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Ankara slams EU report on Turkey’s membership bid as unjust and biased

Turkey began talks to join the EU in 2005 [File: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters]

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed the European Commission’s annual report assessing its long-stalled bid to join the European Union, saying it was unjust and biased.

The report, published on Wednesday by the EU’s executive arm, accused Ankara of “serious backsliding” on democratic standards, the rule of law, human rights and judicial independence.

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