Last Updated On: Apr 18 2021 10:53 Gmt+3
Deputies from Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Germany’s Die Linke have launched inquiries in their respective parliaments over claims that Turkey’s ruling party municipalities have aided several hundred people to cross into Europe illegally, daily BirGün reported on Sunday.
The parliamentary inquiries by Orhan Sarıbal and Gökay Akbulut follow a string of reports on Turks travelling to Germany with a special passport for trips facilitated by ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) municipalities, only to never return.
Earlier in April, activity reports for 2020 from the Yeşilyurt municipality in Turkey’s southeastern Malatya province revealed a trip to Germany in September. Of the 45 participants on the trip, 43 failed to come back home for unknown reasons.