Turkey: „Perhaps We Will Never Join the EU“

Politics ♦ Published: September 23, 2013; 07:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

Turkey´s Minister of European Afffairs Egemen Bagis stated that Turkey feels insulted.

Turkey: „Perhaps We Will Never Join the EU“ / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Turkey will possibly stay outside the EU, Bagis wrote in a guest comment for the British newspaper “Telegraph”. According to Bagis, the behavior of a number of EU members is compromising. “The EU does not harm us. But when they let us wait, they leave themselves open to harm.”

Moreover, he argues that many EU countries still have enormous prejudices. Above all, Germany,…