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News & Current Events May 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM

EU cannot manage crises effectively without Türkiye: President Erdogan

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EU cannot manage crises effectively without Türkiye: President Erdogan - Türkiye Today
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EU cannot manage crises effectively without Türkiye: President Erdogan - Türkiye Today
Wars, political crises and economic challenges pushing bloc toward more inclusive policies, President Erdogan says on Europe Day

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live-the-future 4 days ago +39
Translation: "I'm gonna keep blocking your efforts until you give me what I want. Oh, and stop being so mean to my authoritarian friends."
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_Djoser 4 days ago +3
No, imo because of geopolitic position , he is alone, but far for europe civ and  culture. all roads lead to rome is not alrays true. They just want to do buzz. Eu has nothing to do with turkey.
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MinimumCharacter3941 4 days ago +23
Erdogan is the crisis. Or at least one of them. He should retire somewhere nice like North Korea.
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Impossible_Ruin268 4 days ago +6
He has been in power for too long. It's time to give the position to someone younger, who has a new perspective on things.
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Healthy-Amoeba2296 3 days ago
There is a brilliant notion that a special island should be set up for all the evil dictators to retire to.
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borninthewaitingroom 3 days ago +2
In the days of near weekly coups in Latin America, no one ever refused asylum.
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One-Dare3022 4 days ago +8
I have only one thing to say to the grand turkey of Turkey: Gobble gobble! He has never been interested in the safety of EU, and is in the same category as Orban.
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_Djoser 4 days ago +9
True, and Eu is  not interested in Turkey if he does not want to fill the requirements . plus, they are far from EU culture, so i think they will never join. For Defense/army, a pact can be made with us without joining Eu,it's what i think with humility, from France.
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One-Dare3022 4 days ago +1
Well, Turkey is already a part of NATO along with several of the EU-countries. NATO has not much with EU to do and if Turkey wants to join EU they have a tremendous lot of work to do ahead of them before they meet the criteria for a membership.
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_Djoser 4 days ago +3
Yes, in my head they can't join at all, i dont know why he is aiming Eu. Maybe he wants to seduce his electorat. Edit. This president of Turkey has already made demands to join Eu by the past (i write that for people didnt know) . no chance turkey will join anyway, they are not fried of Eu culture, the only countries i know who could build somthing with us, are the comonwealth countries australia and canada, they have their own identity, near Eu constitution, and maybe i dont think about some other countries because i am humble person. And who knows, maybe one day EU system will have to change his name. That s saide Defense of Eu, remember what De Gaulle said about US, and thanksfully to him we are not dependant . So good to be visionary
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One-Dare3022 4 days ago +4
He wants the money from EU and all the other benefits a EU membership will give.
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_Djoser 4 days ago +1
It would be an obvious reason , and i think you are right, but i wonder if its because he is alone right now
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One-Dare3022 4 days ago +1
He has been trying for many years now so I don’t think so.
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_Djoser 4 days ago +1
Yup and i hope he will never join
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One-Dare3022 4 days ago +2
If Turkey one day will meet the criteria of the EU I don’t see any problem. But I don’t think that will ever happen with Erdogan in power.
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skibbin 4 days ago +7
"You need me" - Man who needs them
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Confident_Client_414 4 days ago +3
Include us or we'll make trouble.
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nicuramar 4 days ago +6
It’s great that Erdoğan has decided that the English name for his country is now something that contains letters not in English. At least he didn’t dictate changing the Danish name, so I’m good with Tyrkiet still. (Edit: we all know from über and führer that English speakers can’t pronounce this letter, in German at least, and apparently think the dots are optional and it’s just a u.)
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Karlinel-my-beloved 4 days ago +3
As long as Turkey isn’t the crisis itself…yeah, we can just fine. We just got rid of the russky dickrider VO, guess who’s next (inshallah).
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Wild-Perspective-582 3 days ago +1
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PhantasmologicalAnus 3 days ago +1
It's Turkey. We don't even have that character in our alphabet, FFS.
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Charming-Ebb-1981 4 days ago -9
It hasn’t proven that it can do it without the United States either 
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