1.   As for trade, the officials said the two sides have not yet worked out how easily Turkish textiles should be let into the EU.

2.   Bogazici Ready Wear said it had begun an investigation into the allegations, raised by a Turkish textile workers group.

3.   Close to a million tourists from the former Soviet republics visit Turkey each year, mostly to buy suitcase loads of Turkish textiles to sell back home.

4.   Half of that amount reportedly comes from the unregistered trade by hundreds of thousands of Russian tourists who buy suitcase loads of Turkish textiles to sell back home.

5.   In return, Turkey expects the EU to lift all quotas against Turkish textile exports.

6.   On Monday Turkey asked the United States to ease quotas imposed on Turkish textiles, to help offset financial losses it has incurred from sanctions imposed on Iraq.

7.   Responding to Turkish demands for better access to the U.S. market, the United States will increase quotas on some Turkish textiles, the U.S. embassy said Wednesday.

8.   The hotel mainly serves traders from eastern Europe who stock up on cheap Turkish textile goods to resell back home.

9.   Turkey on Monday asked the United States to ease quotas imposed on Turkish textiles, to help offset financial losses it has incurred from sanctions imposed on Iraq.

10.   Turkey wants the United States to increase the limits on Turkish textiles, while the United States wants Turkey to lift tariffs and other barriers on agricultural exports.