"Turkey and Croatia leave EU starting line together
Sunday, October 16, 2005
YÜKSEL SÖYLEMEZ
On that eventfully long night, Oct. 3, 2005, when the clocks were stopped in Luxembourg, the common destiny of Turkey and Croatia were intertwined by a magical wand or a divine twist of fate and together started membership negotiations with the European Union."
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