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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Turkey ‘with or without’ EU

Turkey ‘with or without’ EU

By Murat Yetkin

Thursday, 07 February 2013
Murat Yetkin

If anyone wants to explain the relationship between the European Union and Turkey with a song, they could use U2’s “With or Without You” considering its half a century of painful history. But yesterday, Feb. 5, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan told a group of journalists on his way from Prague to Budapest that to be a member of EU is not a "sine qua non" for Turkey, it is not a must.

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