Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is stirring up anti-LGBT sentiment in the country. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu wants to reverse Erdogan's restructuring of the political system.
The EU could see a re-election of the Turkish incumbent as a convenient solution to the accession issue. But fundamental problems such as the Cyprus conflict or the refugee agreement with the EU could not be solved by this, it said. The country on the Bosporus had applied for membership and has been an official candidate country since 1999.