Lucia Najslova is a TRANSWORLD Research fellow at Charles University in Prague and Senior fellow at EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy. She writes on EU, Turkey and MENA relations.
Brutal assaults by the Turkish police on protesters in Istanbul and around the country during the last few days have invited a few expressions of ‘concern’ from EU capitals. Unfortunately, the EU’s ‘concern’ about the Turks’ human rights is not substantiated by corresponding policy.