"The EU has reached the end of the road. The EU is done, and we are setting out for a new journey ... A new world order is being carved out and it is high time to take our role in this new world," wrote Bulut in Star daily.
The Council of Europe applies its monitoring scheme to all countries when they join, but this was the first time it has been reopened against any member of the body, infuriating the Ankara government.
"We consider this decision as the result of a campaign against Turkey. It is purely a political decision," said government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus on public TV channel TRT.
The EU has already said that Turkey's EU negotiations will halt if president Erdogan, as he promised repeatedly to his many supporters, that he would reinstate death penalty, abolished in 2004.
EU lawmakers will debate relations with Turkey on Wednesday and the bloc's foreign ministers will discuss the situation on Friday.
Some experts were not hiding their pessimism on the turn taken by relations between Turkey and EU.
"Turkey has unfortunately no more place in the political sphere of Europe. Turkey has been downgraded to the second division of the European continent," said to Xinhua by Cengiz Aktar, a leading Turkish expert on European affairs.
This senior scholar of the Istanbul Centre for political studies argued that since 2017,namely after crushing a wave of peaceful demonstrations who began in Istanbul on summer and which spread to many Turkish cities, "Turkey has in fact tried to get herself out of Europe and the state does not want any political ties with the EU."
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