The Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, and the former European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey, Kati Piri (S&D, Netherlands), denounced the sentencing on 6 September of the main leader of the CHP (Republican People's Party) in Istanbul, Canan Kaftancıoğlu, to nine years and eight months in prison for “terrorist propaganda” and for “insulting the Turkish President and Turkey” on social media between 2012 and 2017.
“I cannot understand how a politician's...