ROME - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Friday members of European Parliament Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group.
Erdogan is currently in Italian capital Rome to attend the signing ceremony for EU Constitution.
Turkish Foreign Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul was also in attendance at the meeting.
Turkey, together with the two other candidate states Bulgaria and Romania, will sign the final part of the Constitution.
While in Rome, Erdogan and Gul are expected to hold a series of bilateral talks with EU heads of state and government to discuss Turkey-EU relations prior to December 17th when the EU would make a decision whether to open entry talks with Turkey.
(UK-AÖ) 29.10.2004