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Turkey's chief EU negotiator says Turkey remains oriented towards West.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by Turkish semi-official news agency Anatolia

Antalya, 26 June: Turkey once again dismissed criticism of change in its direction, with Turkey's chief EU negotiator saying "nobody will be able to change Turkey's route, which is towards the West."

Egemen Bagis, who is also a state minister, said that Turkey has been misunderstood over two issues recently; first, its "no" vote on new sanctions against Iran in UN Security Council and second, its reaction to Israeli raid on Gaza-bound aid convoy.

These two issues led to controversies that "Turkey shifted its axis in foreign policy from the West to the East", Bagis told a media seminar …

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