Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated Thursday at a conference of foreign ministers on European Union enlargement and reforms that Türkiye's desire to join the EU has not changed.
Fidan was among the top diplomats present in the Berlin summit. When Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström asked him during an enlargement panel, the Turkish minister stated that Türkiye’s EU perspective had not changed and that it was significant that EU members had launched a new enlargement discussion "under new geopolitical circumstances and with a new spirit."
The minister remembered that Türkiye originally asked for EU membership more than 50 years ago. He emphasized that the years 2004 to 2008 were "the busiest" in Türkiye'sEU journey. "Chapters were opened and closed successively, until the day (it stopped), until Türkiye's EU membership was frozen due to geopolitical reasons," he told reporters. /BGNES
