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Turkish Passport: Austrian Authorities and Turkish Backers

turkish passport: Double citizenship is forbidden in most cases in Austria, according to Metro News. Those found illegally holding a second passport face loss of Austrian citizenship. Austrian authorities say they are checking a list of about 100,000 citizens for evidence that some of them may be illegally holding a Turkish passport. The Interior Ministry said Thursday that it received the list from the populist and anti-immigrant Freedom Party, a critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Turkish backers in Austria. Erdogan's referendum for more power last month was only narrowly approved overall, but more than 70 per cent of Turks in Austria backed it. 11 50 a.m. Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck says the ministry has no information on the list's origin or whether it will help in finding anyone with illegal double citizenship. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.