After years of frozen negotiations, Ankara is sending a sharper message to Brussels. The shift comes despite recent calls to revive long-suspended dialogue.<\/p>\n
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan stated that the country\u2019s accession to the European Union is no longer among Ankara\u2019s top priorities. In an interview with Al Jazeera, he explained this position by Brussels\u2019 lack of readiness to admit Turkey to the EU.<\/p>\n
EU membership is no longer a priority for Turkey<\/p>\n
\u2013 Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in an interview with Al Jazeera<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan believes that delaying a decision on Turkey\u2019s application will have more negative consequences for Europe than for Ankara.<\/p>\n
Europe is the one that will lose out<\/p>\n
\u2013 Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in an interview with Al Jazeera<\/p>\n
Turkey-EU negotiations<\/p>\n
Turkey was granted candidate status for membership in the European Union in 1999. Official accession talks began in 2005, but the process effectively stalled in 2016 amid political disagreements.<\/p>\n
European lawmakers have repeatedly raised concerns about the Turkish authorities. The criticism concerned a departure from democratic standards, the state of media freedom, and respect for human rights.<\/p>\n
Ankara\u2019s position on European integration<\/p>\n
At the same time, in July 2026, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, during a meeting with European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, emphasized Turkey\u2019s expectations regarding the resumption of dialogue on European integration.<\/p>\n
At the time, Ankara hoped to reinvigorate cooperation mechanisms with the EU and resume negotiation meetings. Erdo\u011fan\u2019s current statement indicates that Turkey sees further progress in this direction as dependent primarily on concrete steps by Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of frozen negotiations, Ankara is sending a sharper message to Brussels. The shift comes despite recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,69926,69925,55850,38,69927,69928,69929],"class_list":["post-147046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-erdogan-eu-membership","tag-erdogan-eu-membership-turkey-eu-accession-turkey-brussels-relations-eu-accession-talks-turkey-european-union","tag-eu-accession-talks","tag-news","tag-turkey-brussels-relations","tag-turkey-eu-accession","tag-turkey-european-union"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117109355049266510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}