29/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - Turkey has a "European vocations" and its entry into the EU is sought in the long term but negotiations will be "long, very long…ten years or more", said president Chirac on Thursday in a press conference (see above). According to him Turkey, which has been secular since 1924 could be a model for all the countries around it and the Turks would not in the long term be rejected by the EU for reasons of ethnicity or religion.