Ankara can part ways with the European Union if necessary. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this to reporters today before his trip to the United States.
This is how he answered a question about the contents of the European Parliament’s report on Turkey, Reuters reports.
“The EU is trying to break away from Turkey. We will draw our conclusions taking into account these developments and, if necessary, we can part ways with the EU,” Erdogan said.
The report, adopted this week, said Turkey’s entry into the 27-member bloc could not resume under current conditions and called on the EU to explore a “parallel and realistic framework” for ties with Ankara, the agency said.
Turkey has been an official candidate to join the European Union for 24 years, but accession talks have stalled in recent years due to the bloc’s concerns about human rights abuses and respect for the rule of law, it said.
As reported EADailyChancellor of Austria Karl Nehammer called for an end to negotiations with Ankara on joining the European Union. He stated this in an interview with Die Welt.
The protracted negotiations led to nothing, the chancellor noted.
“We support further rapprochement between Ankara and Brussels, but Turkey’s full membership in the EU does not seem possible to us. It is important that we treat each other fairly, and this includes officially ending EU accession negotiations, which have been frozen for many years, and developing a new concept of neighborly cooperation,” TASS quotes Nehammer as saying.
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2023-09-16 11:49:00
