Last Updated On: Apr 08 2021 01:50 Gmt+3
As I have earlier mentioned in Ahval, the EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell is a quixotic figure, determined to do battle with the giants that threaten European security, Russia and Turkey.
Borrell concluded his end-of-the-year blog, “The way ahead after a difficult 2020 for EU-Turkey relations”, on a wistful note, reminiscent of John Lennon: “Some may think that I am a dreamer.” But some may judge him harshly and compare him with Neville Chamberlain, who came back from Munich in September 1938, waving a piece of paper, and proclaimed “peace for our time”.
Given the conclusions of the recent EU summit, at least as far as Turkey is concerned, there is no reason to be sanguine. The 15-page Borrell report on the state of play in Turkey-EU relations was three days later neatly compartmentalised in the European Council’s 11-point statement on the Eastern Mediterranean, which was sandwiched between COVID-19, European recover