Kılıçdaroğlu: In our goverment Turkey's EU membership process will advance rapidly

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• published: 08 Oct 2015
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Euronews Interview - Turkish opposition leader promises radical reforms and media freedom, ahead of crunch election Turkey is counting down to snap elections. Coalition talks between political leaders after June’s poll broke up without any conclusion. Now everybody is waiting to see if Turkey will wake up to a ‘one party ruling’ era or another round of coalition talks on the morning of 2 November. Ahead of the poll, euronews has spoken to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party or CHP. Turkey will ‘surprise’ EU Nezahat Sevim, euronews: “If the Republican People’s Party is in power after the next elections, what will happen to membership negotiations between the EU and Turkey?” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: “The process will advance rapidly. We won’t wait for the EU to open a new chapter. Whatever standards the member countries have for democracy, law, gender equality, judicial independence etc, we will carry them out. We never wait for the opening of another chapter to do so. “So, we will surprise the union. The union will see that without opening a new chapter, Turkey will have already fulfilled all of the criteria.” More: chpbrussels.org