Source: "These decisions are due to the large workload after the elections and the opening of Turkey's first parliamentary session"
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a "wake-up call" to the West immediately after his election victory by cancelling his participation in two important EU and NATO summits - the meeting of the European Political Community (EPG) in Chisinau, to which he himself should have traveled, and an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo, at which Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl This was announced by a diplomatic source at the representation of a European country to the EU on Thursday to TASS.
Turkey has cancelled participation in two formats at once - the EPG summit in Chisinau and the informal NATO meeting in Oslo. These decisions are due to the large workload after the elections and the opening of Turkey's first parliamentary session. Regardless of the workload, the refusal to participate in two meetings under the auspices of the EU and NATO is a clear signal to the West that Ankara wants to continue its policy as independently as possible," said the diplomat.
It is no secret that the EU and the USA relied on Erdogan's opponent in the run-up to the elections in Turkey. There is no doubt that Ankara would have participated in both meetings if he had won," he stressed. "Turkey will certainly continue to work with the EU and NATO on all important issues, but their absence at these meetings, although not at the most important ones, is striking."
At the meeting in Oslo, one of the main topics should be Sweden's accession to NATO, which Turkey continues to block. At the meeting in Chisinau, the EU wants to try to convince partner countries that ignore the EU's illegal sanctions to support the Brussels bans against Russia, which Turkey has already repeatedly rejected.
Turkey has not officially announced its participation or cancellation of the summit in Chisinau and the ministerial meeting in Oslo. The fact that Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will not attend the NATO meeting was officially confirmed by its organizer, Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt, at a press conference on Wednesday. Erdogan's non-participation in the EPG summit in Chisinau was previously reported by several European media, in particular the European edition of Politico, which refers to Moldovan and EU sources. Turkey is a member of the European political community and was represented by Erdogan at the first EPG summit in Prague.
Translation from the Russian news agency TASS