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2005
IKV’s weekly online
newsletter was
launched.
3 JUNE 2005
The State Minister Ali
Babacan was
appointed as the rst
EU Chief Negotiator
of Turkey.
29 JULY
2005
Turkey signed the
“Additional
Protocol” which
extends the
Ankara
Agreement to ten
new Member
States.
3 OCTOBER
2005
Turkey o cially
started accession
negotiations with
the approval of
the Accession
Negotiations
Framework
Document.
22 NOVEMBER
2004
José Manuel Durão
Barroso took o ce as
President of the
European
Commission.
JUNE 2004
Within the
framework of the
European Data
Bridges Programme,
IKV’s “Turkey-EU
Seminars before the
Accession Process”
projects were
completed in 24
provinces.
10 DECEMBER
2004
The third declaration of
the Turkey Platform was
announced in Brussels
under the heading
“Turkey kept its word.
Now it’s the EU’s turn”.
16 17 DECEMBER
2004
The Brussels Summit
indicated that Turkey
su ciently ful lled the
Copenhagen political
criteria and that
negotiations would
start on 3 October 2005.
2005