{"id":22894,"date":"2010-10-04T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=22894"},"modified":"2014-01-05T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:50:29","slug":"pm-says-eu-should-clear-way-for-turkey-accession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/04\/pm-says-eu-should-clear-way-for-turkey-accession\/","title":{"rendered":"PM says EU should clear way for Turkey accession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Erdogan said Monday that EU should not block Turkey&#8217;s way to accession if it wants enlargement, zest and an alliance of civilization with its body.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PM-EU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"190\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that EU should not block Turkey&#8217;s way to accession if it wants enlargement, zest and an alliance of civilization with its body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;EU should stop putting obstacles constantly,&#8221; Erdogan told a joint press conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Sofia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey has been resolutely continuing accession talks with EU,&#8221; Erdogan said. However, he said that EU has been stalling Turkey&#8217;s membership bid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not know how long such a stalling will go on,&#8221; Erdogan said. &#8220;But I must say that none of the current EU-member countries have experienced such a treatment. It has been 50 years and Turkey has been stalled since that time. Turkey has been facing different obstacles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Turkey started accession talks with EU. However, a year later EU suspended talks in eight of the 35 chapters which candidate countries must successfully negotiate prior to full membership. A total of 13 chapters have opened since that date.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question whether or not Turkey would hold a referendum to decide on joining the 27-nation bloc just as Norway did in 1994, Erdogan said Norway had completed accession negotiations and then held a referendum on EU membership.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He said, &#8220;we are still in negotiation process right now. So, it is out of question to make such a decision before negotiations are concluded.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/news_detail.php?id=64769\">World Bulletin<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan said Monday that EU should not block Turkey&#8217;s way to accession if it wants enlargement, zest and an alliance of civilization with its body. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that EU should not block Turkey&#8217;s way to accession if it wants enlargement, zest and an alliance of civilization with its body. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":22895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,922],"tags":[985,3320,3800],"class_list":["post-22894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-world","tag-eu","tag-pm","tag-turkey-accession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}