18/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - EU condemns arrest of academics. The European Union issued strong condemnation on Saturday 16 January of the arrest of a group of some 20 Turkish academics who had signed a petition, which gathered the support of 1,200 intellectuals, calling for an end to army operations against the Kurdish uprising in the south-east of the country. The arrests “are an extremely worrying development”, states the spokesperson for EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and...