President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey may part ways with the European Union, implying that the country is thinking about ending its bid to join the 27-nation bloc.
바카라The EU is making efforts to sever ties with Turkey,바카라 he told reporters before departing for the 78th UN General Assembly in New York.
바카라We will evaluate the situation, and if needed we will part ways with the EU.바카라
He was responding to a question about a recent report adopted by the European Parliament, which stated 바카라the accession process cannot resume under the current circumstances, and calls on EU to explore a parallel and realistic framework' for EU-Türkiye relations.바카라
Turkey applied to join the European Union in 1999, and accession talks began in 2005. Accession negotiations were frozen in 2018 because of 바카라democratic backsliding,바카라 according to the European Parliament.
Erdogan's statement on Saturday came more than a week after Turkey's foreign minister affirmed his country's resolve to join the EU and urged the bloc to take courageous steps to advance its bid.
