Minister: EU needs Turkey
Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan has said that Turkey did not need EU, but EU needed Turkey, Anadolu news agency reported.
Caglayan, who spoke during 2013 European Seafood Exposition (ESE) in Brussels, accused EU of being hypocrite and insincere.
Caglayan said that Turkey was the first country which had been pursuing its EU full membership negotiations for 50 years, and had been in customs union for 18 years.
Caglayan said that while one of each three or four people in Spain and Greece was unemployed, Turkey, on the contrary to Europe, employed five million more people in the past four years.
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