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Blair to travel to Turkey after EU summit

Directly after the European summit set to endorse the partial freeze of Turkey's EU membership talks, UK prime minister Tony Blair will travel to Ankara for a last-minute trip to trigger his Middle East tour.

Mr Blair will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday (14 December), just a few hours after EU leaders havely likely confirmed the decision made by foreign ministers earlier this week to put on hold eight out of 35 negotiating chapters.

His cabinet office ...

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