Turkey's Foreign Ministry has sharply rejected a European Parliament resolution that condemns the country's human rights record and its continued sovereignty violations against Greece and Cyprus, dismissing the report as biased and accusing European lawmakers of giving a platform to "terrorist organizations."
The resolution, adopted by a wide majority in the European Parliament, calls on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government to address what it describes as systemic deterioration in democratic standards, press freedom and judicial independence.
The report singles out Turkey's "Blue Homeland" maritime doctrine and expresses direct concern over Ankara's standing casus belli threat against Greece — a decades-old parliamentary resolution declaring war if Greece extends its territorial waters — as well as Turkey's continued military presence in northern Cyprus.
Turkish diplomats objected in particular to passages targeting Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc over the prosecution of political opponents, with the foreign ministry insisting the Turkish judiciary operates independently and will not accept what it called external interference from international political bodies.
The ministry argued that the resolution's timing was counterproductive, warning that the European Parliament's approach risks overshadowing what it described as a more constructive bilateral agenda at a moment of heightened instability across the Eastern Mediterranean.
The resolution adds to a long list of friction points between Ankara and Brussels, coming as Turkey's EU accession process remains effectively frozen and as tensions with Greece over Aegean airspace and maritime boundaries continue to simmer alongside the broader regional fallout from conflicts in the Middle East.