"Turkey under pressure
Written by David Ferguson in Brussels
Tuesday, 31 May 2005
'Turkey's will to reform is the deciding factor. If Turkey wants to make sure that accession negotiations start on 3 October 2005, it must not deter from its current course of reforms,� said German Green MEP Cem �zdemir, himself of Turkish origin. �The image that Turkey is currently projecting must be changed immediately,� continued �zdemir, also a member of the European Parliament's Turkey delegation. �Violent police action on International Women's Day, the recently cancelled Armenia conference in Istanbul and recent calls to burn the books of authors like Orhan Pamuk are intolerable relapses into a bygone era.� "
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