On Sunday 3 September, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was in favour of a halt to the EU's accession negotiations with Turkey.
Relations between Turkey and the EU, and Turkey and Germany, have deteriorated significantly since the attempted coup in Turkey in July 2016 (see EUROPE 11596) and the referendum on the Turkish constitution in spring 2017 (see EUROPE 11744).
"I will talk to my (European) colleagues to see if we can reach a common position on this point and if we can put...