{"id":109281,"date":"2014-12-09T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=109281"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:30:19","slug":"turkish-fm-denies-rift-between-policies-of-turkey-and-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2014\/12\/09\/turkish-fm-denies-rift-between-policies-of-turkey-and-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish FM denies rift between policies of Turkey and EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy <strong>Federica Mogherini<\/strong> (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Minister\u00a0<strong>Mevl\u00fct\u00a0\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011f<\/strong> u (R) speak during a joint press conference after their meeting in Ankara on Dec. 8. AFP Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief did not raise any criticism or proposals for the alignment of Turkey\u2019s foreign policy with the EU, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu has said, in reply to remarks by Federica Mogherini.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Turkey&#8217;s \u201cvery important contributions\u201d to the EU\u2019s security and defense policies, the EU had not included Ankara in the decision making processes of those policies, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu told reporters on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there should be a reproach, it should be from Turkey,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a press conference at the EU delegation in Ankara, Mogherini said on Dec. 8 that the EU candidate nation had signed up to less than a third of the bloc\u2019s recent foreign policy positions, compared to 80 percent in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to improve the alignment on foreign policy and security policy, it\u2019s never been so low and this is a problem for the European Union, though it is mainly a problem for Turkey,\u201d she told a news conference after talks with the Turkish leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Mogherini also said the EU would not be drawn into a &#8220;battle with Russia&#8221; for influence over Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be good if in the future we could create more areas for cooperation rather than competition [with Russia] but Turkey is definitely out of this game, if there is a game in this sense,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B4VUQbiCUAAY7HB.jpg:large\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A high ranking visit by Mogherini, Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Christos Stylianides comes a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s trip to Turkey, during which Moscow announced it was scrapping the South Stream gas pipeline project and named Turkey as its preferred partner for an alternative.<br \/>\nDecember\/09\/2014<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>K\u00fcfi Seydali<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Minister\u00a0Mevl\u00fct\u00a0\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011f u (R) speak during a joint press conference after their meeting in Ankara on Dec. 8. AFP Photo &nbsp; The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief did not raise any criticism or proposals for the alignment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":43868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}