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TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed a looming European Parliament vote on halting EU membership talks yesterday, saying it has “no value.”
MEPs are set to vote this week on a non-binding motion proposing the suspension of membership negotiations with Ankara over the political crackdown following the failed military coup on July 15.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police, civil servants, teachers and academics have been sacked and many of them arrested for alleged links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based preacher and private school tycoon accused of masterminding the coup.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
