Turkey protested to EU envoys and branded relations with Brussels as “fragile” on Monday over the bloc’s criticism of its crackdown in the wake of the July 15 coup. In recent days, the European Union has strongly criticised Turkey, a candidate for accession, over the arrests of nine MPs from ...
An Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country’s main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the use of a state of emergency ...
