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    NTV MSNBC, Turkey
    July 19 2004

    Erdogan heading to France

    The Prime Minister's visit is likely to be the target of
    demonstrations by members of France's Armenian community.


    July 19 - Turkey's Prime Minister is heading to France Monday as part
    of Ankara's campaign to boost its chances of being granted a date to
    begin accession talks with the European Union.

    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be in France for three
    days, during which he will meet with his French opposite number
    Jean-Pierre Raffarin soon after his arrival Monday. On Tuesday, he
    will meet with French President Jaques Chirac and deliver an address
    entitled Turkey -France: New Perspective for Affective Partnership at
    a conference.
    Erdogan's visit comes at a time when Paris is only lukewarm on
    Ankara's EU membership bid, having thrown out strong hints that
    Turkey is not yet ready to open accession negotiations as yet.
    The visit of the Turkish Prime Minister is likely to be met
    with a number of protests, with Armenian groups announcing that they
    would stage demonstrations against Erdogan.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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