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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey's President Abdullah Gul accused the European Union on Friday of "interfering" after the bloc asked Ankara to reconsider a decision to invite indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to an Islamic summit.
The exchange underscores the risk for EU candidate Turkey that Bashir's plans to attend Monday's summit in Istanbul of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), in defiance of an warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), could escalate into a diplomatic crisis with Brussels.
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