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The full-intention leader Manfred Weber urges Turkey’s rule to turn around. File image. Photo: Jean-Francois Badias/AP/TT
The imprisonment of the leading opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu puts Turkey’s relationship with Europe, warns the German top politician Manfred Weber, leader of the largest party group in the European Parliament.
“The EU wants a close partnership with Turkey, but it only works on a basis for common values,” says Weber, who emphasizes that it is then not possible to use the judiciary as a political weapon.
– Erdogan’s Turkey has taken on the wrong path, he says.
Manfred Weber is the group leader for the Christian Democratic conservative party group EPP in Brussels, which includes the Swedish Moderates and Christian Democrats. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Government -leading German CDU’s Bavarian sister party CSU.
Just a few days before Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and huge protests broke out in Turkey, the European Commission had announced new conversations with Turkey for a deeper collaboration. Now it is stated that the conversations should be lost.
Last year, Member States decided that relations with Turkey should be strengthened given the event development in the Middle East and the country’s long -term role as a buffer zone in migration against the EU.