"Turks annoyed by beer mug gift to Chirac
Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:49PM BST
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister has criticised Jacques Chirac's leaving present from the EU -- a beer mug depicting an 18th century Ottoman defeat by the French.
'The EU should concern itself more with the future than with the past. If it has a future vision, it should concern itself with the future,' Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told a news conference on Tuesday."
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