Turkey Unfit to Join EU Says Merkel Europe Parliament Candidate

Turkey isn’t politically fit to join the European Union and shouldn’t become a member, the lead candidate of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union for European Parliament elections said.

“The Erdogan Turkey of 2014 has moved further away from the standards of the European Union,” David McAllister, the CDU candidate for the May 25 European Parliament vote, said in an interview on April 8 in Hanover. “The current assault on freedom of expression in no way conforms with European standards.”