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"en.20001115.4.3-115"2
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"Perhaps there will come a time when EU enlargement will head further eastwards, through the accession of the Ukraine and Russia. Obviously Turkey will then have to be given the same opportunity. But that day is in the distant future. Present-day Turkey is an authoritarian state with superior military power, political prisoners, censorship, party bans, border conflicts and an electoral system that excludes minorities. Lessons still have not been learnt from the mass murder, eighty years ago, of the insurgent Armenians. That partly explains why people do not think it untoward that a different national minority is still being deprived of its rights to this day. The Kurds are displaced, bombarded and suppressed. Their language is banned from use in administration, education and the media. Turkey must first learn from the histories of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. These countries came under Turkey’s dominion in the past, and uprisings that took place there were repeatedly suppressed using violent means. Since the people are no longer prevented from exercising their right to self-determination, this has enabled peace to take hold. I do not believe that Turkey’s style of government will change by us presenting this country with the prospect of EU membership, subject to flexible conditions. The necessary changes cannot be bought outside by the governing powers; they must come from within."@en1
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