a minute agoErdogan: Turkey no longer expects anything from EU
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Turkey's President, Recep Tayip Erdogan, said on 1 October that his country “no longer expects anything from the European Union, which has allowed us to wait at its door for 40 years”. “We have kept all the promises we have made to the EU, while they have not fulfilled almost any [...]
Turkey's President, Recep Tayip Erdogan, said on 1 October that his country “no longer expects anything from the European Union, which has allowed us to wait at its door for 40 years”.
“We have kept all the promises we have made to the EU, while they have not fulfilled almost any commitments”, he said before the start of the new parliamentary session in Ankara.
Erdogan added that he has no intention of “tolerating new requirements, or conditions in Turkey's” membership process in the bloc.
Erdogan's anger is also due to a European Court for Human Rights ruling that criticised Turkey last Thursday for condemning a teacher after trying-pucit in 2016, on grounds that he had downloaded an app encrypted for sending messages related to suspected pimps.
The court's decision that Yuksel Yalcinkaya's rights have been violated could create a powerful precedent at a time when the Strasbourg-based court faces thousands of similar cases.
Turkey blames a group led by Turkey's local religious clergyman in the United States, Fetullah Gulen, for the failed stamp to oust Erdogan from power, claiming the message application called ByLock was used to co-ordinate the plot.
Erdogan said on October 1st that the Strasbourg court's decision “was the last hit”.
“ [Turkey] will not back down the fight against this group of traitors”, he said.
