Despite this, he stressed, the larger \u20ac800 billion fund, along with the growing number of Turkish firms establishing companies and joint ventures across the EU, will enable T\u00fcrkiye to benefit from the bloc\u2019s financial instruments.<\/p>\n
Turkish companies\u2019 growing presence in the EU through new firms and partnerships would allow T\u00fcrkiye to make better use of these funds, he said.<\/p>\n
He said Ankara aims to build prosperity-based cooperation not only with the EU, but also with its partners to the east, north and across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
Fidan said the EU has succeeded in becoming a supranational entity, but \u201ccould not become a civilisation-transcending entity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Highlighting T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s progress, he added that T\u00fcrkiye completed major infrastructure, energy, defence, health, communication and education investments largely without receiving major EU funds.<\/p>\n
\u201cT\u00fcrkiye now has infrastructure far above the standards of many European countries, and its population is approaching 90 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Turkish Cypriots will not accept second-class status<\/strong><\/p>\n Fidan also addressed the issue of Cyprus, stressing that Ankara would keep defending the equal sovereign rights of Turkish Cypriots.<\/p>\n \u201cThey will not accept a second-class status, and neither will we as a guarantor state,\u201d he said, adding that the two-state model is the most realistic and stable formula.<\/p>\n He said he met with TRNC President Tufan Erhurman during his recent visit to T\u00fcrkiye, where they discussed strengthening coordination on foreign policy, messaging and joint action.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a productive meeting, and I believe we will work together in a coordinated and harmonious way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Fidan criticised the EU for \u201cimporting the Greek Cypriot problem into its system,\u201d saying the bloc\u2019s decision-making rules have been exploited, leading to repeated internal deadlocks.<\/p>\n He noted that the EU is now seeking to shift from unanimity to qualified majority voting because it cannot take decisions on several key issues, \u201cincluding those related to T\u00fcrkiye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite this, he stressed, the larger \u20ac800 billion fund, along with the growing number of Turkish firms establishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-574017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115559136193099652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574017","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=574017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}