Turkey must stop torture, allow freedom of worship and limit the powers of the military in the next two years if it is to join the EU by 2015, according to a draft European Commission proposal seen by the Financial Times.
The paper on "principles, priorities and conditions" of Turkish EU membership contains 150 short-term targets for Ankara and will be finalised later this month.
The draft says Ankara must have "zero tolerance" against torture, must "adopt a law comprehensively a...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.