The human rights situation in Turkey is unacceptable and EU leaders have asked their executive arm to look at cutting pre-accession aid to Ankara in a “responsible way”.<br /><br />EU leaders want to ‘responsibly’ cut Turkey pre-accession aid: Merkel https://t.co/eVfLW4jYtz pic.twitter.com/Meluuoz40E— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 20 octobre 2017<br /><br /><br />Who has said this?<br /><br />German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She has urged her fellow leaders to cut European Union funds to Turkey that are linked to Ankara’s bid to join the bloc.<br /><br />Speaking to journalists after a dinner in Brussels at which leaders discussed relations with Turkey, Merkel said she wanted a common EU position on the accession talks.<br /><br />She said dialogue with Turkey must continue but she does not foresee talks with Ankara on expanding a customs union with the EU.<br /><br />Merkel says she’ll seek to curtail the EU’s pre-accession funding to Turkey https://t.co/AkTLViGGrn pic.twitter.com/04hOkKZRWE— Bloomberg (@business) 19 octobre 2017<br /><br /><br />Does she have any backing?<br /><br />Yes. From Belgium and the Netherlands.<br />
