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Germany: EU warns Turkey against return of death penalty
Seibert says bringing back executions would spell end of membership talks
GERMANY warned Turkey yesterday against reinstating the death penalty, criticising what it called “revolting scenes of caprice and revenge” in the wake of Friday’s failed military coup.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said that Berlin had grave questions about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s response to the attempted putsch.
He declared, following President Erdogan’s Sunday statement that Turkey would consider reinstating capital punishment, that this “would mean the end of EU membership talks.”
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