"AKP foots the bill for turning away from EU
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Mehmet Ali Birand
This question is asked almost every day: “Would this tension still have happened, if the AKP (Justice and Development Party) had continued with the EU reforms and made progress in the negotiations?”I will start by giving the answer that actually belongs at the end of this article: No, if progress had been made in our relations with the EU, there would have been neither the closure case nor any tension. Now, let's go back to the beginning and review how we arrived at the present situation."
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