"Turkey says joining EU is still top priority
Turkey has moved to calm fears that it is drifting away from the West, asserting that joining the European Union is still its 'first and most strategic objective'.
By Adrian Michaels in London
Published: 11:43AM BST 08 Jul 2010
Ahmet Davutoglu, the foreign minister, said in London on Thursday prior to a meeting with William Hague, his UK counterpart, that Turkey was continuing to work very hard on its integration into Europe. He acknowledged that Turkey's accession to the EU had been made harder by opposition from Germany and from France in particular, and by problems over the future of Cyprus, where the dispute with Greece is still very much alive in spite of optimism of a resolution in recent years."
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