Brussels, 15/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - The spokesperson for the president of the European Parliament, David Harley, announced that Pat Cox had decided, on Friday morning, to meet the leader of the AKP party that has just come to power in Turkey. He stressed that the president had observed only "encouraging signs" since the recent legislative elections. The meeting is to take place on Thursday in Strasbourg or, possibly, in Ireland, where Recept Tayyip Erdogan will be that same day.