"Turkey not willing to accept new EU criteria for membership
ISTANBUL, Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would not agree to new conditions for European Union membership.
Turkey is scheduled to start membership negotiations with the bloc on Oct. 3. But opposition to the country's membership bid is growing in Europe, and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said this week that the bloc should have an open debate of Turkey's candidacy"
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