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"(IT) Mr President, NATO intervened in Yugoslavia maintaining that they were defending Kosovans from Serb persecution, but no-one intervened to defend the Kurds from Turkish persecution. This is the crux of the Öçalan issue: the fact that laws still exist in too many national legal codes which punish as a crime the exercising of peoples" rights to self-determination in its extreme form of secession, even when non-violent, democratic means are employed. This is the meaning of Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which, as Mr Kaleli, the Turkish ambassador, stated right here in Strasbourg, follows the example of Article 241 of the Italian Penal Code, which was issued at the time of the Fascists and is still in force. Therefore, for as long as the European Parliament focuses its attention solely on whether Öçalan"s death sentence will be enforced, without dealing with the question of peoples" rights to self-determination, it will scratch the surface of the problem but never manage to resolve it."@en1
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