Turkey in the EU
Speaking in Britain, Turkey's foreign minister affirmed the country's desire to join the European Union:
Ahmet Davutoglu, the foreign minister, said in London on Thursday prior to a meeting with William Hague, his UK counterpart, that Turkey was continuing to work very hard on its integration into Europe. He acknowledged that Turkey's accession to the EU had been made harder by opposition from Germany and from France in particular, and by problems over the future of Cyprus, where the dispute with Greece is still very much alive in spite of optimism of a resolution in recent years.
The irony is that, economically speaking at least, Turkey is on much sounder footing than many countries in the EU.
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