Nurdan Şenocak Gündüz, 34, a former court clerk who died with her husband while trying to flee to Greece, was laid to rest on the Greek island of Kos on Saturday although none of her family members could attend the funeral due to bureaucratic obstacles, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing Turkish media.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has claimed that the biggest robbery in the history of the Turkish Republic took place by means of exchange rate fluctuations in December that were sparked by the government’s new economy plan, local media reported on Tuesday.

Authoritarian Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday again threatened to “open borders” with Greece for would-be migrants seeking to reach central and western Europe via the latter, essentially a repeat of a failed March 2020 operation to breach the land borders between the two countries at the Evros River and generate a new “migration crisis” for Europe.