Turkey should be in Europe: Straw
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Speaking after meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, Straw said that he was pleased the European Commission had recommended the European Union open accession talks with Ankara.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he had told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that European Union leaders should avoid &quot;a historic mistake&quot; when they discuss Turkey's membership bid next week.
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BERLIN - ``Turkey`s accession to the European Union (EU) is very important. I believe when Turkey enters EU, the Union will be the most significant insurance of a world where peace has become global,`` said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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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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The European Union has recommended Turkey be put on the path to full membership, a historic move that could push Europe's borders to the Middle East and that stoked fears among Europeans wary of bringing a poor ...
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President Jacques Chirac's statement that Turkey deserved EU membership -- but only if it met a series of conditions -- given on the eve of a key Brussels summit on the issue Thursday was seen in France as an ...
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The European Parliament today called on European Union leaders to open membership talks with Turkey âwithout undue delay,â and urged Ankara to carry out more democratic reforms and moves toward recognising Cyprus.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the European Union would have to work to ease tensions with the United States over the likely lifting of an embargo on arms sales to China, a move opposed by Washington.
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Former foreign secretary Jack Straw has said he was concerned the veil was a &quot;visible demonstration of separateness&quot; as he defended his request that Muslim women remove it when they come to his constituency surgeries.
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Turkey's PM Erdogan visits Brussels to put his case for Turkey to start formal talks on joining the EU.
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The European Commission president urged Turkey on Thursday to &quot;go the extra mile&quot; to show Europeans it is ready for EU membership talks as the bloc prepared
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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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Admitting mainly Muslim Turkey into the European Union would mark nothing short of a cultural, economic and political revolution for Europe, analysts say.
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The European Parliament yesterday called for EU membership talks with Turkey as soon as possible, paving the way for heads of government to make an historic offer to Ankara at a meeting tonight.
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European Union leaders said Turkey could join its ranks as soon as 10 years from now, but warned that it must overcome opposition to a Muslim country's entering the European fold.
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The European Parliament on Wednesday called on EU leaders to begin membership talks with Turkey &quot;without undue delay,&quot; in a symbolic expression of support for Ankara on the eve of a Brussels summit.
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The European Parliament has called the EU to open membership talks with Turkey &quot;without undue delay,&quot; and told Ankara to carry out more democratic reforms.