"Turkey expects screening won't take too long
Thursday, January 20, 2005
ANKARA � Turkish Daily News
Ankara said yesterday that it did not expect a process of screening of Turkish regulations by European Union experts to last too long, as Turkey has already done a significant portion of the work over the past years.
�The screening process is not expected to be too long. What we emphasize is that accession negotiations with Turkey should officially start on Oct. 3,� Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan told a news briefing.
He was responding to a question over reports of a statement on Tuesday by the EU's Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn that the screening process with Turkey could take up to a year, thus delaying the actual start of accession talks to the third quarter of 2006."
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