On Thursday 26 October, a spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) urged Turkey to take further positive measures to defend human rights, saying that the release on bail the day before of human rights campaigners (including the director for Turkey of Amnesty International, İdil Eser, arrested on the island of Büyükada in early July) was an "encouraging" sign (see EUROPE 11826).
"While the trial (of these activists) and the investigations and trials of many...