No new Turkey-EU chapters before Dec -Sarkozy

LISBON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - No new areas of Turkey's accession talks with the European Union will be opened before December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.

Sarkozy is firmly opposed to Turkey's EU bid and France has said in the past that it has a problem with five of the 35 areas, or "chapters", into which negotiations are divided, arguing that they assume an outcome of full membership.

"There will be no opening of a Turkish chapter in the month of November. All that will be pushed back to December," Sarkozy told a news conference in Portugal after an EU summit.