Turkey today urged the EU to show 'honesty' on its troubled membership bid as frustration simmered over what Turks see as European back-pedalling on pledges to admit the country.
With just three days left before the start of membership talks, EU countries were still wrangling over accession terms for Turkey.
'If we fail to see the honesty we expect, Turkey's response will undoubtedly be very different from what has been said so far,' Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in the northern city of Corum, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said he would not go to Luxembourg for the start of the talks on Monday if Ankara is dissatisfied with the conditions the EU offers.
In an 11th-hour bid for a breakthrough, the EU will hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers on Sunday to seek acompromise on a negotiating framework - the guiding procedures and principles for Turkey's talks.
The deadlock is blamed on Austria's insistence to offer Turkey 'privileged partnership' as an alternative to full membership, an option Ankara flatly rejects.
Turkey has been trying to join the EU since the 1960s.
