Viewpoint wrote:What is the official GC reaction to Erdogans speech, will they now pull out of the meetings?
Viewpoint wrote:What is the official GC reaction to Erdogans speech, will they now pull out of the meetings?
Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience...Dilbert
Erdoğan under fire from Europe for Cyprus ultimatum
A top German conservative suggested that the EU should break off its accession talks with Turkey if the country goes ahead with its threatened boycott during Greek Cyprus’ upcoming presidency of the bloc, a leading British member of the European Parliament accused the Turkish government of clinging to “outmoded hostile rhetoric.”...
The secretary-general of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union arm of the Christian Democrats, Alexander Dobrindt, said that anyone who would stop talking to the European Union has no business seeking membership in the bloc.
“The EU cannot continue to tolerate Erdoğan’s threats and attempts at blackmail,” Dobrindt was quoted as saying by the English-service of Deutsche Welle in an interview to be published in Thursday’s edition of the Münchner Merkur newspaper. “Once again, Erdoğan is insulting an EU member, and the only response to that can be to definitively break off accession talks with Turkey,” he said.
Liberal British MEP Andrew Duff, a member of the Friends of Turkey, an informal parliamentary friendship group within the European Parliament, was rather bitter in his written statement released on Thursday.
“Mr. Erdoğan and Mr. Davutoğlu have missed another great opportunity to reconcile the two Cypriot communities and, by doing so, to resurrect the prospect of Turkish membership in the European Union,” Duff said.
“Not only does the Turkish government cling to outmoded hostile rhetoric but it raises an entirely new obstacle to improving relations with the EU. The two gentlemen must have been told that there is no chance at all of the EU changing its long-standing decision about the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU; the fact is that it is the turn of Cyprus to take the chair of the Council in July next year,” he said.
In Athens, Prime Minister Papandreou said Erdoğan’s discourse is dealing a blow to Ankara’s policy of “zero-problem with neighbors,” while also voicing his government’s support for a solution leading to a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation in Cyprus where EU acquis will be implemented.
Sotos wrote:Why pull out? The negotiations are going nowhere and Erdogans comments made it even more clear that the reason for the absence of progress is the Turkish intransigence.
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