Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized a report issued by the European Parliament on his country’s accession talks to the European Union, and threatened to “separate” from the bloc.
In response to journalists’ questions about the report, Erdogan He said Turkey’s official Anatolia news agency reported, “The European Union is trying to separate from Turkey.”
“We will make our assessments in light of these developments, and if necessary, we can separate from the European Union,” Erdogan said before a trip to attend the UN General Assembly meetings in New York.
European Parliament a report, adopted He said this week in Strasbourg that talks on Ankara’s accession to the bloc should not resume in the current circumstances, expressing the European Union’s concerns about that. Violations of human rights and the rule of law. Instead, European lawmakers called for a “parallel and realistic framework” for relations between Brussels and Ankara.
“We have recently seen renewed interest from… Turkish government The main deputy in this file, the Spanish socialist Nacho Sanchez Amor, said when the report was adopted on Wednesday:
“This will not happen because of geopolitical horse-trading, but only when the Turkish authorities show a genuine interest in halting the ongoing decline in basic freedoms and the rule of law in the country,” Sanchez Amor said.
Relations between Tokri and the European Union have deteriorated amid Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian behavior following the failed coup attempt in 2016.
Talks on Türkiye’s accession to the Union have stagnated for years. But in July, EU foreign ministers agreed to move forward with relations.
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