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The future status of Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula could soon prove another test for the West's relations with Russia. Sevastopol, the naval base from which the Russian...

Kiev's offer comes days after Polish agreement to host US missiles and months after Russia stopped using Ukraine's early-warning systems. NATO officials say that the...

Turkey wants to capitalise on its location to become an energy hub. Turkey sees its importance in the regional energy market as a source of leverage in its bid to join the...

Everyone would agree that the accession process with Turkey is a long open-ended process depending on Turkey's compliance with the EU's political, economic and acquis...

The second government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed its intention to revive Turkey's vanishing EU perspective. Within the new government, EU affairs have been...

For anyone wondering how EU members would decide a question of strategic importance, this past week's dithering over Turkey's membership negotiations gave the disheartening...

EU diplomats are looking for ways to avoid the predicted “train crash” with Turkey by continuing accession negotiations on areas not directly affected by Ankara's refusal...

The EU seems to be heading for a difficult end of the year with Turkey (‘MEPs slam Ankara's slow reforms', 31 August-6 September). But it was absolutely clear, from the...

After the marathon meeting of ministers in Luxembourg on the question of future EU enlargement, everybody's talking Turkey. Here's a quick tour de table on how Europe's...

Progress on Turkey's EU accession talks is seen as vital if there is to be an improvement in women's rights in the country. That is the message from a group of Turkish...

Two MEPs weigh up the possible consequences of Turkey eventually joining the European Union It is a time of change - the Turkey that joins the EU, if indeed it does so, will...

Luxembourg's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn remarked after December's tempestuous negotiations with Turkey that Ankara had a lot to learn about negotiating with...

Geographically speaking, Turkey is as European a country as France can pretend to be ... South American (if Turkish European soil is compared to French Guyana). With less...

WHEN it comes to the vexed question of Turkey's possible membership of the EU, no-one can accuse Europe's think-tanks of being out of sync with the public mood. The...

The EU has had a defensive and hesitating attitude towards Turkey and the country's European aspirations for decades. Despite this, Turkey has successively developed closer...

THE most optimistic scenario indicates that Turkey could join the EU on 1 January 2010, assuming that negotiations start at the beginning of 2005 and are closed at the end...

From Bahadir KaleagasiDana Spinant's excellent analysis article ‘Turkey debate must be put to the people' (European Voice, 29 January- 4 February) is very well focused on...

Turkey's membership of the European Union may be a long and gradual process. But here are ten good reasons why it should happen. 1. Economy: Turkey will greatly contribute...

Andrew Lancaster and Valerey Vandegriff provided us with two very different views on Turkey's future in relation to the European Union (Letters, 21-27 November). I am a...

TURKEY has rejected claims by a prominent human rights group that it is not yet committed to introducing the "kind of meaningful reform" which would make its EU membership...