a few seconds agoFollowing the arrest of gylenists, EU official calls for blocking Kosovo
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The arrest of six Turkish citizens living in Kosovo and their extradition to Turkey, where they are accused by the power of President Recep Tayip Erdogan, has triggered a strong response in various European Union circles. From officials within the European Parliament to representatives of various organisations dealing with rights [...]
From officials within the European Parliament to representatives of various human rights organisations have come up with reactions with which they call for the European Union to consider Kosovo as a friend of Turkey's Erdogan rather than as an aspiring state to become part of the EU.
Rebecca Harms, spokesperson for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the Greens Group in the European Parliament, has called on the EU to provide political asylum and protection to members of the Gylen Movement who are targeted by autocratic President Recep Tayip Erdogan and the Turkish Government.
“The EU must make sure that EU member states react together by offering political asylum to gylenists and to ensure that within the EU are not the states that are with Turkey of Erdogan”, wrote Rebecca Harms in a letter sent to Federica Moghrini, deputy chairman of the European Union Commission and senior EU representative for foreign affairs, security and politics, and Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for EU Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.
Such a comment by the EU senior official did as she shared an opinion of the renowned publicist and journalist Nate Schenkkan at “Washington Post”, which named the Egyptians' arrest as success of Erdogan's “and the handover of Kosovo to him”
Negative reactions against Kosovo have also come from the Stockholm Centre for Freedom one of the biggest in Europe that called on the EU to examine in detail Kosovo's orientation and its EU membership.
