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    EU will lose if it leaves Turkey out
    13.12.2009 18:22 GMT+04:00


    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ European Union would make a mistake by rejecting
    Turkey as a member, the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    said.

    "What we are saying is regardless of whether you accept Turkey or not,
    we are already in the EU. There are five million Turks in EU countries
    already. You will only lose by leaving us behind," Recep Tayyip
    Erdogan told Friday a televised interview on English-broadcasting news
    channel, Russia Today. Erdogan said Turkey would not become an
    additional burden for the EU, but it would actually lift some of the
    existing burdens the EU had.

    "There are countries already in the EU which cannot compete with
    Turkey in terms of freedom and economy. Why do not they accept Turkey?
    When you take a closer look at this, you see political reasons," he
    said.

    "If the European Union makes a permanent decision not to accept us,
    then Turkey will make its decision based on that. But since we are
    holding talks with the new EU chairman, we are about to enter a new
    stage. During this new period we can take many different steps. We can
    make progress on many aspects, I believe," Erdogan said.

    Responding to a question on relations with Armenia, Erdogan said that
    in 2005 he had sent a letter to former President Robert Kocharian,
    proposing that historians should investigate the issue of the Armenian
    Genocide of 1915, but did not receive reply, Anadolu Ajansi reported.
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