Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin denounced and rejected it in a communique as a "politically motivated operation."
After the vote, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement that it "strongly condemns this unjust decision of PACE taken with political motives in contravention to the established procedures."
In 2004, the EU informed Ankara that Turkey would have to exit the monitoring process, which has been in place since 1996, in order for it to fulfill the Copenhagen criteria, the standard of rules that decide if a country is eligible to join the EU.
In 2004, the monitoring process was lifted and in December the EU agreed to start full membership negotiations but talks which began in October 2005 made only little progress since then.
Relations with the EU soured especially during a referendum campaign in the past months on granting the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan more powers, during which he vehemently accused Germany and the Netherlands of "Nazi practices" by banning political rallies in their countries.
Anti-EU sentiment has risen to uNPRecedented levels in Turkey fueled by ever growing deception among the population on faltering and never ending membership talks and by the opposition of some EU countries to a full membership perspective for Ankara.
On the weekend, Erdogan's chief aide Yigit Bulut penned a vitriolic editorial against the EU in a newspaper, accusing harshly the bloc of islamophobia.
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