Turkish Frustration With EU Talks Is Prompting Outreach to BRICS
- Foreign minister says Turkey holdings talks with BRICS group
- Turkey’s accession talks with EU have stalled in recent years
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Turkey has reached out to the BRICS club of major emerging nations that includes Russia and China, in a sign of growing frustration over a lack of progress in talks to join the European Union.
“We have relations and are holding talks, negotiations with the BRICS countries and they’re also going through an evolution,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Haberturk television in an interview late Monday. “If the EU had the will to take a step forward, our perspective on certain issues could be different.”