On Sunday 1 October, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey no longer needed to join the EU.
"We will not be the side which gives up. To tell the truth, we don’t need EU membership any more”, Erdogan told the Turkish parliament. "If the EU is going to leap forward, there is only one way to do so. And it is to grant Turkey membership and start an action of cultural and economic growth”, he said.
"We are extremely uncomfortable with those who openly hinder...