Turkish press hails salvaged EU ties, laments unnecessary crisis
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Turkish commentators Friday hailed the successful end to a sudden crisis over a key reform package which had threatened to derail the country&#39;s much-coveted EU bid, but jibed at the government for failing to avert the turmoil.
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An impoverished backwater that will drain the EU's resources and flood its labor markets with unskilled jobseekers? Or a dynamic economy whose youthful population will help offset a looming pensions crisis? The economic case for Turkish membership of the European Union is anything but clear cut.
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Turkey&#39;s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been given a hero&#39;s welcome by supporters on his return home from talks with the European Union.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the European Union, telling it not to meddle in the domestic affairs of his country.
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TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned up the heat on the European Union yesterday, insisting his nation deserved full membership and warning that anything less would be a &quot;historic mistake&quot;.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 6 (IPS) - Turkey's case for joining the EU improved with  the publication of a report Monday setting out the advantages  this would bring to the bloc.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Monday celebrated a decisive poll victory but now faces challenges over delayed presidential elections, Kurdish separatist violence and Ankara's troubled EU bid.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 6  (IPS) - Turkey's case for joining the EU improved with  the publication of a report Monday  setting out the advantages  this would bring to the bloc.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan celebrated on Monday a decisive poll victory but now faces challenges over delayed presidential elections, Kurdish separatist violence and Ankara's troubled EU bid.
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Europe's newspapers analyse the furore over an outspoken EU commissioner and Spain's apparent transatlantic snub
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go to Brussels on Thursday in the hopes of easing tensions between Turkey and the European Union ahead of an October 6 progress report that is vital to Turkey&#39;s bid for EU membership, several newspapers reported
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Nobel literature laureate Orhan Pamuk said Wednesday he felt "sad" about the current state of relations between the European Union and his native Turkey.Comment
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Even if the pontiff sidesteps volatile Christianity-Islam controversies, Turks were angered by his skepticism over their place in the European Union
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Turkey on Wednesday praised the  conciliatory tone of Pope Benedict during his visit to the  predominantly Muslim country and his apparent new support for  Ankara's bid to join the European Union.
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ISTANBUL Turks on Friday welcomed the European Union&#39;s decision to open membership talks next year, but some worried about the compromises Turkey would need to make to become the first Muslim nation in the bloc.
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The country faces some tough conditions on the economy and human rights before membership is granted. ANKARA -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned home from a European Union summit yesterday
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Turkish papers hailed the deal with the EU on opening entry talks as a historic victory, but skeptical members of the bloc said the agreement was just the start of years of bickering that could end in misery.