"Turkey must step up reforms after election
BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey needs to accelerate its reforms after Sunday's general election to kick-start its stalled effort to join the European Union, the EU's enlargement chief said in a newspaper interview on Tuesday.
Turkey began EU membership talks in 2005 but the bloc has frozen talks in eight of 35 policy areas over Ankara's Cyprus policy. Nicolas Sarkozy's election as French president has also strained ties because he is opposed to Turkey joining the EU."
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