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Taxes, corruption, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey: Pashinyan’s vision for the ‘New Armenia’

14 December 2018 by Shota Kincha

Having swept to power in a landslide electoral victory, the new gov­ern­ment of rev­o­lu­tion­ary leader Nikol Pashinyan is now laying out its vision for a ‘New Armenia’ — with ambitious plans for peace and reform.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, conflict, corruption, ilham aliyev, nagorno-karabakh, nikol pashinyan, recep tayyip erdoğan, turkey, yerevan

Georgian ‘Gülen-connected’ university banned from taking in new students

22 August 2018 by OC Media

Student protest in support of IBSU on 21 August (Dato Parulava /OC Media)

The Education Ministry of Georgia has banned the Inter­na­tion­al Black Sea Uni­ver­si­ty from taking in new students for one year, raising questions about possible political motives amidst the Turkish ambassador’s recent alle­ga­tions that the Gülen movement ‘still has its uni­ver­si­ty in Georgia’. The uni­ver­si­ty denies any con­nec­tion to the movement.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: education, fethullah gülen, FETÖ, georgia, higher education, IBSU, International Black Sea University, mustafa emre çabuk, şahin, tbilisi, turkey

Widow of Omar al-Shishani detained in Istanbul

20 July 2018 by OC Media

Seda Dudurkaye­va (/Daily Sabah)

The widow of the Georgian-born former Islamic State Minister of War, Tarkhan Bati­rashvili, aka Abu Omar al-Shishani, has been detained on the outskirts of Istanbul. Turkish author­i­ties announced on Thursday that Seda Dudurkaye­va was detained by Turkish special services on 4 July.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, islamic state, istanbul, omar al-shishani, seda dudurkaeva, seda dudurkayeva, turkey

Living in an ‘enemy land’: the Armenian women working abroad

16 April 2018 by Armine Avetisyan

Yerevan bus station (Armine Avetisyan /OC Media)

Low pay and high unem­ploy­ment have led many Armenian women to seek work beyond the country’s borders. Despite fears of traf­fick­ing, often abusive working con­di­tions, and a closed border with Turkey, the allure of higher salaries have led thousands to leave Armenia, mainly to Russia and even Turkey — a country many consider an ‘enemy land’.

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Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: Armenia, exploitation, istanbul, labour migration, migration, turkey

Two States, One Nation: the mixed blessings of Turkish influence in Azerbaijan

5 April 2018 by Nika Musavi

(Nika Musavi /OC Media)

For better or worse, Turkish culture exerts a con­sid­er­able influence on modern Azer­bai­jani youth culture. While for many films, tele­vi­sion, music, and lit­er­a­ture from Turkey offer a window into the wider world, some worry it is sup­plant­i­ng Azerbaijan’s own culture. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: Azerbaijan, culture, education, language, turkey

German MEP says Georgia should not extradite Çabuk

15 February 2018 by OC Media

Rebecca Harms (wikimedia.org)

Member of the European Par­lia­ment Rebecca Harms has expressed concerns about attempts to extradite Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a former manager at Tbilisi’s Private Demirel College who is being sought by Turkey on terror charges.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: fethullah gülen, georgia, mustafa emre çabuk, rebecca harms, turkey

‘Gülen-connected’ school manager loses asylum appeal in Georgia

26 January 2018 by OC Media

Emre Çabuk

The Tbilisi Court of Appeals upheld on 26 January the decision to deny asylum to Mustafa Emre Çabuk. The former manager at Tbilisi’s Private Demirel College, which has been linked to Turkish oppo­si­tion political figure Fethullah Gülen, is being sought by Turkey on terror charges. Rights groups urged the gov­ern­ment not to extradite Çabuk to Turkey, where they say he would not receive a fair trial. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: asylum, demirel college, detention, emre çabuk, extradition, fethullah gülen, georgia, mustafa emre çabuk, private demirel college, school, tuba çabuk, turkey

Georgia granted asylum to ‘25% of applicants in last six years’

13 January 2018 by OC Media

(IDFI)

In the last six years, 5,885 people reg­is­tered for asylum in Georgia, only quarter of which were granted human­i­tar­i­an or refugee status, data published by Institute for Devel­op­ment of freedom of Infor­ma­tion (IDFI) indicates. In most cases pro­ceed­ings were ter­mi­nat­ed by the appli­cants them­selves (2,743), with 1,346 people being rejected. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Armenia, asylum, asylum seekers, Azerbaijan, georgia, idfi, turkey

Analysis | Azerbaijan and Turkey: beyond ‘one nation, two states’

14 December 2017 by Arzu Geybulla

Ilham Aliyev and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (president.az)

Arzu Geybulla is a freelance writer orig­i­nal­ly from Azer­bai­jan, currently based in Istanbul.

With Turkey’s slide into author­i­tar­i­an­ism, ‘one nation, two states’ rings truer than ever of Azer­bai­jan and Turkey. But below the politics, Turkey has changed for many Azer­bai­ja­nis — from a beacon of hope and gateway to the West to a symbol of their dis­en­chant­ment.

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Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: Azerbaijan, ilham aliyev, İlham Əliyev, recep tayyip erdoğan, turkey

Tbilisi Court upholds asylum refusal of ‘Gülen school manager’ Çabuk

21 November 2017 by OC Media

(Facebook)

Tbilisi City Court has upheld the Ministry of Refugees’ decision to refuse asylum to Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a manager at Tbilisi’s Private Demirel College being sought by Turkey on terror charges. The school, closed down by Georgian author­i­ties in August, has been linked to Turkish oppo­si­tion figure Fethullah Gülen. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: asylum, detention, fethullah gülen, georgia, mustafa emre çabuk, school, tuba çabuk, turkey

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