Turkey has said it hopes that French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy will not damage bilateral relations between Ankara and Paris after a political campaign in which the centre-right politician repeatedly stressed his opposition to Turkish EU membership.
Reacting to Mr Sarkozy's win, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan struck a muted tone among the clearer congratulatory messages coming from other quarters such as Washington, London, Berlin and the European Commission.
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