Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas announced that 18 Saudi nationals believed to be connected to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been banned from entering Europe’s border-free Schengen zone.
President issues extraordinary statement of support and repeats Saudi claim that murdered journalist was ‘enemy of the state’
This paper from an Israeli think-tank has some interesting stats on Turkish asylum-seekers in Europe. ~25,000 Turkish citizens applied for asylum in EU between 2016 & 2017, and 6,455 got it. Average rate of asylum being granted was 36% in 2017.https://t.co/ab4JqtSr0K
— Nick Ashdown (@Nick_Ashdown) November 15, 2018
By Carol E. Lee, Julia Ainsley and Courtney Kube WASHINGTON — The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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