The European Union and Turkey have agreed the terms of EU membership talks following hours of intense negotiation on Friday.
Following the discussion, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan committed his country to extending a 1963 customs agreement to cover the ten new member states - including Cyprus.
Signature of the agreement would mean acknowledging Cyprus as an EU member - something which to date has not been the case.
Ankara has said it will do this before EU talks beg...
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