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In a country where journalists' blood has been spilt, Turkey's prime minister animus towards the media risks creating tragedies. A Turkish leader's visit to the World...

European Parliament warns of further delays in accession process if Turkey fails to turn commitments into plans. The European Parliament has thrown its weight behind a...

Turkish parliament amends but does not scrap controversial law on insults to national identity. In an eagerly anticipated move, the Turkish parliament late on 29 April...

European Parliament describes efforts to reform lawbook as “merely a first step”.  

The EU is to open membership talks with Croatia on two new subjects, or “chapters”, at an accession conference to be held in Brussels on 21 April. Diplomats said that...

Turkey is likely to open four more chapters of its negotiations for EU membership in the first half of this year, according to Ali Babacan, the country's chief negotiator....

“Unfortunately in the last, say, two years, the enthusiasm [for Turkey's EU membership] is fading in Europe and Turkey.” Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel laureate author,...

Turkey's leaders should not overstate their country's strategic importance in their attempts to join the EU, Olli Rehn, the Euro­pean commissioner for ­enlargement, has...

Turkey's parliament came back to work early this week to deal with a ninth package of political reforms, to address EU concerns about a slowdown in the Turkish reform...

In turkey two deeply-rooted forces are confronting each other: nationalism versus cosmopolitanism. The clash has crystallised in a series of legal actions springing from the...

Dutch MEP Joost Lagendijk is facing charges of insulting the Turkish army after comments he made about its behaviour in dealing with Kurdish armed groups in the south-east of...

To judge from recent reports, freedom of speech in Turkey is being eroded daily. Newspapers all over Europe have catalogued the case of Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-known...

One of Turkey's foremost modern writers Orhan Pamuk has been forced to flee the country after being engulfed in a storm of controversy over comments he made about Ottoman...

TURKEY'S EU ambassador has a background that defies stereotyping. Like many of his compatriots, Oguz Demiralp hails from a devout Muslim family. But he was educated by...

THE European Commission is set to recommend, in a landmark report this autumn, that accession negotiations be opened with Turkey, 41 years after Ankara first applied for EU...

DUTCH Green MEP Joost Lagendijk has called on the EU to establish a road-map and timetable to determine the status of Kosovo. Lagendijk, rapporteur on the stabilization and...

THE trial of an eminent psychiatrist and human rights activist in Turkey is a “damning indictment” against the Turkish regime and casts doubts on its suitability for EU...