May 20, 2021
Reports by the European Parliament (EP) that decry a lack of progress on Turkey’s human rights are hardly a novelty since the European Union’s only directly elected body undertook the task of penning annual “progress reports on Turkey in the 1990s. Neither are Ankara’s claims that the report is biased and unfair, the “toughest report ever. Yet this year s report, penned by Spanish Socialist Nacho Sanchez Amor, has ventured where no EP report has gone before: It suggested putting Turkey’s Grey Wolves, an ultra-right group linked to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the government s alliance partner, on the EU terror list.