The Turkish President spoke in response to the European Commission President’s swipe at Turkey in which he said the country was “moving away from the European Union in leaps and bounds”.
Speaking at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, the politician said the EU had shown “disrespect to Turkey’s character”.
He said: “Turkey made its unofficial application to the EU in the year 1959. In 1963, Turkey formally applied – for 54 years, they have made Turkey wait at the gate of the EU.
“I wonder if Juncker can tell me this – can he say whether there are those who came later or earlier and got in? What’s being done to Turkey is actually a political embargo and it’s disrespect to Turkey’s character, to its personality.
He said it was an approach “contrary” to the EU and that “no country has been shown this approach”.
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President Erdogan then branded the bloc “liars” over its handling of the refugee crisis.
“They’re lying to us, they didn’t speak the truth with us, they told us a lie on visas,” he said.
He said the European Union had pledged £2.6billion (€3bn) to Turkey to help with the crisis in 2016 but had failed to deliver. He said his country had only received €820m to date.
“Who are they going to give it to? To the refugees, they are going to give it through organisations that they decide on themselves,” he added
“Where is the honesty? There is none.”
The comments come after Mr Juncker said that Turkey had taken “giant strides” away from the EU and had no prospect of joining the bloc for the foreseeable future.
It comes after anger from Brussels at the nation’s actions in response to a failed coup – which raised major human rights concerns.
Mr Juncker said: “For some considerable time, Turkey has been moving away from the European Union in leaps and bounds.
“Journalists belong in editorial offices amid heated debate and not in prison.”