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Tuesday, 26 June 2007


Turkey’s membership, Portugal’s presidency


Nadin Dumani writes on Turkish Weekly: "there are serious obstacles to Turkey’s accession to the EU, but with the rotating presidencies these obstacles may smooth out as Turkey also has some supporters. At this point, the EU started to cognize the pros of Turkey’s membership instead of only perceiving the cons. Portugal’s presidency -as a supporter of Turkey’s membership- may be a great opportunity for Turkey. It is apparent that Portugal supports Turkey’s membership and during its presidency, we may expect that it would do its best to launch negotiations on new topics with Turkey if we follow the indicators. That may not mean that Portugal’s presidency will lead and therefore change all the prejudices about Turkey’s membership but at least having a supportive president country may serve for the benefit of Turkey as it surely won’t serve for the opposite. Turkey’s entry negotiations may not be moving as fast as Croatia’s, and this may not change in the short-term but moving is always better than standing still and Turkey may move faster with the Portuguese presidency. These bit by bit steps may be followed by rapid ones. There is no need to rush, right?"

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