Austrian Chancellor called to end talks on Turkey’s accession to EU

Beijing. March 26. Silkroadnews - The Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz called to end the talks on Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU), the Kazakh Telegraph Agency (KazTAG) reports citing “Izvestia” newspaper.
Taking into account the systematic violations of human rights and essential democratic values, as well as failure to comply with the Copenhagen criteria (defining if the state is ready to join the EU - KazTAG), negotiations on Turkey’s EU accession should be ended, Kurz said.
With this he added, Turkey is still an important strategic partner of the EU to cooperate within the framework of the good neighborhood concept.
To remind, according to the UN’s statement dated as of March 21, the authorities of Turkey have reportedly detained some 100 women who were pregnant or had just given birth, mostly on the grounds that they were ‘associates’ of their husbands, who are suspected of being connected to terrorist organizations. Besides, according to the United Nations, over 18 months after the attempted coup in Turkey, 160,000 people have been arrested and 152,000 civil servants have lost their jobs.
The attempted coup took place in Turkey on the night of July 16, 2016. According to the Turkish authorities, the ideologist of the riot in Ankara was the former Imam Fethullah Gülen, now living in the United States. 25,917 people have been detained in Turkey immediately after the coup; passports of other 74,562 people have been revoked thereafter.
Another claim of Europeans to Turkey is the violation of human rights in Syria.