“We thought that Mr Cameron was our chief supporter in our quest for European Union membership,” he told the BBC’s Newsnight programme last night.

“We are really, really flabbergasted, let’s put it that way.

“Turks felt that the British were the driving force behind our EU membership and that they were driving us right to the hilt.

“The way Mr Cameron put it, we feel really, really taken in. The way he’s saying it, “they were never going to get in anyway, we just said we’ll go along with them”, that kind of attitude is deeply hurting the Turks.”