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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10425

23 July 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/turkey/cyprus
Turkey criticised for Cyprus freeze threat

Brussels, 22/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - A senior liberal MEP has blasted Turkey for threatening to block cooperation with the EU when Cyprus takes over its rotating presidency in a year's time if no deal is reached on the future of the divided island. The criticism came after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who leads the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), visited the Turkish Cypriot north of the island to celebrate the anniversary of Turkey's invasion in 1974....