EU Gives Turkey Green Light
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In addition to praising the reforms Turkey undertook in the five years since it obtained the status of candidate country in 1999, the report also gives Turkey the green light to start membership negotiations.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the most of an upbeat economic report on his country to press its case for membership in the European Union.
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Turkey came a step closer to fulfilling a 40-year-old dream when the European Commission recommended that the EU should begin membership talks with Ankara.
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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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MEISE, Belgium, Dec 16  - The EU must be sure it has the &quot;capacity to absorb&quot; Turkey before it gives a green light to the vast Muslim country&#39;s hopes of joining the bloc, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel warned Thursday.
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European Union leaders and Turkey  agreed on Friday the terms on which Ankara will start  membership talks with the bloc next October, an EU government  official said.
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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) must admit Turkey in order to show that it is not opposed to Islam and it is not a Christian Club, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
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Turkey declared it had fulfilled all the political criteria for membership talks with the European Union on Sunday, three days before a recommendation from the EU's executive that will give Ankara a green light.
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan voiced confidence on Wednesday that Turkey would win a date for opening long-delayed European Union entry
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The European Union has recommend Turkey be put on the path to full membership, a historic move that could push Europe's borders to the Middle East and stoked fears among Europeans wary of bringing a poor Muslim country into the prosperous bloc.
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Turkey declared that it had fulfilled all the political criteria for membership talks with the European Union on Sunday, three days before a recommendation from the EU's executive that will give Ankara a green light.
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The European Union's decision to hold entry talks with Turkey receives a widespread welcome.
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LONDON - Turkey took a major step toward ultimately joining the European Union â-nd perhaps radically transforming it â -n the European Commission gave conditional approval Wednesday for membership negotiations to begin with the large
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BRUSSELS, October 6 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - The European Commission on Wednesday, October 6, gave Turkey a green light to start talks to join the European Union, but set a series of tough conditions warning there was no guarantee of success.
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BRUSSELS - The European Commission, in a watershed decision, recommended yesterday that the European Union (EU) open membership talks with Turkey.
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As Turkey gets the green light to begin EU membership talks, historian Kemal Karpat analyses how Turks came to embrace Europe.