Thursday, July 01, 2010

Turkey urges EU to weigh cost

"Turkey urges EU to weigh cost

BRUSSELS - TURKEY urged the European Union on Wednesday to contemplate the cost of spurning its candidacy as its troubled talks to join the bloc limped a tiny step foward.

The secular but largely Muslim state has made agonisingly slow progress since opening accession talks five years ago, held back by resistance in key EU states as well as by failure to speed up democratic reforms and patch up relations with Cyprus."

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