On Tuesday 18 July, Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik said that while Turkey had the responsibility of nurturing its relations with the EU, the EU had the same responsibility.
"The EU also has the responsibility of nurturing this relationship. We want a sincere attitude to respond to our sincere attitudes", he told the EU-Turkey joint consultative committee of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) that was meeting in Brussels.
The Turkish minister stated that...