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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The case for referendum on Turkey’s EU entry | Geopolitics Right Side News

"The case for referendum on Turkey’s EU entry
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 07:32 Robert Ellis

Allowing Europeans as well as Turks to vote on whether Ankara should be awarded membership has some distinct advantages

Since the European Union started accession talks with Turkey in October 2005, things have gone slowly. The reform process, which began with the acceptance of Turkey's candidacy in 1999, lost momentum almost as soon as talks began, and the reforms which followed have mostly been concerned with promoting the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government's own Islam-oriented agenda."

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