EU foreign ministers will on Monday try to defuse a major row over Turkey, with Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul threatening to stay away from a Luxembourg meeting if Cyprus keeps blocking its EU entry talks.
Nicosia is still refusing to agree to the opening of Turkey's first concrete legislative chapter in its accession talks with the EU, planned for a foreign ministers' meeting in Luxembourg today (12 June).
The opening of the 'science and research' chapter would be condu...
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