"Turkey and the EU: slowly but surely
Liam Hardy
Washington, DC - When Turkey was granted official-candidate status for EU membership in 1999, neither the EU nor Turkey thought that the transition would be an easy or rapid one. And it has not been. Out of the 35 chapters - necessary benchmarks for accession determined by the EU – only six have been opened and only one, namely Science and Technology – has been completed."
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