Time to Focus on Human Rights in EU’s Turkey Agenda

By Human Rights Watch

The bolder Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gets, the quieter the European Union (EU). Click to expand Image Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel at the European Council building in Brussels, March 9, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo The conclusion of last week’s EU summit showed, as last year under the German Presidency, that when it comes to Turkey, geopolitics and migration have pushed human rights off the EU’s priority list. Despite the Erdogan government using courts to silence and detain journalists,…

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