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Friday, January 27, 2017

Turkey threatens to cancel Greece migration deal in soldiers' extradition row

[Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu poses as he arrives for the Mideast peace conference in Paris]Turkey has demanded the retrial of eight soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup last year and said it may take measures, including scrapping a migration deal with Athens, after a Greek court rejected an extradition request. Greece's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against extraditing the soldiers, who have sought political asylum, saying they feared for their lives in Turkey. Ankara says they were involved in the July 15 coup attempt and branded them traitors.


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