Bağış:We are in a new process which is of utmost importance for Turkey.
Our new Costitutional Package comprising of 29 articles will clear away the dust clouds over our democracy and relieve our democracy. Clogging in the veins of Turkey will be eliminated and our country will have a more sound and democratic economic and judicial functioning.
Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış
We are in a new process which is of utmost importance for Turkey.
Each article in this package, which is the outcome of our determination to align with the European Union acquis communautaire and of our will to guarantee the rights and equity of our nation, is basically as valuable as the opening and closing of one chapter in the accession negotiations.
In our visits to Luxembourg, Brussels, London and Poland in the recent weeks, we had the chance to observe that our European friends also followed this process with enthusiasm and appreciation.
As long as Turkey doesn’t make any concessions on its democratic acquisitions and maintains its will to become a country at European standards, it will continue to go forward as a growing country in a world which gets smaller every day.
Within this scope, Turkey’s target of full membership to EU is our most strategic and essential target in the forthcoming period.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Turkey on 29-30 March has also been quite fruitful in terms of Turkey’s EU membership, and Merkel’s keeping her word and sharing her positive approach regarding negotiations with the public have been welcomed.
Turkey’s deep-rooted and traditional relations with Germany throughout the history render the cooperation compulsory within the framework of the European Union.
It has been understood that the approaches such as privileged partnership, which does not take place in the EU Acquis and which destroys European Union’s plausibility, can not be used as ammunition against Turkey. Merkel has also understood the sensitivity on these statements constituted in the presence of the public eye and the government.
We are open to privileged partnership with Germany in terms of bilateral relations; but nobody should expect Turkey to be in such an argument with the European Union.
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