Turkey
Turkey deports 103 Nigerians over expired visas, irregular migration
The Federal Government of Nigeria has received 103 citizens deported from Turkey due to migration-related issues, including expired visas and irregular migration. The announcement was made on Friday by Alhaji Tijani Ahmed, the Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), during the deportees’ profiling in Abuja. Ahmed was […]
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US approves F-16 fighter jet sale to Turkey worth $23bn
The US government has approved the $23bn (£18bn) sale of 40 new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey – a move that had been long delayed – after Ankara ratified Sweden’s accession to Nato. The deal includes modernisation kits for 79 existing Turkish F-16s. The US State Department told Congress it had also approved the sale […]