"The Turks' hard-bargaining at the EU summit
12/20/2004 11:00:00 AM GMT
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan is greeted by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
At one point threatening to quit the summit if his demands weren�t met, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave EU leaders a classic lesson in bargaining at a summit.
Turkey and the European Union struck a historic deal on the start of membership talks after discussion of the divided island of Cyprus which at one point saw Erdogan quitting the summit, Turkish sources said. "
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