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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Turkey turns its back on the EU: The New York Times

Turkey turns its back on the EU: The New York Times

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. A generation ago, it was Ankara’s assumption that its central role in the region’s geopolitics would translate into acceptance as a member of the prosperous European Union, now numbering 28 countries. But that assumption has frayed. As reports “Armenpress”, The New York Times stated this in one of its most recent articles.

Among other things it was particularly noted: “After months of increasingly authoritarian rule by an embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the portals of the club seem more than ever to be closing on Turkey. And paradoxically, Turkey’s most recent elections may deepen its estrangement, raising questions not only about European readiness to embrace Turkey but also about Mr. Erdogan’s interest in pursuing it.

“It is becoming clear that Erdogan’s Turkey does not belong to Europe,” a prominent German politician, Andreas Scheuer, said after the Turkish leader accepted his party’s victory in the municipal ballot on Sunday not just as a personal vindication but a mandate for what an opponent called a “witch hunt” against his adversaries. “A country in which the government threatens its critics and tramples democratic values cannot belong to Europe,” Mr. Scheuer said.

“What happens next will worry many Turks as they hear Erdogan vowing to get even with his critics and opponents,” the columnist Simon Tisdall said in The Guardian. “That Turkey is now a deeply divided nation is only too clear. That Erdogan’s future actions may serve to deepen those divisions is the great fear.”

The effort to accede to the European Union — haltingly underway since 2005 — pulls at one set of reflexes, while Mr. Erdogan’s style tugs at another. Last year, he deployed the police against protesters in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. In December a major corruption scandal broke over his aides and his family. Just in recent weeks, his government has moved to block Twitter and YouTube — depicted as his enemies’ tools in a campaign to besmirch him with faked evidence of malfeasance.”








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