"Turkey's chances of EU membership are in doubt, warns Barroso
By Stephen Castle and Andrew Grice in Brussels
Published: 16 June 2006
Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, has cast doubt on Turkey's prospects of European Union membership, as heads of government wrangled over moves to revive the moribund European constitution in 2008.
Mr Barroso said that getting Turkey into the EU would be 'very difficult ' and added many in Europe see the 70 million-strong, mainly Muslim nation as 'culturally different'."
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