ANKARA
Turkish EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis criticized the EU on Monday, saying, "EU described the incident in Egypt as 'intervention'; however, this was not an intervention, this was clearly a 'coup'."
Bagis said that (EU) countries, which could not describe the incident in Egypt as a coup, could not describe the savagery as savagery.
"Some countries wanted to open the way of the pro-coups, but they understood that this was not correct. Because, one of the most important value of EU is democracy," said Bagis.
Bagis stressed that to make a coup against a democratically elected president and repeal the constitution approved by the public were not compatible with EU values.
Bagis pointed out that Turkey had given a principal reaction to incidents in Egypt after the coup, saying, "We have been waiting for EU to give the same principle reaction to the coup."
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