Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to improve the country’s human rights protections and bolster freedom of expression, as he set out a series of sweeping new legal reforms on Tuesday.
The move comes as Turkey is set to have its long-running membership bid for the European Union (EU) reassessed later this month, with its human rights record having proved the main barrier to its previous accession attempts.
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