The European Union called on Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to remove obstacles to revive relations with his country.
The leaders added at a summit attended by the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, that the sovereignty of Law and basic rights in Turkey remain a major concern for them.
Relations with Ankara
While the European discussions that continue to this day discuss two thorny issues: immigration And relations with Ankara and Moscow, as well as the migration and refugees file, as Turkey, which hosts about 4 million Syrian refugees, is a partner of the Union, with which it signed in 2016 an agreement aimed at stopping the flow of migrants in return for providing financial assistance to humanitarian organizations operating in the country. The leaders of European countries and governments also discussed a proposal by the European Commission to allocate 5.7 billion euros in aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan until 2024, including 3.5 billion euros for refugees in Turkey.
mentions that he had previously allocated the The European Union has allocated more than 6 billion euros to Turkey within the framework of the agreement signed in 2016, of which 4.1 billion have been disbursed so far. (The Europeans hope to continue the “de-escalation” that has been underway since the beginning of the year in the eastern Mediterranean, according to a European source to Agence France-Presse.
It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of this month, the Council of Europe threatened, for the first time, to initiate disciplinary measures against Turkey for failing to implement a court order to release philanthropic businessman Osman Kavala, a civil society activist and critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kavala has been in prison since his arrest in October 2017, and faces several charges related to protests organized in 2013 and the attempted coup in 2016, while the latter denies this. He is still in prison despite a decision by the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in December 2019 calling for Erdogan to be released.
