European Report Criticizes Turkey; Serbia Is Now Candidate for Bloc
By SEBNEM ARSU
Published: October 13, 2011
A report issued Wednesday by the European Union enlargement office criticized Turkey’s reaction to recent gas drilling conducted by Cyprus in the Mediterranean, suggesting continued troubles with Turkey’s longstanding bid to join the bloc. Turkey refuses to recognize the Greek Cypriot government — itself a member of the bloc — as the sole representative of the disputed island and calls for two separate states consisting of Turkish Cypriots in the north and Greek Cypriots in the south. Turkey has called the gas exploration by the Greek Cypriots an act of provocation and started its own seismic exploration program in the sea, escorted by the Turkish Navy.
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