the EU needs to be updated in light of the crisis in northern Syria, as tensions...
Turkey sees no violations of ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said there had been no violations of the ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib, as part of the agreement with Russia, the...
Deadly clashes erupt in Syria’s Idlib hours into ceasefire deal (Update)
Deadly clashes erupted in southern Idlib on Friday, hours into a ceasefire deal between Russia and Turkey aimed at ending the fighting in the last...
Group of 14 Syrian refugees picked up in Athienou
Fourteen irregular migrants from Syria entered Cyprus in the early hours of Saturday through Athienou, a buffer-zone village in the Larnaca district, authorities said. According...
Syria announces Damascus-Aleppo highway open to traffic
Syria’s transport ministry declared the main highway between Damascus and Aleppo open to the public on Saturday after troops recaptured the major artery in a...
Syria’s military hails advance against rebels in ‘record time’
Syria’s military said its troops have regained control of territories in the north-west of the country “in record time”. The announcement came hours after troops...
Turkey hits back after Syrian shells kill Turkish troops (Updated)
By Orhan Coskun and Daren Butler Turkey said on Monday its military hit dozens of Syrian government targets after five Turkish soldiers were killed by...
Turkish Cypriots detain Syrian migrants
Turkish Cypriots in the north have detained 33 Syrian men who arrived in Cyprus by boat the previous day. The men, aged between 20 and...
New group of 13 migrants picked up in Peristerona area
The arrival of 13 migrants in the Peristerona area was announced by the civil defence department on Monday. The department said the 13 migrants who...
Turkish national, 19, remanded on suspicion of people smuggling
A 19-year-old Turkish man was remanded in custody for eight days on Monday on suspicion of being part of a people smuggling ring that brought...
Erdogan says Turkey cannot handle new migrant wave from Syria, warns Europe
Turkey cannot handle a fresh wave of migrants from Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, warning that European countries will feel the impact of such...
Syria: the most complex conflict of our time
Recent events on the ground, particularly over the past few months, are themselves resolving the situation By Elias Hazou Speakers at a symposium organised by...
Car bomb kills at least 10 people near Syria’s border with Turkey
At least 10 people were killed and 25 wounded when a car bomb exploded on Saturday in a Syrian border town seized by Turkish-backed forces last month, witnesses and a...
Latest group of migrants all from Syria
The 120 migrants that arrived in Cyprus late on Wednesday afternoon on a boat that was first spotted in the Cape Greco are from Syria,...
Prophecies about Cyprus dusted off after Turkey’s Syria invasion (Update)
In Cyprus, prophecies by holy men like Paisios always come back to Turkey By Evie Andreou Whether dismissed as absurd wishful thinking or accepted as...
Explosion in Syrian town on Turkish border kills 10
At least 10 people were killed and more than 30 injured in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on Turkey’s border after an explosion in a...
Turkey says will send Islamic State prisoners to home countries
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday Turkey would send captured Islamic State members back to their home countries, and he complained about European inaction...
