"Turkey: This is the moment... but EU goes back in the fridge if EU terms are too tough
By Anthony Browne, Brussels Correspondent
Yes, yes, yes: MEPs voting yesterday to open membership talks - but the Turkish Prime Minister is still threatening to walk away (VINCENT KESSLER / REUTERS)
TURKEY gave warning yesterday that it would abandon its 40-year dream of joining the European Union if it is presented with unacceptable conditions by EU leaders at a dinner in Brussels tonight.
In an apparent last-minute attempt to soften entry conditions, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, said that he could modernise his country without the EU. He made the statement just as the European Parliament voted to let Turkey join the EU, and Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, said: "This is the moment." "
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