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New finance and foreign ministers appointed as part of government reorganisation. Ahmet Davutoğlu, a professor of international relations who served as chief foreign...

Informal talks come amid concerns about state of enlargement policy. Middle East, Bosnia and Belarus also to be discussed in Gymnich The foreign ministers of Turkey and the...

Premier's adviser takes over role previously occupied by the country's foreign minister. Turkey has named Egemen Bagis as its new chief negotiator in talks that it hopes...

EU suggests it will soon expand accession talks with Turkey, but urges it to revise its constitution. The EU has called on Turkey to “update” its constitution in the...

The ruling party could soon be banned, plunging Turkey's political system into turmoil. Istanbul's sidewalk cafes are crowded in the May sunshine. But the political...

The EU will open negotiations on two new chapters with Turkey towards the end of December, provided that a number of outstanding issues are resolved, including the mandate of...

The European Union is to continue membership negotiations with Turkey at the end of June despite newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying that the country should...

Turkey is to open EU membership negotiations in three new areas in the coming weeks, despite the country's political crisis and the election of a French president who is...

Turkey is likely to open four more chapters of its negotiations for EU membership in the first half of this year, according to Ali Babacan, the country's chief negotiator....

Anyone visiting Turkey after an interval of several years, as I did last week, cannot fail to be impressed by the visible evidence of the transformation of the Turkish...

Turkey's leaders should not overstate their country's strategic importance in their attempts to join the EU, Olli Rehn, the Euro­pean commissioner for ­enlargement, has...

The European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn has urged member states and the European Commission to adopt a less defensive attitude to extending the EU. He says the...

Turkey's chief negotiator with the EU, Ali Babacan, has warned that a bust-up over his country's application to join the Union will have knock-on effects for relations with...

Late July - it's cooler in Istanbul than London, as a welcome breeze blows off the Bosphorus. But the EU debate in Turkey remains heated. The opinion polls show a dramatic...

Turkey's ruling party is under increasing pressure from struggling exporters to devalue the lira in order to make Turkish products more competitive on world markets. The...

José Manuel Barroso made an instinctively clever move when he appointed the youngest and coolest of his crew, Olli Rehn, as enlargement commissioner. A political...

Ali Babacan is known in the Turkish media as 'Baby John' on account of his youthful looks. But the task facing him in his new role as his country's chief EU negotiator is...

Splits in Turkey's government appear to be delaying the appointment of the figure that will lead the country's membership talks with the European Union. Disagreements...

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