Turkey: Progress on Human Rights Key to EU Bid
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/10/04/turkey9434.htm
In Coming Months, Ankara Must Take Action on Torture, Internal Displacement In an assessment of Turkey?s progress in meeting human rights benchmarks, Human Rights Watch said today that press freedom, freedom of religion and respect for minorities in the country remain far from perfect, but show continued improvement. The Turkish government needs to take steps to eradicate torture in police stations and facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Kurds displaced in the 1990s.