Turkey has made a bold, symbolic step towards being accepted as a future member of the EU. The retrial of Leyla Zana and three other Kurdish ex-MPs began in Ankara on Friday, and was seen as a significant part of Turkey’s efforts to start accession negotiations with the EU.
Ms Zana (a former candidate for the Nobel Prize) and her colleagues from the outlawed Democracy Party have been in prison since 1994, after being stripped of their parliamentary immunity and sentenced to 15 years i...
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