Germany says death penalty in Turkey would end EU accession talks

A country that uses the death penalty cannot be a member of the European Union, a spokesman for the German government said on Monday after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said at the weekend there could be no delay in using capital punishment. "Germany and the member states of the EU have a clear position on that: we categorically reject the death penalty," Steffen Seibert told a news conference in Berlin. "A country that has the death penalty can't be a member of the European Union and the int