"Cyprus threat to Turkey's EU accession talks
By Vincent Boland in Ankara, Andreas Hadjipapas in Nicosia and,Kerin Hope in Athens
Published: November 23 2004 02:00 | Last updated: November 23 2004 02:00
Officials in Ankara declined to comment yesterday on remarks at the weekend by George Iacovou, the Greek Cypriot foreign minister, calling for Turkey to recognise his government.
Turkey is insisting it will not recognise the republic of Cyprus ahead of next month's European Union decision on opening membership talks with Ankara despite renewed Cypriot threats to veto the move."
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