The leaders of France and Germany have offered strong statements of support to Turkey’s bid to join the EU.
At a joint Franco-German summit meeting yesterday in Berlin - to which Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was also invited – French President Jacques Chirac said it was his "strongest wish" to see Ankara in the EU.
Turkey’s accession is "in the interests of Europe, in the interests of Turkey and in the interests of peace and democracy in the world and in the regio...
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