'The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of
the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with
the treatment of minorities, and your
economic vision.’ But at the same
time, I say, I’m watching what you are trying to do and I think there are
things that are interesting in the Turkish approach, which for the first time
in the last decade has started to shift towards the south and the east, opening
almost fifty embassies in Africa, and having a new relationship with
China. That is just huge.