Turkey-EU rights gap widening: Timmermans
Turkey’s crackdown on the media and reported human rights abuses are pushing the country further away from Europe even as it hopes to join the European Union, a senior official…
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Freedom in Turkey? Hard time for comics, journalists and professors
After the case of the opposition newspaper Today’s Zaman took over by the Turkish authorities, many other freedom restrictions have occurred in Turkey without having the same attention in the media: Turkish…
Dutch parliament upholds EU-Ukraine deal despite negative referendum result
Two coalition parties and two independent MPs of the Dutch parliament voted against revoking the law on ratification of the Ukraine-E.U. Association Agreement – the government initiative put forward to a…
Erdogan to the EU: “We don’t need you, you need us!”
The European Union needs Turkey more than Ankara needs the bloc, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, denouncing a new European Parliament report that was sharply critical of the…