Friday, November 04, 2016

EU-Turkey relations plunge to new low

EU-Turkey relations plunge to new low

By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:27

Turkey has jailed opposition MPs, accused Germany of sheltering terrorists, and threatened, once again, to scrap the EU migrant deal.

Police on Thursday (3 November) arrested 11 MPs from the liberal and pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party, including two of its co-chiefs, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, who were dragged from their homes in the town of Diyarbakir in a midnight raid.

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