EU accused of double standards again

Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs Omer Celik criticized the “mixed” response given across the EU over the terrorist attacks in Turkey.

"Why is it that when Turkey is attacked by ISIS, the Turkish flag is put up on public buildings, but the same solidarity is not displayed when it is an attack by the PKK?," he told a joint news conference with U.K. Minister for Europe Alan Duncan in Ankara.

"We reiterated [during the last Brussels visit] that we cannot meet EU’s demand for an amendment to the anti-terror laws. However, there is not any problem in fulfilling the other criteria," the Daily Sabah cited him as saying.

"To ask a country, which has been faced with many terrorist attacks to change its anti-terror law, is to put both the security of Turkey and Europe in jeopardy," Celik said, recalling last Sunday’s deadly attack on a night club in Istanbul which claimed the lives of 39 people on New Year’s Eve.