Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (2ndL) with his Foreign minister Ali Babacan (L) are pictured with European Commission President Portuguese Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR) and European Enlargement commissioner Olli Rhen (R) as they hold a joint press after their meeting, on March 26, 2009 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (2ndL) with his Foreign minister Ali Babacan (L) are pictured with European Commission President Portuguese Jose Manuel Barroso (2ndR) and European Enlargement commissioner Olli Rhen (R) as they hold a joint press after their meeting, on March 26, 2009 at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

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  1. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan listens to Devlet Bahceli, leader of the opposition Nationalist Action Party, unseen, during a debate on government's "Kurdish initiative" in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Turkish Parliament begun discussing the decades-long issue in a tense atmosphere .Erdogan's deputy Ali Babacan is at the left.
  2. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 6: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, International Monetary Fund's Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan (L), Chairman of the Board of Governors Nguyen Van Giau (2nd L), World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C), Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R), International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) pose prior to attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2009 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF will be held on October 6-7 to discuss the future work of the two institutions and were preceded by meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the Development Committee.

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  1. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan listens to Devlet Bahceli, leader of the opposition Nationalist Action Party, unseen, during a debate on government's "Kurdish initiative" in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Turkish Parliament begun discussing the decades-long issue in a tense atmosphere .Erdogan's deputy Ali Babacan is at the left.
  2. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (C) sits with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (3rd L), Deputy Prime Ministers Cemil Cicek (2nd L) and Ali Babacan (L), Turkey's top military commander General Ilker Basbug (4th R), Commander of the Land Forces General Isik Kosaner (3rd R), Navy Commander Admiral Esref Yigit (2nd R) and Air Force Commander General Hasan Aksay (R) during a National Security Council meeting in Ankara October 20, 2009.
  3. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 6: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, International Monetary Fund's Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan (L), World Bank President Robert Zoellick (2nd L), Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R) and International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) talk prior to attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2009 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF will be held on October 6-7 to discuss the future work of the two institutions and were preceded by meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the Development Committee.
  4. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 6: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, International Monetary Fund's Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan (L), Chairman of the Board of Governors Nguyen Van Giau (2nd L), World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C), Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R), International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) pose prior to attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2009 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF will be held on October 6-7 to discuss the future work of the two institutions and were preceded by meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the Development Committee.
  5. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L-R) talk prior to attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center October 6, 2009. Reform of the world's financial architecture took centre. stage at the semiannual meetings of the International Monetary. Fund and World Bank, and a meeting of Group of Seven finance. officials.
  6. (From L to R) Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, Chairman of the Board of Governors Nguyen Van Giau, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn pose for a group photograph before attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center October 6, 2009.
  7. Turkish President Abdullah Gul, center, shakes hand with French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand, right, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, second left, Gul's wife Hayrunisa, left, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, rear right,look on, upon their arrival to open an exhibition of art from Turkey at the Grand Palais,Friday Oct. 9, 2009 in Paris. Gul has made his country's cultural heritage the centerpiece of his three-day visit to Paris.
  8. Turkish President Abdullah Gul leaves the Hotel de Lassay after a meeting with the President of the French National Assembly Bernard Accoyer on October 8, 2009, in Paris. Gul arrived in France on October 7 to bring Turkey's campaign for membership of the European Union to the country that is leading the drive to exclude it.
  9. Turkish President Abdullah Gul (L) leaves the Hotel de Lassay next to the President of the French National Assembly Bernard Accoyer (R) on October 8, 2009, in Paris. Gul arrived in France on October 7 to bring Turkey's campaign for membership of the European Union to the country that is leading the drive to exclude it.
  10. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (2nd R) poses for photographers next to Turkish President Abdullah Gul (2nd L), Pierre Lellouche France's junior minister of European and foreign Affairs (R) and Turkish State minister Hayati Yazici on October 8, 2009 at the Matignon hotel, the PM's residency in Paris. Gul arrived in France on October 7 to bring Turkey's campaign for membership of the European Union to the country that is leading the drive to exclude it.
  11. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (2nd R) poses for photographers next to Turkish President Abdullah Gul (2nd L), Pierre Lellouche France's junior minister of European and foreign Affairs (R) on October 8, 2009 at Matignon in Paris. President Abdullah Gul arrived in France on October 7 to bring Turkey's campaign for membership of the European Union to the country that is leading the drive to exclude it.
  12. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (R) welcomes Turkish President Abdullah Gul (C) on October 8, 2009 at Matignon in Paris. President Abdullah Gul arrived in France on October 7 to bring Turkey's campaign for membership of the European Union to the country that is leading the drive to exclude it.
  13. EU leaders pose during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Front row left to right, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Lithuania's Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Romania's President Traian Basescu, French President Nikolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
  14. EU leaders pose during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. Front row left to right, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, Finland's President Tarja Halonen, Lithuania's Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Romania's President Traian Basescu, French President Nikolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
  15. EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, poses next to a Greenpeace installation, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.
  16. Spanish farmer Fernando Jose Llobell Bisbal, left, talks with EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, in front of the European Commission and Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Farmers and environmental group Greenpeace handed over a petition signed by 180.000 people calling for the EU to reject the authorization of Bayer Genetic Manipulated rice, which is currently being reviewed by the Commission.

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