"Turkey told to speed up reforms
Nicholas Watt in Brussels
Wednesday November 2, 2005
The Guardian
The pace of reform in Turkey over human rights, free speech and freedom of religion has slowed to an unacceptable level, the European commission will tell Ankara next week. A month after European leaders hailed the start of Turkey's EU membership talks as 'historic', Ankara is to be criticised for failing to meet its side of the bargain by intensifying reforms."
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