The atmosphere is heavy for Erdogan in Berlin after the Shanghai Summit

The participation of the Turkish president is causing reactions across almost the entire political spectrum Tayyip Erdogan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Uzbekistan. The Greens’ foreign policy spokesperson Jurgen Tritin calls for a “more dynamic” policy towards Turkey, even economic measures, while “serious mistake” characterizes Ankara’s attitude representative of the SPD.

Turkey, a NATO member state, wants to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) – an organization led by Russia and mainly China. “NATO and the European Union should therefore ask themselves how long they will allow (Tayyip) Erdogan to drag them by the nose,” states Mr. Tritin in the newspaper “Die Welt” and emphasizes: “Turkey is preventing NATO from implementing the UN arms embargo on Libya. Drilling in the Greek EEZ. NATO member Turkey is doing more than China to circumvent European sanctions against Russia. Erdogan blocks Finland and Sweden from joining NATO. And now he wants to join the SCO along with Iran. It is time for a more dynamic policy towards Turkey.” As the Green executive points out, given that no one can be kicked out of NATO, forced economic measures against Turkey should be considered.

On the side of the Social Democrats (SPD), the person responsible for foreign policy matters Nils Schmidt considers Tayyip Erdogan’s plan a “serious mistake” and interprets it as a new attempt to divert attention from domestic political difficulties. “In foreign policy, this would be another symbolic step away from the West and its values ​​- a serious political mistake for Turkey’s future,” says Mr Schmidt.

In the opposition, the head of the Parliamentary Group of the Christian Union (CDU/CSU) Johan Vandepoul points out that in recent years Turkey, under the leadership of Tayyip Erdogan, has repeatedly taken steps that call into question whether the country is serious about being a member of NATO. “Flirting with SCO goes one step further. The organization has clearly different values ​​and priorities from NATO and thus turns against us.” says Mr. Vandepoul in Welt and continues: “We must tell Mr. Erdogan very clearly that a diversion is neither feasible nor compatible with NATO’s fundamental values. Once again it appears how problematic it is that Chancellor Solz has not yet built a good, reliable dialogue relationship with Tayyip Erdoğan.”

On the contrary, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), with its leader Tino Hroupala to declare that Ankara “apparently he recognized during the Ukraine war that in a multipolar world multiple political options are required, but in our country these options are blocked especially by the Greens and so the one-sided dependence on the West remains.”

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