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Article: Turkish Cypriot leader calls for suspension of Greek Cypriot's EU membership, while EU pledges millions in aid to Turkish Cypriots
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- April 26, 2004
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ESRA AYGIN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-26-2004
Dateline: NICOSIA, Cyprus
The Turkish Cypriot premier urged the European Union to temporarily suspend Cyprus' EU membership, while the European body pledged financial aid to angry Turkish Cypriots as the fallout from the Greek Cypriot rejection of a U.N. reunification plan continued Monday.
Mehmet Ali Talat told Turkish Cypriot news agency TAK that he wrote to Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern _ whose country holds the rotating EU presidency _ asking that EU laws not apply to the Greek Cypriot south until the island is reunified.
While Greek Cypriots voted overwhelmingly in a referendum Saturday to reject the controversial U.N. ...