"Paris faces pressure as Turkish PM drops in on Franco-German summit
24 October 2004
France will come under renewed pressure on Tuesday to soften its stance on Turkey's bid to join the European Union when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan drops in on a Franco-German summit in Berlin.
In German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder Erdogan has won perhaps his strongest ally in his country's four-decade-old bid to join the EU and he will be hoping to benefit from Berlin's exceptionally close ties with Paris. "
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