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EU enlargement commissioner to visit Turkey
European Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner Štefan Füle.
Photo: Nato.int
On March 15 and 16 2010, European Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner Štefan Füle will pay an official visit to Turkey, the EC said.
He will meet foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, EU affairs minister Egemen Bagis, and deputy prime minister and economy minister Ali Babacan.
Füle said on March 12, "I am confident that at the end of the process it will be a new, modern and reformed Turkey whose accession to the EU will be to the benefit of both the EU and Turkey".
In Ankara he will participate in a meeting with the EU harmonisation committee of the grand national assembly, and in a meeting with the president of the Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Rifaat Hisarciklioglu.
In Istanbul, Füle will meet the Greek Orthodox Patriarch.
An Association Agreement with Turkey was signed in 1963, already mentioning the prospect of Turkey's accession, and a number of decisions of the European Council as well as resolutions of the European Parliament made clear that Turkey can become a member of the EU should all the requirements be met, the EC said.
Since 1999 Turkey has had "candidate country", granted by the Helsinki European Council.
Accession negotiations started in October 2005, on the basis of a negotiating framework which sets accession as a "shared objective''.
Turkey is a member of European structures such as the Council of Europe, and Nato, Europe's main defence organisation, since 1952.
He will meet foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, EU affairs minister Egemen Bagis, and deputy prime minister and economy minister Ali Babacan.
Füle said on March 12, "I am confident that at the end of the process it will be a new, modern and reformed Turkey whose accession to the EU will be to the benefit of both the EU and Turkey".
In Ankara he will participate in a meeting with the EU harmonisation committee of the grand national assembly, and in a meeting with the president of the Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Rifaat Hisarciklioglu.
In Istanbul, Füle will meet the Greek Orthodox Patriarch.
An Association Agreement with Turkey was signed in 1963, already mentioning the prospect of Turkey's accession, and a number of decisions of the European Council as well as resolutions of the European Parliament made clear that Turkey can become a member of the EU should all the requirements be met, the EC said.
Since 1999 Turkey has had "candidate country", granted by the Helsinki European Council.
Accession negotiations started in October 2005, on the basis of a negotiating framework which sets accession as a "shared objective''.
Turkey is a member of European structures such as the Council of Europe, and Nato, Europe's main defence organisation, since 1952.
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/Turkey is a member of European structures such as the Council of Europe, and Nato, Europe's main defence organisation, since 1952./
Turkey is not in Europe and not Europeans but I will side with Europe to use the turks for their labe of low wages, a kinf of the USA uses China for cheap manufacturing. I guess that way the TUrks will be paying reparations for the kiiling they did everywher ether Ottoman empire existed and for what they aredoing currently to Krds, Cypriots, Armenias of Turkey for occupying their territories.
And to Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia?