Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he did not recognize “decisions made by the European Parliament” in response to the Parliament’s session on Turkey on June 12.
The prime minister said the body’s decisions were not binding for Turkey, which is not an EU member.
Tayyip Erdogan’s rage also targeted Stefan Füle, calling him “that one who is responsible of expansion of the union.”
“He did not once give me a counterargument during his time with me, and then he exited the
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Turkey’s European Affairs Ministry also criticized the European Parliament’s attitude, releasing a statement accusing the Parliament of “getting excited in the heat of the moment.”
“Some Parliaments should understand that there is a price for talking so freely and boldly about Turkey’s domestic affairs. They should not be fooled by manipulations and slander and be part of dirty plans both national and international,” the statement said.
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“Turkey is a democratic, secular state of law that knows fully how to govern within its own democratic tradition. I hope that they have calculated the price of getting excited in the heat of the moment and target not just our government but the Turkish Republic as well,” the statement added.
The Parliament, shortly after Erdoğan’s angry words, passed a harshly worded proposal against the Turkish government about the recent Gezi Park protest events.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry responded quickly, calling the decision “of a nature that harms our mutual aims.”
“The decision passed by the Parliament on the ongoing situation in Turkey is of a nature that harms our mutual aims of strengthening and spreading democracy, and one that has no relation to reality. In that sense, it is null and void to us.”
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Turkey’s prime minister ordered Thursday that “troublemakers” be removed from Istanbul’s Taksim Square within 24 hours. “We will clean the square,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, a day after his Justice and Development party proposed a referendum over a development plan at the square that has fanned the protests. Erdogan also lashed out at the European Parliament over its resolution that expressed concern over“the disproportionate and excessive use of force by the Turkish police.” The PM said he would not “recognize the decision that the EU parliament is going to take about us.”
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