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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8297

14 September 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Mesut Yilmaz says a crisis along the lines of the one in late 1997 may arise if no date for negotiations is announced in Copenhagen

Brussels, 13/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - At a press conference on the fringes of the European Convention (which he is attending as an observer), the deputy Turkish prime minister Mesut Yilmaz said that Turkey had to do everything to implement the reforms adopted in August 2002 in order to respond to the EU's expectations in terms of meeting the Copenhagen criteria. He regretted that the nationalist MHP party was blocking the application of new legislation on the use of languages other than...

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