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EU parliament calls for freeze on Turkey's membership talks

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EU parliament calls for freeze on Turkey's membership talks.

STRASBOURG - The European Union should formally suspend Turkey's negotiations to join the bloc, EU lawmakers said on Wednesday in a symbolic rebuke of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who Western governments accuse of widespread abuses of human rights.

Ankara dismissed the vote as meaningless. Turkish ruling AK Party spokesman Omer Celik called it"worthless, invalid and disreputable". The EU process is not formally frozen but was faltering even before Erdogan's purge of suspected plotters of a failed coup attempt in 2016 and his broadsides against Europe in 2017, comparing the Dutch and German governments to Nazis.

 

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