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Opening new chapters in negotiations for Turkey's EU accession "is not possible" at the moment, enlargement commissioner Hahn (r) said. (Photo: European Commission)

EU and Turkey fail to defuse tensions

Tensions between the EU and Turkey over human rights were on full display in Brussels on Tuesday (25 July), a day after the opening of a trial of journalists and staff at the Cumhuriyet daily in Istanbul.

EU diplomacy chief Federica Mogherini, EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn, and Turkish foreign and Europe ministers, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Omer Celik, held tense exchanges during a press conference that followed a round of the so-called high level political dialogue.

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Opening new chapters in negotiations for Turkey's EU accession "is not possible" at the moment, enlargement commissioner Hahn (r) said. (Photo: European Commission)

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