Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union are fading, the bloc’s executive said Wednesday, blaming authoritarian rule for worse conditions in courts, prisons and the economy. Still considered a security ally, Turkey’s candidacy to join the world’s largest trading group is frozen because of “further serious backsliding” on rights, the ...
Iraq repatriated to Turkey on Wednesday 188 children of Turks accused of belonging to the ISIL terrorist group, a capital offence in Iraq, the judiciary said. The move follows the repatriation to Tajikistan late last month of 84 children of nationals convicted by Iraqi courts of membership of ISIL or ...
