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Germany Hopeful of Defusing Looming Crisis With Turkey
As positions over continuing accession talks with Ankara harden, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was confident a solution could be found to Turkey's dispute with Cyprus by the end of the year. Turkey's refusal to open its ports and airports to craft registered under the flag of the Republic of Cyprus, a European Union member whose Greek Cypriot government Turkey does not recognize, and lagging reforms have recently put a question mark next to Turkey's bid to join the EU. In an interview with German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung over the weekened, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Turkey's EU accesssion talks would be in serious trouble if it did not lift trade restrictions on Cyprus.
However, appearing to contradict Merkel, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned against any premature move to break off talks with Turkey.
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