Turkey’s intensified crackdown on human rights and the rule of law has targeted business interests in the country too, and should ring alarm bells for European companies and investors. Business associations representing them should convey their concerns to Turkey at the economic leadership gathering in Brussels on December 7-8... [T]hreat[s] to investigate the companies illustrates the declining independence of Turkey’s prosecutorial and judicial system, and the willingness of the executive to use it against its perceived opponents even when there is little or no evidence of criminal wrongdoing... Prominent human rights monitors and civil society leaders face politically motivated charges... Turkey’s resilient economy relies in part on the impact of foreign investments. But a government willing to target major companies for political reasons, combined with a compromised judiciary and shrinking space for independent organizations and media freedom, are never good news for the long-term stability or success for business... Europe’s business leaders should send a clear message at the Brussels meeting that the rule of law is paramount.