(ANSAmed) - ANKARA - After the creation of the new Strasbourg Parliament Turkey has found itself a long way from EU membership. The victory of the centre-right parties, which won 263 seats, has confirmed the primacy of the populists and a defeat of the socialists - who passed from 217 to 163 representatives and would seem to forshadow difficult times for Turkey's negotiations for membership in the European Union. Still, that which seems to bear heaviest on public opinion in Turkey is the heavy presence of far right parties, who will be capable of forming a coalition for the first time in Strasbourg. The country's secular paper Vatan published a front page headline reading, ''All We Needed was More Racists''. The ataturkist paper Cumhuriyet wote, ''Europe forms a blockade'', while the secular Hurriyet writes ''European dreams shattered''. Turkey has seemed to express a widespread fear of a Europe which may become colder in its attitude toward its eastern neighbour. The country's Foreign Ministry has voiced its ''dismay'' regarding xenophobic campaigns run in many European countries. ''The European Parliament must keep all its promises on Turkey's entering the European Union'', Turkish Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, said at a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). ''Turkey has implemented a lot of reforms and will continue this way. We have a right to ask the European parliament to keep its promises related to Turkey's membership in the organization'', he said. According to Erdogan, ''the issue on Turkey's EU accession will not go into the background. Turkey will not stop but will continue to work in this direction''. (ANSAmed).