Reuters report: European Union decides to suspend sanctions against Turkey
Reuters news agency has reported that the European Union has decided to suspend sanctions against Turkey. A short while ago, the European Union had imposed sanctions on Turkey for its drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean and decided to sanction some TPAO officials. Reuters news agency which talked some European and US diplomats wrote that the EU had decided to follow a new path.
Reuters noted the EU had suspended plans to impose sanctions on more officials of the Turkish TPAO adding this showed that Ankara’s diplomatic moves were bearing fruit. EU leaders had met in December and agreed to sanctions.
European and US diplomats told the agency that US President Joe Biden had pressured Brussels not to impose sanctions on Turkey, while an EU diplomat said: “the blacklisting of other Turkish citizens has been stopped. At the moment, economic sanctions are not being discussed.” Another diplomat who spoke to the agency said, “A diplomatic solution is our priority.”
Diplomats said that after the meeting between President Erdogan and the president of the European Commission on January 9th, the meetings between Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and EU and NATO officials, helped to indicate that Turkey’s approach had changed.
