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The leader of Turkey’s ultra-nationalist opposition party warned yesterday that the country could face a serious threat of division if the process to grant rights to Turkish citizens of Kurdish origins demanded by the European Union is not stopped.

If this dark process is not stopped, our country will be drifting into a federal state structure with, at the beginning, one and then many partners sharing its sovereignty, Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist
Movement Party (MHP) said yesterday at his party’s group meeting in Parliament.

The MHP believes the reforms made for EU membership will weaken the unitary structure of the state and argues that Turkish citizens of Kurdish origins will be encouraged to demand self-determination rights.

Turkey was facing the danger of losing its national identity through EU impositions, Bahçeli advised that the country should review its ties with the 27-member bloc before its relations worsen. Today’s conditions and the philosophy of the ongoing negotiations make it clear that we cannot share a joint future with Europe