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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8371

4 January 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/cyprus/turkey
Greece hails Tayyip Erdogan's speech

Athens, 03/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to the press agency ANA, Michalis Papapetrou, spokesman for the Greek government, believes that Tayyip Erdogan's remarks distancing himself from the Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, "create preconditions for a solution in Cyprus by February 28". Erdogan (who may become Turkey's prime minister) said on Wednesday: "I do not favour pursuing policies which have been pursued on Cyprus for 30 to 40 years… This is not Denktash's personal...

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