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07 Oct 2005, Istanbul, Turkey — The Turkish flag flies next to a European Union flag. European Union foreign ministers agreed on a partial freeze of Turkey’s membership negotiations following Ankara’s failure to allow access to Greek Cypriot traffic, Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern and Austria’s Ursula Plassnik told reporters. Plassnik said the agreement meant that the issue would not be put on the agenda of an EU summit to be held in Brussels on December 14. — Image by © Tolga Bozoglu/epa/Corbis
