On Friday 12 January, Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik warned that his country would not accept a "special partnership" with the EU, as proposed by German politicians and the Bulgarian foreign affairs minister (see EUROPE 11934).
"If we are offered a special partnership, we will not even take it into account and we will simply reject it", he told news channel Habertürk, as quoted by Anadolu Agency. "No one can offer Turkey a second-class status in its relations with...