EU PARLIAMENT APPROVES REPORT ON TURKEY

The AKP government has a great responsibility to carry out these reforms, stated the report. The EU is due to review Turkey’s accession progress in December 2004.Turkey’s Muslim population is not an obstacle to its EU bid, the report argued, but it also charged that the Turkish Armed Forces’ (TSK) role in politics was holding back the nation’s full democratization. Addressing the Cyprus issue, the report contended that a resolution on the island was a fundamental prerequisite for Turkey’s EU bid.