Turkish Navy frigate TCG Gemlik escorts Turkish drilling vessel Yavuz in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus, August 6, 2019. Picture taken August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
President Tayyip Erdogan, who has accused the bloc of “strategic blindness” towards Turkey, told EU ambassadors in Ankara this month he was ready to improve ties. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Brussels this week on a mission to maintain what he called the “positive atmosphere” between Ankara and the EU, said on Friday talks on Cyprus would be held in New York in the next two months.Erdogan’s effort to build bridges with Turkey’s main trading partner comes as his government struggles with an economic slowdown. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been the main brake on growth, international tensions have also weighed on the economy.
Better ties with Europe may also depend in part on how much Ankara can address differences with the new administration in the United States, after Washington imposed sanctions on Turkey last month over its purchase of Russian defence systems. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament on Wednesday Athens would not discuss issues it considered sovereign rights and would approach the talks with optimism but “zero naivety”.
Erdogan in return has accused Macron of harbouring an anti-Islamic agenda and questioned his mental state.
Turkey hopes can foul all wishful thinkers that its expansion agenda is not a dire threat to East Med stability
Turkey must stop behave like the bully of the region, and become a secular democracy!Nothing of that sign in the horizon!Barbarian nation,established on massacres and bloodshed,genocides and killings,is almost impossible to reconcile with European values and ideals!
Turkey’s hopes are too high! The Turkish government believes EU leaders have short memory, like the average Turkish voter does
Sign of a storm brewing.. Watcha gonna ' do, stop the weather, man
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