Turkey isn’t politically fit to join the European Union and shouldn’t become a member, the lead candidate of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union for European Parliament elections said.
“The Erdogan Turkey of 2014 has moved further away from the standards of the European Union,” David McAllister, the CDU candidate for the May 25 European Parliament vote, said in an interview on April 8 in Hanover. “The current assault on freedom of expression in no way conforms with European standards.”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government blocked both Twitter and YouTube amid YouTube postings of alleged voice recordings of senior Turkish officials allegedly engaged in graft, abuse of power and the creation of a pretext for an attack on Syria. The government ended its Twitter ban last week in compliance with a court order. A local Turkish court reinstated a ban on YouTube on April 5. Erdogan said Twitter was threatening Turkish national security.
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“The Erdogan Turkey of 2014 has moved further away from the standards of the European Union,” David McAllister, the CDU candidate for the May 25 European Parliament vote, said in an interview on April 8 in Hanover. “The current assault on freedom of expression in no way conforms with European standards.”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government blocked both Twitter and YouTube amid YouTube postings of alleged voice recordings of senior Turkish officials allegedly engaged in graft, abuse of power and the creation of a pretext for an attack on Syria. The government ended its Twitter ban last week in compliance with a court order. A local Turkish court reinstated a ban on YouTube on April 5. Erdogan said Twitter was threatening Turkish national security.
Read more: Turkey Unfit to Join EU, Says Merkel Europe Parliament Candidate - Bloomberg
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