"Turkey appears to miss out on rapid EU accession
06 November 2006
The European Commission will decide this week if it will recommend a partial suspension of Turkey's membership negotiations for joining the European Union. Turkey has failed in several key areas, including failure to open up its ports to Cyprus and other trade issues.
This, on the heels of a new French law last month that makes it illegal to deny that the deaths of 600,000 to 2 million Armenians during 1915 - 1917 is genocide. The law equivocates denial with the Jewish Holocaust during World War II."
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