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Airline giants continue to leave Turkey,Seven airline companies cancelled their routes to Istanbul in 2017.

December 18, 2017 By administrator

The world is tearing away from Turkey in all aspects due to the policies of the AKP government.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has admitted that business in Turkey is moving capital abroad, while official airlines of various countries continue to cancel their Istanbul routes.

The number of official airlines that have cancelled their Istanbul routes has risen to 7. Air France, Iberia, Swiss, Alitalia and Austrian from Europe and Air Canada and Delta from North America have stopped flying to Istanbul in the last year.

MILLIONS OF TOURISTS STOPPED COMING

The number of tourists from Europe, which is important for Turkey’s tourism, has decreased by 4.8 million this year from January to October compared to 2015. 5 million 144 thousand German citizens had visited Turkey between January and October in 2015.

Comparing January to October in 2015 and this year, arrivals from the UK have fallen by 1 million, from the Netherlands by 420.000, from France by 260.000 and from Italy by 280.000.

Source: https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/airline-giants-continue-to-leave-turkey-23704

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EU says UK must not delay leaving

June 24, 2016 By administrator

eu uk must leaveEU leaders have insisted that the UK must move swiftly to negotiate leaving the organisation, saying any delay would prolong uncertainty, BBC News reports.
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker stressed the “Union of the remaining 27 members will continue”.
The UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU, and David Cameron has announced he will step down as PM by October.
He has said it will be up to the new PM to invoke the article that will begin the UK’s withdrawal.
Global stock markets fell heavily on the Brexit news and the value of the pound has also fallen dramatically.

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Iraq Kurdistan: Why are the Kurds leaving their homeland?

January 27, 2016 By administrator

Kurds-from-Kirkuk-enter-iraqi-Kurdistan-March-18-2003-Photo-NY-TimesBy Rizgar Khoshnaw ,

(Ekurd.net) I am often confronted with the question of: Why are the Kurds leaving Kurdistan in such large numbers? My answer to them is simple and to the point and that is: For most people life in Kurdistan in not a life and it is merely an existence in its worse form. There are no jobs, poor health care system, uncertainty of the future and most importantly, there is no electricity. Kurds are leaving as fast as they sell everything they own in order to pay for the costly, and I might add, dangerous trip out of Kurdistan.

Many Kurds have taken huge risks by selling everything they own in order to attempt to venture out of the country. They hire an individual, from the black market Bazzar, to forge their traveling documents to take them to Europe. Once they arrive, if they arrive, they turn themselves in to the authorities to be taken as refugees. This is the common avenue for Kurds to take in order to make their way to a new and better life in another country.

Almost every week there is another group of Kurds caught in a boat trying to make it to land, or on a border trying to cross. There are many documented tragic incidents that has caused the lives of many Kurds, most often women and children, during the smuggling operation. And yet with all of the high risk involved in their journey, the Kurds fleeing Kurdistan still think it is worth it. The Kurds are in search of a better opportunities for themselves as well as their children. In their new country they are hoping to find work, safety, send their children to school and live a normal life as all humans deserve.

If anyone has been following my writings might say that what I have written above might sound familiar, they are absolutely correct!! Indeed what I have written today, actually duplicated, is an article that I had published 15 years ago!!

It is amazing that here we are 15 years after I had published this article above word for word without changing a single word, we still see Kurds fleeing their homeland in huge numbers. I had published the article on a number of websites, including Middle East News Online, The Kurdistan Observer and Kurdishmedia, on June 13- 14, 2001.

I do not need to give current examples of how Kurds are once more leaving Kurdistan and dying along the way since such news is all over the media outlets and in every country. As we speak, there are over 3,000 Kurds living in tents in France trying migrate to England and hundreds are dying in the sea trying to reach land. The world now views the Kurds as a “disease” and wants nothing to do with them. If the Kurds were respected at all then the French government would not forcefully place 3,000 women and children in pitiful camps/prison and not allow them to leave.

How sad it is to see the average Kurd is still suffering, jobless, miserable and all a while the Kurdistan Regional Government has managed to collect over $130 Billion in oil revenue in the past ten years alone without improving people’s lives at all. Where did all that money disappear to? Why is it that we now have Kurdish billionaires and multi-millionaires while at the same time, we have people that can not afford to feed their children? When will the Kurdish government wake up and begin to govern in an honest manner and treats all of their citizens equally? In my honest opinion, the Kurdish government will never wake up, or change, and will continue to operate as they have been all these years.

Rizgar Xoshnaw, a senior Kurdish writer based in Washington, a longtime contributing writer and columnist for Ekurd.net.

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Jews ‘leaving Turkey due to safety concerns’

December 16, 2014 By administrator

Bahadır Özgür ISTANBUL

n_75670_1Many people from Turkey’s Jewish community are leaving the country after increased threats and attacks, a prominent businessman from the community has written in an article for the Istanbul-based Jewish newspaper Şalom. Report hurriyet daily news

“We face threats, attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading. Is it necessary for a ‘Hrant among us’ to be shot in order for the government, the opposition, civil society, our neighbors and jurists to see this?” Mois Gabay wrote on Dec. 10, referring to the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007.

Gabay, a professional in the tourism industry, added that increasing numbers of Turkish Jews are making plans to move abroad with their families, feeling unsafe and under pressure in the country.

“Around 37 percent of high school graduates from the Jewish community in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education … This number doubled this year compared to the previous years,” he wrote.

It is not only students, who have begun to think about building a life abroad for their families and children, but also young businesspeople  according to Gabay.

“Last week, when I was talking to two of my friends on separate occasions, the conversation turned to our search for another country to move to. That is to say, my generation is also thinking more about leaving this country,” he wrote.

Gabay’s column came a few days after verbal attacks on the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district, which has been attacked with explosives on three previous occasions in 1986, 1992 and 2003. A paper reading “to be demolished” was placed on the entrance of the synagogue by an unknown group two weeks ago. Later, the Alperen Ocakları, the youth group of the ultranationalist Great Union Party (BBP), attempted to march to the synagogue as a part of a protest.

In a recent interview with Radikal, Gabay also said changes in the law and the recognition of hate crimes in the Turkish penal code are not sufficient for the protection of Turkey’s Jewish community.

“The laws have changed. Hate speech is now a crime, but when is a lawsuit ever opened over hate speech against our community? I don’t blame the government alone for this. The opposition, civil society, unions and the democratic public sphere should be a shield for us. They should monitor these incidents. Are they waiting for the shooting of a Hrant among us?” he said, adding that daily threats have increased due to the widespread use of social media in Turkey.

On Nov. 21, Dursun Ali Şahin, the governor of the northwestern province of Edirne, sparked an outcry when he suggested that the Büyük Sinagog (Great Synagogue), built in 1907, should only be used as a museum, as a response to recent Israeli policies over Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Şahin later offered an “apology” to Turkey’s chief rabbi, claiming that his proposal  “had no connection” to the country’s Jewish community.

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