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[joe]

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Merkel demands Turkey budge on Cyprus trade issue

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Sunday November 5, 2006

Berlin- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in a news interview that Turkey faces a "very, very serious situation" if it does not budge in deadlocked talks with the European Union on free trade with Cyprus. Her remarks were released Sunday as she gathered ministers for a discussion of Germany's presidency of the EU from January to June next year. Berlin will oversee talks with Ankara during that time.

In the interview, to appear Monday in the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, she warned that talks with Turkey on its accession to the EU could not go ahead unaffected by the Cyprus trade issue.

Sources in Berlin told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa this did not mean Berlin would seek a break-off of the accession talks, but rather a suspension of sub-sections of those talks.

Merkel's cabinet was debating Sunday the basics of the German presidency of both the EU and the Group of Eight (G8) nations next year.

Contacts with Turkey are strained because Ankara refuses to apply an agreement on free movement of goods, the Ankara Protocol, to EU member Cyprus by the end of 2006, as demanded by Brussels. Ankara insists that a world trade embargo against northern Cyprus be dropped first.

Efforts under the leadership of Finland, the current holder of the EU presidency, to settle the issue have been fruitless. The European Commission is set to issue a progress report before next month's EU summit, when a vote is to be taken on talks with Turkey.

[cypezokyli]

it seems that we are mooving towards "freezing" or "suspension" till after the turkish elections...or even after the cypriot ones as well...

[souroul]

go merkel, go merkel, its your birthday, you gotta party like its your birthday

[Mickleham]

it seems that we are mooving towards "freezing" or "suspension" till after the turkish elections...or even after the cypriot ones as well...

Thank got that Merkel, The German Chancellor is showing real leadership qualities as well as she adheres to Principals.


Turkey Is:

Not recognizing a member country. The Republic of Cyprus.

Turkey is an occupying Force into a EU member country. Republic of Cyprus.

Turkey dismal record on freedom of speech. Writers and Intellectuals

Turkeys suppression of 30 million Kurds. Nation of Kurds

[EUropean666]

Instead of Turkey we can get Israel in EU, we will prove that we are not a christian club and that we support democratic regimes in middle east.

[G.Man]

Instead of Turkey we can get Israel in EU, we will prove that we are not a christian club and that we support democratic regimes in middle east.

Yes especially those that live on stolen arab land and everyday commit atrocities against palestine and lebanon...

No thanks...

Turkey might have a history of atrocities, but Israels is current!

[andri_cy]

They both just suck is what you are saying?

[souroul]

israel in the EU? naah, one US puppy in the EU is MORE than enough. besides, wasnt the reason turkey is considered is because they are a window towards the muslim world? well having israel will not only shut that window, but it will knock it down and build a wall in its place for good.