"Turkey Chivvies EU over Starting Membership Talks
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met senior EU officials yesterday to sort out problems threatening to block a decision next week by EU leaders to open membership talks with Turkey.
Erdogan said that Turkey has met EU membership criteria and expects to start the talks in early 2005.
He said the EU promised in 2002 to open talks "without delay" if, at the end of 2004, Turkey met the membership criteria. Last October, the EU executive Commission confirmed that Turkey had done so."
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