Freedom of speech in Turkey is not guaranteed, the military still plays a "significant" political role and non-Muslim religious communities face discrimination, the European Commission has said in a key report on Wednesday.
Just over a year after Turkey started membership negotiations with the EU in October 2005, the European Commission on Wednesday (8 November) released both a specific progress report on Turkey and a general enlargement report which also deals with Ankara's EU accessio...
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