"EU slams Turkey in draft progress report
Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:48 AM BST166
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The EU criticises the Turkish military's role in politics, a lack of reform and minority rights and relations with Cyprus in the draft of a progress report due later this year, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The European Union is due to publish a progress report on Ankara's entry bid in October or November, a year on from the start of negotiations, which on Friday turned frosty as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he would sooner see talks suspended than make concessions over new member Cyprus."
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