Babacan secretly departed from Turkey to Paris on Thursday night for the meeting that will take place at the Trianon Hotel in Versailles. Meanwhile, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, whose recent statements on Turkey attracted the attentions, will also join the meetings. German Interior Minister Otto Schilly and European Convention President Valery Giscard D’Eastaing, who is known with his opinions against Turkey, will also be present in the meeting.
Bulent Ecevit joined the meeting in 1974 when he was the prime minister, after him, other politicians like Erdal Inonu, Mesut Yilmaz, Ismail Cem and Kemal Dervis participated in the meetings.