Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told ambassadors from European countries today that the European Union had not offered significant support in tackling immigration and had not backed down from Turkey’s efforts to improve relations.
Speaking to EU ambassadors during a meeting in Ankara, Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey wanted to put relations with the European bloc on a “solider footing”, but that those relations had suffered the consequences of “regular delays”. .
“I want to state with regret that we have not received the response we wanted from the EU on these steps,” he said.
“Turkey has not received significant support from the European Union in its fight against migration,” Erdogan said, adding that it would not be possible to “deepen co-operation” on the issue unless the terms of the 2016 agreement were met. are renewed.
“The crisis in Belarus has shown once again that the Union lacks a sustainable immigration policy,” he said, referring to the Minsk-EU conflict over the number of migrants trapped at their borders.
The Turkish president also said that the political turmoil in Bosnia, due to the separatist moves of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, was exacerbated by the prospects of membership prospects, adding that the region “shows signs of returning to the negative environment of the 1990s”.
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