Friday, October 07, 2005

Turkey's EU Dream Would Remain a Chimera By K Gajendra Singh

"Turkey's EU Dream Would Remain a Chimera

By K Gajendra Singh

Al-Jazeerah, October 6, 2005

Only at the end of a marathon two-day negotiations on 3 October in Luxembourg, where Austria dug in its heels to downgrade Turkey ‘s full membership of the Europe Union (EU) and thus renege on the commitment made at the December 2004 Summit, was persuaded to give in , that Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul left Ankara to officially begin formal entry talks. In this act of duplicity smacking of religious bias Austria had the tacit support from other members like France, Holland and Germany."

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