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EU demands fair trial for Amnesty head held in Turkey

<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The European Union today warned Turkey that it must give a fair trial to the Amnesty International country Chairman, Taner Kilic, in line with European rights standards.</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">  </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Turkish authorities have detained Taner Kilic since June 2017 over accusations of links to the group, which Ankara says was behind an attempted coup against the government in 2016.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Amnesty yesterday vowed to intensify efforts to win freedom for Kilic, who is one of dozens of journalists and rights activists caught up in the crackdown launched in the wake of the coup.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The European Union's relations with Turkey have deteriorated  by a series of rows in recent years, particularly since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown following the bid to overthrow him.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>

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