Turkey’s governing ’Justice and Development Party’ (AKP) is presented as
a model of “successful democracy” by US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. In fact, it is a brutal model of repression against Kurdish and
left activists and is presented as way of dealing with the democratic
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At a meeting of the Committee on International Trade, Joe Higgins MEP
questions the demands of the EU for privatisation and neo-liberalism in
their trade agreements with Turkey. Joe also highlights the ongoing
human rights and workers’ rights abuses in Turkey (01-06-10)