Mr Hamilton hopes Turkey's aspiration to join the European Union could be used as leverage to get progress in the long-delayed case.

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The passage was necessary to move the country closer to obtaining a delayed 12 billion-euro installment of the 110 billion-euro rescue plan from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

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