Tough EU-US trade talks have not broken down and the aim is still a deal by the time President Barack Obama leaves office, the EU trade commissioner said Tuesday after France cast doubt on the pact.

But she added: "We have the aim and we still have. that we should aim to conclude under the Obama presidency".

"The negotiations are bogged down, positions have not been respected, and there is a clear unbalance".

The EU and U.S. began work on the TTIP in 2013, a proposed free trade deal, aiming to create the world's largest free trade area and promoting multilateral growth. All 28 EU member states and the European parliament will have to ratify TTIP before it comes into force.

He said he could understand Turkey's concern about protecting its borders and fighting the Islamic State group, but criticized Ankara's actions against Kurdish rebels allied with the USA -led coalition who are fighting the extremists.

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Earlier on Tuesday, French Trade Minister Matthias Fekl said France would ask to end TTIP negotiations during a meeting of European Union trade ministers in Bratislava scheduled for September 23.

Hollande's trade chief, Matthias Fekl, accused the American side of offering just "crumbs".

"The fact that TTIP has failed is testament to the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets to protest against it, the three million people who signed a petition calling for it to be scrapped, and the huge coalition of civil society groups, trade unions and activists who came together to stop it".

Chief EU negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero played down Mr Gabriel's talk of failure, and in Washington, Matt McAlvanah, assistant USA trade representative for public affairs, insisted the negotiations "are in fact making steady progress".

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