Erdogan asks the European Union to move Turkey's accession negotiations to the bloc

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the European Union to resume "accession negotiations" with Ankara, on the eve of a European summit in Brussels on the situation in Ukraine.

Concluding a meeting he held in Ankara with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Erdogan said: "We expect the European Union to quickly open the chapters of accession negotiations and start customs union negotiations without being drawn into narrow calculations."

Negotiations on the possibility of Turkey's accession to the European Union, which were launched in 2005, have stumbled in recent years due to sometimes severe tension with Brussels over several files.

At the end of 2020, the European Commission deemed Ankara's chances of membership "on hold" due to decisions that run counter to the interests of the European Union and taken by its leaders.

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