A broad majority of EU lawmakers have called for ceasing membership talks with Turkey due to its post-coup purges and President Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian actions. But EU’s top diplomat has warned against it. The European Parliament debated Turkey’s EU membership issue on Tuesday – the second day of a four-day plenary session. “Our message to Turkey is very clear: accession negotiations should be frozen immediately,” said Manfred Weber, head of the center-right European People’s Party, the largest faction in the European Parliament. Guy Verhofstadt of the liberal alliance echoed his views: “There is broad, broad majority in the house to say you have to freeze … Read more

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