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This is not an exaggeration: relations between the European Union and Turkey are “at a crossroads”. This is what the EU Foreign Affairs Representative, Josep Borrell, said in Parliament, given the tensions, to put it mildly, in the Eastern Mediterranean. But by no means just for that.
Because this is what it looks like: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been harassing the opposition for years, human rights have been on the hunt for a long time, and the legal situation is deplorable.
Further:
- Erdogan’s Turkey is at war in Syria and Iraq.
- It is burning Libya, Lebanon, Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
- Turkey is demonstratively rolling out the red carpet for Palestinian Hamas and the Iranian mullahs.
That the country still receives hundreds of millions of euros in pre-accession aid to the EU, not to mention weapons, isn’t that a problem? Of course.
And the next big one, after China and Russia. What these two states have in common with Turkey is that they are all run by autocrats.
So far, the EU has not even responded to hostilities in the eastern Mediterranean, threatening two of its members, Cyprus and Greece, with the threat of sanctions. The heads of state and government want to discuss Turkey and the sanctions next week. Is the time.
