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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    With no solution to Cyprus and Armenian issues, Turkey's EU prospects
    out of question
    01.11.2008 15:45 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Daniel Gros, director of the Brussels-based Center
    for European Policy Studies, warned Turkey it would need to get things
    moving.

    `Turkey is losing time,' said Gros, adding that he has seen no
    progress in Turkey's reform process for EU membership. `The two big
    stumbling blocks, Cyprus and Armenia, sooner or later have to be
    resolved.'

    `The later Turkey takes steps on the Cyprus issue, the more difficult
    it will become as each year passes,' Gros said. `If there is no
    solution to the Cyprus and Armenian issues, we will not be able to
    speak about Turkey's EU prospects.'

    The Armenian issue is, `a secondary question,' because it is not a
    member of the EU, Gros added, placing the emphasis on Cyprus. He said
    he remained optimistic over the future of northern Cyprus. `As long as
    northern Cyprus develops nicely, which it seems to be doing now, over
    time it will become a de facto state and this reality will be
    recognized,' Gros said, the Turkish Daily News reports.
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