His coalition government former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl had lied to Turkey about Berlin’s commitment to support the country’s bid to join the EU, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported, citing excerpts from declassified documents released by German magazine Der Spiegel.

Der Spiegel published excerpts from the Foreign Ministry archive, which reveal important details about the Kohl government’s policy towards Turkey in the early 1990s.

According to a document dated July 13, 1992, then German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel told his Turkish counterpart Hikmet Cetin during a visit to Ankara that Germany will support Turkey’s full EU membership, which was then called the European Community.

Kinkel tried to reassure his Turkish counterpart, Anadolu reported, citing a declassified report, that the impression that Western Europeans did not want Turkey in the European club was wrong, and underlined that Berlin would support Ankara in its goal to become a full member of the EU. .

However, just three days later, the Turkish agency notes, then-Chancellor Kohl told Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during a visit to Oslo that his government was under massive pressure from Turkey for full membership, but the conservative politician emphasized that he was against it. of perspective and stated: “Turkey cannot become a member” of the European club.

Also on November 5, 1992, the then German chancellor told then Polish Prime Minister Hanna Sukhotska, according to Anadolu citing declassified German documents, that Turkey’s full integration into the European Community was “unthinkable” on Germany’s part .