"Statements not based on objective criteria can't reflect EU's position on Turkey. These are europhobic opinions. Such opinions make the EU susceptible to serious risks for its future," Celik wrote on Twitter.
He added that the European Union must firstly address the issues of xenophobia and islamophobia, because if the bloc continued to fail in "democracy&pluralism tests, it'd definitely not be the EU that we'd want to be a part of."
According to the deal agreed on March 18, Turkey pledged to take back all undocumented migrants who come ashore in Greece if EU countries have Syrian refugees resettled from Turkish camps on a one-for-one basis. The bloc also pledged to accelerate the Turkish EU accession and introduce visa-free regime once Turkey had met the 72 conditions set by the bloc. Ankara has not fulfilled the five conditions that relate to data protection and anti-terror laws so far.
