ERDOGAN: Turkey has 'many other alternatives' to the EU

Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said his country has not yet given up on its ambition to join the European Union

but has "many other alternatives" if the stalled process goes nowhere.

"We have not yet closed the European Union book right now," Erdogan told an international conference in Istanbul. "But nobody should forget that Turkey always has many other alternatives." 

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