03.04.2014 - 11:08 [ New York Times ]

Turkey Turns Its Back on the E.U.

“It is becoming clear that Erdogan’s Turkey does not belong to Europe,” a prominent German politician, Andreas Scheuer, said after the Turkish leader accepted his party’s victory in the municipal ballot on Sunday not just as a personal vindication but a mandate for what an opponent called a “witch hunt” against his adversaries. “A country in which the government threatens its critics and tramples democratic values cannot belong to Europe,” Mr. Scheuer said.