premise: If they fail to reach a unanimous decision, the issue is expected to go on the agenda of an EU summit three days later.
  Merkel wants the EU to give Turkey an 18-month deadline to open its ports to Cyprus as a condition for resuming full membership talks.
  Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said the German proposal would make things worse.
  "With the Commission's recommendations unacceptable as they are, such a proposal will make things even worse," Gul said after talks here with his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt.
  "It would have a very negative impact on the negotiation process... (but) I do not believe that this will happen," he said.
   According to Adbullah Gul, what is likely to happen if the EU gives Turkey an 18-month deadline?
hypothesis: make things worse