Diplomatic contacts between Turkey and some European countries have accelerated in recent days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked to the German and French leaders, yet the contacts might cause inhouse cracks in the European Union.

Following the flurry of contacts between Ankara and European officials, Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, sent a letter to President of the European Council Charles Martel, asking two questions: Can the president inform the European Parliament when and how the relations of the EU have been delegated to two specific EU member states? Can the president inform the parliament about the reasons for the absence in this meeting of the current Portuguese presidency of the Council of the EU?

Amor was referring to the meeting held between Turkey’s presidential spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, and Maryem van den Heuvel, chief foreign policy adviser to the European Council president; Jan Hecker, chief foreign policy adviser to the German chancellor; Emmanuel Bonne, chief foreign policy adviser to the French president; and Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, head of the EU delegation to Turkey on March 12 in Istanbul.

“Quite surprised to see the EU has delegated its relations with Turkey to Germany and France,” Amor tweeted on March 12, sarcastically adding, “I don’t remember when the EU Council agreed to that, so I decided to ask [the] EU Council’s president. As we learned with Brexit, best results come from real unity!”