EU, Turkish leaders meet ahead of crucial December decision
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul meets here with EU leaders in the last high-level talks between the two sides in the run-up to December 17 when Turkey faces the moment of truth on its bid to join the European Union.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan  said on Monday he expected no discriminatory conditions to be  attached when European Union leaders decide in December whether  to open entry talks with Ankara.
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BERLIN, Germany -- The leaders of Germany, France and Turkey are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday (26 October) to discuss Ankara&#39;s EU membership bid.
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The European Commission is set to announce that Turkey is ready to begin negotiations on joining the EU.
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The moment of truth is approaching for Turkey&#39;s bid to join the European Union, EU enlargement chief Guenter Verheugen said Monday, as European leaders prepare to decide whether to open membership talks with the mainly Muslim country.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan left Turkey on Tuesday for talks with Council of Europe officials in Strasbourg a day before the release of a key report on his country&#39;s drive to join the European Union.
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ANKARA/STRASBOURG, France  - Prime Minister Tayyip  Erdogan voiced confidence on Wednesday that Turkey would win a  date for opening long-delayed European Union entry talks at a  landmark summit of the bloc's 25 leaders this week.
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EU leaders were poised on Thursday to set a date to start accession talks with Turkey, as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels in an optimistic mood for a spate of last-minute diplomacy.
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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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Turkey, cheered by the European Commission&#39;s backing for the start of EU entry talks, switched its focus on Thursday to a December summit of EU leaders amid
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EU foreign ministers met on Monday to make final preparations for a landmark decision later this week to open entry talks with Turkey amid renewed evidence of strong opposition to Turkish membership in key EU ...
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Following two years of rapid political, judicial and economic reforms, on 17th December, Turkey has been given a date to start accession talks with EU.
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BRUSSELS  - EU leaders were set to resume talks on the details of a landmark offer to launch membership talks with Turkey, with the vexed issue of Cyprus clouding the historic decision.
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ANKARA - Guenter Verheugen, the European Union (EU) Commissioner, Enlargement, said that the decision that would be taken about Turkey in December could not be delayed, stressing that the Progress Report (of the EU Commission) on Turkey that would be made
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Turkey moved closer to winning a date for the start of European Union entry negotiations after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to heal Turkey&#39;s diplomatic standoff with new EU member Cyprus.
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Turkey said on Monday it would seek  changes in the European Commission's report on its candidacy  before EU leaders meet on Dec. 17 to decide whether to open  entry talks with Ankara.
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TURKEY must do more to overcome popular hostility in the West, it was told yesterday, as Europeâs leaders met to take the historic decision to open talks on its membership of the European Union in October next year.