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Claim: Turkey forcibly expels Syrian refugees back to Syria

8 years 8 months ago By editor1

On 10 March 2016, Guy Verhofstadt published an article in The Guardian about a deal between the EU and Turkey on refugees.

Claim: Books never entered harem

8 years 8 months ago By Fact Checking Turkey

The AFP (Agence France-Presse), the third largest press agency in the world, wrote on 9 March 2016 that Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdogan praised harems as a “school for women”.

Claim: Turkey’s refugee camps in terrible shape

8 years 8 months ago By editor1

On 15 February 2015, in the Guardian newspaper, Cihan Tugal published an article in which he claimed that Turkey opened its borders to Syrian refugees but didn’t do more to welcome them.

Claim: Erdogan dismantles Turkish society

8 years 9 months ago By editor1

On 23 February 2016, Stanley Weiss published an article in the Huffington Post in which he claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “has spent the past 13 years dismantling every part of Turkish society that made it democrati

Claim: Turkey closed borders when DAESH attacked Kobani

8 years 9 months ago By editor1

In an interview published in Italian Newspaper Il Manifesto on 16 February 2016 that was conducted by Giuseppe Acconcia with Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP (People’s Democratic Party) deputy Dilek Ocalan.

Claim: Turkey not serious about settlement with Kurds

8 years 9 months ago By editor1

The Guardian newspaper published an editorial titled “The Guardian view on Turkey’s Kurdish policies: compounding the region’s troubles” on 18 February 2016.

Claim: President Erdogan pursues constitutional change to extend presidential powers

8 years 9 months ago By Fact Checking Turkey

The Economist published a news article on 20 February 2016 in which it was claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is “single-mindedly pursuing a constitutional change that would extend the powers of his presidency”.