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Turkish president risks economy, EU ties in pitch for nationalist vote
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been throwing caution to the wind over the past week as he traded insults with his country’s largest in- vestor (the Netherlands) and largest trading part- ner (Germany) in a desperate attempt to shore up the nationalist vote ahead of April’s constitutional referendum.
ECHR ruling against Hungary strikes blow for refugee rights
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Hungary violated the European Convention of Hu- man Rights (ECHR) by confining two Bangladeshi asylum seekers in a transit zone near Roszke on the Serbo-Hungarian border in the autumn of 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled unani- mously on March 14. The ruling is open to appeal.
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The referendum, to be held on Sunday, April 16, will decide whether Turkey grants Erdogan’s wish to move the country to an executive presidential system from the current parliamentary system, abolishing the office of the prime minister, rais- ing the number of seats in parliament from 550
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Md Ilias Ilias and Ali Ahmed, Bangladeshi nation- als born in 1983 and 1980, submitted applications for refugee status at the border on September 15, 2015. Hungarian authorities kept them in the
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