Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given the proverbial middle finger to the European Union, saying that Ankara no longer wishes to be part of the corrupt EU.
“We will not be the side, which gives up. To tell the truth, we don’t need EU membership anymore,” President Erdogan told the Turkish parliament on Sunday.
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Presstv.com reports: He, however, suggested that the bloc still needed Turkey, saying, “If the EU is going to leap forward, there is only one way to do so and it is to grant Turkey membership and start an action of cultural and economic growth.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Turkish president said the EU states had failed to respond to requests to extradite individuals suspected of involvement in the coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, adding, “The EU failed us in a fight against terrorism.”
The 12-year-long accession talks were effectively halted after Turkey began a massive crackdown on the coup suspects. The EU reacted strongly to Ankara’s purging of thousands of people from organizations and institutions over alleged links to the coup attempt.
In recent months, Germany and some other European countries have been involved in diplomatic brawls with Turkey on several issues, including the country’s human rights record.
Germany and Austria have also been outspoken critics of Ankara since the Turkish crackdown began and have said the accession talks must end.
On September 3, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a TV debate ahead of Germany’s federal elections, agreed with her main rival Social Democrat Martin Schulz that it was “clear that Turkey should not become a member of the European Union,” marking a surprise U-turn from her previous moderate stance.
In November 2016, the European Parliament voted in favor of halting the membership talks with Turkey over Ankara’s heavy-handed crackdown.
EU leaders are expected to discuss the issue of suspension of the accession talks in Brussels later in October.
Turkey has been trying to accede to the EU since the late 1980s and formal accession talks began in 2005. The EU has opened 16 out of the 35 chapters required for Turkey to join the bloc, but only one of them has so far been concluded.
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You talking about rogue alliance of ZioNA*I EU/NATO-US/ISrael WAR CRIMINALS loser?!!
BRAVO ever BRAVE Pres. Erdogan and the Turkish peoples! The EU have been controlled by ZioNA*IS!
HYPOCRITE rogue sewer EU/NATO – instead of trying to DEMONIZE Turkey on so-called human rights issue, what about the HIDDEN alliance of KURDISH and ZIONIST Terrorists, throughout HISTORY, who mass murder, rape and rob MILLIONS of Indigenous Ottoman Armenian; Assyria and and Greek ORTHODOX Catholics; and also supporting the rogue genocidal Terrorist Kurdish PKK?!
At – Ongoing Kurdish Terror Attacks Against Aramean Christians in Syria, World Council of Arameans (Syriacs); at – Kurdish massacres of the Assyrians in history, assyriatv.org, 2016/07/05; at – Why won’t Israel acknowledge the Armenian Genocide?: Because the Donmeh cryto-Jewish leadership of Turkey was responsible, The Millennium Report November 9, 2015; at – Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret (Part I), strategic-culture.org, Wayne MADSEN | 25.10.2011 |; at – PYD imposes Kurdish curriculum on Assyrian schools in Qamishli, assyriatv.org, 2017/09/15; at – Assyrians, Armenians in Syria Protest Kurdish Confiscation of Property, by Orthodox Cognate Page, on November 4, 2015; at – Kurds Annexing Assyrian Lands in Iraq, By Matthew Barber, AINA News, Posted 2017-10-01; at – Swedish EU Parliamentarian Accuses Kurds of Treason Against Assyrians, AINA news, Posted 2017-07-17; and at – EU Conference on Nineveh Plains Favors Kurds, Marginalizes Assyrians, By Max Joseph, AINA news, Posted 2017-06-27.
These Kurdish Terrorists even kidnapped their own Kurdish and also Orthodox Christian children for child-soldiers, see – Kurdish PKK & YPG’s Hidden Notorious Crimes: Kidnapping, Murder, and Narcotics Trafficking, by Sarah Abed, sarahabed.com, Posted on September 24, 2017; and at – Assyrians, Armenians in Syria Protest Kurdish Confiscation of Property (as above)!
Where is the ZioNa*i ICC/UN HYPOCRITES to stop the increasing GENOCIDE
and LAND/PROPERTY-ROBBERY of Syria-Iraq’s Indigenous Sunni-Shia
Muslim/ORTHODOX Catholic Arab/Turkmen/Persian/Assyrian/Aramean
(Syriacs)/Armenian peoples – by the rogue and most evil
NATO-US/ISra*l-backed Kurdish terrorist OCCUPPIERS, especially the most
evil murderous PKK drug gangs, rapists and robbers and its branches,
SDF/YPG/PYD/KDP/KRG (these different names are meant to confuse the
world); under the pretext of fighting IS (this is why their
collaborators, MOSSAD/CIA-created IS/ISIS/ISIL
and the Kurdish
TERRORISTS, purposely destroyed all houses and buildings to pieces, in
areas that they conquered, in Iraq and Syria, so it can be claimed
subsequently, falsely as “Abandoned property/land”, to be confiscated by
the Kurdish Terrorists for the expansion towards their illegal
‘Kurdistan’; just like colonial ISrael)?!!! See also at – The Myth of
the Kurdish YPG’s Moral Excellence, By Stephen Gowans, gowans wordpress, July 11, 2017.
firstime I ever agreed with this nutter
You talking about nutter rogue TERRORIST SATANyahoo in colonial ISra*l there?
LOL! The whole world is fed up with anglo-kosher alliances. The middle finger is going to become a peace greeting.
ZioNAZIS are trying to stop my freedom of speech by deleting my comments as ‘spam’! COWARDS! F*CK OFF Your NewsWire!