"Turkish PM loses EU card in election campaign
17 July 2007, 11:47 CET
(ANKARA) - Launching Turkey's membership talks with the European Union was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest foreign policy achievement but, two years on, it is a subject he would rather avoid during his Justice and Development Party's election campaign.
Instead, Erdogan is fighting opposition charges of 'submitting' to what Turks have widely come to see as a patronising, humiliating and torturous EU accession process whose ultimate aim of membership for this mainly Muslim nation appears more elusive than ever."
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