"TURKEY AND EU IN TRADE ROW OVER BORON
By John C. K. Daly
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
In Turkey's convoluted 'long march' toward European Union membership, Ankara has exhibited immense patience during the accession process, which began 21 years ago, when on April 14, 1987, Turkey applied to join the EU, having been an associate member of the European Union and its predecessors since 1963. Now an EU decision on a Turkish mineralogical export has threatened to roil the economic waters still further."
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