Word: ankara
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...Human Rights. Turkey's signature on the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights requires the delay, and despite the strong domestic clamor for the execution of the man blamed by Turkey for the more than 30,000 deaths caused by the Kurdish insurgency and the Turkish response, Ankara's passage into full E.U. membership depends in part on its handling of the case - the death penalty is banned by the E.U., and its use is grounds for exclusion...