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		<title>Finnish PM Says Europe Needs Turkey for Many Reasons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finland&#8217;s prime minister said on Thursday that the Europe needed Turkey for many reasons.Jyrki Katainen said Turkey was a developing country and a role mode for many Muslim countries.Therefore, Turkey was important for Europe, Katainen said during a conference at Istanbul&#8217;s Sabanci University on the sidelines of his two-day visit to Turkey. Katainen said for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France’s Hollande vows not to let Turkey in EU</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey will not be able to join in the European Union in the next five years, French Socialist presidential frontrunner François Hollande said on France 2 television channel. Hollande said Turkey will not be an EU member in the next five years if he is elected in April 22 presidential elections. He said despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey has a way to go on climate change action: EU</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey should increase its efforts to tackle climate change, a European Union commissioner said, while a Turkish minister requested financial support for the efforts. European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard said at a meeting in Istanbul April 13 that climate change was pounding Turkey’s door and Turkey would be one of the countries most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Parliament&#8217;s Turkey report approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey Report, prepared by European Parliament&#8217;s rapporteur on Turkey Ria Oomen-Ruijten, was approved at EP with majority of votes on Thursday. European Parliament&#8217;s Turkey report strongly condemns the attacks of PKK terrorist organization on Zaman newspaper&#8217;s offices in Europe, and calls on European countries to launch a coordinated investigation. The report welcomes efforts to strengthen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey and EU need each other, says Bağış</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey’s European Union Minister Egemen Bağış said yesterday that neither the European Union nor Turkey could afford to shut their doors on each other, adding relations were too complicated to ignore. “Neither the EU nor Turkey have the luxury of saying ‘no’ to the other. Our relations have never been this interdependent before,” Bagis told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Dutch administrative court rules in favor of visa-free entrance for Turkish businesspeople</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EU Visa Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turks visiting the Netherlands on business cannot be asked to present an entry visa and they can stay in the country without a residence permit for up to three months, a top Dutch administrative court ruled on Thursday. The Council of State rejected an appeal by the Dutch Ministry of Migration and Refugees to override [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End this visa nonsense, Bağış tells EU</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EU Visa Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish European Union Minister Egemen Bağış sent a clear message to the union yesterday, telling them to &#8220;end the nonsense&#8221; on visa requirements for Turkey, private broadcaster NTV reported on its website. Bağış spoke at the Turkey-EU Parliamentary Commission meeting in Istanbul, saying it was unacceptable for Turkish people to be put through visa regulations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European commissioner says EU sees Turkey as family member</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The European commissioner for international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, Kristalina Georgieva, said on Thursday that the European Union (EU) saw Turkey as a family member. Kristalina Georgieva said the assistance EU had made after two earthquakes that hit the eastern province of Van indicated that it saw Turkey as part of the European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commission welcomes Turkey&#8217;s third judicial reform package</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Turkish Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission appreciated on Wednesday Turkey&#8217;s third judicial reform package. A statement released from European Commissioner for enlargement Stefan Fule&#8217;s office said that Turkey&#8217;s third judicial reform package was a right step, and appreciated the initiative. The office welcomed Turkish government&#8217;s will to strengthen democratic standards and lift obstacles, and eulogized the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU-Turkish relations given cartoon treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a project in which Turkey-EU relations are revealed through cartoons, 2,000 strips have been collected from publications released between 1960 and 2011. The initiative will be completed by October when 75 expertly selected cartoons will be displayed at an exhibition Nearly 2,000 cartoons have been collected as part of a project started [...]]]></description>
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