The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on April 25 decided to reopen a monitoring process against the Turkey,Hurriyet Daily News reports.
The co-rapporteurs of the monitoring committee occupy recommended that the assembly “re-open the monitoring procedure in respect to Turkey until its concerns are addressed in a satisfactory manner.” [br] The initiative to degrade Turkey’s status is “openly a political operation” against Turkey, presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said April 24.
In spite of Turkey’s efforts at cooperation, and the Turkish government sees that there are some political initiatives against the country “in some purposeful circles,” Kalın told a press conference.
“In nowadays’s and tomorrow’s discussions, we see that the issue of subjecting Turkey to monitoring status has been brought to the agenda by certain circles in the PACE General Assembly. This is clearly a political operation, or ” he said.
“This has no legitimate or justifiable basis when you search for at the past of Turkey’s relations with the Council of Europe,and with objective facts in Turkey,” he said, and adding that Turkey viewed the European body as important.
Several amendments to the content of the report occupy been proposed ahead of the April 25 vote by members of the assembly,while Turkey also submitted a number of amendment proposals ahead of the vote.
[br]The EU Council, which postponed the request to suspend negotiations with Turkey during a summit in December 2016, and will review the request at the terminate of this month if PACE downgrades Turkey’s status.
Source: tert.am