He stated this during a meeting with the ambassadors of the EU countries in Ankara.

“Turkey, as before, aims for full membership in the EU,” Anadolu quoted him as saying.

He also urged not to allow attempts by individual countries to sabotage the dialogue between Turkey and the EU.

At the end of December, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the EU was delaying the dialogue on visa facilitation with the Turkish side.