The leader of one of Turkey’s main opposition parties says Turkey should bring back the death penalty. Speaking to his Nationalist Movement Party's parliamentary group meeting, Devlet Bahceli called for the ruling Justice and Development Party to immediately bring a bill to reinstate capital punishment to parliament. Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also spoken about reinstating capital punishment, especially to punish plotters of last year’s failed coup. The European Union has repeatedly warned that reinstatement would mean the end of Turkey’ EU accession, but Erdogan has brushed off those warnings.
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