European Commission releases annual report on EU candidate country Türkiye
ANKARA (AA) – The European Commission on Wednesday released its annual report on EU candidate country Türkiye as part of its 2022 Enlargement Package.
The package, which includes the EU Commission’s latest evaluations on candidate countries Türkiye, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, was announced by Oliver Varhelyi, the neighborhood and enlargement commissioner.
Criticisms of Türkiye from previous years’ reports on issues such as democracy, fundamental rights, and the judiciary were repeated this year as well.
Such criticisms have been repeatedly rejected by Türkiye, and led it to dismiss reports from past years as “null and void.”
On the other hand, the report made positive statements about Türkiye on topics such as foreign policy, migration, the economy, and energy.
Türkiye applied for EU membership in 1987, and its accession talks began in 2005.
In the years since, the talks have been essentially frozen due to political roadblocks by certain EU members for reasons unrelated to its suitability for membership, according to Ankara.
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