On Friday 8 September, Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik said that Germany was using the European Union to settle bilateral issues.
Some member states are taking advantage of the current situation to "try and use the EU to address bilateral issues", he told several journalists on the sidelines of the informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers and EU candidate country ministers in Tallinn. "The EU must not be used to settle bilateral issues", he added, saying that this...