PACE President René van der Linden visits Turkey
25 October 2006 10:30 (UTC +04:00)
René van der Linden, President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), will make a working visit to Turkey from 25 to 29 October, APA Europe bureau reports. In Ankara, at meetings with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül, he is due to discuss Turkey-Council of Europe relations and raise the issue of Turkey’s EU accession negotiations. The President will also attend a round table discussion with legal and human rights experts at Bilgi University, Istanbul, on Friday 27 October. The following day he will lay a wreath at the Gallipoli War Memorial and visit the war graves there, as well as meet a delegation from the Çanakkale Provincial Council. Mr van der Linden will give a press conference at 12.45pm on Saturday 28 October in the Kolin Hotel in Çanakkale. /APA/
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