Turkey Keeps EU Waiting for Reply on Talks Offer
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Turkey's Prime Minister kept the EU  waiting on Friday on whether he would accept the terms of its  historic offer to start accession negotiations, leaving  late-night talks with the bloc's presidency without a deal.
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The European Commission has warned Turkey that it will not start talks on Ankara&#39;s bid to join the EU until it overhauls its penal code.
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The European Union executive expressed concern after a new penal code in Turkey seen as crucial to the country's bid to join the EU was left in parliamentary limbo.
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BEIRUT: The huge sigh of relief in Istanbul following the European Union&#39;s announcement this week that talks on Turkey&#39;s accession to the EU can go ahead could be heard as far away as Brussels.
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The European Commission will not set  special conditions for Turkey when it decides Wednesday whether  to recommend opening membership talks with Ankara, Commission  President Romano Prodi said Tuesday.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Thursday that Turkey must show it is willing to meet EU demands in its membership talks, denying Brussels wanted to drive it from the negotiating table.
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STRASBOURG, France:Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, awaiting an expected European Commission nod to starting EU entry talks with his country, said today he hoped negotiations would not take too long.
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Turkey has been the most persistent supplicant at the European Union&#39;s gates and its passage through them will be protracted and tortuous.
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After years of delays, the European Union&#39;s head office is likely to recommend that Turkey begin membership talks with the bloc - an endorsement that comes with one key
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EU nations rejected a &quot;vague&quot; Turkish offer to ease a trade dispute with Cyprus and thereby stop the European Union discussing a partial freeze of Turkey's membership talks, officials said.
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Intensive talks aim to end a stalemate over an EU demand that Turkey recognise Cyprus before accession.
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Turkey's EU accession talks are set to slow down further as a row over trade with Cyprus blocks progress.
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The European Commission looks set to advise that Turkey's EU membership talks be partly suspended.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 6 (IPS) - The European Commission has recommended  negotiations for Turkey to join the EU, but insisted that it  meets strict conditions.
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HELSINKI, Finland: The European Union warned Turkey on Monday that it must speed up efforts to resolve a stalemate over Cyprus if it wants to continue membership negotiations with the bloc.Comment
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Turkey got the answer it has waited over 40 years for Wednesday when the European Commission gave the Muslim country of 71 million people the green light to start European Union membership talks.
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Turkey registers frustration as France prevents the EU opening membership talks with Ankara in a key area.