Ekin Deligoz a German Greens deputy who is visiting Turkey, said that “EU might be a rose garden but its thorns will prick. EU means, interfering into a country’s internal affairs."

Deligoz who accompanies Claudia Roth, the Co-Chairman of the Greens Party, said that by supporting the AKP government, the Greens were in fact supporting Turkey. About the minority controversy in Turkey, he said that “If you say that “We are all together, and will take this distance together” the issue of discrimination and minority, will be gone.”