"EU gets a warning from edgy Turkey
The New York Times, Reuters, Agence France-Presse Thursday, December 9, 2004
BRUSSELS The European Union was warned Wednesday that it could not expect Turkey to remain in its orbit if it did not admit the country to the bloc.
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Oguz Demiralp, the EU ambassador for Turkey, said the representatives who included sometimes offensive wording in a draft EU summit statement on whether to open membership talks with Turkey were mistaken in assuming Turkey would align itself with the European Union automatically.
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