Turkey's EU membership bid "complicated"

Turkey's EU membership bid "complicated"

"In some parts of the country and in certain parts of the population that may be popular, but what I'm worried about are the long-term consequences. This sows the seeds of anti-European and anti-Western attitudes which, from today's point of view, makes (Turkey's) membership (in the EU) very difficult," Hahn said.

Recently, the Austrian parliament adopted a declaration of heads of caucuses of all six parliamentary parties about the Armenian genocide, to which Turkey reacted by recalling its ambassador for consultations and threatening with the cooling of relations.