EU/Turkey: Make Rights Central to Erdogan Meeting
(WorldNews Turkey)

Expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the European Council, Brussels, October 5, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Brussels) - A meeting planned for May 25, 2017, between European Union leaders and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey should signal that discussion of upgraded economic cooperation is dependent on Ankara´s willingness to tackle its human rights and rule of law crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. The meeting, on the sidelines of the NATO summit meeting in Brussels, between President Erdogan and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk, is expected to include discussion of a possible new customs union. `At the first meeting with...