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No accession talks without reform, EU tells Turkey
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Turkish ministers making their case for EU accession in Brussels were told by the EU on
July 26 that they cannot expect progress until Ankara restores human rights, seen by the bloc as having deteriorated to a shocking degree under the country’s year-long and ongoing state of emergency.
Ukrainian farmers turn to Donbas veterans for protection from raiders
Fabrice Deprez in Berezhinka
The flag of the Donbas battalion, one of the most notorious Ukrainian volunteer units to have fought against Russia-backed separatists, flies over the main building of Mikola Trybinienko’s farm.
Members of the former military unit came at the end of June to Berezhinka, a village in central
Tense exchanges: EU diplomacy chief Federica Mogherini and EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn (right) told Turkey's Europe minister Omer Celik (left) and foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that accession would not progress unless Turkey removed itself from the road to authoritarianism.
Following a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik, Johannes Hahn, the EU's membership and enlargement commissioner, stated at a press conference in Brussels that Ankara must halt
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Ukrainian police and national guardsmen clash with Donbas veterans guarding a farm from raiders in summer 2017.
Ukraine, to protect Trybinienko against “raiders”, the term used in the region to describe criminal groups who specialise in the illegal and often violent appropriation of land.
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