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France won a small victory in its battle against Turkey joining the EU when it convinced its partners to remove the word ‘accession' from a document adopted by the EU...

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...

On his maiden visit to the EU institutions, the newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated his position on Turkey. He contends that Turkey has no place in...

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...

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...

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...

With reference to your editorial of last week 'Erdogan need not ban 'privileged partnership' from EU talks' (European Voice 1-7 September), it is true that the idea of a...

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...

The draft text of the constitution of the European Union, prepared by the Convention, proudly states in its preamble that “Europe is a continent that has brought forth...

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...

EUROPEAN Parliament chief Nicole Fontaine has protested vigorously to the Turkish government over its claims that a prominent MEP had "private connections" with the Greek...

TURKEY risks falling even further behind in its bid for EU membership if foreign ministers fail to agree a strategy for Ankara to prepare for membership next week. Diplomats...