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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Europe turning cold on Turkey | csmonitor.com

"Europe turning cold on Turkey

All references to Turkey's EU accession have been removed from a declaration for this week's summit.

By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

ISTANBUL, TURKEY � For Turks, the latest developments in Europe have been understandably dispiriting.
At a European Union summit to be held later this week, all references to Turkey and other candidates for EU expansion have been dropped from the summit declaration. This comes on the heels of the rejection of a new EU constitution in recent referendums in the Netherlands and France, due at least partially to opposition to predominantly Muslim Turkey's joining the EU."

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