While G20 leaders indicated at the G20 summit, held in Hamburg Germany on last Friday and Saturday that 19 of the G20 countries would continue to move ahead with the Paris Climate Accord (PCA) without the United States, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted at the end of the summit that his country would join the United States from withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.

Speaking to the reporters after G20 summit, Erdogan said that Turkey can no longer be seen as a certain candidate of the Paris Climate Accord (PCA) and went further to say that there are other members as well who feel the same after US withdrawal. Erdogan said that the agreement will not be ratified by the Turkish parliament as US withdrawals mean that there would be no funds given to Turkey for abiding by the agreement. He said that He has told the French President Emmanuel Macron, who has been a vocal critic of the United States for its withdrawal from the PAC and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Turkey will not pass the agreement through parliament if the promises made to Turkey are not kept.

He said former French President Francois Hollande had promised him that Turkey would be classed as a developing and not an industrialized economy meaning Ankara would receive money from a global climate fund rather than have to pay into it.