{"id":1150756,"date":"2026-08-15T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1150756\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:19:21","slug":"membership-in-the-european-union-is-not-our-priority-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1150756\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Membership in the European Union is not our priority&#8221; &#8211; Erdo\u011fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s membership in the European Union (EU) is not among Ankara&#8217;s priorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Modern.az<\/strong> reports that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan stated this in an interview with &#8220;Al Jazeera&#8221; television channel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apparently, Europe is not ready to accept Turkey into the European Union,&#8221; Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Turkish leader, in the current situation, the losing side is not Ankara, but Europe: &#8220;Membership in the European Union is not our priority. It is Europe that loses from Turkey not joining the Union.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s membership in the European Union (EU) is not among Ankara&#8217;s priorities.&#8221; Modern.az reports that Turkish President Recep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1150757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[42056,2000,299,5187,1699,8274,121931,7922],"class_list":["post-1150756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-erdogan","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-membership","tag-priority","tag-union"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}