Turkey should speed up reforms, says EU

In its annual report on progress, the EU will ask Turkey to improve human rights and curb the military's role in politics.

The report, due out next Wednesday (5 November), is expected to show that recent reforms carried out by the Turkish government have had few effects on the ground.

The key criticisms in the report surround the continued practice of torture, the slow implementation of laws guaranteeing the Kurdish minority the right to study and broadcast in their own language ...