The European Political Union held its first summit meeting in Prague last week. Leaders of 44 countries (Zelensky though not physically involved) brought it together.
There isn’t a lot of information about what’s being discussed; because they were mostly alone. What bureaucrats dislike the most.
Still, some information leaked, of course.
I have written before; President Recep Tayyip Erdogan He decided at the last minute to attend the summit.
In fact, he received an invitation quite late. Known suspects Greece and Cyprus have made a lot of effort to prevent Turkey’s participation.
Let’s not say “he tried to block”; “He expressed reservations about whether Erdogan will behave in a courteous manner or behave in a dignified manner. Mitsotakis‘ said one European.
Look who opposed the exclusion of Turkey.
A surprise country: France.
Since the European Political Community was the proposal of the President of France, the French played an important role in the organization of the meeting together with the Czech Presidency.
As I understand it, Mitsotakis could not persuade France to exclude Turkey.
Of course, those who don’t like Erdogan much macronI don’t know what exactly was the reason behind ‘s turning down Mitsotakis. Of course, it wasn’t to allow Turkey’s European identity to be registered by taking part in the family photo. He may have taken into account that a photo without Turkey would lessen the weight of the message it would send to Putin.
Because, in almost all the news, it was pointed out that not only Belarus and Russia were included in the family photo taken in the historical castle, PutinAttention was drawn to the importance of being isolated.
So this photo alone was enough. Even if they dispersed without speaking afterwards.
In the meantime, Israel has made a lot of effort to reach the summit. He said, “Let’s have a meeting with you in Brussels two days before” and put a finger of honey in his mouth, and the green light was not given for him to reach the summit.
When Sanna Marin and Erdogan left the hall one after another
Let’s go to dinner.
As it was leaked to the press during the meal, there was a clash between Erdoğan and Miçotakis. Afterwards, the President left the dining hall early to attend the press conference. Immediately afterwards, before the meal was over, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin up from the table. As you know, due to Sweden, Finland is kept in the waiting room by Turkey regarding its entry into NATO.
The 36-year-old female prime minister of Finland was on the agenda last August, when videos of her having fun in nightclubs leaked to the press. Although hurt, she had endured the criticism well and dodged the salvos of burying herself.
When Erdoğan and Marin left the hall early one after another, they laughed among themselves, saying, “Marin and Erdoğan are probably going to the disco.”
When I heard this, I said to myself that a sentence using the word “Erdogan” and “disco” can only come from the mouth of a European.
Repent, repent.
I was talking to a colleague working in Europe the other day. When the German Deputy Speaker of the Parliament called Erdogan a sewer mouse, he called the newspaper he was working for. They said, “We cannot communicate this.” Erdogan and the sewer mouse in the same sentence? God damn it!
However, a heavy insult was made to the President of Turkey; Won’t it be reported so that Erdogan doesn’t get upset, nervous, or have high blood pressure?
If you look, it is possible to see the news only in the independent media. If you ask me, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs apparently saved it.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement, condemning the insulting words without the use of word of mouth. On top of that, a lawsuit was filed in Germany. Would Erdogan’s Turkey tolerate this?
And how come this issue was not taken up by the president? Or was it put in a drawer to be dealt with later?
Or is it really possible that such information was not communicated to him?
We cannot say that anything is impossible in the one-man regime.
Who is Barchin Yinanc? Barçın Yinanç was born in 1968, graduated from METU, Department of International Relations. He worked as a diplomacy reporter for more than 10 years at Milliyet Ankara Office, which he started as an intern in 1990. Then he switched to television journalism and worked first at TV8 and then at CNN Türk Ankara Bureau. In addition to Turkey-USA, Turkey-EU relations, he followed the developments in Turkish foreign policy in a wide geography from the Caucasus to the Middle East. He held interviews with many foreign government officials, covered the summits of international organizations such as the UN, NATO and the EU and the behind-the-scenes developments. He settled in Istanbul in 2004, started working at Hürriyet Daily News (HDN), which is published in English, after CNN Türk and Reference newspaper. He took on various roles as news coordinator, comment page editor; Beginning in 2010, he conducted the newspaper’s Monday interviews for ten years. During this time he continued to write foreign policy analyzes. He attends the meetings of many international think tanks as a speaker, facilitator, and comments on the publications of foreign publications. Yinanç is a member of the Association of Diplomacy Correspondents, the Ski Club of International Journalist, and the Women in Foreign Policy platform, which prepares the podcast series “AttmaHaber”. Last post; Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Turkey and Women in Diplomacy: How to Integrate the WPS Agenda in Turkish Foreign Policy is titled). Barçın Yinanç, who has been writing on T24 since December 2020, is doing the show “Impressed with Foreign Policy” with Metin Kaan Kurtuluş every week on the T24 screen. |