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“The great real threat to the EU and its values is the distorted ideology that Kurz represents,” Cavusoglu wrote on Saturday. “This repulsive politics, based on racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia, is the unhealthy way of thinking of our time,” said Cavusoglu.
“Turkey is moving away from Europe”
Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has now reacted harshly to KURIER: “Austria will continue to speak very clear language if Turkey violates international law, violates human rights, freedom of the media and the rule of law, or uses refugees and migrants as a means of pressure. It is not a policy based on racism or Islamophobia, but a constant defense of the values on which the European Union is based and which guarantee our stability and prosperity. The fact that some Turkish politicians apparently cannot tell the difference shows once again how far Turkey has moved from Europe in recent years. “
“Don’t let Erdogan blackmail you”
Cavusoglu previously responded to Foreign Minister Kurz’s remarks. He had previously asked the EU in interviews with newspapers such as KURIER and in a tweet not to be blackmailed or threatened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “What is needed is full solidarity with Greece and adequate protection of the EU’s external borders,” the chancellor wrote on Twitter.
Kurz told the German “Handelsblatt” that the EU member states did not yet have a united stance towards Turkish President Erdogan. Kurz therefore wants more unity. “I would like a united European Union that acts decisively against it. I can’t understand why this doesn’t happen ”. Kurz condemned that Erdogan was trying to instrumentalize Turks or migrants of Turkish origin living in Western Europe for his own purposes.
