With Kati Piri gone as the EU's rapporteur to Turkey, will her successor succeed in mending ties with Ankara?
Announced by the European Parliament on October 8, Nacho Sanchez Amor will replace Kati Piri as the new rapporteur on Turkey.Her successor Amor was elected to the EU Parliament in 2019. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, the EU’s foreign affairs committee and the delegation of the EU-Turkey joint parliamentary committee. Kati Piri’s rocky tenure as rapporteur to Turkey
In 2014, Piri appeared as the Turkey’s new rapporteur. For the next five years, she compiled several reports on Turkey, which drew both criticism and condemnation from Ankara.
There were several other incidents when Piri either made attempts to demonise Turkey through her reports or completely misrepresented the country's political or security situations.
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