Bagis: "Turkey is focusing its attention on its goal of EU accession"

For the first time in his new post, Turkey's chief European Union talks negotiator Egemen Bagis yesterday attended a working lunch at the Czech Embassy, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, with EU ambassadors also in attendance. Speaking at the gathering in Ankara, Bagis urged all EU countries to support Turkey's EU bid and reiterated Turkey's will to cooperate with them during its full membership process. He talked about Turkey's national program, the recent restoration of the citizenship of late Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, the state's landmark new Kurdish-language TV station TRT 6, and his appointment as a full-time EU negotiator, saying, "All these developments show Turkey is focusing its attention on its goal of EU accession."