Turkish President meets with Nicolas Maduro – Mitsotakis “spoke to US as if we had never met” – Reiterated Finland, Sweden’s veto on NATO membership
They are everyday now the reports of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Greece and in strengthening its cooperation with the United States of America.
The Turkish president had a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday to sign trade and transnational agreements. During the press conference, Erdogan referred to the American bases being developed in Greece, saying that “I will not buy the claim that they have been deployed against Russia. I will not swallow this argument “, without clarifying, however, whether he means that these bases threaten his country.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with his above statement leaves clear peaks against two of Turkey’s key allies in NATOreiterating that it will not allow Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Alliance, as long as they continue to support the Kurds and the PKK.
In fact, he did not fail to mention again the visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Washington, saying that “he spoke to the USA as if we had not met before”.
He added, addressing Nicolas Maduro that he and Turkey were opposed to sanctions imposed by the United States and other powers on Venezuela, which he described as “the most important partner in South America.”
Erdogan says Turkey is against unilateral sanctions against Venezuela, he praises Maduro for the leadership he showed.
Erdogan says he will visit Venezuela in July
– Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) June 8, 2022
Turkey and Venezuela sign deals on central bank cooperation and tourism as Erdogan calls Caracas “the most important partner in Latin America” pic.twitter.com/gHGb6W4YCt
– Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) June 8, 2022
Erdogan says he does not buy the claim that the US bases in Greece have been established against Russia. “I won’t swallow that argument,” he says
– Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) June 8, 2022
Erdogan says as long as PKK terrorists demonstrate in Sweden’s streets, and terrorist leaders appear on the Swedish TV, Turkey cannot say yes to its NATO member bid.
He says same goes for Finland
– Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) June 8, 2022
Celik attack on European Parliament over report
The Turkish Foreign Ministry responded with an angry statement to European Parliament collateral report, regarding its performance in the field of human rights and the rule of law, but also in terms of its provocation towards Greece and Cyprus.
“We reject the biased and unrealistic assessments expressed by the European Parliament report. She the biased attitude damages the reputation of the European Parliament “is mentioned, while there is also talk of”narrow-minded efforts one or two EU members for the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Cyprus issue»meaning her Hellas and Cyprus.
“The EP has lost both its credibility and its credibility in the eyes of the Turkish people,” it added.
The announcement of the Turkish Foreign Minister in detail
“While the need to strengthen relations between our country and the EU through mutual efforts is obvious, we do not accept and reject the biased and unrealistic assessments of the EP in the report, which ignore this need with a shallow and visionless approach.
Our primary expectation from the EP is that it should not become a tool on the agenda narrow-minded circleand to show an encouraging attitude towards the EU institutions in order to revive the accession negotiation process. Unfortunately, the EP has so far taken the opposite stance. This attitude of the EP, which tolerates even members of terrorist organizations to nest in the EP and make terrorist propaganda, is not really surprising. Thus, the EP has lost both its credibility and its credibility in the eyes of the Turkish people.
Therefore, the unfounded views in the report that reflect the claims of democracy, rule of law and human rights regarding our country and the narrow-minded efforts of one or two EU members for the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Cyprus issue do not benefit us.
Our expectation from the EU is for all EU institutions to fulfill their obligations to Turkey, to revitalize the accession process in this context, to speed up the dialogue on visa liberalization, to start negotiations on updating the Customs Increase cooperation in the fight against terrorism, in particular voluntary humanitarian issues in the context of migration cooperation. It is the implementation of the Readmission Plan.
This report, which assesses Turkey with a shallow perspective instead of encouraging steps to take on these issues, is a new example of the EP’s distancing and ideologically biased stance. it only damages the reputation of the EP “.
