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Candidates for EU membership
 EU expansion 1952 - 2007

Turkey
Applied for full membership: 1987
Confirmed as candidate: December 1999
Negotiations started: October 2005

Turkey met the last condition for accession talks in July 2005, when it extended a customs union with the EU to all new member states, including Cyprus.

However, it failed to ratify the customs union and its ports and airports remain closed to Cypriot traffic.

The EU responded, in December 2006, by freezing accession talks in eight out of 35 policy areas.

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