Dutch to seek EU nod for freeze on Turkey talks

[WorldNews]

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The Dutch government will seek EU support to temporarily freeze accession talks with Turkey, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday, in a move set to ratchet up tensions between Ankara and Brussels. "We are going to see whether there's support in Europe... to suspend talks for half a year," Rutte said at his weekly press conference. Turkey and the EU had agreed to speed up the long-stalled membership talks after both sides reached a deal in March to curb the flow of migrants into the European Union.

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