Austrian Chancellor Kurz urges to stop Turkey’s EU accession talks

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemned Turkey’s military operations in Syria and urged the EU to stop that country’s accession talks, Sputnik News reports.

“The talks onmembership betweenthe European Union and Turkey should be ended taking intoaccount the systematic violations ofhuman rights and essential democratic values, and because the Copenhagen Criteria [rules defining if the state is ready tojoin the European Union] are not implemented anymore”, Kurz said inan interview tothe Welt magazine.

But the Austrian Chancellor added that Turkey still remains the EU’s key strategic partner with which the cooperation should continue within the policy of good neighborliness.

English –translator/editor: Aneta Harutyunyan