On Wednesday 8 November, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, announced that Turkey had officially notified its intention no longer to be one of the major payer states of the international organisation.
Taking questions at a press conference held after his meeting with Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, president of the Republican People's Party (CHP), the main parliamentary opposition in Turkey, Jagland said that “a dialogue on this subject had been started” with...