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T\u00fcrkiye on Wednesday slammed \u201cunfounded allegations\u201d in the European Commission\u2019s 2026 T\u00fcrkiye report, accusing some EU officials of applying double standards and adopting an increasingly inconsistent approach toward Ankara. nIn a statement in response to the report, the Foreign Ministry said the European Commission\u2019s assessment, published as part of its 2026 Enlargement Package, once again demonstrated the EU\u2019s “prejudiced and unfair attitude” toward T\u00fcrkiye.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ministry particularly criticized the report\u2019s assessments of political criteria, the judiciary and fundamental rights, rejecting the allegations as lacking credibility.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It also accused the EU of supporting “unrealistic and legally questionable positions” taken by Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration, while disregarding the legitimate rights and interests of T\u00fcrkiye and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the Cyprus issue, Ankara reiterated that the EU cannot make a meaningful contribution to efforts toward a settlement as long as it unconditionally adopts the Greek Cypriot position.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ministry rejected the report\u2019s assessments concerning the Eastern Mediterranean, describing them as contrary to international law and the principle of fairness.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It also dismissed the report\u2019s remarks on the maritime agreement between T\u00fcrkiye and Libya as having no legal validity.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" T\u00fcrkiye on Wednesday slammed \u201cunfounded allegations\u201d in the European Commission\u2019s 2026 T\u00fcrkiye report, accusing some [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":154928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154930,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154927\/revisions\/154930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}