Germany's EU Block Hurts Turkey's Protesters

The European Union may be about to make a bad mistake in calling off Turkish membership talks that were due to re-start this week, after three years in the deep freeze.

The move is led by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has long opposed admitting Turkey and says she is "appalled" by the way in which its government has handled the protests that erupted in Istanbul at the end of May. Well, we should all be appalled by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown, but Germany's move will make things worse.