"Everybody should understand that Turkey's EU bid is a one-way process which is carried on through negotiations. There is no turning back in this process," Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoğlu said. As noted by the Turkish diplomat, a candidate country's membership process had never stopped unless such country refused membership itself in EU's history. "If a country kept displaying political will, there had never been other alternatives than full membership", Davutoğlu added, calling on EU to be committed to its promises and not to use Turkish-EU relations for political discussions within itself.
Chief Negotiator for EU Talks Egemen Bağış noted in his turn that Turkey had the necessary political, and everybody in Turkey would agree that the country had become more modern and democratic.