Ankara starts spat with EU
19 September 2011
La Stampa, 19 September 2011
Ankara is “ready to freeze relations with EU”, La Stampa reports. This is if Cyprus should take over the union’s rotating presidency in July 2012 without settling the long-running dispute with the breakaway Turkish part of the island. Speaking in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, deputy premier Besir Atalay took an unprecedented hard stance towards the EU and the Greek controlled part of the island, continuing the diplomatic onslaught opened by the severance of military ties with Israel and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's tour of the “Arab spring”states.
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