Austrian Foreign Minister, Alexander Schallenber, said that the Turkish violations in Libya and the eastern Mediterranean require a new approach to relations by the European Union.
In a joint press conference with his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, who is currently visiting Vienna, Schallenberg expressed his condemnation of Turkish practices and violations in Libya and the eastern Mediterranean.
The Austrian Foreign Minister called on the European Union and the international community to take deterrent measures against the Turkish regime.
“I believe that the actions taken by certain states in the Mediterranean from Libya, Syria, to north Iraq – even the reclassification of a world-renowned monument, the Hagia Sophia, as a new mosque – should lead the European Union to re-evaluate its relations with Turkey,” he said.