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Merkel says will ask to end Turkey's EU membership talks

by Daily Sabah with AFP

BERLIN Sep 03, 2017 - 12:00 am GMT+3
RTL Handout Photo via AFP
|RTL Handout Photo via AFP
by Daily Sabah with AFP Sep 03, 2017 12:00 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she would ask the European Union to call off membership talks with Turkey, amid escalating tensions between Berlin and Ankara.

"I don't see them ever joining and I had never believed that it would happen," she said during a televised debate with Martin Schulz, her Social Democratic rival in elections later this month.

"The fact is clear that Turkey should not become a member of the EU," Merkel said after Schulz said he would stop Turkey's bid to join the EU if he was elected chancellor.

"Apart from this, I'll speak to my colleagues to see if we can reach a joint position on this so that we can end these accession talks," Merkel added.

Relations between Turkey and Germany, home to three million ethnic Turks, have been badly strained, particularly since the failed coup attempt a year ago against Turkey's democratically elected government by the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ). Turkey accuses Germany of harboring high-ranking FETÖ figures and soldiers linked to the coup attempt, in addition to activities of PKK and DHKP-C terrorist groups in Germany.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly said that more than 4,000 files regarding terrorism suspects were sent to Germany, but that no step have been taken to finish examining the files and deporting the suspects to Turkey.

The two countries were also involved in a bitter diplomatic spat over German parliament's bill describing 1915 events as "genocide" and Turkey's counter measure of preventing German lawmakers to visit German anti-Daesh troops deployed at the Incirlik base. Germany pulled out its 260 military personnel and fighters from Turkey in June, and redeployed them in Jordan.

The spat has also cast clouds over a 2016 deal between Ankara and the EU that has stemmed the mass influx of migrants and refugees into the block.

"Germany must be careful about how it conducts foreign policy with Turkey" Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in his recent trip to Poland and added that a populist approach is not the answer to solve ongoing problems between the two countries.

The Foreign Minister warned Germany of crossing the line shortly after his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel said that Turkey would never become a member of the EU as long as President Erdoğan stays in power.

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