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"Turkey Joining EU 'Would Boost Terror Fight'

By Andrew Woodcock, Political Correspondent, PA News


The admission of Turkey into the European Union would be as big a breakthrough in the battle against Islamist terrorism as the D-Day landings were in the war against Nazi tyranny, Germany�s Foreign Minister said today.

Allowing Turkey to join the EU would pave the way for modernisation and democracy to flourish in the Muslim world, said Joschka Fischer."

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