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Published 11/07/2009 by Al Jazeera

Turkey and EU in spat over Bashir

Abdullah Gul, Turkey's president, has accused the European Union of 'interfering' after the bloc asked Ankara to reconsider its decision to allow Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the indicted Sudanese president, to attend an Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Istanbul.

Al-Bashir, who has an international arrest warrant against him for war crimes, has announced...

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...Gul said: "What are they interfering for? This is a meeting being held in the framework of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. It is not a bilateral meeting."

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"It's not an invitation from Turkey, which is hosting an international meeting, and invitations are issued by the OIC."

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