And to further follow up on the thought regarding Turkiye upthread, the Turkish have always had a bit of an inferiority complex, love/hate relationship with the EU. They are miffed that EU has been moving the goalposts on them for EU admission for years. It seems there's always something they don't measure up with, and often in candor, they'll admit they don't measure up. But the cumulative effect is, "you really aren't European and we really don't want you as part of our exclusive club." So I get from the Turkish perspective why they'd have their hackles up a bit. It only has to aggrieve them all the more to see the European powers falling all over themselves to get Ukraine admitted asap, while Turkiye has been on the waiting list since...checks notes...1987.
Don't mistake this observation for sympathy for Erdogan, as I don't have it. Further, the reasons EU to withhold acceptance of Turkiye into the group are many, varied, and often valid. Still, the upshot for the Turkish is that the EU seems like a diplomatic cocktease and I get why they may take a position that they've been convinced by the EU that they have to look after their own business apart from the EU.
It's a rough neighborhood.