Friday, February 25, 2011

Turkey to confront Sarkozy on opposition to EU bid - latimes.com

"Turkey to confront Sarkozy on opposition to EU bid

* Sarkozy visiting Turkey on Friday * EU membership bid faltering ANKARA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan says he will confront French President Nicolas Sarkozy over his negative stance towards Muslim Turkey's bid to join the European Union when he visits Ankara later on Friday. 'We warned Sarkozy a lot on this subject. We said that the form of your approach to Turkey was very wrong,' Erdogan said in an interview with the ATV news channel aired late on Thursday. 'And I will ask him this tomorrow."

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