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Kati Piri: Without urgent reforms, no improvement in EU-Turkey relations

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - October 20, 2018

S&D MEP and the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey, Kati Piri, was in the country on a fact-finding mission on 15-19 October preparing for...

Hungary starves asylum seekers

EU MEMBER STATES Theodoros Benakis - August 23, 2018

Hungary has reportedly stopped handing out food to rejected asylum seekers being held in transit zones on the country’s border with Serbia. This move...

To Criticize or Not the ECtHR?

EUROPE Theodoros Benakis - June 5, 2018

Turkey has survived a brutal coup attempt in the summer of 2016. The putschists failed to take control of the country and the government...

The Reality of Turkey’s SoE Commission

EUROPE Theodoros Benakis - May 2, 2018

Since the declaration of the state of emergency in the wake of the controversial coup attempt witnessed in Turkey on 15th of July 2016...

ECtHR’s Unwillingness to Stand Firm Against Turkey Harms Its Reputation

EUROPE Theodoros Benakis - April 16, 2018

Turkey has never been an advanced democracy. Rather, it has been considered as a developing democracy since the 1950s. Parallel to its democracy, the...

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