Turkey will start negotiations to join the European Union this year, according to the country’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
After a meeting with the European Commission on Thursday evening (25 March) Mr Erdogan confidently proclaimed: "This is an important year for us, it is the year that we will start accession negotiations".
EU members are set to decide at the end of this year whether Turkey has met the political criteria for membership and so whether it is able to st...
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