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The EU is ready to engage with Turkey in a phased, proportionate, and reversible manner to enhance cooperation in a number of areas of common interest, the summit agreed.

The EU urged Turkey to ease tensions in conflicts with Greece and Cyprus, withdraw troops from Libya, and find reasonable solutions to internal issues.

EU leaders criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to quit the Istanbul Convention against Gender Violence after discussions with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.