The EU accused Turkey Tuesday of backsliding on democratic standards and human rights, saying a crackdown launched after a coup attempt in 2016 was having a "profound and devastating impact".
Turkey began talks to join the EU in 2005 but the process is effectively frozen amid ever-growing European concern about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hardline rule.
In its annual report on candidate countries' progress towards EU norms, the bloc warned -- as it has before in recent years -- that Turkey "continued to move further away" from European standards....afp
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