Turkey has offered to open one port and one airport to traffic from Cyprus in a bid to avert a partial freeze of its EU membership negotiations.
"I can confirm that we have received a proposal from the Turkish side. One element is the opening of one port and one airport," the spokeswoman for Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen told EUobserver.
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