Turkey hits back at EU criticism of unrest action
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said his government was open to “democratic demands” and hit back at EU criticism of his handling of a week of deadly unrest.
Amid international condemnation over rights abuses in the unrest, European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule told Erdogan that excessive police force “has no place” in a democracy and urged a “swift and transparent” probe into the abuses in Turkey, a longtime EU hopeful.
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