Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs showed a strong response to the recommendation adopted at the European Parliament for Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement says that "The recommendation decision dated 17 September 2020, far from the facts, accepted in the General Assembly of the European Parliament solely for the sake of EU membership solidarity and to serve the selfish interests of some member countries, is unacceptable in multiple ways."
EU. In a resolution adopted on Thursday, September 17, 2020 by 601 votes in favour, 57 against and 36 abstentions, MEPs "condemn Turkey's actions in the exclusive economic zones of Greece and Cyprus and express their full solidarity with the two member states". Just as Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, had done the day before during her EU speech to MEPs in Brussels.
"De-escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean is in our mutual interest," the European Parliament emphasizes, pointing out that new sanctions against Turkey are not excluded.
It is one more voice in the European unanimity, after that of the final declaration of the MED7 Summit, and a serious threat to Ankara in the run-up to the extraordinary European Council of 24 and 25 September 2020. Meeting in Brussels, the twenty-seven heads of state of the EU will decide on the response to be sent to Turkey. The MEPs ask them "to be ready to put in place new sectoral and targeted restrictive measures, which would not have a negative impact on the Turkish population or the refugees residing in the country". According to the MEPs, only dialogue can avoid them.
"De-escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean is in our mutual interest," the European Parliament emphasizes, pointing out that new sanctions against Turkey are not excluded.
It is one more voice in the European unanimity, after that of the final declaration of the MED7 Summit, and a serious threat to Ankara in the run-up to the extraordinary European Council of 24 and 25 September 2020. Meeting in Brussels, the twenty-seven heads of state of the EU will decide on the response to be sent to Turkey. The MEPs ask them "to be ready to put in place new sectoral and targeted restrictive measures, which would not have a negative impact on the Turkish population or the refugees residing in the country". According to the MEPs, only dialogue can avoid them.
The resolution expresses "their concern about the ongoing dispute and the consequent risk of military escalation between EU member states and an EU candidate country". They welcome the withdrawal, on 12 September 2020, of one of the Turkish seismic research vessels (the Oruç-Reis) present in the disputed waters. But two others are still there (the Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa and the Yavuz). They therefore call on "Turkey to immediately cease all illegal prospecting and drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, not to violate Greek airspace and Greek and Cypriot territorial waters, and to put an end to "bellicose nationalist rhetoric"".
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