Turkey Attacks EU for 'Double-Standards'

World | December 9, 2002, Monday // 00:00

The leader of Turkey's governing party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has attacked the European Union for applying double-standards in its judgements about which countries might join the EU and when. With three days to go before EU leaders meet to decide whether or not to give Turkey a date for membership negotiations to start, Tayyip Erdogan responded to hints that Turkey would not get what it wanted with stinging criticism of the EU's judgement. He was responding to the Danish prime minister's comment that what was needed from Turkey was real changes in human rights. That is not good enough for Mr Erdogan, who has been conducting an exhaustive round of diplomacy and lobbying. He singled out Latvia's human rights' record. Latvia is expected to be invited to join in 2004.

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