Editing Claudia Roth (section)

===On Turkey===
Since her time at the European Parliament, Roth has regularly criticized the European Union's "determination to hold Turkey at bay."<ref>Stephen Kinzer (15 December 1997), [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/15/world/turkey-rejected-will-freeze-ties-to-european-union.html "Turkey, Rejected, Will Freeze Ties to European Union"], ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> In 1995, she expressed doubts about Prime Minister [[Tansu Çiller]]'s ability to bring about human rights reforms as a condition for a [[European Union–Turkey Customs Union]].<ref>Hugh Pope (7 October 1995), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-07-mn-54287-story.html "New Allies Push Turkey Premier to the Right"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> In June 2013, Roth was at the surroundings of the [[Taksim Square]] when the police intervened to evacuate [[Gezi Park]] and was among those affected by the [[tear gas]] fired by security officers.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Following the victory of [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] in the [[2014 Turkish presidential election|2014 presidential election]], she criticized the "dramatic erosion of the democratic system in Turkey."<ref>Sabrina Pabst (10 August 2014), [http://www.dw.de/erdogan-is-closing-in-on-the-presidency/a-17843197 "Erdogan is closing in on the presidency"], ''[[Deutsche Welle]]''.</ref>

In May 2017, Roth canceled a visit of a parliamentary delegation to Turkey where participants had planned to talk to opposition lawmakers, governors and rights groups about that year's [[2017 Turkish constitutional referendum|constitutional referendum]], saying Ankara had refused to give them a security detail.<ref>Joseph Nasr and Ece Toksabay (24 May 2017), [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-turkey-idUSKBN18K1YM "German MPs cancel Turkey visit after security detail dropped"], ''Reuters''.</ref>