On Wednesday 9 November, European Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn stated that Turkey was distancing itself from the European Union.
During his presentation of the 2016 'Enlargement' package, the commissioner said that "in this year’s progress report, we are highlighting Turkey’s backtracking in the law and order domain and fundamental rights”. Whilst pointing out that the attempted coup on 15 July was an attack against democracy and that its swift response to...