Monday, June 20, 2005

The New Anatolian:EU Commission Ankara head Hansjoerg Kretschmer speaks to TNA:

"EU Commission Ankara head Hansjoerg Kretschmer speaks to TNA:
NURSUN EREL
Ankara/TNA
20/06/2005

� 'Negotiations will start on Oct. 3, but there's no guarantee that they will succeed'
� 'Turkey's talks are for full membership, there's nothing on the table less than this'
� 'It's so regrettable that Heybeliada Seminary hasn't been reopened yet'
� 'In Turkey, the status of the armed forces is not comparable with that in EU states'
� 'The Turkish press sometimes intentionally misinforms'
� 'We can't say that Turkey isn't democratic due to the 10 pct threshold. With such political stability, Turkey was able to implement many reforms' "

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