"Turkey wants no less than full EU membership
06.06.2005 - 10:10 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk
Turkey will not accept anything but full membership of the EU, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Germany's Bild am Sonntag.
'The aim of Turkey is full membership in the EU. We are not ready to accept anything else', he said.
French and German right-wing parties have lately proposed the possibility of arranging a partnership deal with Turkey instead of full membership of the EU, but this is being firmly rejected by Ankara.
Mr Erdogan warned that a 'so-called privileged partnership contradicts the spirit of relations between Turkey and the EU'.
'Remarks such as those in Germany from the CDU put the relations between Turkey and the EU on the line,' Mr Erdogan told Bild Zeitung. "
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