"German Poll Keeps Turkey on Tenterhooks
Arab News, Agencies
ANKARA, 8 September 2005 — For Turkey, the stakes in Germany’s Sept. 18 general election could hardly be higher — its outcome has the potential to wreck Ankara’s decades-old drive toward European Union membership. Outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been one of the strongest supporters of Turkey’s EU bid, but opposition leader Angela Merkel, who is tipped to win the race, opposes ever taking in the large, poor Muslim nation of 70 million people."
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