Erdogan: Turkey can part ways with European Union – DW – 09/16/2023
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President Tayyip Erdogan hinted that Turkey could abandon its bid for EU membership and said the European Union was trying to break away from his country.
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    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Ankara could “part ways” with the European Union, implying that his country is thinking about ending its EU membership bid.

    “The European Union is trying to break away from Turkey,” he told reporters in Istanbul before flying to New York, where he is to attend the 78th UN General Assembly.

    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.

    The report, adopted earlier this week, said Turkey’s accession process with the EU cannot resume under current circumstances.

    It also said the report contained unfounded allegations and prejudices and took “a shallow and non-visionary” approach to the country’s ties with the EU.

    Turkey-EU accession talks have been ongoing since 2005 but are effectively frozen amid Brussels’ concerns over the deteriorating rule of law and the human rights situation in Turkey.

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