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EU ACCESSION talks with the Turkish government yesterday did little to ease tensions between Eurocrats and Ankara.
After the meeting in Brussels, EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn expressed “very strong concern” about the detentions of a dozen Amnesty International staff and associates along with thousands accused of backing last July’s failed military coup.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu defended the government’s mass crackdown on all walks of life as part of the “fight against terrorism.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
Mass strikes over cost-of-living protections have escalated into a broader confrontation over democracy, after the government moved to impose a pay freeze by decree, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
