Published September 01,2023
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Türkiye-EU relations are of important significance not just for Türkiye and the EU, but additionally for the area, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz mentioned on Thursday.
“Within the scope of the meeting, we exchanged views on global and regional developments, especially Türkiye-EU relations,” Yılmaz mentioned on X, previously Twitter, after internet hosting Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, head of the EU delegation in Türkiye and the accompanying delegation on the Presidential Complex in Ankara.
“Türkiye-EU relations are deep-rooted, multidimensional and vital not only for Türkiye and the EU, but also for our region,” he mentioned, including that the Russia-Ukraine battle had proven the “most concrete reflection of this situation.”
Türkiye thinks it’s essential to remove the political obstacles to its relations with the EU as quickly as potential, to regain momentum in relations and to maintain the structural dialogue mechanisms open constantly, he added.
He mentioned updating the Customs Union between the 2 sides and accelerating dialogue on visa liberalization had been “important agenda items” in doing so.
Yılmaz added that Ankara sees enhancement and growth of shut EU-Türkiye monetary cooperation as a vital component of the EU accession course of.
“Our mutual cooperation with the EU will open up new opportunities in areas such as green transformation, digitalization, sustainable urban transport and clean energy.”
He additionally thanked the EU for its solidarity within the wake of dual devastating earthquakes that hit southern Türkiye on Feb. 6
“We would like to see the rapid delivery of the aid pledged by the EU at the International Donors’ Conference on March 20,” he mentioned.
More than 50,000 individuals had been killed by earthquakes with magnitudes 7.7 and seven.6 that rocked the Turkish cities of Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, and Şanlıurfa.
The earthquakes have additionally affected round 14 million individuals in Türkiye and hundreds of others in northern Syria.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
