"Turkey’s European Dream Starts with the Turkish Language
At the end of 2005 the European Union and Turkey started negotiations which should result in Turkey’s accession to the EU. It took them 40 years to reach this stage. It is expected that the accession negations will take another 10. Nevertheless, several members of the European Parliament (MEP) propose to give the Turkish language the status of official EU language as soon as possible. This is a direct consequence of Cyprus’ EU membership."
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