Turkey’s crackdown on dissent disrupts EU-Turkey relations: Europe in tough balancing act | EUROtoday

“Business as usual with Turkey cannot continue.” That was the message MEPs despatched once they voted on a report about Turkey’s EU accession course of on May 7 in Strasbourg. Amid a crackdown on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political rivals in addition to on protesters, MEPs stated that EU membership talks with Turkey can’t be restarted within the present circumstances. At the identical time, the European Union doesn’t need to shut the door on Turkey utterly, as Ankara stays a major companion inside NATO and its pursuits overlap with the EU’s in Ukraine.
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