The jailed politician of Constantinople, Ekrem Imamoglu, has warned the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, not to comparison Turkey to Russia and China.
“Putting Turkey connected the aforesaid level arsenic Russia and China contradicts the geopolitical realities and strategical interests of the EU itself,” Imamoglu wrote successful an sentiment portion published Tuesday successful Politico.
He besides admits that the Turkish authorities is “undermining the regularisation of instrumentality and cardinal rights”, and accuses the EU of swinging “between principles and interests successful its relations with Turkey, incapable to articulate a strategical vision.”
He further urged the EU to prosecute much with Turkish past and societal realities and to “stop looking astatine Turkey done the prism of fear, clichés and short-sighted governmental calculations.”
The erstwhile politician responds to von der Leyen’s caller connection that “we indispensable successfully implicit the European continent truthful that it does not autumn nether Russian, Turkish oregon Chinese influence.”
Imamoglu, a cardinal governmental rival of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has not fixed up anticipation for his country’s EU membership, though helium holds some sides liable for the agelong hold successful the process.
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