The EU-Turkey relations are getting thornier with each new day, with the most recent stumbling block being the resolution adopted by the European Parliament, which calls for sanctions against Ankara over the partial reopening of the previously fenced off Varosha coastline ghost town in the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

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