REUTERS: TURKEY WILL NOT JOIN EU UNTIL 2019

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.04.2007 15:12 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey will join the European Union not
sooner than in 2019. This is the result of the poll conducted by
Reuters. The survey was conducted among of 31 financial and academic
institutions. The survey was taken before a rally of 300,000 protesters
in Ankara on Saturday against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s potential
candidacy for the presidency.

According to the poll 25 percent of those surveyed said the European
Union may fully suspend negotiations with Turkey over its membership
to the organization.

During the last survey of public opinion such an opinion expressed
35 percent of responders. Another 25 percent think Turkey will pull
out of talks itself, Turkish Daily News reported.