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After the leaders of the European Union, during their meeting today in Brussels, imposed sanctions on it, the Turkish Foreign Ministry accused the Union of bias on the situation in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The European Union has become hostage to the position of one or two states in it
The Turkish Foreign Ministry accused the European Union of bias on the situation in the eastern Mediterranean and considered that “it has become hostage to the position of one or two countries in it.”
The leaders of the European Union decided during their meeting today in Brussels to impose sanctions on Turkey for what they described as “illegal and aggressive” behavior in the Mediterranean against Greece and Cyprus.
European diplomatic sources said that the measures that were approved will be individual sanctions, and additional measures can be taken if Turkey continues with its actions, as she said.
The Council has also entrusted the head of foreign policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, to present a report on the situation of economic, political and trade relations between the European Union and Turkey, the ways and options to carry them out and on the extension of the aforementioned decisions, no later than March 2021.
This decision comes after a summit of leaders of the European Union, yesterday Thursday, in Brussels, in which the issue of sanctions against Turkey was discussed, which the European Union threatened to impose last October, due to the work of gas exploration carried out by Ankara in the maritime spaces disputed with Greece. And Cyprus.
In a parallel line of sanctions, US sources announced that the United States intends to impose sanctions on Turkey for the purchase of a Russian missile defense system.
On the other hand, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said last Wednesday that punishing his country for the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems would be very counterproductive and would harm Turkish-US relations.
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