Washington-SANA
The American Wall Street Journal confirmed that relations between the European Union and Turkey have now reached a "breaking point" after their deterioration over many years against the backdrop of the constant provocations and hostile policies of the President of the Turkish regime, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the failure of the European bloc to deal with and contain its ambitions.
In the context of an article published yesterday, the newspaper said that “Europe must unify the positions of its member states and defend their interests in the face of what Erdogan aspires to achieve,” noting that the European Union’s recent efforts to establish a self-strategy or to turn into an independent global player will fail as long as he is unable to defend Its members are facing hostile neighbors like the Turkish regime.
The newspaper pointed out that the historical deterioration in relations between Europe and the Turkish regime came against the background of repeated escalations by the latter and its dangerous provocations in the eastern Mediterranean region, and the exacerbation of tension between it and Greece, and it reached the point of threatening military operations and war between the two parties.
The newspaper indicated that Erdogan's hostile policies will lead a summit to be held by European Union leaders today in light of increasing calls for sanctions against the Turkish regime, which preceded the summit by conducting military maneuvers that included the use of live ammunition in an area near the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kastelorizo, in a new military parade by it.
The newspaper pointed out that the Turkish regime's provocations have intensified over the past years, most notably the exploitation of the migrant file and its extortion by the European Union countries in exchange for material and political ambitions.
The newspaper pointed out that the Turkish regime's repeated violations of human rights and its ignorance of European calls to stop its repressive campaign against its opponents and opponents of its policies further deteriorated relations between the two parties, but the problem of the Eastern Mediterranean and Erdogan's ambitions for oil and gas there pushed these relations to the brink of the abyss, with the latter's insistence on pursuing illegal drilling and drilling .
The European Parliament recently criticized the violations of the Turkish regime in the eastern Mediterranean, while the French Minister of State for European Affairs Clement Bion today called on the European Union to take firm stances towards Turkey.