TURKEY IS UNLIKELY TO LAUNCH NEGOTIATIONS WITH EU
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
26.05.2009 13:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Egemen Bagis, the state minister and Turkey’s chief
negotiator for EU talks, expressed fears that Turkey could not be an EU
member before 2014. According to the Turkish official, it is too early
to talk about a date for membership for a country whose negotiations
could be launched 45 years after its application. He stressed that
Turkey’s EU process had been problematic, therefore Ankara needed to
be very patient. The Minister also said that both Europe and Turkey
were aware that the process was a win-win one, World Bulletin reports.