EU urges Turkey to respect rule of law after failed coup

‘The European Union (EU) has urged Turkey to respect the rule of law amid a Turkish crackdown on those believed to have been involved in a recent coup attempt in the country.
“We are the ones saying today rule of law has to be protected in the country, there is no excuse for any steps that take the country away from that,” said Federica Mogherini, who is the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, in Brussels on Monday.
“As we have been the first ones to say that in that tragic night, the democratic and legislative institutions needed to be protected,” she told journalists before an EU foreign ministers meeting, referring to last Friday night, when the coup attempt in Turkey began.’
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