"Armenia Patriarch: Turkish EU Bid Critical
Staff and agencies
30 September, 2005
By LOUIS MEIXLER, 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
ANKARA, Turkey - The head of the Armenian church in Turkey warned European leaders that postponing Turkey‘s bid for EU membership could undermine efforts to bring together the Muslim East and the Christian West.
Turkey has worked hard to implement criteria required by the European Union and has 'been steered toward real change on the democratic road,' the leader of the largest non-Muslim group in Turkey, Patriarch Mesrob II of the Armenian church, wrote in a letter released Friday."
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