"Strategy and politics collide in EU Turkey battle
Thu Nov 30,:20 AM GMT16
By Paul Taylor, European Affairs Editor
RIGA (Reuters) - Strategic interests and political realities will collide over the next two weeks as the European Union battles to decide how hard to punish Turkey for its failure to open its ports to ships from Cyprus.
The executive European Commission fired the starting gun on Wednesday with an unexpectedly tough recommendation that the EU suspend a sizeable chunk of Ankara's membership negotiations."
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