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Friday, 23 April, 2021 - 17:00
After years of stalemate on Turkey s bid to join the world s biggest trading bloc, negotiations launched in 2005 have come to a halt. (Reuters) Asharq Al-Awsat
Turkey s membership negotiations to join the European Union should be formally suspended if Ankara continues on its autocratic track, EU lawmakers said on Friday, saying a decision was urgent as basic freedoms in the country are curtailed.
Lawmakers in the European Parliament s Foreign Affairs Committee voted 49 in favor, four against and with 14 abstentions on their report on Turkey s EU candidacy, which now goes to the full plenary next month and, if accepted, becomes the parliament s official position.