"Merkel: Turkey a friend, but no place for that friend in EU
Monday, August 22, 2005
ANKARA - TDN with AFP
Only a few weeks ahead of early elections in Germany slated for Sept. 18 and as a new poll showed her party again expanding its lead over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, conservative opposition leader Angela Merkel keeps on reiterating her firm stance against Turkey's European Union drive as the leading element of her electioneering."
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