On 17 September 2020, IKV Secretary General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas evaluated the ongoing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean and its potential effects on Turkey-EU relations in an interview with Medyascope. IKV Secretary General Nas said that the tendency to portray Turkey as a rival rather than a candidate country to the EU due to political problems harmed Turkey-EU relations.

A video recording of the interview (in Turkish) is available here.