THE AGE: Berlin – TURKEY'S hopes of joining the European Union have received a blow after Germany gave warning that it was ready to join France and Italy in outright opposition to Turkish membership.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has telephoned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to tell him that German foreign policy is under review.
Dr Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats, which are in coalition talks after Sunday's election, are both hostile to Turkey's accession to the EU.
With almost 3 million ethnic Turks living in Germany, politicians fear EU membership would bring a new flood of immigrants. [Source: The Age] | Thursday, October 01, 2009
