As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan grows increasingly authoritarian, the European Parliament has filed a resolution to express its concern over Turkey’s declining democratic values.

The administration of President Erdogan has shown increasingly dictatorial tendencies. He has displayed ill will toward his own people, by conducting military raids against Kurdish communities in the country’s southeast, and he has leaned toward military adventurism through his actions in Syria and north Iraq.

Erdogan has also shown a lack of respect for press freedoms, by cracking down on those critical of the government, both at home and abroad. In 2015, 14 journalists in the country were imprisoned, and on Thursday, Sputnik News was added to a growing list of media outlets banned by Ankara.

This has become increasingly disconcerting for European leaders, and on Thursday, the European Parliament accused Turkey of “backsliding” on democracy.

A resolution, passed with 375 votes in favor and 177 votes against, states that the European Union is “deeply concerned” with Turkey’s failure to meet the criteria necessary to join the EU.

European Parliament members also expressed concern over Ankara’s manipulation of the refugee crisis. While Turkey reached a deal with the EU to help stem the flow of refugees into Europe, doing so came with the promise of financial gain and the promise of EU membership.

“There are precise conditions,” Erdogan said earlier this month.

“If the European Union does not take the necessary steps, then Turkey will not implement the agreement.”

“The EU should not be trading away values for an uncertain outcome,” Marietje Schaake, a Dutch MEP said, according to Press TV.

“While we must work with Turkey to ensure refugees are properly sheltered, we must do so on its own merits, and not mix it with accession.”

The resolution follows a report conducted by the EU last November that condemned Turkey’s human rights abuses.

“The report emphasizes an overall negative trend in the respect for the rule of law and fundamental rights,” the report reads.

Speaking in Vienna, Turkey’s European Union Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkir said that Ankara dismissed the new resolution because of its inclusion of text defining the Ottoman Empire’s mass killing of Armenians as a genocide.

“These expressions, despite all our efforts and our warnings, could not be dropped,” Bozkir told reporters.

“That’s why we will consider this report as null and void and our permanent representative will send it back to the European Parliament.”