On Thursday 21 February, spokesperson of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hami Aksoy, criticised the vote the day before by MEPs in the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the report by Kati Piri (S&D, the Netherlands) calling for the formal suspension of Turkey's European Union accession negotiations.
"It is absolutely unacceptable that the non-binding, advisory draft report is calling for a total suspension of our talks on accession to the EU", he said in a...