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    Cihan News, Turkey
    July 18 2004

    Turkish P.M. Erdogan Due In France Tomorrow

    ANKARA (CIHAN) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay
    three-day official visit to France to promote Turkey's EU membership
    drive. The Turkish Prime Minister will head Paris tomorrow.

    The Turkish Prime Minister will meet with his French counterpart
    Jean-Pierre Raffarin and with Turkish citizens living in France on
    the first day of visit,

    Erdogan will attend a conference on July 20 where he will deliver a
    speech named Turkey -France: New Perspective for Affective
    Partnership. The Turkish Prime Minister is to meet the French
    President Jaques Chirac on same day and ask for support for Turkey's
    EU membership bid.

    The Turkish Prime Minister will carry out talks with French political
    party leaders on July 21st. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is
    expected to meet François Hollande and UMP leader Alain Juppé who
    also opposes Turkey's EU membership.

    The bilateral relations, Turkey-EU relations and international
    developments including the latest developments in Cyprus, Middle
    East, Iraq, Northern Africa Project and Afghanistan will be taken up
    in the official government meetings.

    Turkey is hoping to open entry talks with the European Union (EU) by
    the end of 2004, and has adopted a series of EU harmonization
    packages, including political and economic criteria, to meet
    membership requirements. The Turkish Parliament has adopted seven EU
    harmonization packages in the last two years, and has also abolished
    capital punishment in order to comply with EU standards.

    EU leaders are due to meet in December to decide whether Turkey, a
    candidate country since 1999, has made enough progress on human
    rights and political freedoms for the initiation of the long-delayed
    accession talks.

    Meanwhile, Armenian associations in the French cities of Paris and
    Marseille will hold demonstrations against the Turkish Prime
    Minister.
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