“The Erdogan Turkey has no place in Europe”: CSU General Secretary Scheuer has expressed significant criticism of the future Turkish president. Berlin must examine its relations with Ankara exactly.

After Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in the presidential election in Turkey, the CSU will stop EU accession negotiations with the country permanently. “The Erdogan Turkey has no place in Europe,” said CSU General Secretary Andreas Scheuer the “Hannover Allgemeine Zeitung”. “The future president will enter democratic values ​​with feet, to expand his power, want to restrict freedom of the press and continue rushing worst way against Israel.”

The CSU has never made a secret of the fact that Turkey does not belong in their view, in the European Union, Scheuer said. Now expect his party that even “get everyone else this insight.” “Thank dawns finally, if you just Erdogan’s speeches and deeds long hard look at,” Scheuer told the newspaper. As regards the political relations between Berlin and

Ankara, Germany will observe exactly how the Islamic-conservative politicians deal with his new power.

Even the Green Party chairman Cem Özdemir said an EU accession of Turkey would with a president Erdogan even more unlikely. In Oldenburg’s “Northwest newspaper” stressed Özdemir same time: “The fact that Europe, given the situation in Iraq, in Syria, between Israel and Palestine in a stable Turkey has an essential for survival interest, but is beyond doubt.”

Erdogan’s Turkey EU:Elmar Brok: Autocratic power wealth Erdogan

The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament, Elmar Brok (CDU), said the “world”, the EU must be careful that Erdogan is not the applicant, a autocratic power and wealth of the rule of law in Turkey continue to get into danger. “Such a development would finally escape the accession negotiations with the EU’s foundation.”

The head of government had won the first direct election of a Turkish president on Sunday in the first round. For him, voted nearly 52 percent of voters, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu his strongest adversary came to just over 38 percent.

The election victory paves Erdogan now the way to transform Turkey from a parliamentary democracy to a presidential system. In such a system, the head of state would no longer only ceremonial duties, but would largely determine the policy. The opposition fears thereby undermining the principle of separation of powers.

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