"Keeping Turkey focused on EU challenge
Turkish and EU flags at event in 2004 Pro-EU demonstrations like this in 2004 are much less common in Turkey these days
It has been five years since Turkey began formal negotiations for membership of the European Union.
But a process which was the cause for jubilation in Turkey at the time has become bogged down. It had been a central platform in the campaign of the governing Justice and Development Party (AK Party) when it won its first general election in 2002. Today, politicians rarely mention it."
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