European Parliament report defines Turkey “a source of instability”

At the European Parliament general assembly meetings, two separate reports on the common policies of the European Union in foreign, security and defense fields were discussed.

One of the reports is about the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy. In the report prepared by the French parliamentarian Nathalie Loiseau, a member of the Liberal Group (Renew), Turkey was evaluated as a “source of instability”.

According to DW news agency, the report said that Turkey “often plays a destabilizing role in many areas of concern for the EU and its neighbours, thus threatening regional peace, security and stability”.

Before Loiseau was elected to the European Parliament in 2019, he served as Minister of European Affairs in France in the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

The report on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy was prepared by German parliamentarian David McAllister, a member of the Christian Democratic Group.

In this report, it was emphasized that Turkey’s EU membership perspective is “not realistic” in the current conditions.

The report demanded that the European Commission propose to suspend the accession negotiations, which started in 2005, “unless the negative trend is immediately and consistently reversed” in Turkey.

McAllister said that Turkey and the EU should “review the current framework of relations, their functioning capacity, as well as alternatives and possible relationship models for their future relations, by acting realistically and through high-level dialogue.”

The report said that Turkish foreign policy moved away from the EU line, and underlined in particular the conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The report, which called for the resumption of diplomatic dialogue for a permanent solution in the Mediterranean, also pointed out that relations should “concentrate on areas of common interest”. In this context, it was demanded that priority should be given to areas such as climate change, the fight against terrorism, migration, security and the economy.

The reports, including some amendments, are expected to be put to vote today.