The action plan and Merkel’s visit were viewed within Turkey as de facto endorsements of Erdoğan; the EU even delayed the release of a critical “progress report” on Turkey’s accession negotiations until after the vote. In the end, Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its comfortable parliamentary majority.
所有这些非常有利于埃尔多安参加11月1日的土耳其大选。该行动计划和默克尔的访问在土耳其国内被视为事实上支持埃尔多安；欧盟甚至将公布对土耳其入盟谈判的一篇批评性“进展报告”推迟到土耳其选举投票之后。最后，埃尔多安的正义与发展党（AKP）重新以较大优势夺回了议会多数席位。