UK confident EU-Turkey entry talks will start next year
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Britain said Monday it is confident European Union membership talks with Turkey will start next year despite continued misgivings by some other EU nations.
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European Commission  head Jose Manuel Barroso says the EU should give Turkey a clear date to start entry talks.
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The European Union has a rendezvous with history this week. Turkey will be invited to begin talks over the course of next year that will probably lead to its membership in the European Union within about 15 years.
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The European Union (EU) and Turkeyreached an agreement on Friday to start talks next year on the country&#39;s membership of the bloc.
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Britain expects the European Union to start membership talks with Turkey in January, when Luxembourg assumes the EU&#39;s rotating presidency, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said.
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Turkey will not bow to pressure from the European Union to recognize Cyprus and expects the 25-nation bloc to open accession talks with Ankara next year, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.
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DEAR readers, it is appreciable that EU has decided to begin accession talks with Ankara, even though it would not be many years before a final word is given either way.
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The European Union's decision to hold entry talks with Turkey receives a widespread welcome.
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European Union leaders agreed Thursday to open talks with Turkey next year on eventual EU membership, diplomats said, despite widespread misgivings about admitting such a large, poor and mostly Muslim country.
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Turkey expects its troubled European  Union membership talks to move forward before the end of the  year with the opening of some policy chapters in negotiations,  Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday.
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The EU summit is set to spell out dates and terms for Turkey&#39;s bid for membership on 16-17 December. Barring a last-minute upset, negotiations may begin in autumn of 2005.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Friday he was sure the EU would start membership talks with Turkey next October 3, after leaders agreed a compromise accord clearing the way for the negotiations.
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Turkey's prime minister expressed confidence that the European Union's executive will recommend opening talks for his Muslim-majority country's membership this week, saying Sunday that admitting Turkey to the union would contribute to "reconciliation between civilizations."
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The European Parliament on Wednesday urged EU leaders to open entry talks with Turkey &quot;without undue delay&quot; in a non-binding but influential resolution that was approved after heated debate.
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The European Union and Turkey reached a historic agreement Friday to begin talks next year aimed at bringing the populous Muslim nation into the EU after hammering out a compromise over Ankara's relationship with Cyprus.
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The European Union agreed on Friday to open membership talks with Turkey late next year, after hours of contentious, closed-door negotiations overcame a last-minute snag over Turkey's refusal to recognize the ...
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BRUSSELS - The 25-nation European Union has agreed to open groundbreaking accession talks with Turkey next year. But the bloc insisted that talks can only begin 3 October, 2005, if Turkey ends its long-standing