"Turkish minister, in Berlin, rejects watering down goal of joining EU
CLAUDIA KEMMER, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
(10-20) 01:19 PDT BERLIN (AP) --
Turkey's foreign minister said that lowering the goal in talks with the European Union to anything less than full membership is 'unacceptable,' a rebuff aimed in part at Germany's conservative opposition.
Abdullah Gul made the remarks in a speech in Berlin Thursday, after talks with German opposition leader Angela Merkel. Here Christian Democratic party is calling for a vaguely defined partnership with Turkey that would stop short of EU membership."
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